Often in society do we see people treat others in a way that we learned at birth. In a way that make us seem lesser as a person in the long run. In the passage, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) Written by Tobias Smollett, it shows many traces of emotion and of social propriety of this sort. This can be found in the beginning when Pickle and Gauntlet meet, While they duel, and what happens after the duel. Mr. Pickle, a rich and haughty man, encounters his lover’s elder brother, Godfrey Gauntlet. After a swift bit of bickering from the duo, we learn that Godfrey’s family is poor and thus seen as lesser to PIckle. In that right there, we most definitely see social propriety. Pickle is looking down on Gauntlet for something as petty as …show more content…
There is only the narrator telling the audience what happens as the duo doesn’t speak using dialogue. What does happen, however, is that Pickle claims that he’ll order his man to punish Gauntlet with a horsewhip. This, again, shows social propriety using simple diction. Smollett has pickle seem so uptight and Gauntlet so poor, that Pickle would have his man punish Godfrey instead of him doing it himself. The emotion in Godfrey at this was astonishment and anger. That was what started the actual dueling with swords. At Godfrey’s strength and Peregrine’s defensive pose, made it so Gauntlet’s blade broke Pickle’s. The sword simply snapped in two. Instead of killing Pickle, like what would’ve been normal after a duel, he simply drew away, claiming that Peregrine’s sword was not worthy to protect a man. He then told Pickle that if a man walked up to him in distress, he should treat them better. Gauntlet’s honor and emotion led to his grace and forgiveness for Peregrine. The social norm would’ve been to kill Pickle, but he didn’t showing that Godfrey was the good man here, whereas Pickle was a victim in the system. There were several uses of literary techniques that Tobias Smollett used that definitely helped this story roll along beautifully. Dialogue, Narrative Pace, Tone, and Diction all were major parts used. There were extremely strong emotions in this passage, not only of hate, but also grace. Social Propriety was at every
The narrator of the story seems to give off a biased opinion of the character and does so by using the literary devices of point of view and irony to contribute to the development of Clarence’s complex nature.
Language is also pivotal in determining Richard’s social acceptance. For instance, Mr. Olin, a white man tries to probe Richard into fighting another black boy. Richard was disturbed. He uses contrast to show his disturbance, “the eye glasses…were forgotten. My eyes were on Mr. Olin’s face.” A certain dramatic irony exists exists when Richard asks, “Who was my friend, the white man or the black boy?” The reader knows it is the black boy. Wright uses detail such as Mr. Olin’s “low, confidential,” voice to create an apocryphally amiable tone. If Richard complies with Mr. Olin’s deceiving language, he would gain the social acceptance of the white men. If not, he would be ostracized as a pariah. Wright uses a metaphor, “my delicately balanced world had tipped” to show his confusion.
Harper Lee classifies the historical background of the 1930s current events which was exposed deeply, compared to the situations of the time the book was published, in the 1960s. She exemplifies these means of narrow-mindedness by building awareness of the partiality and segregation between the blacks and the whites. Racism is very common throughout the entire novel. A clear example of discrimination in the fictitious town, Maycomb County is, during Tom Robinson’s trial. Tom was a black man, who was accused of raping a white woman- Mayella Ewell; he committed a crime that would lead to a punishment of: death penalty. Regardless of the fact that there was coherent evidence to prove his innocence, he was still found guilty by the jury’s verdict.
J.R.R. Tolkien once said, “Not all those who wander are lost.” This quote illustrates that if people make their own decisions they will be able to find a path that suits their desires, not those of others. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Huck struggles throughout his adventures to find equilibrium between what he wants to do and what society wants him to do. Consequently, Huck tries to battle the inner conflicts that he has and not conform to society’s “accepted” values. Mark Twain identifies these struggles by using different stylistic elements throughout the three sections of the novel, showing the development of Huck as the novel progresses.
What role does gossip have in society? What significance does it have in the formation of both disputes and disclosures? Gossip is commonly believed to be a cause of conflict between individuals in society; however, one can assert that it can also be beneficial via means of influence. In being influenced, people can harness the gossip for their benefit. Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility approaches gossip in a way that shows how it can both resolve and initiate conflicts within the novel’s plot. By exemplifying gossip from this approach, Austen’s novel encapsulates it’s both detrimental and beneficial uses. Gossip exacerbates emerging conflicts because of the both positive or negative influences it has on characters’ perceptions of each other. I will argue that the novel uses conflict-causing and conflict-resolving properties of gossip as a device for moving and turning the plot, demonstrating that to understand the novel, we have to also understand that social conversations, even the most idle and frivolous ones, are what push the plot; the things that are most important in Austen’s world — reputation, marriage, social relationships — are extremely vulnerable to influence by gossip. In this essay, I will analyze three moments of gossip that exemplify consequences of conflict-causing, conflict-resolving, and both, respectively.
J B Priestly has used the naturalistic setting of an Edwardian dining room to produce an old fashioned morality play, and at the centre of all of his achievements is Inspector Goole. He is a plot device but he is also a moral policeman, an embodiment of the collective conscience and some kind of agent acting on behalf of the troubled spirit of a suicidal girl. He is not the same kind of character as the members of the Birling household, but if he had been more 'rounded' he would not have been able to play the many roles assigned to him.
Nelle Harper Lee’s Philosophy on the Proper Treatment of Human Beings in To Kill A Mockingbird
During the twentieth century, the gap between social classes was exponentially growing, making society more like a hierarchy system. Rather than applauding the efforts of successful businessmen, Doctorow sympathizes for the undervalued individuals that went unrecognized in society. Miners injured on the job or the homeless who camped along the street were being demoralized by the wealthy. The new social gap was a big change for people to accept. The wealthy didn’t see the poverty in the nation and continued their superficial lifestyles. It soon became “fashionable to honor the poor,” illustrating the higher class’ poor inability to sympathize with the lower class (Doctorow, 34). Doctorow describes the Poverty Balls that the higher class would throw:
In the beginning of the novel, it becomes known that the narrator is a black boy living in the south. He is discriminated against by everybody around him. He is seen as nothing. The narrator is chosen to take part in the Battle Royal, which is a fight between ten black boys used to entertain the white men of the town. The narrator describes this experience by saying “But now I felt a sudden fit of blind terror. I was unused to darkness. It was as though I had suddenly found myself in a dark room filled with poisonous cottonmouths. I could hear the bleary voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin” (21). This quote explains that the narrator is being put in a position that he does not want to be in. He is being treated like he is less than all of the men gathered to watch the fight. Once the fight begins, the narrator also explains “Blindfolded, I could no longer control my motions. I had no dignity. I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man” (22). This quote states that the narrator feels humiliated. He is being treated like he is nothing. The fight is discouraging and humiliating for the narrator to ha...
In part one ‘London’ when William is ferrying the supercilious gentry, whom he had a strong sense of ‘hatred’ for, back and forth the river Thames, a women exposes the bottom of her leg sensually teasing William. The surge of anger he feels as the ineffectual man flaunts his wife, shows the rigid class system that condemns William to a life of poverty and backbreaking labour. Furthermore the dichotomy between upper class and lower class is evident through Thornhill’s boss Lucas when ‘Thornhill squints up into the brightness where Lucas looked down upon him’. Although, Thornhill might’ve felt a sense of power and superiority when he was assigned convicts Ned and Dan because he has people working for him and consequentially is now on the ascent up the social order, Captain Suckling’s treatment of him, as ‘he shooed Thornhill away with both hands as if he were a dog’ enforced that Thornhill would always be the felon from England many years ago regardless of his present
These injustices have begun long before Tom’s trial, but it is his trial which epitomizes the problems with our society. The first witness was simply just a misguided fellow named Heck Tate who it seems didn’t have much to offer to the case. Next, Atticus Finch called Bob Ewell to the stand. When I saw Ewell take the stand such a fierce hatred rose within me that I began to shake and tremble. Ewell wrongfully accused Tom of raping his daughter Mayella, however, with the grace of God, Atticus Finch had shown that it was very possible that it was Bob Ewell who because he was a lefty could have beat Mayella. If it were not for great men like Atticus Finch I would have lost all hope for this world. As I watched Mayella take the stand I wondered how such a kind looking person could be someone of such poor character. Her words seemed to paint a picture of a sad life; one where a father neglects her and she has fallen under hard times. Atticus, after pointing out it was probably Bob who beat her, asked Mayella who it really was that beat her. Mayella made it clear it was Tom Robinson, upon which Atticus asked Tom to stand. To the astonishment of the court Tom was handicapped! Tom was then called to the stand where he laid open for all to see the truth, explaining that it was Mayella who came on to him (that treacherous woman!). Soon enough the trial ended and every one awaited the verdict of the jury. The next few hours were the most nerve wracking of my life.
During the actual act of attacking each other, this a common act during this time period. This was a way to assert dominance without letting their emotions shine. Ironically, how fast paced the fight is, Smollet uses long drawn out sentences to build up and show the extent of the fight. Then using strong and disturbing vernacular to describe the fight shows the true pent-up anger the two men had against each other. In the manner the two men fight shows the relationship between emotions and societal propriety by how their emotions are hidden away in the societal norm of
In the passage, “The adventures of peregrine pickle”, the author Tobias uses dialogue between Mr. Pickle and Godfrey Gauntlet. The author states that the two main characters confront their own and control emotions. Mr. pickle and encounters Godfrey Gauntlet brother of his beloved Emilia by using literary techniques. Godfrey has bad emotions about the way peregrine disrespects his sister Emilia. In a matter of the dialogue between the two characters they use politeness when speaking with each other.
...rough experience and suffering that social standing is not indicative of a person’s character and goodness. The common-born Pip’s love is far deeper and more meaningful than the highborn Drummle’s desire, no more than skin-deep, for a possession to boast about. Life is full of people that express genuine feelings and ignoble actors that utilize sweet, but fake, talk. Choosing the one that seeks to live as much for their partner’s bliss as well as their own can mean the difference between a shattered or complete existence. Judgment should be based on quality of character and purity of intentions. The ugly duckling just might turn out to be a swan. Estella’s dealings with the higher classes have left her with all but scars and painful remembrances. The higher rungs of the social ladder do not work well with lower ones, and Estella was born in the lowest caste of all.
Thesis: In Charles Dicken's social commentary novel David Copperfield, the lower classes are treated with disdain and even disinterest by every social class that is above them. While Dicken's riled against class inequality, the caste system, which was in place in 19th century England, caused social classes to strive for survival at the peril of the lower class.