Values and Attitudes of the Characters in David Herbert Lawrence’s “Odour of Chrysanthemums” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” In the short stories “Odour of Chrysanthemums” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner”‚ D.H. Lawrence uses significant objects such as the rocking-horse and the chrysanthemums‚ in order to illustrate the main values and priorities of the characters. In “Odour of Chrysanthemums”‚ the flowers symbolize gloom and demise‚ as Elizabeth cannot bear to smell or even look at them without
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Aspects of Chrysanthemums in China Yalin Mao The chrysanthemum originated in western or central Asia (Zhao et al.‚ 2010). Then there was a gradual northeasterly movement into China and Mongolia. After that‚ it spread into eastern Asia‚ then to eastern Siberia and the Far East‚ and finally the species were dispersed widely in every region (Zhao et al.‚ 2010). In many countries‚ chrysanthemums stand for sorrow or farewell‚ especially in Italy and France. In the short story Odour of Chrysanthemums written
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seemingly kind‚ old lady who offers cheap bed and breakfast. While treating Billy to tea at night‚ the landlady poisons Billy and goes to make him one of her taxidermied collections. Dahl uses foreshadowing‚ characterization‚ and irony to examine how innocence can change the way things seem. Foreshadowing‚ the use of hints to suggest events that will occur later in a plot‚ helps show the blindness created by purity. First of all‚ cheap hotels have many guests. “It was fantastically cheap… There
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D. H. Laurence Odour of Chrysanthemums The events take place in a small village where the family lives. Elizabeth is the mother of two children who are waiting for their father. Elizabeth is nervous because her husband does not come home. The children are worried too as he does not come for dinner. The wife keeps a chrysanthemums in her pocket but she wants to throw it away as it is associated with her marriage‚ with her life with her husband and with the first time he was drunk. She tell
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He underlines this relation through Father Terrier’s description of how human odour is ‘always a fleshly … sinful odour’ (p. 16)‚ correlating evil and odours together to satirise the conventional assumption of the olfaction being the basest of sense. He proves the belief wrong by demonstrating the olfaction’s capability of revealing human depravity‚ successfully creating
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The concept of gender and relationships changes throughout time. Thanks to the widespread use of literature‚ we can now track and compare the views of old times to now. Romantic Period: The standards for men and women in the late 18th century was completely separate. Women were held to a completely different social and legal standard than men. However‚ the shift from male supremacy to gender equality began in this era. The “Ideal woman” was a thing during this time period that went to the Christian
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Foreshadowing and metaphor is used to preface and summarize the theme that love is fickle yet wonderful while also giving showing how fickle and melodramatic. First Orsino compares music to love very melodramatically when he says “If music be the food of love‚ play on; give me excess of it‚ that‚ surfeiting‚ the appetite may sicken‚ and so die” (1.1.1-3). He is saying music is like love because we overindulge on it in the moment until it sickens us and we don’t want to hear it anymore. He’s saying
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Analyzing the Theme of Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and How it is Established Through the Setting and Mood In analyzing the short story‚ “Can We Love Our Battering Fathers?” by Helen H. Gordon‚ one will smell the sickening odour of “booze and vomit” (p.7) and feel as terrorized as Gordon’s family felt around Christmas time when her father drank since booze was more available during this festive season. Gordon creates this image of desperation with nowhere to turn for her and the family
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While reading Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginning I was very confused‚ but that was probably because her stories did not follow in chronological order. If I would have noticed that her events were not in chronological order I probably would not be as confused. Chunking the text and categorizing it is would have helped me understand what the purpose of each section was.The first section in the book has different pulses. The first pulse is‚ “Listening is an active process. Steps must be taken before
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The Wonders of Love What is it about love that makes people search endlessly for it? We are all capable of love‚ yet more often than not‚ we seem to have trouble finding it. Often‚ once we’ve found it‚ we have a hard time holding on to it. Why is that? I believe it’s because people don’t know what true love is all about. They think it’s all about the feelings the butterflies in your stomach‚ the passion‚ the anguish of waiting to see that person again. And don’t get me wrong‚ these are all
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