Analysis Of Katherine Mansfield 's ' The Garden Party '

Social Oppression is a main theme explored throughout the two tragic novels, The Go-Between and Spies. Throughout the novels, L.P. Hartley and Michael Frayn successfully convey the idea, through the use of their main characters, the effects of social oppression and class divide. Using many techniques they show how class and oppression had power over the people of the Victorian era. And even after the turn of the century, People were still trapped in the shadows of the past era. Both novels are told as flashbacks taking us through the lives of two main protagonists. The climax of both novels lead to the

The essay begins with Henry George referring to his audience as ladies and gentlemen. He then goes on to state that poverty is a crime. A crime not committed by the poor, but rather the poor as victims of the crime. He also does not wholly blame those perpetrating the crime, he also gives a kind of notion that the victim has a hand the situation he or she finds themselves in. He says the poverty is a curse that not only the poor have but is on every level of society even the rich. He says the rich also suffer because it is like the air all the community breathes. They too must breathe it.

Poetic techniques displayed through the ideas, poetic features and style of the poet, reveal concepts which transcend time and place. In Gwen Harwood’s poem “the violets” her ability to interweave past and present emphasises the importance of memory in preserving ones journey though the universal experiences of growth, maturity and mortality. Similarly the poem “Mother who gave me life” demonstrates the memory of motherhood as a timeless quintessential part of the human condition. And lastly In Harwood’s “father and Child”, the connection between the father and son/daughter highlights that transformation throughout childhood is inevitable. Through the content and the language, the ways in which human experiences reveal concepts which

Eugenia Collier created a story called “Marigolds,” where a poor 14 year old girl named Lizabeth battles society and herself to overcome her problems. Collier gave Lizabeth two conflicts: a man vs society and a man vs self. Lizabeth’s external conflict, man vs society, involves her and her family being in poverty because of the Great Depression. These times serves as the antagonist because they caused a lot of job shortages, and it just so happened that Lizabeth’s father lost his.

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn all explore the effects of wealth and class on society. On closer inspection, a common strand seems to form between these three classic novels. The idea that wealth (and the social class that comes with it) determines a person is refuted via the use of deep characterization. In the end, it seems, wealth and class don’t determine a person’s moral integrity and value, but rather how they interact those two things. Ultimately, Twain makes a case for the lower-classes, that even the poor (and enslaved) can be truly good, setting a better example than the wealthy. Fitzgerald, on the other hand, shows that rich aren’t entirely superficial, rather, that they can be great men. Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a bit more of an oddball than the other two novels, focusing instead on a protagonist that leaps from riches (under the supervision of a cruel aunt), to rags, then back to riches once again. Still, this common strand holds true between the three books: no class, poor or rich, is entirely exempt from moral bankruptcy. A poor person like Pap Finn can be morally corrupt, while a rich man like Jay Gatsby can be good. All character-based judgments in these books lay solely on the person they are judging, blind of the class and wealth that surrounds them.

Jane Austen’s Persuasion challenges the notion that one’s social class determines one’s happiness. In the novel there is the upper class, which includes Sir Walter Elliot and his family; the nouveau rich, such as Admiral Croft and Captain Wentworth; and the poor

In “The Dinner Party” a colonial official and his wife are throwing a dinner party for the army officers and the government attaches and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist (Gardner 1). In this story the characters are having an argument over women’s and men’s control of their “jumping-out-of-your-chair phase.” Who do you agree with, the colonel or the young girl? Have women grown out of this phase? Lets find out how men and women react.

However, there is Lloyd who demonstrates the inequalities to be inhumane that the poor should not suffer when the rich have more than enough to go around. He contributes to the mindset that the working man was a slave. George like Lloyd believed the rich should be able to help the poor who could not afford necessities for survival. He even mocks “over production” as being the cause of such poverty when people could not even afford the products. Both of the authors found equality to be ideal but felt it was not in place at the

Great Expectations and The Go Between Both Great Expectations and The Go Between concern young men from

In the story, “The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush uses allegory and ambiguity to demonstrate the woman’s role in the 1940’s. The allegory that Brush uses with the female character shows that women are supposed to obey their husband’s orders and have no right to talk back. The ambiguity in demonstrated in the phrase, “…the wife beamed with shy pride…” can be justified as the woman’s uncertainty of either how her husband was going to react, or how well was her surprised planned. The feeling of being timid and unable to predict a person’s reaction is bad towards everyone, especially, women in the 1940’s.

“The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush incorporates caricature and atmosphere to fully achieve her purpose. Brush describes a couple who is having dinner and then proceeds to reveal that it’s the husbands birthday and the wife surprises him. Throughout the short story Brush elaborates on the the type of atmosphere that develops as the story progresses and includes certain words that describe the physical features of the characters. She focuses mainly on the keywords that describe the reactions of the characters and being able to paint a picture in the reader's mind.

"The budding rose above the rose full blown," writes William Henry Wordsworth, elevating the process of emerging, changing and evolving over those already developed, established and matured. While Wordsworth’s remark regards a rose, the statement also accurately describes Katherine Mansfield’s protagonist in The Garden Party. The narrative focuses on a wealthy family from New Zealand, jaded by elite lifestyle and prominent social standing. The youngest daughter, Laura, "the budding rose" of the story, seeks to break the constraints of upper class society, causing her to be both more mature and compassionate than other members of her well to do family.

When jane was questioned if she had poor family would she rather live with them and be happy or stay miserable with the reeds she made it evident that despite her unhappiness she preferred to live with the rich because poverty was looked down. Those who were poor were treated badly, jane eyre is a perfect example.

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the lower class’s population continued to increase as more and more people became poor and fell into poverty. Although the upper class was prosperous and wealthy, they failed to assist the struggling population; this only made the problem worse. As the issue of poverty became more critical, it became a topic that authors commonly wrote about. George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift were authors who presented the problem of a poor community and a neglectful upper class to the people through the use of allegory and satire. This helped to easily convince and influence their readers. Through the use of satire and allegory, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift effectively address the pressing issue of the upper class’s ignorance and mistreatment towards the lower, struggling class.

Katherine Mansfield was born October 14, 1888 in Wellington New Zealand. Mansfield was a well-known and respected prominent writer in the 20th century. She attended Queens College in London with her sisters. Mansfield broke barriers for female writers in the early 20th century and even still today. Her stories commonly focus on the theme of reality /world versus human nature while also touching the themes of the darker and more complex sides of life.