Here be an extract from ye diary of Milly Richards
Here be an extract from ye diary of Milly Richards: I has been having a few doubts about marrying dear Tony Kytes. Today I be finding out that I should have been more unsure. I has caught him asking two other girls if they will be his. I is really jealous of those girls, they is more beautiful than I has ever been or will ever be. I can't really blame Tony for going after other girls. He is a ram and they is all the fields he is going to want to be exploring. It all started as I be walking down to the market. Today the sun rose early and I knew it would be a splendid day. As I is walking to market it is about noon. The sun is a ball of orange fire, floating in the everlasting oceans of sky. There be no clouds in sight and the birds be singing pleasantly in the trees that be in the wide expanse of fields. I is getting hot and tired when I heard the noise of a cart. Is deciding I do not need to go to the market as it closes by two o' clock. I is coming up the hill and I hears a commotion coming from inside the cart but I did not stop and mull over it. I hears Tony's voice from inside and he stops and says hello in a rather pleasant voice. As I saw him all thoughts of the racket I had heard flew from my head like a bird flying away from a cat. My breath caught in my throat as I took in his handsome face. T'was round and determined as well as small. I loved the way his eye had
Compare and Contrast How Two Different Writers Treat the Theme of Women In Victorian Society?
COMPARE AND CONTRAST HOW TWO DIFFERENT WRITERS TREAT THE THEME OF WOMEN IN VICTORIAN SOCIETY? I am comparing and contrasting Kate Chopin's "Unexpected" with Thomas Hardys "Tony Kytes, the Arch-deceiver" I firstly looked at the two different backgrounds of the writers. Kate Chopin as brought up in an all girl household as her father had died when she was very young and she had no brothers. Because she lived with all women then it is easy to believe she was favourable towards women. Thomas Hardy was a builder's son and went to a public high school. Hardys background suggests nothing about him taking much interest in women's rights and it seems he was like every other man in the Victorian era. Next I looked at the characters in each of the stories. In the "Unexpected" there are only two main characters, Randall and Dorethea. I am only going to look at the character of Dorethea because she is a woman. She is an upper-class woman who can make-up her own mind as to who she wants to marry because when she sees her lover has to become ugly. She says to herself that there is no way she is going to marry him, not even for all the money. This wasn't a normal thing during the Victorian era as the woman were supposed to be desperate for marriage as it was the only way they could secure their future. The offering of money to her, from Randall, shows women's position during this time
Comparison of the presentation of women in the stories by “The withered arm” by Thomas Hardy and “Tickets please” by D. H. Lawrence.
Dan Chorley Comparison of the presentation of women in the stories by "The withered arm" by Thomas Hardy and "Tickets please" by D. H. Lawrence. I am going to compare the story by Thomas Hardy, that was first published and set in the second half of the nineteenth century, with a story written by D. H. Lawrence which is set in the early twentieth century in the period of the first world war, to assess the different treatment of women at those times. The main characters in Thomas Hardys book "The Withered Arm" are Farmer Lodge, Gertrude his wife and Rhoda Brook, the mother of a child to the farmer called Lodge. Rhoda was once a beautiful young woman but has now, at the age of thirty, become a faded woman. Her ex-lover Farmer Lodge owns a big farm, which employs Rhoda and other women as milkmaids. Rhoda becomes jealous of farmer Lodges new wife, Gertrude, and in a dream imagines a horrible vision happening to Gertrude, which later comes true. Because of Gertrude's illness Farmer Lodge becomes a gloomy and silent man saddened by his wife's loss of beauty. To get back her beauty and her husbands love, Gertrude ignores her husband's wishes and hides her actions from him. Gertrude's secretive actions to cure her illness result in causing her death. In the story "Tickets please" by D.H.Lawrence, which is set in the early twentieth century during the First World War, the main
Compare and contrast the ways in which the short stories The Yellow Wallpaper and The Withered Arm explore the role of women.
Compare and contrast the ways in which the short stories The Yellow Wallpaper and The Withered Arm explore the role of women. In your coursework, you should discuss: * Plot and structure * Narrative viewpoint * Characterisation * Language and tone In the late 19th century, women were expected to conform to the conventions of society. This meant that they were expected to get married young, pure and beautiful. They were treated like objects as if men bought them. How the woman felt was irrelevant in this period. Women were expected to produce an 'heir and a spare'. Women were also victim to double standards. For example, women had to deal with a child out of wedlock yet were given no responsibility for this. This contrasts strongly to a woman's role in society today. However, women are still expected to get married and give birth to a child. I am going to explore this issue in two short stories; The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892, and The Withered Arm written by Thomas Hardy in 1887. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a women suffering from postnatal depression that is given the 'rest cure'. She feels trapped and eventually goes mad. The Withered Arm is about a milkmaid called Rhoda who had a child out of wedlock and has been excluded from society. The man with whom she had the child with gets married to a young girl who Rhoda resents
Compare and contrast "The Arch-Deceiver" with the poem "Seduction." Which of the two writers is most critical of deception.
Compare and contrast "The Arch-Deceiver" with the poem "Seduction." Which of the two writers is most critical of deception. The poem Seduction by Eileen McAuley and the story The Arch Deceiver by Thomas Hardy both portrays the theme of deception and seduction. Both pieces consist of a boy deceiving a girl. From the poem, Seduction, the readers feel more sympathy for the girl who is used and deceived. As both the writers use language such as similes, repetition and alliteration, they create a strong attitude to deception. In the poem Seduction a boy meets a girl who he seduces, " He led her to the quiet bricks of Birkenhead docks". In which he makes her drunk and has sex with her. This ruins the girl's future. The story, 'The Arch Deceiver' is based on a story about a man who deceives his fiancée by flirting with other women and hiding them in his cart when other women appear. The seducer, Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver had a, "little round, firm, tight face with seam here and there left by the smallpox, but not enough to hurt his looks in women's eye. "The man was very serious looking and unsmiling. "He was quite the women's favorite". This tells us he was devious and a very deceptive man. Also Tony was self-centered. Equally the boy in seduction was also selfish. We know this by Tony was not thinking about the girl's feelings, only his and the boy in
Both John Thomas And Tony Kytes Are Daring Characters Who Try to Manipulate The Women Around Them. Yet In The End Both Are Weaker Than The Women In Each Story.
Both John Thomas And Tony Kytes Are Daring Characters Who Try to Manipulate The Women Around Them. Yet In The End Both Are Weaker Than The Women In Each Story. Compare The Two Male Characters And Discuss Whether Or Not You Agree With This Statement. John Thomas is the main male character in the story 'Tickets Please.' In 'Tickets Please' John Thomas is an inspector as he is an inspector he has a clear sense of power. John Thomas has much more power than Tony Kytes in 'Tony Kytes The Arched Deceiver. This is seen by the time in which the story is set. The appearance of the men reflects on the time, which the time the story was written. '...Rash young men, a little crippled...' This quote from 'Tickets Please' explains how the men appear. John Thomas is attractive to women for a different reason and that reason is that there are not many men about but only crippled and with hunchbacks. This is because the story is set in wartime. 'Since we are in wartime, the drivers are men unfit for active service: cripples and hunchbacks.' The quote above proves the fact that is not many attractive men about. The quote also explains why there are not many men about as the story is set during early 1900's and all fit men are fighting for their country in the First World War. Tony Kytes is the main male character in the story 'Tony Kytes The Arched Deceiver.' Tony Kytes is a farmer
Discussing my overall view of Thomas Hardy's poetry about him being pessimistic.
English GCSE Coursework This essay will be in direct relation to the topic of Hardy's Poetry. During this essay I will be discussing my overall view of Thomas Hardy's poetry about him being pessimistic, after reading through three of his poems I have come to the conclusion that Thomas Hardy has a slightly pessimistic View, which is reflected within the words that he has chosen to express within his poetry. The three poems, which the essay is in relation to, are as follows: * During Wind And Rain * The Going * The Darkening Thrush In my opinion I believe that Hardy is very negative about nature, love and life, it is because from what we know about Hardy having a negative impact in life, we assume that this may have influenced him becoming pessimistic. During Wind And Rain In this poem Hardy particularly focuses on creating images, which are pessimistic. Although, in doing so he creates a balance between pessimism and optimism. So Hardy's poems are not all pessimistic, they are not always morbid and dark, they do shed a form of light through them. In Stanza 3 Hardy uses words such as ' rotten, ript, rose'. These words gives many meanings to it, the word rotten can mean death, something dying, decayed. It may tell us how Hardy sees thing, the word ript gives the reader an onomatopoeic feeling, and it shows an image of something being torn. This can show how Hardy mood
Compare and contrast the ways in which Hardy explores 'Time's unflinching rigour' in 'At Castle Boterel' and the 'Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion'
Compare and contrast the ways in which Hardy explores 'Time's unflinching rigour' in 'At Castle Boterel' and the 'Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion' Having studied 'At Castle Boterel', a short poem written by Thomas Hardy in the early twentieth century, and 'The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion', a short story written by him in the late nineteenth century, it appears that Hardy is interested in the ideas of love, time and human mortality. Hardy writes about his own past experiences. The poem 'At Castle Boterel' is written about his love for his Cornish wife, Emma Gifford. Hardy is particularly interested in the perception of time and the way in which human life follows the pattern of time, and this is shown in both the short story and the poem. Hardy's interest in time can be linked to the quotation 'Time's unflinching rigour' in the poem 'At Castle Boterel'. He is also interested in the way that the physical landscape never changes, and how there is a wide span of unchanging time. This is quoted in the first line of the short story, 'Here stretch the downs; high and breezy and green, absolutely unchanged since those eventful days'. This quote, especially the words in italic, tells us that the landscape never changes, and it outlives many generations of human life. The landscape has been around forever and has witnessed all the events of human life. This
Examine the portrayal of the relationship between the sexes in the short stories of Chopin and Hardy.
Examine the portrayal of the relationship between the sexes in the short stories of Chopin and Hardy. We have read a collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy and Kate Chopin. Thomas Hardy, born on June 2, 1840, reflected in his work, his enduring pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life. His novels bravely challenged many of the sexual and religious conventions of the Victorian age, and dared to present a bleak view into human nature. Kate Chopin, born on July 12, 1850, was a feminist and risked getting bad reviews, as at that time it was unusual for women to write about such matters. She based most of her short stories about her life and its problems. In the short story of 'Désirée's Baby' by Kate Chopin, the main character, Désirée, is a young girl who has just had a baby with her husband Armand. Désirée is a young mother as it says: 'Why, it seemed but yesterday that Désirée was little more than a baby herself.' This is supported when Chopin describes Désirée 'to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere'. When Armand, a rich wealthy slave owner, falls in love with Désirée, Chopin uses the simile 'as if struck by a pistol shot' which shows how sudden and powerful his love was for Désirée. Nobody in reality compares being shot by a pistol to falling in love, which could reflect how passionate is the love that he has for Desiree. Armand's love
Compare 'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy, and 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rosetti.
'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rosetti The poems that I studied are 'The Ruined Maid' by Thomas Hardy and 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rosetti. 'The Ruined Maid' was published in 1901, and 'Cousin Kate' in 1879. These poems were both written in Victorian times, and they both reflect the attitudes towards women at the time. At the beginning of the Victorian period women's powers were extremely limited; they could not control their own money and were very much under the control of men. Among the few respectable jobs available to women were teaching and taking in embroidery, but these were poorly paid. The attitude towards women at this time was extremely patronizing. Women had not yet been given suffrage: As they could not vote, they had little power and little choice. In the light of these attitudes the poems will be analysed to show how they reflect the Victorian women of the time. The poem 'The Ruined Maid' is about a woman who used to be a country maiden, who was 'tired of digging potatoes and spudding up docks', so has become a prostitute. This poem satirizes the Victorian view of prostitutes as doomed and ruined women, and suggests that they may in fact be happy and refined. 'Melia, 'The Ruined Maid' in the poem, has met an old friend 'in town' and now that she has become ruined she seems to be far better off than she was before.