Lady Of Shalott Essay

The industrial revolution in America had some serious ramifications on England. England was going through a recession. Tennyson, a poet, writes about the social effects of going through a recession. For example, the effects it had on gender role and education in England were radical. Men were losing jobs and no longer had control of their wives because they could no longer provide for their families. The men during the recession were socially castrated. An uneducated population could no longer get the jobs they needed to secure their family's future. In lord Tennyson’s poem the “Lady of Shalott” he tackles the view that women had when they can now make their own choices, and societies resulting actions At the time of the poem it was quite controversial. Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” has three major messages; isolation, breaking free and living what life is left. The first message of “Lady of Shalott” is her isolation. The lady of Shalott has been cursed; however, she has no idea what the curse will do to her. She does know that if she looks outside the curse will activate. It is because of this that she feels isolated from the rest of society. She is right to feel this way; she can only see the world through a mirror. As she says in the poem “'I am half sick of
She had lived her whole life dreaming about seeing Camelot, and then Lancelot rode by singing a happy song. She sang too, always a sad song. Lancelot's cheery song drove her to get up. She hesitated at first. “She left the web, she left the loom, she made three paces through the room,” and then she made her decision, “She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot.”(part 3 line 109-113) the first thing she looks at is her world that she never saw; then to Lancelot. Her biggest dream was to see Camelot and that was the next thing she did. Sadly the curse's effects set in. She was