Comparison between Tony Kytes and The Seduction
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Both Tony Kytes and The Seduction deal with relationships between
young men and girls. Both tell of the ways in which the men manipulate
the girls, gaining what they want at the girls' expenses. They both
detail the insensitive treatment of the girls and explore the
attitudes towards sex, marriage and the opposite sex from both the
male and female point of views.
Tony Kytes is a humorous account of a young man called Tony and his
encounter with three prospective young women whilst driving his cart
back from the nearby market. The first is sly and worms her way into
Tony's affections. However his fiance Milly appears and Tony requests
Unity to hide under the tarpaulin in the back of the cart to avoid a
difficult confrontation. Milly arrives and climbs aboard the cart, yet
they have not travelled far before Tony spies another pretty girl,
namely Hannah Jolliver. This time he persuades Milly to hide in the
back of the cart and she too consents. Hannah requests a lift and
openly flirts with him, making Tony wonder about who he really wants
to marry.
He notices his Father, who offers some good advice - that he should
marry the one girl who didn't ask for a lift (Milly), Tony immediately
disregards it. Meanwhile the horse has run off, tipping the cart over
and revealing all three girls, forcing Tony to make a quick decision.
He asks Hannah, who refuses him due to her father's presence. Unity is
asked next, but she refuses him, as she was only second choice. Tony
then requests Milly's hand in marriage, she accepts; they get married
shortly afterwards.
The Seduction is a rather different account of yet another encounter
between a young man; this time only one female is involved. Set in
Tyneside in 1980's it describes a meeting between a young man and a
young girl at a party, and the ensuing aftermath. At the party the
girl is plied with alcohol, which makes her more and more relaxed,
till finally the man takes her to a favourite spot of his by the river
where he takes advantage of her alcohol-fuelled state.
When the girl realises she is three months pregnant she is devastated.
She realises that she can no longer be the innocent girl she was and
can no longer look forward to carefree summers with her friends. She
recognises that she will not get to experience teenage life in the
same way again and is mortified by this.
Tony Kytes is set in the 1800's in a rural Wessex farming community.
We know it is a farming community due to the references of " the
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Although they do not end up together in the end of the story, I believe this is the perfect example of social exchange theory from the male protagonist point of view. The more social interaction he shares with his love interest is the reward he is given, simply because his goal is to have more contact with her and ideally have her fall in love with him and live happily ever after.
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