SHORT QUESTIONS EEG 7

SHORT QUESTIONS

EEG VII

How does Gertrude Morel die?

As Mrs. Morel gets sicker and sicker from her giant tummy tumor, we learn a completely new thing about her: she's a fighter. At least when it comes to refusing to die, anyway. For some reasons we have trouble understanding, especially given that she hates her life so much, Mrs. Morel suffers terrible pain for the sake of simply staying alive: 

[Death] was coming, she knew. She had to submit to it. But she would never entreat it or make friends with it. Blind, with her face hut hard and blind, she was pushed toward the door. The days passed, the weeks, the months.(14.151)

We suppose that, even when facing death, Mrs. Morel is just a really clingy woman. This clinginess comes out most strongly in her final moments, as she takes an agonizing amount of time to die

The great snoring sound began again—there was a painful pause while the breath was held—back came the rasping breath. (14.296)

All in all, Mrs. Morel isn't the type to give into anything, whether it's death or her son's girlfriends. She's very stubborn about almost every aspect of her life, which helps explain why she won't let go of her dreams just because she married the wrong guy.

Identify and annotate: Let us Sleep now.

The above line is the concluding line of Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting. The poem ends on a melancholy note, almost Keatsian, where the speaker invites the listener to sleep with him, and it is assumed that they both have died. If anything is at all obvious it’s that war solves no problems. By the end of the poem, nothing has been resolved; war still carries on, and the men are still dead. The final line of Strange Meeting is moving in its simplicity. It is followed by ellipses which may be interpreted in several ways:

• Owen intended to continue writing so this is only a fragment of a poem
• Owen is indicating that sleep will end in death
• Owen is suggesting that death is a sleep
• Owen is implying that the sleep with be unending, they will be at peace
• Owen leaves us with a deliberately ambiguous ending.

What was Stanley’s day-dream in The Birthday Party?

Right from the start of The Birthday Party, Stanley seems to be a person detached from the world of reality. His conversation with Meg in Act 1, where he dreams to be a successful pianist exposes his dreamy nature and his alienation from the world of reality. He has fears about something unknown (which is known perhaps), and attempts to get an escape from the world outside. This points to the disordered condition of his mind. According to Stanley, the world outside, the society is responsible for his failure in practical life and also for the sufferings inflicted upon him. He says, “They carved me up. Carved me up. It was all worked out…They want me to crack down on my bended knees” (13). In words of Pinter “Everything is funny until the horror of the humansituation rises to the surface! Life is funny because it is based on illusions and self-deceptions, like Stanley’s dream of a world tour as a pianist, because it is built out of pretence. In our present day world, everything is uncertain, there is no fixed point, and we are surrounded by the unknown. This unknown occurs in my plays. There is a kind of horror about and I think that this horror and absurdity go together.”

Write a brief note on the poetry of the 1950’s.

Anger as a force in 1950s literature had its origins in a group known as the Movement. Deeply English in outlook, the Movement was a gathering of poets including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, John Wain, D J Enright and Robert Conquest. The Movement can be seen as an aggressive, sceptical, patriotic backlash against the cosmopolitan elites of the 1930s and 1940s. The poets in the group rejected modernism, avant-garde experimentation, romanticism and the metaphorical fireworks of poets such as Dylan Thomas. Their verse was ironical, down to earth, unsentimental and rooted in a nostalgic idea of English identity. European sympathies were regarded as unmistakable signs of intellectual pretentiousness and moral turpitude. For some critics and readers, the poets’ approach understandably evokes a narrow-minded Little Englandism. The Movement – were Oxbridge-educated, white, predominantly male (Jennings was the only woman in the group, and she was a late arrival), middle-class, Europhobic and for the most part heterosexual. Even so, they caught the mood of their time, and Larkin and Amis in particular are undeniably major figures in English literature........................

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