Presentation of Marriage in"Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver" and "The Half Brothers".
Discuss The Writers Presentation of Marriage in "Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver and "The Half Brothers These short stories were both written in the same period of time and are based around the same topic. Both of the stories were written in the Victorian Times and are set in small, village communities where everyone would know one another and any news, whether good or bad, would be quickly spread. The storylines are both based around marriage and how it would not be seen upon in these times. Marriage in the Victorian Times was not as it is today and this is why these stories would be of great interest to readers or listeners both now and then. A marriage in the Victorian Times was true to the vows spoken upon the Wedding Day and expected to last a lifetime, no matter what. A divorce would not even be heard of, let alone spoken about. This would be the case for nearly every married couple of that time, but even still, there would be the extreme happening were this would not be the case. Someone would leave their partner and form a new relationship with a new partner elsewhere, despite the fact that they were still married or currently in a relationship. Victorian marriages were very unbalanced. The husband would be very submissive, and whether she wanted to or not, the wife had to oblige. Once they were married, every one of the woman's possessions became her husbands.
Comparison of "Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver" by Thomas Hardy and "Tickets please" by D H Lawrence.
'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' and 'Tickets please', are two short stories, which are set around the male/ female relationship of their time. Neither of the stories is written from a woman's point of view, 'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' is clearly written from a mans point of view, while 'Tickets please' is written from a neutral point of view. They are both set in the past, and in both the male/female relationship differs from what we would expect today. 'Tony Kytes, the arch deceiver ' is set in a 19th century countryside village, in southern England. The narrator is local to the community, and the story begins by introducing Tony Kytes, the male character. Women in general are also introduced very early on, after which the narrator settles on one of the three female characters. The story is set around Tony Kytes, and his relationship with three different women. The setting is not very important into his story, and so not much is done to describe it. Most of the description is given through dialogue. 'Tickets please' is set in wartime England, specifically in the industrial midlands: so areas in the vicinity of Nottinghamshire. The story is set around a tram service, renown for being run entirely by 'girls'. The story begins with a very detailed description of the setting, and eventually introduces the general group of female characters, before settling down on the
Compare the treatment of males and females in the two stories; Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver and News Of the engagement.
Compare the treatment of males and females in the two stories; Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver and News Of the engagement. In examining the two stories I will be approaching a sustained inference on how men and women are portrayed within each story. Looking at each story I will be able to summarise the way in which the writers deals with the sexes. Within each short story I will be dealing with different issues that emphasis the treatment of theses constituents. Evidentially, the characters are an important indication to what and how ideas are portrayed. I will be dealing with the characters and how they bond 'male and female' interaction or parental bonding 'mother and son'. I will also be looking in depth on love and how that affects the people within each story. Tony Kytes the arch deceiver is a short story that has a very contradictory meaning. As expected the title would be an indication to how the story is structured. 'The arch deceiver' this immediately gives an implication to what is in expectance within this story. The idea that deceivers are dark schemer, have a clinical view of how things should be. However, 'arch' gives a clear indication that this character is the top, the highest by the way in which the title dominant within this story. It would be lead to believe that Tony Kytes is a person who has aspirations and has high standards that are planned to accuracy.
Thomas Hardy: The Withered Arm, pre 20th Century - Juanita Casey: The Seagull, 20th Century - Both stories explore the power of emotions and attitudes to influence relationships and events - Compare the ways the two authors go about their explorations.
Comparative Wide-Reading Assessment. English EN2 English Literature Thomas Hardy: The Withered Arm, pre 20th Century Juanita Casey: The Seagull, 20th Century Both stories explore the power of emotions and attitudes to influence relationships and events. Compare the ways the two authors go about their explorations. Can an internal attitude affect a physical event? This is the question both the authors are asking the reader in their stories. In connection with this the two authors are also trying to find out if peoples emotions and attitudes can effect and influence relationships whether it is their own or another persons. In Hardy's story, "The Withered Arm", he focuses on the relationship between Rhoda Brook and Gertrude Lodge and how their emotions subconsciously affect what happens to other people and then how these consequences affect their relationships. Casey however focuses on the relationship between the husband and the wife and how the rejection towards the wife and her emotions and attitudes toward the seagull could effect what happens to her husband. I intend to explore the issue of whether emotions and attitudes can in fact influence relationships in both the short stories, first with relation to Hardy's issues and then I shall write about The Seagull, in comparison to The Withered Arm. In the Withered Arm, Hardy begins his story by setting the scene so
The Son's Veto Thomas Hardy
Both the 'Son's Veto' and 'Kiss Miss Carol' examine the relationship between a child and its parent. Compare what Thomas Hardy and Farrukh Dhondy have to say about that relationship and show how the situation in each story is typical of its period and setting. The Son's Veto Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy was a British novelist and a poet who was born in 1840 duringQueen Victoria's reign and died at the age of 88 in 1928. Most of Hardy's works are set in the countryside of Wessex. 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1844) was his first important novel followed by other works such as 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and 'Jude the Obscure.' Hardy's characters were often portrayed as victims of a predestined fate. Hardy's women were portrayed as victims of prejudice, abuse and a male dominated society. In his later years Hardy turned to poetry; 'The Dynasts' is considered to be his most ambitious verse. The 'Son's Veto' is the story of Sophy, a middle class, widowed, handicapped woman who lived alone, with a son who went away to boarding school. She was originally from the working class but her marriage to Mr Twycott led her into the middle class world and out of her home village into London. After her husband's death she meets Sam, an old friend from her working class days. He proposes to her and describes a happy life they could lead together. Sophy explains the inportance of her son,
Kiss Miss Carol Farrukh Dhondy
Both the 'Son's Veto' and 'Kiss Miss Carol' examine the relationship between a child and its parent. Compare what Thomas Hardy and Farrukh Dhondy have to say about that relationship and show how the situation in each story is typical of its period and setting. 'Kiss Miss Carol'. Farrukh Dhondy: Farrukh Dhondy was born in 1944 in Bombay, India. After getting an engineering degree in Bombay he travelled to England. Here he achieved a BA and MA from the Cambridge and Leicester university. He became a full time author in 1980 before which he taught English in various schools in London. Most of his books were written for children, for example 'East End at your feet', and 'Poona Company'. He went on to write plays for stage and television. In ''Kiss Miss Carol'' Dhondy shows the problems children from ethnic minorities that live in Britain have to face. The struggle for their identity; adapting to western ways while respecting their parents and maintaining their cultures. Synopsis: 'Kiss Miss Carol' is the story of a young boy Jolil who comes from an eastern background and is living in a western society. When he is given the part of a cripple in his Christmas play he knows his father would disapprove as he would see the offer of the part as racism and prejudice. 'Kiss Miss Carol' follows the mental struggle Jolil must face in order to decide where his loyalties lie. In the
Compare the ways in which Thomas Hardy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman capture and maintain their audience's interest and explain which of the two you preferred.
Comparative Essay Assignment: Compare the ways in which Thomas Hardy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman capture and maintain their audience's interest and explain which of the two you preferred. Assessment Criteria: Literature EN2 Although both of these short stories were written in different times, by different authors, both stories are filled with detail, twists, and turns. This is what makes both of these short stories so popular and interesting to read. Although written in two different styles, both are interesting and dramatic from start to finish and instantly the writers capture our attention by using the hook of curiosity. Thomas Hardy opens his story in a cow barn where the milkers are talking about the newly wed wife of Farmer Lodge. Immediately the reader is curious to find out more about the new wife and why she is so important. Then the milkmaids continue to talk and they look at the other side of the barn, where they see another milkmaid who is somewhat apart & seems isolated from the others. The milkmaids say "Tis has for she" and again we are curious to know why it is hard for this strange and isolated character. Why are the milkers talking about her? This curiosity makes us want to read on and find out more. However, Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens her story in a different Way; she starts the story with, "In her soft-carpeted, thick curtained, richly
What effect do you think the endings of the stories, Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver, The Son’s Veto and The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy, might have on the reader ?
What effect do you think the endings of the stories, Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver, The Son's Veto and The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy, might have on the reader ? You should note that the literature course work says you should include comments on the social and cultural aspects of the stories. Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver is a comedy based on a young man journeying through his village as he tries to deceive three women who clearly have feelings for him. It shows, how in the end, coincidence lets him down and he is caught out. The Son's Veto is a slightly longer story which explores the life of Sophy, a village girl, through many years of her life, concentrating on her son's prejudice and the result in which she suffers and dies unhappily. The Withered Arm is a longer story again, also charting a period of many years involving three people in which jealousy and witchcraft dominate. It finishes in a dramatic and tragic way. The three stories tell very different tales and can therefore be seen as separate genres. Tony Kytes is clearly a comedy as it is a portrayal of ordinary life in which coincidence, intrigue and normal human behaviour is shown. No one suffers terribly, there is a fairly pleasant ending and Hardy gives the reader the chance to criticise the characters' personalities. The ending of this story is as much to do with coincidence and fate, as it is dependant on
Show how Hardy responds to the death of his wife, the thoughts and feelings expressed and the variety of devices he employs.
Show how Hardy responds to the death of his wife, the thoughts and feelings expressed and the variety of devices he employs. In the years after the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the main subject of Hardy's poems was his wife and how he missed her and grieved her death. In his poems during this period he uses a lot of euphemism, so that he never actually tells the reader his wife has died. However, the strong sense of sadness and regret he feels comes through in every poem. The first poem Hardy wrote after the death of Emma was The Going in December 1912. This poem has a highly regular rhythm and rhyme, with the important words often rhyming at the end of the lines to draw attention to them. The title of the poem is a euphemism for death, and he continues with these throughout the poem, using phrases such as 'vanishing', 'close your term here' and 'where I could not follow'. This poem is written as if Hardy is addressing Emma. In the first stanza, Hardy addresses and questions his dead wife, and gives a sense of what seems like anger and irritation towards her, that she gave him 'no hint' that she was going to die. He suggest she was 'indifferent' and didn't care about leaving him, and this shows how he is grieving and maybe not thinking straight. He emphases her swift, quick death as she left 'with wing of swallow' but this imagery also suggests her beauty in his eyes
Compare 'A Stench of Kerosene' by Amrita Pritam and 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy.
NAME: AL-AMIN CHOUDHURY CLASS: 10L ENGLISH COURSEWORK: TO COMPARE 'A STENCH OF KEROSENE' BY AMRITA PRITAM AND THE 'WITHERED ARM' BY THOMAS HARDY TUTOR: MISS COOM GCSE ASSIGNMENT Compare 'A Stench of Kerosene' by Amrita Pritam and 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy. The two stories 'The Withered Arm' and 'Stench of Kerosene' is set in different cultures and at different times which have some similarities. 'Withered Arm' was written by a man called Thomas Hardy in 1888, and is set in Wessex, England. While 'Stench of Kerosene' was written nearly 100 years later in the 1950s by a women called Amrita Pritam, which is set in rural India. The setting of the both stories took place in a simple farming village community. The culture and social context of 'Stench of Kerosene' is very similar to 'Withered Arm'. Although it happened in India, there are traditional different relationship which exist between the two sexes. Both stories looks at the tragedy of damaged relationships. The story of 'Stench of Kerosene' is about a women called Guleri, who lives with her husband Manak and her parent's in-laws, (Manak's mother is disappointed with Guleri for not having a grandchild, but she does not show Guleri that she is upset). Guleri and Manak have been married for seven years and have no children of their own, but there is a deep love between