writing. Recently I have had the pleasure of reading the short story “Country Lovers”‚ by Nadine Gordimer and in this paper I will explain how she used the narrative elements of plot‚ theme and point of view to enhance her story and make it a richer experience. The story “Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story about love and race. This story starts with a childhood love and grows into adulthood. “Country Lovers” is a story that deals with a forbidden love between a black woman named Thebedi
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matter the timeframe‚ the one constant that rings true is that love will not always overcome all. It didn’t take reading past the title of “Country Lovers” to be instantly attracted to this short story. Just knowing it was a story of love and romance was enough of a draw to this literary piece. No matter how the story played out between these lovers‚ the feelings that would most certainly be evoked from such a powerful story raised curiosity to follow the tragic-turned-morbid love story of Paulus
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D.H. Lawrence: Son and Lover "Bildungsroman‚ a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience" (Nivin‚ Alastair; pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Son’s and Lovers‚ an intensely realistic novel set in a small English mining town‚ much akin to the town in which he was raised. The son of a miner‚ Lawrence grew up with a father much like the character
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Collage of Memories: Romare Bearden’s Tomorrow I may be far away Bearden’s Tomorrow I may be far away in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C is a collage piece that was inspired by the blues classic: “Good Chib Blues‚” recorded by Edith North Johnson in 1929. The song is of the female ballad blues singer‚ who sings of lost love and heartbreak but eventually overcomes both of the terrible experiences. In Tomorrow I May Be Far Away‚ Bearden tried to express the history and culture of black
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Country Lovers The story portrays the apartheid system. Paulus: * He is a white upper-class Afrikaner. * Truly in love with Thebedi‚ his love for her is growing. The love is genuine. They have grown up together‚ therefore they have a strong. His love for the white girls is only of a physical love‚ it is superficial. Is Thebedi just entertainment? * He is not as emotional as Thebedi. Thebedi: * She is a farm worker. She is from the worker-class. * Strong love for Paulus
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involving the social paradigm of the context‚ essentially conveying the consequences of challenging strict class structures placed on individuals through portraying the disastrous effect of upper and lower class interaction. The text’s title‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ which alludes to a disease highlights that the persona is being infected by Porphyria to point where it makes him sick‚ suggesting that inter-class relationships are abnormal and unhealthy. Porphyria is implied to be of higher social status than
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Porphyria’s lover: Like ‘My Last Duchess’‚ this poem is an example of a dramatic monologue – a poem in which the impression the speaker unwittingly gives is rather different from the picture they intend to present. Initially‚ the poem appears to be built around a contrast between the storm outside and the cosy domestic scene within the cottage that Porphyria and her lover share. But there are unsettling notes from the very start –the storm is strangely personified in terms of sullenness‚ ‘spite’
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Porphyria’s Lover is a typical dramatic monologue by Browning‚ where we get an insight into the narrator’s thoughts. In the poem‚ we get an insight into the thoughts of a man who kills his love interest out of jealousy: “Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain.” This gives the impression of Porphyria living a very high status life‚ just coming from a party‚ and the narrator being her love interest that she is sneaking away from her life to see. On the other hand‚ Porphyria’s death could have been
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Examine the treatment of women in Porphyria’s lover It would be easy to assume that women in Victorian England were treated badly. However‚ “Porphyria’s lover” suggests that his idea springs from society’s control of women. At the start of the poem‚ Porphyria has freedom and control but as the piece progresses‚ it is clear that this freedom and control is curtailed by her lover who contains and incarcerates her through death. As a result it can be argued that Browning’s purpose was to warn women
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Sons and Lovers: A Psychoanalytic Criticism Psychoanalysis is a psychological approach that focuses on the concepts of Sigmund Freud and helps us to understand human behavior. D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913) is a text that cries out for a psychoanalytic interpretation.One of Freud’s most famous theories is the Oedipus complex‚ which deals with a child’s emerging sexuality. Freud used the story of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex to help illustrate his theory. In the story‚ Oedipus unwittingly kills
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