Week 2
Week 2
Boys and Girls
Alice referrers to her mothers work as “endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing”, she sees her mothers work in a negative way, almost in a dark way. Whereas Alice refers to her fathers work as “ritualistically important”, which suggests she sees her fathers work in a positive way. The binary I noticed about where the children sleep (or inside of the house), and the outside of the house is positive and negative. The children said they were not afraid of the outside, but they are afraid of the inside. Alice said “we were not afraid of outside thought this was the time of year when snowdrifts curled around our house like sleeping whales and the wind harassed us all night, coming up from the buried fields, the frozen swamp, with its old bugbear chorus of threats and misery”, although at first glance this sounded like she was talking about the winter nights in a dark, depressing way, but at second glance, it all sounds interesting and almost calming.” She made the outside seem adventurous and open to many possibilities. When Alice talked about the inside of her bedroom she almost thought of it as a creepy place to be. A place where things where kept that were not of any use to anybody anymore, such as “a soldiery roll of linoleum, standing on end, a wicker baby carriage, a fern basket, china jugs and basings with cracks in them, a picture of the Battle of Balaclava, very sad to look at.” A place where she felt like things where imaginary creatures where hiding.
Intextuallity
1. Eustacia Vye in “The return of the Native”,
Eustacia Vye was described as a young beautiful women. Some people even thought that Eustacia was a witch. She lived in Heath and was with a man (Wildeve) that she felt was the only man she could have, and that there was no better man. Wildeve soon broke up with Eustacia, but when he started to show interest in another women, Eustacia’s interest in Wildeve sparked up again. Later, Eustacia falls in love with a man named Clym, they marry and live in a cottage together in Heath. Eustacia had her heart set on moving abroad with her new husband Clym, but when his career plans change, so do the moving arrangements. When Wildeve returns to the picture he has become more wealthy and Eustacia wonders if he could make her dreams of moving aborad become a reality. Clym later accuses Eustacia for the murder of his mother and adultery. When Eustacia is suppose to meet Wildeve one night, Clym finds out, but Eustacia did not appear, instead the two men heard a splash in the nearby water. They assumed Eustacia threw herself in and committed suicide. Clym later takes blame for the death of his wife and mother.
2. David Copperfield:
Ham Peggotty: Ham died while trying to save a sailor from a shipwreck. And I believe he lived in Yarmouth.
3. Moby Dick:
“Moby Dick” was written by Herman Melville. The main character and narrator is Ishmeal. He travels to New Bedford Massachusetts. He meets a man named Captain Ahab who was lost his leg to the sperm whale(Moby dick). Captain Ahab sees Moby Dick as an evil being and Ishmael and Captain Ahab aboard the shit Pequod to find Moby Dick. Moby Dick ends up attacking the ship numerous times. In the end, Moby Dick kills everyone except Ishmael.