#Spark notes the bluest eye series

A newly set and updated edition of the novel that marks the transition to Hardy's mature fiction. Life is lazy in hottest town this side of the Texican border: Lonesome Dove.

#Spark notes the bluest eye series

WhatвЂ™s more, although it was his third novel to see print, A Pair of Blue Eyes represents a series of significant вЂfirstsвЂ™ in the novelistвЂ™s career. This lesson includes a summary of Kate Chopin's 1897 short story ~'A Pair of Silk Stockings.~' The lesson goes on to analyze the major themes in вЂ¦ What is A Pair of Blue Eyes saying about masculinity? The conclusion finds both suitors travelling together to Elfride, both intent on claiming her hand, and neither knowing either that she already is married or that they are accompanying her corpse and coffin as they travel. A key word for Hardy was вЂcircumstanceвЂ™: that is, things occurring not because of Providence or divine agency, but merely through chance and good (or bad) fortune. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. Elfride Swancourt, the heroine, is both extremely attractive and emotionally naive a Victorian Miranda. Hardy famously stated that вЂcomedy is tragedy if you only look deep enoughвЂ™, and it might be most accurate to say that A Pair of Blue Eyes is a comic novel that is infected by the idea of tragedy вЂ“ notably, in the death of Elfride, the novelвЂ™s putative protagonist, at the close of the novel.