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The Use of Force
While both heroines in The Use of Force and The Horse Dealer's Daughter struggle to maintain their courage in the face of challenges, there are marked differences between the two. The heroine in...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
One motif is the interaction between two classes of people. Jack Ferguson is a young doctor and he represents someone of a different social class than the Pervins. He has a job that we might call...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
"Discussing" Irony & Love seems a bit difficult since we can't have a conversation. Instead of answering your prompt for you, I'm going to give you some new, more focused questions to help you...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In D.H. Lawrence's short story, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," the speaker first mentions familial love. Mabel has known no love from her brothers—they have treated her as if she were invisible....
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Initiation is defined as... […a] ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge. In D.H. Lawrence's short...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Critic Jeffrey Mayers writes of D.H.Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," His conscious debt to literary tradition enhances rather than diminishes his originality. Clearly, Lawrence draws...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
It is clear from the ways in which her brothers treat her and discuss her future without compassion or care that Mabel does not occupy a very good position in the family of which she is a part. At...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
One major theme in this story is that of female oppression. Mabel Pervin, a young rural working-class woman, appears isolated in the midst of her own family. She has kept house for her three...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The basic premise of Modernism can be seen in the background of the family that Lawrence outlines in his story. Initially, consider Woolf's understanding of a critical element of the "shift"...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The major theme that can be detected in all of Lawrence's fiction is the power of passion and how it often overpowers the intellect and reason. This is of course expressed primarily in this story...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The narrative choice chosen by Lawrence in this story adds to the effect of the tale as it allows him to focus on the key theme of his story, which is the strength of passion and how it overpowers...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The animal imagery relates to Mabel in this short story. She emerges from the "animal pride" of the Pervin family and she is described as she lies naked on the floor as if she were an animal from...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
This is a romantic story unlike the traditional romantic tales that a reader might expect to read. This is achieved through the focus Lawrence places on the tension between the "mental...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
I suppose one way to do this would be to examine the way in which love overrules judgement. This is an archetypal theme and is present in so many stories, mythological or otherwise. If we look at...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Significantly, animal imagery is used to describe Mabel when she is naked and after she comes round when Fergusson revives her after she tries to drown herself. This of course is highly...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
You might want to consider the way in which Lawrence describes the figure of Mabel as she sets herself on her course to killing herself. Note the way in which the powers of the imagination are...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
English Realism is the response by writers at the turn of the century against the Romantic literary movement that idealized life. The distinction between "romance" and "realism" is important....
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," the narrator presents the notion that life can often astonish us. Mabel and Fergusson are very different people: she has grown up with nature, and...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," Mabel seems to enthrall Ferguson, but not as the story begins. When Mabel and her brothers receive the news of their shattered futures around the...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Both Dr. Ferguson and Mabel, following his rescue of her from trying to drown herself, experience a serious sexual awakening as they literally are overcome by passion and their reason is...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
This is really a very interesting love story to analyse and think about. Key to understanding what Lawrence does in it, however, is to realise how he saw society as a repressive influence that...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Certainly any work of literature could be argued to have a number of different themes, and this excellent short story by D. H. Lawrence is no exception. However, one of the themes that I found...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Love does steal upon both of the central characters rather swiftly in this excellent short story. We first see the indications of love when the doctor brings Mabel around after her abortive suicide...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In this excellent short story by D. H. Lawrence, the situation of Mabel is clearly indicated in the opening paragraphs. However, unlike her three brothers, she has no real hope or chance of finding...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
One of the great themes that run through much of DH Lawrence's works is that nothing is as simple as it seems, and if you are going to get something, you have to pay for it. Also, what you get...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Fergusson’s rescue of Mabel is described in paragraphs 110–115. The setting is wetness, dankness, muckiness, and a foul smell (the smell is mentioned a number of times). To determine how this...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In paragraph 103 the speaker notes “some mystical element” that touches Fergusson as he looks at Mabel in the cemetery. This power is further explained in paragraph 104 as having the strength...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Mabel is “rather short, sullen looking” with a face of “impassive fixity” (paragraph 3). We are to understand that she has felt the loss of her mother deeply, but has appreciated the power...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
In paragraph 7, Joe Pervin, the eldest of the family, is compared to the massive draft horses. These are slow but strong (having a “slumberous strength” [paragraph 6]), and are in harness, as...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
By beginning the story with the breakup of the Pervin household, Lawrence stresses the idea that a central force is necessary for stability, and that instability and pain result once such force is...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Allegory is a lesson communicated through symbolism, usually involving moral or spiritual ideas. A paradox is a statement that seems to contradict itself but actually contains a truth, or it can be...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Ecstasy is one of amphetamine derivated which MD use to make the patient who needs alert for job of course. But Now all over the world make it as we know as drug abused. You should know that each...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
This is an interesting love story as Lawrence incorporates the elements of the darkness of love in this tale of Mabel and Jack Fergusson. Mabel is seen dressed in black, tending her mother's grave,...
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter
This story is written in the third-person omniscient point of view. What that means is that the narrator is outside the story and that the reader is able to know the thoughts and feelings of all...