Analysis Of Innocence In 'Ill-Advised Curiosity'

Innocence is something that can only be lost once. Within both The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there are various characters that lose their innocence in very dramatic ways. A character can lose their innocence due to the death of someone else. They can also lose their innocence by just being looked at from a different perspective by others, this can be seen through the characters Bernard and Rachel. ADD ANOTHER TOPIC Someone who has lost their innocence changes their personality and perspective on life, which results in them acting in situations differently than they would before.

Ferdinand’s incestuous behaviour towards the duchess follows the similar pattern pointed above ,i.e., Ferdinand’s aim is not the achievement of sexual relations with his sister. One may like to contest this reading by highlighting Ferdinand’s highly erotic language for

Isabella is of a cheerful disposition, but her soul is pure as virtue itself.” Matilda opposes “virtuous” with “cheerful,” the latter word given as an opposition to the suggestion that Isabella may have a flirtatious nature. It seems that one who is very pure and virtuous must not only hide sexual interest, but must curb evidence of any happiness or active enjoyment of life. This cheerfulness might indicate self-interest or a threateningly passionate nature. When Hippolita announces that a marriage between Frederick and Matilda has been proposed, Isabella says to Hippolita , “...But think not, lady, that thy weakness shall determine for me. I swear, hear me all ye angels—” (Walpole, 106). Matilda, who is in love with Theodore, cannot but agree to obey her mother.

Innocence is a state of being that in life could be chosen to be given away or take away, and many things are symbols of the people have. An example is mockingbirds in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee parallels the killing of mockingbirds to the persecution of Tom Robinson, the prejudice of Arthur-Boo-Radley, and the coming-of-age of Jem Finch to symbolize the destruction of innocence. Tom Robinson's parallel to a mockingbird is in the same way as a person being guilty of something they didn't do. At the end of it all, Tom is shot while he was trying to run away or escape.

Humans have long discussed the meaning of innocence and the relationship it has with experience. Innocence and experienced are forever entwined, a push and pull system. Both innocence and experience can improve the quality of life, one should not choose on over the other. Learning to be aware of their innocence and ignorance and how it affects their life can help raise people’s standard of living.Innocence is associated with youth, purity and ignorance. The loss of innocence is connected with the sin and evil. However, the word “innocence” can be interpreted several ways. Similarly, the loss of innocence can be associated with several things, and it may happen more than once. The loss of innocence is culture-specific, and

As a result, situations may not turn out to be the way you desire it to be because of who you are, innocence is a value humans obtain in certain

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Cecilia has come to Court to win the queen’s favor and make a good marriage, one that advances her family’s interests. She is not there to indulge in a forbidden dalliance with a man far beyond her reach. Yet despite her awareness of what she owes the family she loves, she cannot resist Edmund.

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Deceit runs rampant in the lives of these two women leaving behind a path of destruction, just as Roman fever did though Rome. Frightened she was going to lose her fiancé, Mrs. Slade took vengeance on Mrs. Ansley constructing a plan that would expose Mrs. Ansley to night of cold that sickens her, therefore, separating her from Delphin. In this plan, Mrs. Slade writes a letter to entice Mrs. Ansley to go to the Colosseum to meet Delphin thinking he would not know of the letter and never show up. Even after constructing this deceitful arrangement and causing Mrs. Ansley to get sick, Mrs. Slade still pretended to be her friend for the next twenty-five years. In the end, after all her plotting and deceit it appeared her happiness with Delphin only came from her social status due to his Fame, not from love. Consequently, Mrs. Slade became irrationally jealous as she allowed the hurt to simmer for decades causing her to envy the lifestyle of Mrs. Ansley. Mrs. Slade even devolves deep feelings of resent towards Mrs. Ansley’s daughter, Barbara, because she

(4) Catharine tells Doctor Sugar while he is asking her what her feelings toward Sebastian were, that “he liked me, and so (she) loved him,” showing Sebastian’s influence over people, thus giving him power over his family and others. (63) On page 81 of Suddenly Last Summer, Catharine finally cracks, admitting that she believed that Sebastian was using her and Mrs. Venable to procure for him, leaving Mrs. Venable mortified. To try to calm Mrs. Venable, Catharine explains that they did not procure for him consciously, but that he had manipulated them into doing it unknowingly for the reason that “Sebastian was shy with people. (Mrs. Venable) wasn’t.

For instance, Elizabeth remains firm in her belief of Wickham’s agreeable and virtuous character even in the face of the ugly truth. Her biased opinion did not change even when “his attention was over” and now given to a young lady with “the most remarkable charm” of “ten thousand pounds” (Austen 147). Instead, she defended that she “would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it” (Austen 147). This progression shows how much humans will bend their values and beliefs to fit what they desire to believe. Elizabeth recognizes that Wickham’s new courtship originates from greed and fortune.

Therefore thought it not in the least a Fault to put in practice a little Whim which came immediately into her Head, to dress herself as near as she cou'd in the Fashion of those Women who make sale of their Favours, and set herself in the Way of being accosted as such a one, having at that Time no other Aim, than the Gratification of an innocent Curiosity (2).

Charlotte also exposes the judgmental, prejudice nature of Elizabeth’s personality. Because Charlotte decides to settle and Elizabeth does not, it brings forth the judgmental qualities in her, such as when Mr. Collins proposed. Elizabeth is flabbergasted by his proposal and retorts, ``You are too hasty, Sir, ' ' she cried. ``You forget that I have made no answer. Let me do it without farther loss of time. Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me, I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them. ' '

In society, especially in the time of the Enlightenment, pursuit of knowledge through the use of rationality and reason was thought of as every man’s goal. Thus, innocence had negative connotations associated with it. When Romanticism began, thoughts associated with the Enlightenment were thrown upside-down. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows in “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” through the characters of Giovanni and Beatrice, how innocence is something to be valued. He shows how knowledge is a form of corruption and how its pursuit is responsible for the ruin of their characters.