The Woodlanders is a story with a complicated plot. George Melbury, a timber-merchant of Little Hintock, the place where the events take place, decides to marry his daughter Grace to Giles Winterborne, an honest woodsman and the son of an old friend. For Giles, Grace is his childhood sweetheart and the ever object of his affection despite himself being loved by Marty South. However, When Mr. Melbury considers the educational status of his daughter, he changes his mind concerning marrying her to Giles. He has the ambition to marry her to a man of a higher status and treats Giles with an unaccustomed coldness. In the meantime, Dr. Edred Fitzpiers comes on the scene. He seizes Grace’s fascination with him and the opportunity that Giles is no longer favoured by Mr. Melbury to step into the vacant place in Grace’s heart (Sherren, 1902). He falls in love with her, asks her father for permission to marry her and they get married. Soon after the marriage, Fitzpiers blames himself for marrying a woman who is beneath him and becomes more interested in Mrs. Felice Charmond, a fashionable widow. They meet in secret and finally decide to leave for the continent. He just leaves Grace a note about his departure. Grace becomes interested once again in Giles but her father’s efforts to get her divorced by the new law and set free fail. Finally, Fitzpiers gets separated from Mrs. Felice Charmond who is reported to be killed in Germany. He comes back to Little Hintock and is asked by his wife Grace to save the life of Giles. He does his best but Giles dies. After the death of Giles, Fitzpiers asks Grace for forgiveness and they get reconciled. The novel ends with a romantic note with Marty standing at the grave of Giles and saying: “If ever I forget...
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...rban. The novel is classified by Hardy under the category of Novels of Ingenuity. Nevertheless, the novel is an expression of the class divisions within the society. This is supported statistically by the vector profiles of this group. This argument is again supported by Page (2000) and Widdowson (1998; 1989). They stress the idea that class awareness is a major theme in The Hand of Ethelberta.
A Few Crusted Characters is a set of 9 tales, which Hardy calls colloquial sketches (1912d). It is about a villager who returns after a long absence to his native village, “and for the final stage of his journey he takes the carrier's van from the market-town. He asks the other passengers for information about the people he had known in his youth and his inquiries lead very naturally to a series of anecdotes concerning typical village characters”(Abercrombie, 1912: 86-87).
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is set in the depths of the Great Depression. A lawyer named Atticus Finch is called to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. The story is told from one of Atticus’s children, the mature Scout’s point of view. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finch Family faces many struggles and difficulties. In To Kill a Mockingbird, theme plays an important role during the course of the novel. Theme is a central idea in a work of literature that contains more than one word. It is usually based off an author’s opinion about a subject. The theme innocence should be protected is found in conflicts, characters, and symbols.
Thomas Paine once said “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Conflict is an obstacle that many characters in books go through. It is what drives the reader to continue reading and make the book enjoyable. Additionally, authors use symbolism to connect their novels to real life, personal experience, or even a life lesson. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines, both take place during a time where colored people were being looked down upon and not treated with the same rights as white people. However, both novels portray the conflict and symbolism many ways that are similar and different. Additionally, both of these novels have many similarities and differences that connect as well as differentiate them to one
“Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse”(Despreaux). Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux is saying that fear consumes oneself and often times results in a worse fate. William Golding shares a similar viewpoint in his novel Lord of the Flies. A group of boys devastatingly land on a deserted island. Ralph and his friend Piggy form a group. Slowly, they become increasingly fearful. Then a boy named Jack rebels and forms his own tribe with a few boys such as Roger and Bill. Many things such as their environment, personalities and their own minds contribute to their change. Eventually, many of the boys revert to their inherently evil nature and become savage and only two boys remain civilized. The boys deal with many trials, including each other, and true colors show. In the end they are being rescued, but too much is lost. Their innocence is forever lost along with the lives Simon, a peaceful boy, and an intelligent boy, Piggy. Throughout the novel, Golding uses symbolism and characterization to show that savagery and evil are a direct effect of fear.
How does it feel starting over in a completely new place? In the movie “The Karate Kid”, Daniel, the main character, and his mom moved to the California from New Jersey because of his mom’s new job offer. Daniel started going to school in California and met a girl named Ali, whom he started to like. He started going out with her. Daniel was getting beat up by some bullies; one of them was Ali’s ex-boyfriend. They knew karate very well, but Daniel did not. So Daniel decided to learn karate. Daniel and his mom were living in an apartment and one day he discovers that the handyman at his apartment, Mr.Miyagi, knows karate very well. He asked Mr.Miyagi to teach him karate, and Mr.Miyagi became his karate teacher. It was hard for him to make new friends in a new place and he believed that Mr.Miyagi would be the only best friend he ever met.
Romance narrative is a type of writing that usually features a hero and his journey or quest. The hero reaches a transcendent goal through tests or trials. The narrative is often represented as a circle because the story begins with the hero’s goal. It then continues with the hero’s journey through the difficulties that he must overcome to achieve that goal and finishes with the initial goal accomplished. It’s a popular format because it externalizes the internal struggles that people face in their own lives in overcoming problems and especially in defining themselves as they transform from childhood to adulthood. The narrative follows a pattern of initial innocence, acceptance of duties and trials, then failure and despair. The failure is
In Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Fall of the House of Usher, the character Roderick Usher exhibits severe mental illness. Most of Poe’s writings are psychological in nature. The Fall of the House of Usher is a great example of this. Poe’s life was filled with many tragic events. The unpleasant outcome of his early years resulted in a great Gothic Romantic writer. He is a master of writing psychological thrillers, adding suspense and mystery in his stories. The topics of his writings are a concoction of unpleasant, austere, and grotesque things, thus the reader can be left feeling squeamish and susceptible. We are drawn into Poe’s stories by our intrinsic human nature of curiosity and intrigue. This paper gives examples of Poe’s literary style as we examine Roderick’s metal state through his words and appearance.
Poverty and homelessness are often, intertwined with the idea of gross mentality. illness and innate evil. In urban areas all across the United States, just like that of Seattle. in Sherman Alexie’s New Yorker piece, What You Pawn I Will Redeem, the downtrodden. are stereotyped as vicious addicts who would rob a child of its last penny if it meant a bottle of whiskey.
This was by far my least favorite paper of all of them simply because "The Dubliners" is incredibly hard to understand when you don't have enough time to read back through it like I had previously to understand the other stories. "The Dead" and "The Sister's" are two different stories. "The Dead" is the longest story in "The Dubliners" and the most difficult to understand because of the many different themes running through it. While "The Sisters" is much shorter than the latter, with an easier storyline.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1c. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006. Print. The.
This is the story of a man born in battle and raised in pain. This is the story of Guts. A small band of travelling Mercenaries walked through a battlefield. The band was filled with mostly men, but also with some women. The battle has long since been finished. The men began looting the bodies of the corpses, when one heard a loud wailing coming from by a dead horse. He drew his sword and cautiously walked over to the noise. But what he found would change his life forever. There was a newly born baby still attached to its mother’s umbilical cord. The mother was clutching a dagger in her hand while a spear had been driven through her chest and a stab wound to her stomach. The baby was crying out in pain. The man raised his sword to put the
“The Story of an Hour” was a story set in a time dominated by men. During this time women were dependent on men, but they always dreamed of freedom. Most people still think that men should be dominant and in control. They think that without men, women can’t do anything and that they can’t be happy. Well this story has a twist.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Sixth Edition Volume1. Ed. M.H.Abrams. New York: W.W.Norton and Company, Inc., 1993.
Kramer, Dale. “Far from the Madding Crowd: The Non-Tragic Predessor.” Thomas Hardy: The Forms of Tragedy. Detroit: Wayne state University Press, 1975. 25-47. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Vol.153. Detroit: Gale 2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 April 2014.
Austen’s novel focuses on the social class known as the rural landowning gentry, and the people whose education or family connections enable them to associate with the gentry. Austen uses Marianne Dashwood to represent the "sensible and clever; but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation, she was everything but prudent" counterpart to her sister Elinor Dashwood who had "strength of understanding and coolness of judgment," neither of whom belong to the land gentry any longer. Austen juxtaposes the two sisters journeys as a way to shed light on the corruptness and instability of the social class system. By surrounding Marianne and Elinor with social climbing characters such as John Willoughby, John Dashwood and Edward Ferrars, Austen illuminates the ruthlessness that surrounds the sisters. The three men are too preoccupied with either getting...
In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin expresses many themes through her writing. The main themes of this short story are the joy independence brings, the oppression of marriage in nineteenth century America, and how fast life can change.