The Signature Of All Things Comparative Essay

Comparative Essay - The Signature of All Things and The Golden Age The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Golden Age by Joan London, are bildungsroman novels and feature Alma Whittaker and Frank Gold respectively, as their protagonists in focus of the ever-changing world around them. The individuals from both the novels as mentioned above, progress through their surrounding society on how their understanding of love, loss and family affect the growth on their sense of self. To a great degree, their unique life’s’ injustices, love, relationships and family prompt their maturity til their adulthood. The lives that surround the individuals are significantly unalike but through life's injustices and individual setback this is a characteristic that links them together.
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Set in London, England’s mid 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, The Signature of All Things,
In The Signature of All Things, all relationships that were to be cherished as Alma had grown up in a household with a strict upbringing. The cold tone that her father speaks to her with is contrasted with small but symbolic signs of affection as shown in this quote, “without reservation, though, Henry admired his child.”(TSoAT, pg3) The manipulation of emotive language as used in this quote is shown as a symbol of achievement of the parents and the ___ Similarly, it is shown when Alma converses with her husband Ambrose, as they are both study botanics, language used between is emotional and philosophical. This is shown through "____", although their love is shown in an innocent ___. Through her relationship with Ambrose she is seen as anomalous, married at the age of 40 while her husband is 10 years younger and through her study of the seemingly miniscule organism of this earth,