"How both authors portray how women are deceived by men", Thomas Hardy and Ravinder Randhawa.

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Prathieban Sathanathan                Wider Reading                        Mrs Collins

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“How both authors portray how women are deceived by men”

Women used to be totally controlled by men, many across the world still are. But this still occurs in everyday life even at this present moment in time, many men still abuse women’s trust and betray them, control them, not allow them to have any freedom. Women are blinded when it comes to; ‘love’ even in today’s present-day society. ‘India.’ Written by Ravinder Randhawa and, ‘Tony Kites The Arch Deceiver,’ highlight this issue very well.  

        Thomas Hardy (1840- 1928) was the first major writer to focus on the countryside and on rural characters, his novels, stories and poems were set in the area he called, ‘Wessex,’ present day, ‘Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.’ Hardy wrote at a period when life was changing in some areas for the first time in centuries. Railways were spreading rapidly as the industrial revolution started to affect the whole population. Many people were beginning to leave the countryside for jobs in the town and to move from job to job. It was also a period where belief in Christianity was under pressure. Many people including Hardy experienced a loss of faith. These changes created a sense of challenge to traditional standards, which was often reflected in Hardy’s novels.  

        Ravinder Randhaw was born in ’India’ and grew up in Warwickshire. She is the founder of the Asian women’s founders collective, and for some years was its co-ordinator she has written a variety of different novels/ short stories and has also given numerous talks in universities across the United Kingdom and abroad.

        ‘Toney kites- The arch deceiver,’ was set in, ’’Wessex’ present day ‘Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.’ the story itself is mainly set near the country side ‘birds, insects‘ and ‘ploughmen,’ on a, ‘horse-drawn- cart.’ This was the most popular form of transport at that particular stage in time. In total contrast to this, Ravinder Randhaw has not set, ’India’ in any particular place. However the main events that occur in the story happen in a modern day society either in a university or college, across the United Kingdom. Ravinder Randhaw leaves it to her audience to decide where they want the story to be set.

        There are a variety of different moods, which occur throughout, ’Tony Kites- The arch deceiver.’ Due to the mixture of moods, Hardy has created in this novel depending on the type of audience that read it, will have different feelings and emotions towards the novel. Some readers would be supportive towards Tony and some will be opposed to his unfaithful actions. The scenery, ’birds, insects and ploughman,’ will cause the readers to feel like they are in a calm place, where mood is calm and silent but as the story unveils the readers can see that Tony, is constantly watching whatever he says. This could be described as a jumpy, paranoid sort of mood. The variety of moods present throughout the story, jus adds to the excitement and tension, which is felt by the readers throughout the story. In total contrast to this the mood in ’India,’ is more sombre, as Inderjit is lovesick. She is madly in love with, ‘gold finger,’ - a character who hardly seems human. The way Ravinder Randhaw uses words such as, ’red’ and ’dead.’ Allow the readers to

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Prathieban Sathanathan                Wider Reading                        Mrs Collins

create vivid images in their heads of what’s going on in the play. By doing this Ravinder Randhaw also sets the mood that is continued throughout the rest of the story.

        Tony Kites is the main character in, ’The arch Deceiver.’ He had a, ’little, round tight face.’ Which consisted of various, ’seams here and there.’ These seams were said to be scars from when he had, ’small pox.’ Tony seems to be every woman’s dream man, even the ’seams’ on his face were not enough to hurt a ‘woman’s eye.’ It was ...

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