Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud; A Monodrama - Madness or Maud?
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud; A Monodrama - Madness or Maud?
The journey of life overflows with grand moments intermingled with inevitable sorrow. Each moment creating a chain reaction. In Maud; A Monodrama, Alfred Lord Tennyson explores the journey of a man in the universal search for the perfect Garden of Eden. Originally titled Maud or Madness, he described the “little Hamlet” as the history of a morbid poetic soul” who is “the heir of madness, an egotist with the makings of a cynic” (Hill 214). In the throes of madness, the protagonist experiences the grandest emotional triumph and the lowest depths of despair. Each milestone is marked by his cynicism. The protagonist “in his happiness, he is a cynic, in his unhappiness, a madman” (Crayon n. p.). Tennyson uses floral symbolism and vivid imagery to explore the mental voyage of madness in this “splendidly executed psychological study” (Hill 214).
Since the days of the early Greeks, florigraphy - the language of flowers - has been used to convey "a wide range of human emotions, conditions, events, or ideas" (Seattle n. p.). From the "strength in character" of the gladiolus to the "delicate beauty" of the hibiscus, flowers are symbolic in the message and the image they produce (Tansy n. p.). Tennyson uses florigraphy to symbolize man’s desire to create the perfect Garden of Eden and to expose the contrary emotions the protagonist feels towards Maud. She is "associated with both lily and rose, as both a chaste subject and a sexual object" (Johnson 111). Traditionally, the lily symbolizes "coquetry and purity" and the rose symbolizes passion (Tansy n p.). Maud is the "shrinking reticence" of the lily when the protagonist is content with their relationship and the "aggressive...
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Tucker, Herbert F. “Maud and the Doom of Culture.” Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993. 174-194.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how alfred lord tennyson uses floral symbolism and vivid imagery to explore the mental voyage of madness in maud; a monodrama.
- Analyzes how the language of flowers has been used to convey a wide range of human emotions, conditions, events, or ideas since the greeks.
- Analyzes how the lily and rose are used by tennyson to expose the crisis of the monodrama.
- Analyzes how alfred lord tennyson uses floral symbolism and vivid imagery to explore the mental voyage of madness in maud; a monodrama.
- Analyzes how the language of flowers has been used to convey a wide range of human emotions, conditions, events, or ideas since the greeks.
- Analyzes how the lily and rose are used by tennyson to expose the crisis of the monodrama.
- Analyzes how the protagonist's mood changes to rage when he sees her dancing the night away in the "babble and revel and wine" with her fiancee.
- Analyzes how tennyson's two lovers become symbolic for adam and eve expelled from the garden of eden. their holy power of love is destroyed by his passionate act of homicide.
- Analyzes how the protagonist, impotent from the threat of madness and loneliness, passively resigns to bury "myself in myself," feeling powerless over the events in life.
- Analyzes how a man's insanity is the result of his passion and rage. he fears he is taking the same path to madness.
- Analyzes how tennyson expresses the universal hope of achieving a higher level of maturity.
- Analyzes how the soldier is ambiguous about patriotism and life. he ponders whether man is constantly at war or sleeping quietly in his bed.
- Analyzes how tennyson uses symbolism and vivid imagery in his description of his father's suicidal site, congering darkness and despair.
- Analyzes how the woods haunt the son as he vividly reenacts the bloody scene. dark imagery with an increasing pace of meter is used when the now insane protagonist believes
- Analyzes how in his half-death, he cries out for a burial so full to relieve his tortured state of mind. he wishes his death without actually having to commit suicide.
- Analyzes how tennyson's use of vivid imagery intertwined with symbolism exposes the depth of despair of the protagonist.
- Analyzes how alfred lord tennyson uses symbolism and imagery to explore man's journey through life in search of the garden of eden.
- Explains crayon's "studies among the leaves: the assembly of extremes."
- Explains that hill, robert w. tennyson’s poetry. ed.
- Describes johnson, wendell stacy, sex and marriage in victorian poetry.
- Opines that shaw, marion, "the contours of manliness and the nature of woman" in critical essays on alfred lord tennyson.
- Explains shelley, percy bysshe, "multibility." the norton anthology english literature.
- Describes tennyson, alfred lord, "maud; a monodrama".
- Explains herbert f. tucker's "maud and the doom of culture." critical essays on alfred lord tennyson.
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- Analyzes how kierkegaard's final argument is attuned to the struggles of prometheus and the drive for power in jupiter for both strive for eternality of the self.
- Analyzes how shelley's imagination in act i shows a new prometheus emerging in the caucasus, who no longer curses the foe that nailed him to his servitude.
- Quotes northrop frye's essay, prometheus: the romantic revolutionary, in which he longed to engage and relate to the olympian as a counterpart of himself.
- Analyzes how kierkegaard's final argument is attuned to the struggles of prometheus and the drive for power in jupiter for both strive for eternality of the self.
- Analyzes how shelley's imagination in act i shows a new prometheus emerging in the caucasus, who no longer curses the foe that nailed him to his servitude.
- Analyzes how shelley's prometheus questions all who have heard his voice, but there is no projected divine being in nature, and the one who now reigns is too a false king (jupiter).
- Analyzes how frye explains that while the virtues of hope and love are altered in shelley’s ideas as platonic hope, his third virtue is understandably wholly unique.
- Analyzes how prometheus releases the thieving power-hungry and egotistical spirit-self within him, which had fastened him to the rock, the altar on which the priest-king jupiter had punished him.
- Explains that the fate of prometheus, as divinely ordained by jupiter, is despair, since each successive instance of suffering perpetuates the desire within him to succumb to his suffering.
- Analyzes how prometheus moves from one form of consciousness to another, expanding within the infinite and refines the eternal nature of his self.
- Describes aeschylus, oates, and o'neill jr.'s 7 famous greek plays. kierkegaard, soren, shelley, percy bysshe.
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- Explains that alexander of macedonia portrayed outstanding leadership qualities, including courage, confidence, respect for his men, and strategic military skills, which contributed to his success.
- Analyzes how alexander's success arose during his childhood and carried over into his reign as king of macedonia.
- Analyzes how alexander's courage shines through and makes him a great leader in history.
- Explains that alexander of macedonia portrayed outstanding leadership qualities, including courage, confidence, respect for his men, and strategic military skills, which contributed to his success.
- Analyzes how alexander's success arose during his childhood and carried over into his reign as king of macedonia.
- Analyzes how alexander's courage shines through and makes him a great leader in history.
- Opines that they would begin to think they were as good as soldiers.
- Analyzes how alexander's confidence is a leading factor of his great success and leadership skills.
- Analyzes how alexander's success is attributed to his respect for his army and how he gained their loyalty during his conquest.
- Opines that craming his great army into a confined space, has taken charge of operations in our country.
- Opines that a person who matches for us in bodily strength or resolution, will find their superiority in numbers.
- Analyzes how alexander's vast knowledge of his enemy’s strategy and war in general allowed him to outsmart his opponent and lead his army to victory.
- Analyzes how this observation supports alexander's strategic ability and contributes to his successful leadership skills.
- Concludes that alexander had many characteristics that most leaders in history didn't have during their reigns, which enabled him to achieve success and become an exceptional leader.
- Analyzes how alexander's confidence grew and gave him an aura of invincibility for himself and his men.
- Analyzes how alexander's strategic military skills enabled him to conquer the persian empire and defeat darius iii, king of persia.
- Explains that emmons, jim tschen, "alexander the great." world history: ancient and medieval eras. abc-clio, 2014.
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