The style and level of clarity and author chooses to depict a theme or moral can completely reverse what the reader elicits from the story as a whole. A piece of writing can portray numerous underlying messages, but depending on how well the writer paints this image, the comprehension can dramatically vary. In the short story, The Rocking-Horse Winner, the author D.H. Lawrence uses various literary devices to spin an interesting yarn about an “unlucky” family that becomes engulfed with a greed for wealth while giving innuendo to a valuable sense of morality. The critical article, The Rocking-Horse Winner: A Modern Myth, written by Donald Junkins makes an obvious point about the issue of responsibility of “the intolerable burden of attempting to solve the mother’s ‘problem,’ which is…the lack of money in the household” Junkins 1. Junkins goes on to state that the story “dramatizes modern man’s unsuccessful attempt to act out and emerge from his oedipal conflict with the woman-mother” Junkins 1.
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” Essay In the essay “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence uses irony as well as symbolism to aid him in reinforcing major themes of the short story. He uses these literary devices to reinforce the theme that modern man’s greed and materialism robbed him of his noblest instincts. This theme has, if anything, gained poignancy over time, as the human race becomes increasingly materialistic and superficial, causing one to wonder if mankind is really any better off than before the Industrial Revolution. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” had several points in the story in which irony is used, mostly to serve the purpose of creating pathos in the story. One instance of irony is where, when Paul tells his mother that he is lucky, and at the end of the story (Page 34), Paul asked: “Did I never tell you?
One of the main influences on Owens’s poetry was his meeting with Siegfried Sassoon, though Owen soon fashioned his own style and approach to the war. The characteristics of Owens’s poetry are the use of the rhyming of two words, alliteration, and assonance. Alfred Tennyson was born on 5th August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire and died on the 6th October 1892 to later be buried in the poet’s corner in Westminster Abby. Tennyson was often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, succeeding Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850. Wilfred Owens’s poems are inspired by the horrors of his own experiences in World War One from 28th July 1914 to 4th November 1918, the day that he died 1 week before the armistice.
An analysis of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff ‘by Alan Bleasdale Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale is a highly popular screenplay which tells about the lives of a group of Liverpool builders left jobless in the early1980s because of economic recession and resulting unemployment due to the Conservative Thatcher government implementing some important structural changes in the economy. As a matter of fact, this is a five-episode TV drama series based on the original play 'The Blackstuff’ by Alan Bleasdale, a playwright who is also from Liverpool. Alan Bleasdale, who was born in Liverpool on 23 March 1946, originally was a school teacher and started his writing career because there was not any available to appeal to his students. He first wrote a series of short stories about a teenager called Scully. These stories were broadcast read by the author himself on BBC Radio in 1971.
English 102-D03 Liberty University Fiction Essay July 21, 2015 APA “The Lottery” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” are fictional stories that show similar points of view. The point of view presented in both stories consists of how lucky one might or might not be. The other is about the importance of money and how it changes people. The mother in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” never realized just how lucky she was to have three beautiful children. Her focus in life was all about money.
The description of the writer identifying the post war era, “The bombs of the first blitz” (Green)). The presentation of Lawrence chimerical event in the “Rocking Horse Winner “proved that the story is a fairy tale. Green uses irony to capture his audience. Both stories are humanistic as they share the common theme of the effect of society. Paul wanted his mother love and he set to make her rich while Trevor became destruction to fit in with his peers.Inthe “Rocking Horse winner”, the anxiety of waiting to see what happen, sadly it comes to an end ,Hester’s desire was met, poor Paul died.
“The Lady with Lapdog”, by one of the masters of playwrigt; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, is a significant short story which deals with emotional fulfillment within the characteristics of romanticism, challenging the routine of the social conventions of the society. Chekhov is commonly recognized as the most significant writer of the literary generation that ended the Golden Age of Russian authorship – the era of seminal novelists like Leo Tolstoy, and Fedor Dostoevsky – and began the Silver Age – when the Russian symbolist movement flourished. (E-Notes 2008) This dramatist avoids the obvious struggles, the time-worn commonplaces and well-prepared climaxes that go to the making of most plays; he rather spreads out the canvas for our contemplation, not seeking our sympathies for individuals, but showing us merely the spectacle of humanity as he sees it. (Bellinger 1927) The characters; Dmitry Gurov, a married man under forty, and Anna Sergeyevna , a married woman, fall in love with each other, which was strictly contradictious to their time. As opposed to the classical rules of the society, the characters regard self-pleasure and individual freedom as to have priority over social rules and conformity.
Context is a powerful influence on composers’ concerns and the way these are expressed.’ How have the different contexts experienced by Shelley and Scott influenced the way they explore concerns about love? Context: -Time 20th century compared to the 19th -Marys living arrangements, married to Poet Percy Shelley -Love influencing perfection -Societies expectation in the 19th C compares to Blade runner extreme differences in the expectation of love. -Similar-both aspiring perfection and progression -The norm of society was not accepted in science -Frankenstein symbolising woman in society of this time Frankenstein: Blade Runner: Technique/Effect: “There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”
However, with his father’s encouragement and a lot of personal ambition, Hans became a very successful writer. Ascending from the lowest class to become the greatest contributor to children’s literature, Hans Christian Andersen was the first Danish author to break from traditional Danish literature by adopting the perspective of the poor and suffering to create uniquely memorable stories. Hans Christian Andersen began life in the lowest economic class of society. He was born into poverty on April 2, 1805 in Odense, on the island of Funen, Denmark. Hans’ family was a very unusual cast of characters.
Critical Analysis of Chapter 1, Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen laughs at her own society of the early 19th Century in her most famous opening line of her fiction novel, Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This overstatement is a most effective introduction to her novel Pride and Prejudice as it not only captures the readers’ attention but also immerses the reader in the English 19th Century setting, introduces Austen’s ironic tone of writing and light hearted genre of the novel. Jane Austen uses chapter 1 to introduce her concerns regarding marriage, gender and social order. Austen intrigues the reader with the entertaining relationship between Mr and Mrs Bennet and teases the reader by cleverly introducing the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, through dialogue. Austen relies on dialogue over description to voice her themes and issues; she uses diction and syntax to introduce the setting. Austen typically restricts the setting as a means of using select few characters to make more universal comments.