newlyweds THE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE CHAPTERS 19 - 22 Chapter - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

▶
newlyweds
SMART_READER_LITE
LIVE PREVIEW

newlyweds THE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE CHAPTERS 19 - 22 Chapter - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Apr 04, 2023 267 likes •573 views

LITERATURE PAPER ONE LECTURE EIGHT newlyweds THE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE CHAPTERS 19 - 22 Chapter Outline Ch 18 The Separation Ch 19 The Wedding Ch 20 London (Mrs Carfry and M. Riviere) Ch 21 Newport Archery Club + Mrs Ms + The shore Ch

slide-1
SLIDE 1

THE

LITERATURE PAPER ONE

LECTURE EIGHT

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE CHAPTERS 19 - 22

newlyweds

slide-2
SLIDE 2

Ch 18 The ‘Separation’ Ch 19 The Wedding Ch 20 London (Mrs Carfry and M. Riviere) Ch 21 Newport Archery Club + Mrs M’s + The shore Ch 22 Looking for Ellen I (The Blenkers) Ch 23 Looking for Ellen II (Boston)

Chapter Outline

slide-3
SLIDE 3

WEDDING BELLS

M A RRI AGE A S S OC I AL CO N S T R U C T I NS EPA RA B LE FRO M CER E M O N I AL P R OC E S S I ON
slide-4
SLIDE 4 J UX TA P OS I T I ON OF CHA PT ERS 1 & 1 9

BOOK ONE BOOK TWO Winter evening Morning in spring ‘still content’, ‘clung’ ‘lively spring wind’ Madame Nilsson (European) All the old ladies (New York) ‘burst of love triumphant’

‘faded’, ‘yellowing’, ‘bitter smell of camphor’ N A RRAT I V E S T RU CT U RE
slide-5
SLIDE 5

RITE OF PASSAGE M A R R I A G E A S

slide-6
SLIDE 6

nyP Y R A M I D

VAN DER LUYDENS LEFFERTSES JACKSONS SPICERS PLAIN PEOPLE

PAG E 3 9
slide-7
SLIDE 7

JUXTAPOSITION

J U L I U S B EAUFO RT REG I N A B EAUFO RT
slide-8
SLIDE 8

There was no better match in New York than May Welland, look at the question from whatever point you chose. Of course such a marriage was only what Newland was entitled to; but young men are so foolish and incalculable—and some women so ensnaring and unscrupulous—that it was nothing short of a miracle to see one's

  • nly son safe past the Siren Isle and in the

haven of a blameless domesticity. There w than M from wh such a was entit and inc ensnarin nothing

  • nly son

haven of New York question f course Newland

  • foolish
  • men so

t it was ee one's d in the .

C LOS E AN A LYS IS
slide-9
SLIDE 9

FORM MARRIAGE

S O C I A L S O C I A L I N S T I T U T I O N

ADJECTIVES PARATAXIS SATIRE

slide-10
SLIDE 10

copious

abundant

rich

unnecessary repetitive excessive

repeated

profuse

frequent use of

recuring

cumuluative

F O O L / T O O L / N O N
  • L
I T S T U D E N T A W E S O M E S A U C E / L I T S T U D E N T
slide-11
SLIDE 11

COPY THE POINTS

The narrative interjection (‘or equally painful’) is typically ironic in tone, revealing Archer’s suppressed contempt for the much-treaded ‘path’ he is taking. The third-person pronoun, ‘one’ possibly reflects the narrator’s (and Wharton’s) critical perspective.

slide-12
SLIDE 12

COPY THE POINTS

The comparison of marriage to a ‘labyrinth’ conveys the complexity and circularity of Newland’s ‘path’. More importantly, the metaphor suggests that Newland has ‘guided’ himself into this ensnarement / trap.

slide-13
SLIDE 13

PRISON

M A RRI AG E A S A ‘O B EDI ENCE’ TO M ATERI AL AN D S O C I AL I N T E R E S T S
slide-14
SLIDE 14
  • pera

MOTIF

PER FO RM A N CE // EN D L E SS R E P E T I T I ON / / E N C LOS U R E
slide-15
SLIDE 15

The narrative interjection ‘no, pews’... The repetition of ‘the same’ suggests that..

your turn

Archer’s sardonic tone...

‘already prepared for them in another world.’

slide-16
SLIDE 16

‘MUST’

had tried

OBLIG AT IO N

IN DIV IDUA L D ESI RE

SON-IN-LAW

FAM ILIAL ‘D U T Y’

‘BUT’ ‘ALWAYS’

TRAD I TI ON

CHAPTERS 20 AND 21

slide-17
SLIDE 17 O L E N S K A

ellen

T H E ‘ G H O S T ’ O F

VS

THE NEW YORK ‘MACHINE’

slide-18
SLIDE 18

OPPRESSION STUFFY STIFLING

‘reverted’ ‘discarded’

slide-19
SLIDE 19

may

WELL A N D

D I A N A

F E R T I L I T Y / D O M E S T I C I T Y H U N T I N G

archer’s

MISREADING

underlying

‘REALITY’ W ill the real please stand up?
slide-20
SLIDE 20 M E D O R A M A N S O N

marchioness

“To me the only death is

monotony

“

U N C O N V E N T I O N A L I D I O S Y N C R A T I C T A S T E F O R ‘ F O R E I G N N E S S ’
slide-21
SLIDE 21

The ‘death’ motif ‘Visions’ of Ellen

WHAT I S THE P R EVI O US MOTI F US ED BY A R C HER TO D ES C R I B E HI S F UTUR E? WHAT I S BEI N G S UG G ES TED A B O UT A R C HER ’S M A R R I AG E? I N WHAT WAYS I S ELLEN P RES ENTED AS A ‘L I VI N G PR E S E N C E ’ I N H I S M I N D ? WHAT I S THE EF F EC T AN D S I G N I F I C A N C E O F THE ‘S TO R Y’?
slide-22
SLIDE 22

perpetually

reality

perpetually

perpetually perpetually

perpetually

SURREAL

slide-23
SLIDE 23

SON-IN- LAW

WHAT AM I? A

struggling with

a new ‘identity’

slide-24
SLIDE 24 ‘the brief scene on the shore, when he had stood irresolute, halfway down the bank, was a close to him as the

blood in his veins.’

slide-25
SLIDE 25

POWERFUL ENGINE

M A RRI AG E A S PA RT O F T HE OF O L D N EW YO RK
slide-26
SLIDE 26

The ‘hunger’ metaphor The melodramatic style

...accentuates his desperation or even absolute need to be with Ellen. ...also foreshadows the renewed pursuit of Ellen for the remainder of Book Two.

slide-27
SLIDE 27

“We’ll look, not at visions, but at

REALITIES

”

VISIONS

Archer will chase the

that are his only ‘reality’.

slide-28
SLIDE 28

The promise of maturation that marriage might bring in the opening of Book Two is evidently unrealised. Presented in various parts as a ‘stifling’ room that threatens to bring ‘death’ via monotony, marriage is set up more as a social obligation and observance than a consecration of romantic love.

Conclusion

slide-29
SLIDE 29

Despite relegating his passion for Ellen Olenska to a ‘ghost’ of a memory, the suffocation he endures in the Welland household turns his eye back towards the

  • past. In Ch 22-23, Archer pursues Ellen to

Boston, so that as one might imagine, he can escape being a ‘prisoner’ of Old New York.