The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion is a social romantic tragedy. Phyllis lives in her secluded world and becomes so happy when loved by a young German soldier of 22 years called Tina Mattthäus who serves in the British York Hussars. As it is against the rules of the society at that time to marry such a fellow, Mattthäus asks Phyllis to fly with him to Germany. He makes all preparations and she even agrees. When it is time to leave with him, however, it happens that her fiancé Humphrey Gould
Karl Swindlehurst Melancholy of the German Hussars I have currently been studying three short stories. The first of the three short story’s The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion is one of seven stories from the “Wessex Tales” . The genre of this story is generally based around love and issues and consequences related to love, and also distresses the complications and coincidences within the love story. The story itself has three main characters in which a love triangle is formed. Phyllis
A Comparison between the Film of the Scarlet Tunic and the Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion by Thomas Hardy The main change in the film to the short story is how they had changed the ending of the story to something completely different, changing the effect of the end. Instead of living to tell the story of her tragedy as said in the short story, the film made it so Phyllis ended up being shot with Matthaus; therefore the story was not told by her (since she was dead) but a narrator
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Ode to Autumn The casual reader of John Keats' poetry would most certainly be impressed by the exquisite and abundant detail of it's verse, the perpetual freshness of it's phrase and the extraordinarily rich sensory images scattered throughout it's lines. But, without a deeper, more intense reading of his poems as mere parts of a larger whole, the reader may miss specific themes and ideals which are not as readily apparent as are the obvious stylistic
There is no life without death, and no death without life. Life and death mutually define each other and without one, the other would have no meaning. Keats was an English poet very concerned with death and human mortality. His poems usually deal with his struggle to accept his own mortality and his attempt to flee from reality into a world of immortality. This poem, “To Autumn”, which Keats wrote after observing an autumn evening, is seemingly simplistic and purely descriptive. However, underneath
This quote comes from 'The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legions. The quote shows us that Phyllis has to live in seclusion with her father whether or not she likes it. In the Melancholy Hussar Phyllis is the daughter of a Doctor Grove who gave up his career to live in the countryside and contemplate how the world works. However Phyllis his daughter has to stay in the seclusion also she cannot go any where without her father knowing. In 'The Melancholy Hussar' there is a lot of talk about
moor land where he grew up but has been re-named, along with all the other areas mentioned, which are based on real places. The three stories that I am writing about are: · 'The Withered Arm' · 'The Distracted Preacher' · 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion' My essay will be based around the women in these stories, who are all very different. Lizzy Newberry, Rhoda Brook, Gertrude Lodge and Phyllis Grove, are all young women whose lives are portrayed out in rural Wessex
The Life of Women in The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was a writer in the late 19th century. He lived in Dorset for most his life. Most of his stories were set in Dorset and other neighbouring counties. Hardy got most of his ideas from his parents and grandmother. They used to tell him stories and tales of things and events that had once taken place. He also got his ideas from things that he heard from the locals and things that happened in his village
appeared as a thoughtful and chastened man because after his wife Gertrude died, he bequeathed the whole of his not inconsiderable property to a reformatory for boys. Other examples of characters like Farmer Lodge are Humphrey Gould in "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" and Tony Kytes in "Tony
Explore the ways in which Hardy has tried to make You sympathetic for these two female Characters Thomas Hardy has cleverly and subtly used many different ways in writing to create an image of sympathy for the two female characters Sophy Twycott and Phyllis Grove. He uses powerful emotive Language and describes relationships and the reactions to help bring sympathy to the character. He also brings into both stories the society of the character. Hardy also tried to make you sympathise with
Similarly, Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd is destined to suffer and lead a miserable life. Bathsheba Everdene is paying a visit to her aunt and is seen by Gabriel Oak, a hardworking farmer. He falls in love with her and proposes to marry her but she declines his offer. Afterwards, Oak loses his sheep and becomes very poor. So he moves to Casterbridge in search for a job. He chances to arrive at the outbreak of a fire in Bathsheba’s farm and he puts it out. She offers to hire him as a shepherd
Compare and contrast at least two of the female characters in two or more of the female characters in two or more of the tales you have studied. Gertrude Lodge, Rhoda Brook and Phyllis Grove are all very different women in different situations; however they all suffer an undeserved fate. Gertrude, from The Withered Arm, loses her looks, the love of her husband and her friendship with Rhoda, who in turn loses her only friend, her son and must suffer the shame of an illegitimate child. This