Compare the behaviour of the men and women in the two stories, one written before and one after the 1900. Explore what you discover and how you learn of the writer’s viewpoints.
Compare the behaviour of the men and women in the two stories, one written before and one after the 1900. Explore what you discover and how you learn of the writer's viewpoints. In this essay I will be comparing two stories one set before the 1900 and one after. The stories are "Tony Kytes", set around 1870, and "Tickets Please", set around 1918. "Tickets Please" was set after the war, in a world where women were more independent and stood up for any rights they had, working in the men's environments sometimes made them to become more like men as well. Before the war, women never did any work except for in the houses and lived a traditional lifestyle with traditional attitudes. They were supposed to respect their men and make him a good wife and they seem to accept this- "I would make you a finer wife" said one as she tried to get Tony to marry her. This was not true all the time, because some had worked in lower class sectors. "Tony Kytes is similar to "Tickets Please", they are both about men who charm and cheat on women and basically play around with them. Although "Tony Kytes" is not as serious as "Tickets Please". It is about Tony a man who is about to get married to a girl named Milly, but his ex-girlfriend comes back and she in a way seduces him and gets him to try and marry her. He wants to get married to his ex-girlfriend, who had come back, but she
Escape From Alcatraz
Escape From Alcatraz I took in a deep breath, though the air was so filthy, dirty and stale that it just made me choke. "Come on," I said to myself in an assuring tone. "This is for Samantha. All I need to do is climb up the wall and pull away the air vent on the ceiling." The rest of me was screaming wildly, telling me that I would have to pay the consequences if I even thought about escaping from this desolate yet disturbing prison. I took a small step back, as I was so cramped in the tiny cell that it was hardly possible to move. With a quick jerk of my body, I kicked my feet up against the wall so that my body wasn't touching the floor. My head and shoulders were on the other side of the wall, and very slowly, I walked up the cold stone wall. My back was rigid, yet it felt like it was going to collapse under the weight of my body. After what felt like hours of pressure, I finally reached the top of the cell. In the pitch black dark, I could hardly see anything. I reached up, and felt icy cold bars running across. Managing to squeeze two of my fingers between, I forcefully pulled it away leaving a small, square hole in the ceiling. Step by step, I finally succeeded in getting my body through the gap. Placing the metal bars back in place, I hurriedly scampered along a long, thin tunnel. It was hot, damp and smelt of decaying flesh. I must have been walking
"Examine DH Lawrence's 'Mountain Lion' and 'Snake', showing how the poet a) uses language and poetic techniques for the emotive effect. b) presents moral and social ideas.
Josh F Keeler September 12th 2001 English and English Literature Essay: Post 1900 Poetry (Social, Cultural and Historical Context). "Examine DH Lawrence's 'Mountain Lion' and 'Snake', showing how the poet a) uses language and poetic techniques for the emotive effect. b) presents moral and social ideas. Which of the two poems do you consider more effective and why?" DH Lawrence (1885-1930) is one of the outstanding British authors of the early 20th century. It was obvious from an early age that Lawrence was a gifted child. Raised in a working class environment, he was the son of a Nottinghamshire miner. His mother, however, was from a middle class background. Due to the social contrast their marriage was not successful and Lawrence would often have to witness his father coming home drunk and beating his mother. Despite his background, Lawrence received a first class education by earning scholarships through high school and university. He attended Nottingham University, qualified as a teacher in 1908 and worked at a school in Croydon until 1912. He rejected society and society rejected him and his somewhat radical views. In the same year he eloped with Freiedra Weekley, the German wife of a professor at Nottingham University College, to travel the world. During his extensive travels Lawrence was able to refine his views and develop a better
Compare the female characters in DH Lawrence’s ‘Tickets, Please’ and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver’. What are the differences and similarities between the ways they react to the male characters?
Compare the female characters in DH Lawrence's 'Tickets, Please' and Thomas Hardy's 'Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver'. What are the differences and similarities between the ways they react to the male characters? Both DH Lawrence's 'Tickets, Please' and 'Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver' deal with relationships between men and women and the rejection of women by men. At the beginning of 'Tickets, Please', Annie is 'peremptory' and 'one of the fearless young hussies' that controls the tramcars. At the end after Annie and John Thomas' roller coaster-like relationship, it is clear that something has 'broken' in her. Annie tried very hard to keep John Thomas at 'arm's length', which is emphasised by its repetition, whereas, in 'Tony Kytes', the women are almost desperate to marry Tony Kytes. But in the end, after Hannah Jolliver had refused Tony Kytes, Unity Sallet will not take Hannah's 'leavings' and walks away but looks back to see if Tony is 'following her'. In the end, Tony ends up with Milly, after-all as she doesn't believe that Tony 'didn't really mean' what he had said to them. In 'Tickets, Please', the women cope with their rejection by attacking him, and in 'Tony Kytes' the women cope with rejection by secretly wishing to marry him. In 'Tony Kytes', the man gets the girl at the end, but the man in 'Tickets, Please' gets nothing. Throughout history, the relationship between
David Herbert Lawrence - review of The Rainbow
David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 at Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, the son of a coalminer and a woman who had been a teacher. He spends much of his childhood ill and confined to his bed, on one occasion due to contracting tuberculosis. His parents would argue constantly and Lawrence tended to side with his mother, to whom he grew very close. Living in near poverty his mother was determined that he should not become a miner like his father. Instead she encouraged him academically and Lawrence was persuaded to work hard at Nottingham High School until the age of fifteen when he had to seek employment in a surgical goods factory. This period of his life and his friendship with Jessie Chambers is reflected in Sons and Lovers, a novel published in 1913 and its character Miriam. Saving the necessary £20 fee, Lawrence attained a scholarship to University College, Nottingham where he worked to get a teacher's certificate from 1906 onward. His first novel was The White Peacock that was published in 1911, followed by The Trespasser in 1912. Sons and Lovers was the third novel that he wrote in 1913, The Rainbow in 1915. And the he managed to release Women In Love which is a sequel to The Rainbow. Ursula Brangwen In The Rainbow, Anna and Will's eldest daughter, Ursula, witnesses drastic lifestyle changes resulting from the transformation of the English countryside.
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930)
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Lawrence's doctrines of sexual freedom arose obscenity trials, which are still part of the relationship between literature and society. He saw sex and intuition as a key to undistorted perception of reality and a way unburden individual's frustrations and maladjustment to industrial culture. In 1912 he wrote: "What the blood feels, and believes, and says, is always true." The author's frankness in describing sexual relations between men and women upset a great many people. Lawrence's life after World War I was marked with continuous and restless wandering. "The novel is the book of life. In this sense, the Bible is a great confused novel. You may say, it is about God. But it is really about man alive. Adam, Eve, Sarai, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Samuel, David, Bath-sheba, Ruth, Esther, Solomon, Job, Isaiah, Jesus, mark, Judas, Paul, Peter: what is it but man alive, from start to finish? Man alive, not mere bits. Even the Lord is another man alive, in a burning bush, throwing the tablets of stone at Moses's head." (from 'Why the Novel Matters' in D.H. Lawrence: Selected Criticism, 1956) David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner
Compare and contrast the different attitude to animal shown by the poet in the poems I have read.
Compare and contrast the different attitude to animal shown by the poet in the poems I have read. The poems that I am going to write about about in my English coursework are Snake by DH Lawrence. Also Medallion and The arrival of the Bee Box, which is written by Sylvia Plath. The last poem that I have to write about is Horses, which is written by Edwin Muir. In the coursework we were set two poems, which we had to do were Snake and Medallion, which are both about snakes. So I got the choice of which other two poems I had to write about in this topic. The other two poems that I picked were Horses by Edwin Muir and The arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath. I picked these two out of the list, which we could pick as the both showed signs of fear that the animals can have other people in certain situation. Also in the Arrival of the Bee Box the writer's attitude changers because of what the bees do. In horses the writer is looking back from when he was a child and how that he was scared of the horses that ploughed the fields as they were very large and the writers language in the poem changers as for certain times of the day that he sees the horses they look different to him. The reason why this happens is because he has a very vivid imagination, which makes him think that these are very dangerous. Snake is about how that DH Lawrence has an encounter with a snake. The
Critical appraisal of DH Lawrence's short story, 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', making use of stylistic and structuralism principles.
Critical appraisal of DH Lawrence's short story, 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', making use of stylistic and structuralism principles. The practice of Stylistic and Structuralist principles in literature has been explored since the turn of the century and has been great expanded upon in the latter half of the century by linguists such as Roland Barthes and G.N Leech and M.H Short. Their \approaches to textual analysis can be easily applied to the majority of literature and in this essay I will make use of both stylistic and structuralist principles in my critical appraisal of DH Lawrence's short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums". However it should be noted that both these approaches have limitations and cannot be solely used to attain a well-rounded criticism of a text. Many other forms of criticisms often need to be incorporated for analysis depending upon the context and content of a piece. The Stylistic approach attempts to find meanings and style though analysing the actual grammatical make up of a piece of literature. Stylistic thinkers break down texts into their bare forms of diction, grammar and devices in an attempt to locate how through the use of words meaning and style is achieved. Leech and Short in the book "Style in Fiction" claim that literature can be stylistically analysed through the use of four main linguistic and stylistic categories: 1 Lexical, Grammatical,
D.H. Lawrence - A personal review.
D.H. LAWRENCE Name: Shem Mankey Teacher: Ms. Hall Due Date: 25/08/03 Good morning/afternoon everyone, today I am here to speak to you all about D.H. Lawrence. D.H. Lawrence was born David Herbert Lawrence in 1885, he died in 1930. On of his most popular pieces of work is LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER, it tells of the love affair between a wealthy, married woman, and a man who works on her husband's estate. The book was banned for some time in both the UK and US and deemed as pornographic. SONS AND LOVERS was another of D.H. Lawrence's well-known pieces of work, this novel was based on his childhood. D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature and his work is still taught, used and studied in education today and holds an important place in our society today. His principles of sexual freedom began many obscenity trials, which are still part of the connection between literature and society, his work is still relevant in modern-day society because of it strong link to society and the way we live and feel. D.H. Lawrence's work is comparable with the work of contemporary poets because of its link to society and the way we live. D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner who was a heavy drinker. His mother was a former school teacher; she was seen to be greatly
"Snake" By D. H. Lawrence - review
"Snake" By D. H. Lawrence Vocabualry: *Carob-tree: a red flowered tree originally in the Mediterranean area. * pitcher : tall, round container with an open top and large handle. * flickered: moved * mused : think about * bowel: bottom of earth * perversity: offensive * log: tree trunk * clatter: v. loud sound of hard things hitting * convulsed : violent movement * writhed: to twist and turn in great pain * paltry: worthless Background : D.H. Lawrence belongs to the 20th Century. He was interested in the idea of contrasts. Most of his writings deal with the conflict between opposities such as instinct and artificiality apects of modern life, good and evil, light and darkness, man and animal. He believed that human nature in general is made of opposities. "Snake" is a 74 line free verse poem. It incorporates a narrative element recording the poet's encounter with a snake at his water-trough .This poem was written when D. H. Lawrence and his wife were living in Taormina ,Sicily in 1920. This poem is derived from Lawrence's actual experience there. Theme: The setting is a hot July day upon which the poet takes his pitcher to the water-trough , where a snake is drinking The poet here recreates the image of the traditional snake which is usually associated with evil. He introduces two types of snakes ; the literary snake and the allegorical one. He suggests an