The Adventure Of The Speckled Band By Thomas Hardy: A Comparative Analysis

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Nineteenth Century Prose Stories In this piece of work I will be comparing three different short stories to see the connection between them. I will be looking at three of the stories that we have read and be commenting on the way that the different authors use the figures of fathers and stepfathers. Now I will give some background to the three stories that I will be comparing. The first story is called "Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver" which was written by Thomas Hardy. It is written in the first person but we do not know who is telling the story and he is looking back at something that happened in the past.. This tale is about a man called Tony Kytes who has befriended three women and none of …show more content…

There are a few similarities in all three stories. They were all written in the nineteenth century and they all have a narrator. In each story the father or stepfather plays an important role. The two stepfathers are unkind to their stepchildren as they are not blood relatives, although Gregoriy's stepfather repents when Gregory dies unlike Dr Roylott who doesn't. The Tony Kytes story is not very descriptive as it is mostly dialogue compared to "Half Brothers" which is mostly narrated and has hardly any dialogue. The third story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" has a range of both as there is a lot of background information to the story. All the stories that are narrated all look back at what has happened in the previous years. The "Half Bothers" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" are similar in a way as they both have wicked stepfathers who do not care for their step children. Compared to Tony Ktyes' father, these two stepfathers are evil. Tony's father is a typical strict Victorian father who only wants the best for his son, he is also Tony's father and not a stepfather. The other two men fit the stereotype of a

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