Figure of fathers in Lawrence's stories

Lawrence in his stories talks about fathers figure in a superficial way. Because he presents in "The Rocking - Horse Winner" and "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" stories fathers who are absent. In fact, in the first story the child Paul only has an emotional relation with his mother, and also he needs her love and approbation, his father is called as an unlucky person who only has to work in order to earn money for the family. Paul never talks about his father using nice words or expressions saying that he is emotionally important for him.

In The Odour of Chrysanthemums story is worse because here we can find a poor family where there is a father who is not only absent, also he is drunk and better person. He is a coal miner, so he works for earning a less salary, but he spends his money drinking.

Both stories show us fathers who only are supplier of money, they are not really important in his families. In effect, it is more important the roll of the mothers than the fathers in family. I think still today, there are families where fathers are only seen how suppler of money, and not father of loving their children and their wives. However, it is true that today fathers are taking a different attitude with their children. The mojority of fathers are worried about giving love to their children, and also they are paticipating in their education as well as mothers have been doing.

Rich and lucky

In this short story we can find two important themes which are to be rich and to be lucky. First of all, there is a mother who has a family that she doesn't feel a real love. In fact, she thinks that her life is unlucky because her husband is an unlucky person, but he doesn't earn a lot of money. For her to be a good economic situation is to be lucky, and she forgets that her children need here love and attention in order to grow happy.

However, one of mother's children called Paul feels that to be lucky is not to be rich. Paul thinks that he could be lucky if his mother love him. For that reason, Paul wants to think that he is a lucky person because he knows that if he achieves money as his uncle Oscar, he could do that his mother be happy and can love him.

Forthermore, when are we lucky, when we have a lot of money or when we feel love? The answer will depend on everyone because each person feel and percieve in different ways the life and happiness.

"The invisible Japanese Gentlemen"

Greene's short story presents eleven characters, but there are three whom are the most important the Lady who is a writer, her fiancé and the narrator. First of all, the author shows a narrator who notices everything around him. He pays attention to what this couple says and what kind of attitude they have. Second, the Lady is a superficial and selfish woman who is only interested in her works, and how much her publisher is going to pay for her novels. She doesn't care what is going on around her and also what her fiancé can feel and think about what she is saying. Fiancé is a man who feels scare if he says something that her girlfriend could take as an attack against her.

However, this is a short story which has a lot of details. In effect, we as readers can know that there are eight Japanese gentlemen whom are eating a expensive fish in a restaurant, and also that there is a couple who is talking about the Lady's novel which is going to be sell. All these things we know thank to narrator because he observes and tells us what this couple is talking and they gestures. This is great because narrator gives us the chance to imagine the Lady and her fiancé's psychological and psichologycal personalities.

According to the title, the name of it is because at the final of this story the Lady never noticed that there were Japanese gentlemen in the restaurant. She was so worried about the name of her novel and her publisher that she did not pay attention if there were somebody else around her. In fact, only her fianacé saw and made her a comment about all these Japanese gentlemen when they were picking up their coats.

Essay " Romantic poetry"

English literature, during the half of the eighteenth and at the begginig of the nineteenth centuries, suffered a change related to how writers began to write using Romantic styles. A great exponet of Romantic writers was John Keats. He wrote a lot of poems based on a language melancholic and sensual images which have characterized his poetry.

First of all, Romanticism was a movement against aristocratic social, politics norms and scientific thoughts. "The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotion as trepidation, horror and awe."("Romanticism") In fact, Romantic artists wanted to come back to the origin of human beings, this means, they started to emphasize the important of deep and dark feelings of people as Greeks before did. John Keats was one of those artists who wrote poems using classical literature styles.

According to John Keats, he was born in Moorgate in London in 1795. His father was an hostler who died when he was seven years old. His mother remarried soon, but her new marriage did not work, so she decided to leave her husband. Keats and his family moved to his grandmother's house, it was there where his mother died of tuberculosis. Keats started to study classical literature, especially Greek culture. For that reason, one of his famous book is called "Endymion" which is based on the Greek myth Endymion. In this book there is a poem which has an incredible natural descriptions of rives, trees and sheep, and also with feelings love, for example. John's life was filled with tragic personal incidents, that is why most of his works have a level of lossing and sadness.

However, I think that Romanticism was a demostration of how writers came back to use the classical literature in order to show their dissatisfied with all social events that were happened in those times. Furthermore, most of Romantic artists wrote their works inspired on their tragic life like: accidents, parents, friends or lovers death, lack of love, and so on. Using Greek techniques, John Keats wrote his poems with feelings and natural elements getting off the real world. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; butstill will keep A bower quiet for us..."("A thing of beauty is a joy forever")

In conclusion, the connection between Romantic poetry and John Keats is evident because in one his poem from "Endymion", we can find human feelings and natural descritions which are put on magic forms, doing everything harmonic and beutiful. There are not exist any scientific or rational thoughts inside Keats' poems. Romanticism was and will be a sign of real people feelings.

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism


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  http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats


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  http://www.online-literature.com/keats/463/

Outline

My Essay will be about Romantic Poetry based on John Keat's poem. The relation between Romanticism Characteritics and his style of writing.
1) Introduction : Thesis stament "Relation between Romanticism Characteristcs and Keat's poem"
2) A little description of Romanticism
3) Keat's life and poetry, But focusing on Romaticism period.
4) My Interpretation and thoughts.
5) Conclusion

Oliver Twist and The signalman

In the short story "The signal- man and the movie "Oliver Twist", I could find a lot of interesting themes like: Fear, Working class, Poverty and Power. Both present how people in those days had feared because they did not know what is going on with their jobs, society, and the most important with their own life. In fact, in this time people, especially women and children, became to work in different places with lower salaries. They were exposed to die or have some work accident because they had not enough to work in.
However, power is another important theme. I could see how people woh had power could take advantage of poor people, especially children who did not have parents. In effect, rich people could abuse of their power with people who had not any education of something. But, power and rich people were and will be taking advantage of lower social class.

God on Frankenstein

Mary Shelley in her novel "Frankenstein"gives Victor the power to create a new creature using different parts of human beings. It is here where we can perceive the author wanted to show us that men are constantly trying to imitate God in order to produce or create new things. Human beings, above all artists, think that they are able to create the Nature. But, this thought is wrong because men are only able to transform natural elements not create them at all.

On the other hand, this novel presents to us a good question which is : Who is the moster Victor or his creation? If we think about the monster, Victor wanted create a creature similar to him. So, if his creature was a monster, Victor was a monster too. At the same time, if God created human beings similar to him and Victor is one of them, it is likely that God is also a monster, but what kind of monster is he? In fact, we have to define if a monster is a monster for his or her physical appearance or psychological attitudes. Furthermore, Victor took an attitude of God not also when he created this monster, but when he left his monster alone giving him "Free well" as well as God gives Human beings. In effect, the monster became to learn on streets good and bad things, so he had to choose what things do or not.