Imagery In Edith Wharton's Rattray

In the passage, imagery was portrayed. In chapter three, in the first book, the character Stent, an Astronomer Royal was shouting out orders on top of a suspicious cylinder. While Stent was shouting orders, the passage stated "his face was crimson and streaming with perspiration, and something seemed to have irritated him" (pg.12). This piece of imagery helped me visualize what state of condition that Stent was in. Also, in the passage foreshadowing presented in chapter seven, in the first book. In the novel it stated “ I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days” (pg. 28). This foreshadowing helped inferred that something unfortunate was going to happen later in the novel.

This sentence givers light to why he named the book The Luminous Darkness because from any darkness in someone’s life, God still casts His light everywhere. It matters where we get our light from because having the wrong light source can lead to bad things, but with the right light we can create ourselves to be a better human, one who sees how God created us to be.

There was a time when social classes were most easily identified through material goods and possessions. Whether wealth was gained through inheritance or hard work, it was the luxury items that made the most visible and tangible statement regarding a person’s social status. Men could rely on a large house or expensive car to proclaim the success they had earned. It was much more common to see women adorned in jewels, designer clothes, and furs as symbols of her upper class status. The extravagance of a woman’s appearance was a reflection of the success of her husband, so it was natural to indulge her desire for expensive material possessions.

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a man named Guy Montag. Guy is a firefighter in the future, which means that firefighters produce fires instead of putting out fires. The reason the fires are made is to burn books. For whatever reason books have been declared illegal by this fictional society. One day, as Guy was walking home he meets a girl named Clarisse McClellan who shakes up his world a bit.

In conclusion, many people fail to see the light that lies within them; causing a social epidemic of lost and withering identities. In today’s modern society trends are set, to herd in as any people as possible, to the umbrella of conformity. Likewise fear stagnates their victims, which forces them to let go opportunities and the other factors of expectation cripple and divert those in question from who they really are. Doerrs All The Light We Cannot See shows characters going through these struggles and how they fell victim or how they overcame their quarries of; adult authority, ambition, anxiety and the pressures of society. Doerrs leaves his readers with the motif and repeated phrase “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before

Take everything you know about racism, sexism, and religionism and toss it out the window, because there’s an impediment to prosperity that is often underlooked: Classism. Classism is a suppression which always has and always will continue to affect our everyday lives. The disparities that presently exist between the lower and higher classes form a condition where it is unlikely to allow for equality for anyone. The short stories “A Rose of Emily,” written by William Faulkner, and “Desiree’s Baby,” written by Kate Chopin, offered several depictions of classism within a society. “A Rose for Emily” recounts the life of an isolated, aristocratic woman named Emily Grierson who symbolically represents the demise of the old Southern society. Similarly, “Désirée’s Baby” portrays classism present in mid-nineteenth century Southern society in conjunction with the inequalities that exist between race. Class prejudice plays an important role as it was behind the emergence of the characters’ unspeakable actions. In “A Rose for Emily” and “Desiree’s Baby,” classism is emphasized and provokes arrogance, denial, and the demise of others.

Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence can be interpreted in a variety of ways; it is both an analysis of a prelapsarian aristocracy and a narrative recounting a man’s struggle to balance passion with moral conformity. Under a sociological lens, the motif of innocence within The Age of Innocence can be used to explore the conflict of interests between New York high society and an individualist ideology in the midst of social change.

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness” (“WISE OLD SAYINGS”). In the world today there is controversy over the relationship between light and dark, as well as its overall impact on society as a whole. When comparing light versus dark, they are related in the same fashion as a yin-yang symbol to the point where there is good and evil within both of them. Just like Anne Frank stated in the above quote, light by itself is able to both defy and define darkness. This is because, while it is shining through the dark, there is also a shadow being cast from the light breaking through. Many believe that there is a direct relationship between light and dark and the idea of good and evil, where light pertains to good and

Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence about life in New York in the 1800’s. Although it seemed like a wonderful place to live, especially those in the upper class, it wasn't perfect at all. Wharton subtly brings to light and criticizes the old New York society that she grew up in throughout her novel. Wharton reveals that old New York society was very critical of people's actions and narrow minded as to what was seen as socially acceptable. All of High New York Society was expected to conform to a predetermined set of social rules that were embraced.

The woman rejects any motion that she lost her identity due to fear of admitting her fault. Ironically, the woman turns to find comfort in the shallowness and wealth of others even though the upper class values have never made her truly happy. Furthermore, the woman’s “meanings lost in manner” (27) force her to remain “alone in brilliant circles” (28). The woman desires to find some happiness and comfort in the rest of her life, but she’s only accustom to finding it in trivial wealth. Through imagery, the reader understands that the woman has completely lost her personal value in the manners of the upper class and remains in the lifestyle that beckons her with its material, flashy

While my project clarifys Baldwin and Delaney’s metaphorical and literal exploration of light, the synergy in their work, points to the value of collaborative learning through the experiences, understanding, and the judgements they made in their everyday lives or their art disciplines.

Throughout 17th century holland, people representing a higher class does not mean you have a life better or stronger relationships than people remaining in the lower classes. As the book goes on, the character’s and the social classes they are in really start to show in the material items they have and there personality. All the different characters suffer to an extent but in a variety of ways that the author, Tracy Chevalier, states. The novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, shows the difficulties the different characters and social classes had in the duration of the book.

Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth chronicles the tale of Lily Bart, a young socialite stuck at the crossroads of rejection her society to pursue her ambitions or relenting to societal expectations placed on her. In literature, naturalism, a philosophy that frequently overlaps with the theory of Social Darwinism, applies “scientific principles of objective observation to the study of human behavior and characters within the context of their surroundings” (“American Literary Naturalism” Twentieth-Century). In short, naturalistic novels explore the interactions between humans and their environment as the human tries to navigate it. House of Mirth is a naturalistic novel in that it explores Lily’s attempt to survive in her own cruel environment.

“Madame Loisel looked old now. She had become the sort of strong woman, hard and coarse, that one finds in poor families… But sometimes, when her husband was at the office she would sit by the window and muse over that party long ago when she had been so beautiful, the belle of the ball,” (Maupassant 300). After many years of work to pay off the necklace, and still being able to live a suitable lifestyle, Madame Loisel turned into an old woman, almost unrecognizable because she became so poverty stricken. Despite the fact that the night of the party caused her to fall in social class, Madame Loisel still remembers that night, and misses her moments in the spotlight and dreams about being that rich and beautiful again, still seeming ungrateful for the life she already had.

Her persistent mindset of wanting and needing more, is how her internal conflict developed. All of Madame Loisel’s issues relate back to her internal fascination with becoming incredibly rich and valued by her peers. The text states, “She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after.” (1) Madame Loisel’s mindset was simply set on materialistic things and being respected amongst her peers. Even throughout the years, her idea of ‘perfection’ never changed a bit. The story reads, “But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down by the window and thought of that evening long ago, of the ball at which she had been so beautiful and so much admired.” (5) Ten hard and stressful years later, Madame Loisel is still under the impression that everything she has must be beautiful and valued. This situation expresses irony because although she is beautiful, she still feels a desire to receive expensive things. The text states, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans… She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.” (1) Although she is beautiful