Analyse and Discuss the Relationships Between the Sexes in' Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver' and 'Seeing a Beauty Queen Home'.
Analyse and Discuss the Relationships Between the Sexes in' Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver' and 'Seeing a Beauty Queen Home' 'Tony Kytes, The Arch Deceiver' is story of a young man who, in the course of a single afternoon, proposes marriage to three different girls. This story was set in the early nineteenth century in a rural community, Several of the features of the story throw a striking light on the position of women in society at the time at which it is set. 'Seeing a beauty queen home' is a story of a young man who Woo's women, just for the fun of it. However in this novel by Bill Naughton, Maggie was strong enough to tell Rudy where to go, this was probably due to the influence of the suffragettes; giving them confidence and making them examine their own lives and ambitions. They were beginning to believe that they were equal in status to men, and therefore were no longer acting in such a gentle, and soft manner like in the novel 'Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver' . In this piece of Coursework, I shall be Analysing the relationships between the sexes in Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver' and ' Seeing a beauty Queen Home.' The male characters of both novels are Tony Kytes and Rudy. Their attitudes toward women are very Different to each other. Tony was good looking, "...but not enough to hurt his looks in a woman's' eye..." As an audience we see Tony to be a humours
Comparative essay of 'The Withered Arm' & 'Turned'
Comparative essay of 'The Withered Arm' & 'Turned' Introduction The 'Withered Arm' was written Thomas Hardy and 'Turned' was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In this essay I'm going to compare the two stories by comparing the main characters in both stories. In 'Turned' I will compare Mrs Marroner and Gerta. In 'The Withered arm' I will compare Gertrude Lodge and Rhoda Brook. I will compare the characters by their appearance, personality and their status for example marital and financial. After I've compared the characters in their particular story I'll cross compare the two stories, comparing all the characters to each other. Author introduction of 'The Withered Arm' Thomas Hardy was born, and lived most of his life, near Dorchester. He links a lot of his stories to his own life because a lot of them were set in neighbouring counties such as Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxford. To this section southwest England Hardy gave the fictional name Wessex and called his first book of poetry 'Wessex Poems' and his first collection of short stories 'Wessex Tales'. Through Hardy's use of the name Wessex for the area, it has become known as Wessex. Hardy applies his own life to a lot of his stories, especially in his short stories. This is evident throughout 'The Withered Arm' in one point of his life he knew an old woman who, in her youth,
Comparing Short Stories Assignment - Tony Kytes and Seeing a beauty queen home
Comparing Short Stories Assignment - Tony Kytes and Seeing a beauty queen home In "Tony Kytes" Tony is a young man who is riding home from the market, while he is riding home he sees three women who he is very fond of. He was very popular with the women because they all wanted to marry him. He tells all the girls that he loves them and nobody else and he hides them from each other so they don't find out what he is like. In the end the wagon crashed and Tony ended up with Milly. In "Seeing a Beauty Queen Home", Rudy, another young man is not really bothered about womens feelings, he uses them to show off to his friends. He gets his hopes up when he takes a beauty queen home but is let down when she kicks him out for being too "smart" "Seeing a Beauty Queen" was written by Bill Naughton in the twentieth century. It was set in the industrial part of north England. "Tony Kytes" was written by Thomas Hardy in the ninetieth century. It was set in the countryside of Wessex. Both stories look at what men will do to get their desired women, both stories have an unpredictable ending. Both men want to get women and are willing to deceive and lie to get the women they want. Both men appear respectable, Rudy does it by offering to take a beauty queen home and Tony Kytes tries to appear respectable by taking women with him on his wagon. Both men are hampered by social rules,
Consider the relationship between men and women in the short stories we looked at. How are these relationships influenced by the social and historical situations of the time?
Wide Reading Coursework Consider the relationship between men and women in the short stories we looked at. How are these relationships influenced by the social and historical situations of the time? I believe that both of these stories strongly reflect the times they were written. Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire. His story "Tickets Please" is set in his home region of Nottinghamshire, during the war, but he speaks of it mainly in a negatively way. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and like Lawrence in a rural area. However, when Hardy is writing "Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver, " he writes before the Industrial Revolution, and about the unspoilt countryside. Both men were unique writers for the time, because of their individual and original styles. Within these two stories there are similar settings and themes, relationships between men and women being a main one. Despite the similarities in the storylines, these stories have totally different outcomes. One of the main comparisons that can be made in these two stories is the setting. "Looked at the trees, and beasts, and birds, and insects, " this is how Thomas Hardy sees the countryside. Hardy wrote this before the Industrial Revolution hit the countryside. Lawrence on the other hand opposes Hardy's perfect view of paradise, "stark, grimly, cold little market- places " is just one of the examples of Lawrence's subdued
With reference to "The Destructors" by Graham Greene and "Tony Kytes, Arch Deceiver" by Thomas Hardy, show how they both fit into the genre of 'the short story' by being so well constructed that every detail is important to the final effect.
Emily Hooker 31st January 2002 Short Story Comparisons With reference to "The Destructors" by Graham Greene and "Tony Kytes, Arch Deceiver" by Thomas Hardy, show how they both fit into the genre of 'the short story' by being so well constructed that every detail is important to the final effect. The short story is a genre in its own right because it is concise and introduces the characters into the story in the first few paragraphs. These two short stories fit the definition because they follow the guidelines of introducing the characters into the first paragraph, and the story line is very concise and does not go into different parts that are not relevant to the story. 'The Destructors' written by Graham Greene is about a teenage boy called Trevor or 'T' for short. T is not described in much detail in the short story, but you know he is a member of a group of boys who are younger than him and that his father was a former "architect and present clerk." Knowing what his father did for a living gives you a brief idea of what the character is like as he is close to his father. The group of boys are influenced by 'T' to destruct "old Miserys" house, which was one of the only houses standing after the war. The other characters in the story include Blackie, who was the leader of the group but stood down to 'T' as he was
A Discussion of the way Hardy's own life is reflected In his short stories.
A Discussion of the way Hardy's own life is reflected In his short stories. Thomas Hardy was one of the great writers of his time, producing novels such as 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and 'Far from the Madding Crowd'. He is also renown for his short stories and poetry, which seem to all focus on women. In this essay I intend to analyse certain aspects of Hardy's life, and see how they are reflected in his writing. Thomas Hardy was born on the 2nd June, 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, and although this was only 160 years ago, the period in which he lived in was very different to the one we live in today. The social classes were extremely important; those from the upper classes did not socialise with those of lower classes. If they were to talk to them, they would use a different tone and manner. Hardy was from a lower class, but his grandmother was not and it was she, and Hardy's mother, who taught him to read and write. This enabled Hardy to write and become a respected author. He was able to used terms that impressed and captivated his reader, but he also had the insight of a working-class life. His stories seemed to involve much of this class difference, one of his characters either moved up a social status, or downward, and there would be social reaction to this change. The attitudes of people towards those of a different social class were clearly illustrated in his
Discuss the role of women as it is presented in the two Thomas Hardy short stories 'Tony Kytes the arch deceiver and the Withered arm'.
Andrew Mckean 27th November 2002 Discuss the role of women as it is presented in the two Thomas Hardy short stories 'Tony Kytes the arch deceiver and the Withered arm' In the 2 short stories written by Thomas Hardy 'Tony Kytes the arch deceiver' and 'The Withered arm' were set in the late 18th century this was the same time that Charles Dickens was writing. Thomas's stories were set in the countryside Devon and called the place Wessex. Where as Charles Dickens wrote about the town in the capital of London. In the first story we read by Thomas Hardy 'the arch deceiver' the women are completely different to the women in the second story. Milly Richards is a shy, well-spoken laid-back person. She was engaged to marry Tony Kytes. The thing was she called him 'Mr. Tony' and she didn't want her to call him anything else. She worshipped the ground he walked on. Milly also hadn't much self-confidence and wouldn't answer back to her husband to be. When Tony asks her to hide under the dirty old blanket she does this with no questions. When Tony asks Unity Sallat to marry him instead of confronting her she stayed under the sacks and sobbed, she even tried to sob quietly so that nobody could hear her. In 'The Withered Arm' Gertrude lodge is from a well off family so she has hardly done any work in her entire life. I could tell this because in those
An Essay comparing the way men and women are represented in "the withered arm" and other stories by Thomas Hardy with the way they are represented in "turned" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
An Essay comparing the way men and women are represented in "the withered arm" and other stories by Thomas hardy with the way they are represented in "turned" by charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Withered Arm" and "Turned" are both focused on relationships between men and women. "The Withered Arm" was about the relationship between Rhoda Brook and Farmer Lodge and also who he married later on called Gertrude. "Turned" was about the relationship between Mr.Marroner and Mrs.Marion Marroner but Mr.Marroner also had an affair with his servant Gerta Peterson and made her pregnant. Thomas Hardy when writing his stories focuses mainly on tradition where as Charlotte Perkins being a woman herself has represented other women as being strong and independent. The men in Thomas Hardy's stories are represented in an extremely traditional way as they are being represented as powerful and emotional. In "The Withered Arm", Farmer Lodge is represented as strong, powerful, unemotional and degrading towards women. He somehow changes throughout the story. At the start of the story he had superficial feelings and also neglected his son as he was born through the affair with a low class woman. He then marries Gertrude as he wanted a young pretty wife. He therefore was represented there as being selfish because he never cared about other people's feelings except for his own. "O yes. You must expect
Thomas Hardy is verysuccessful and skilful in controlling the reader's response to "TheWithered Arm".
Thomas Hardy is very successful and skilful in controlling the reader's response to "The Withered Arm In the very first section of the story, we can see how Hardy focuses our attention in order to control our response. We can see that Rhoda Brook is a lonely figure set aside, but Hardy's skill makes us want to know more about her and why she is lonely when the other milkers refer to her. The first section is intriguing. We constantly want to find out more about the mysterious character of Rhoda Brook, who we notice is sitting apart from the other workers. By the end of the section, we assume that Rhoda Brook is a rejected girlfriend of farmer Lodge. We deduce this from the clues in the language used by Hardy. In the second section, Hardy moves the story forward and introduces the theme of Rhoda Brook's jealousy, and more importantly, we now see the story from Rhoda Brook's perspective. When Rhoda sends her son to spy on farmer Lodge's new wife, we begin to see how jealous and rejected Rhoda feels. We also begin top understand Rhoda much better, and sympathise with her feelings. Clues about Rhoda Brook's relationship with farmer Lodge are suggested in an oblique way, so we only have partial knowledge. The way Hardy withholds information is part of his skill, and makes us wonder and want to know more about their relationship. In section3, Hardy introduces a very
The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing
Thomas Hardy Short Stories The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing There is one main character in this story, Hubert. We barely get any description of the physical features of Hubert; however what we do find out is: he is a fourteen year old boy, a 'yeoman's son' with a horse named Jerry. All of them resided in Wessex. 'A man darted from the thicket' 'Another man' 'And Another' These three quotes; all from the same paragraph tell us that there are in total three robbers. Yet again there is very little detail about any of the three robbers; two descriptions of the few criminals there states that their faces are 'artificially blackened', and at least one of them had a, 'deep voice'. In the whole of the short story there is possibly twenty-six other people; these are briefly mentioned throughout the story. Only one of the twenty six people get named and that person is, 'Sir Simon'. Unlike 'Tony Kytes' there is one main character, Hubert. Only two settings are used, they are the 'mansion', and the, 'Vale of Blackmore'. This is more complicated and detailed than 'Tony Kytes'; where the only setting there was the wagon. Only a few details of 'Vale of Blackmore' are given; "A fertile but somewhat lonely district, with heavy clay roads and crooked lanes." An ideal place for an ambush. It's dark and deserted, therefore minimal chance of the robbers getting caught. The only