April 6 is Home Reading.
We are to work with 2 stories!
The FIRST story to read is W.S. Maugham The Treasure
Reader-3, pp. 263-276
You are to improve your interpretation by dwelling on the points discussed in more detail!
The SECOND story to read is A. Huxley FARD
Reader-3, pp. 44-49
You are to look through the questions and make a draft interpretation of the story
(notes rather than full text).
Ooooohhhhhhhhh, what's a finish? How can it be? What's the story? I like it very much. from my point of view the story is looks like a typical Cinderella. I am really-really sorry for Sophie who has difficulties in live workings as a maiden in the French family. She is not a princes because the hard work infringes her health and body itself.
ReplyDeleteThe owners are also no fun to be with, especially Madame. She hates her girl, treats Sophie like a dog.
But there is a hope for us, at the end of the story. It seems that the Madame grows mellow giving a box of rouge to Sophie, but then the woman herself destroys our expectations changes her mood.
From my point of view the message which the author wants to give us is that people of bad sights don't change in a minute. The Madame's example illustrates it to us. Sophie seems to have a chance to take other relations with her owners and different attitude with them, but that her world comes back immediately after the changing process.
The story is really impressive , but can't give us a chance to see the ending of it, maybe 'cause of author's trick or maybe just banal incompleteness. But nevertheless he is a great master, who wrote "Brave New World" - , a dystopian fiction novel with the title , which was derived from William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" ( rather interesting fact to my mind). The story is a little bit tragic and ironic, as a actually a walking dead woman wanted young maid to resurrect her from the world of
ReplyDeleteSenility ,making her up, allowing her " to wear a mask ". Madam was strict and crazy woman without any symbols of a real tragedy - but with a strong desire to obtain it, and a very meek domestic girl, being oppressed by the dictator, with all her hopelessness , obliged to do her job with a smile.