This week we are focusing on close- reading of specific passages in Lady Audley’s secret for each of the main characters, that our groups focused on. We began by talking about a passage focusing on Phoebe Marks, noticing the imagery was drab and boring. As readers we have to deiced what kind of character she is. Ryan pointed out that the sentence structure was not varied, going along with her boring nature. Professor Bergren discussed the teleological sense of Phoebe, in that she is able to keep a secret.<\/p>\n
We then moved onto a different passage.This passage was Robert Audley\u2019s internal monologue about clara. There is a pile up of verbs, which are all active, as well as repetition. Why did the author do this? This passage is an internal monologue showing what Robert is thinking through in his mind saying \u201cshe does this…. and this.\u201d It captures how your mind dwells through things. We then link form with the content of the passage. Nicole. K directs our attention to the comparison of women and the government, specifically a petticoat government in this passage, which is ruled by women. The guiding image is the petticoat government. The women have power and are controller then men which is unusual of that time. Professor Bergren points out that women are not lazy and are always actively doing things. The passage is filled with active verbs, connecting how women have active power.<\/p>\n
Moving along in the book, we have come to the conclusion of the novel. Nicole and Bryn posted on the blog about their reactions to the conclusion. We turn our attention to the last four paragraphs on the blog about the conclusion. Professor Bergren started off the conversation broadly asking if we found anything interesting or peculiar before going any deeper. We thought the ending was standard and almost unexpected because the rest of the book was complex. The ending was forthright and everyone turned out fine and happy which was surprising looking back at the book as a whole.<\/p>\n
Still examining the final chapter, we focus more specifically on the sudden change from past tense to present tense. We thought the present tense was a break in the book or a new beginning. Maddie pointed out a paragraph in the middle of the book that goes into present tense randomly. This paragraph may not be needed or boring information. Pushing from the past tense to the present tense triggers something. It shows that the information needs to become immediate to us.<\/p>\n
To bring everything together we ended class with a creative task. Our last task was to do one of two things; if you did not like the plot change how the characters played out leading up to the end, and if you did not like the ending change the last couple of sentences imagining how you would of wrote it. This exercise helped us look at what exists and what could exist from that. I think we all imagined the ending being more mysterious because of the the way the book started with the early description of Audley Court. This would give the end a twist, more of a sensation ending.<\/p>\n
The narrator in LAS is mysterious in itself. Narrator is third person, omniscient. We looked at passages Professor found interesting. In all of them the narrator refers to Lady Audley as \u201cmy lady\u201d, it comes up about 450 times in the most, most of the time when the narrator was addressing to LA.\u00a0There is a sense of familiarity between LA and the narrator. This is an endearing address but the narrator uses it when talking about the horrible things that LA does, showing the irony, turning into sarcasm. Someone addressing you in this tone is someone that is under you, working for you. This changes our perspective of the narrator and the novel itself. Can we trust her. We are left with a secret even when the novel ends.<\/p>\n
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