Sense and Stylistic Analysis

consciousness and stylistic analysis The Escape I would like to consider sense and stylistic peculiarities of the textual matter that I have recently read. The title of the invoice is The Escape, it was written by Somerset Maugham. First of all, rough facts from the causalitys biography. William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was born(p) in 1874 in Paris. He received a medical degree however he neer practised medicine, but all his life he had a great desire to write.The first refreshing Liza of Lambeth he wrote at the age of 23, but it had no success. For ab egress 10 years he wrote manifold plays and novels and starved. But he did non give up. In 1907 he produced in London a comedy of manners Lady Frederic which finally brought him luck. Soon afterwards Maugham became internationally celebrated. So he became commutative and began to travel. He came to know Europe, the United States, China, Spain, the South Seas. Some of hi s another famous works are Cakes and Ale, moonlight and Sixpence, Ashenden, Don Fernando etc.He died in 1965 at the age of 91. Now lets return to the story The Escape. It relates to the relationships between men and women. The main characters of the story are the narrator, his friend Roger Charing and a woman compassion Barlow. The plot of the story is quite simple, but interesting at the same metre. At the beginning of the text the narrator proposes a thesis that if a woman once made up her mind to hook up with a man nothing but arcsecond flight could observe him. But he says that not e actually man could manage to escape.And here the narrator tells us a short story, settled in one complex displaceence, which has something in common with the following and the main story of the text. One narrators friend, having realized that a woman involveed to merry him, decided for a flight. He took ship. The indite uses here parenthesis with a toothbrush for all his luggage, so consci ous was he of his danger and the necessity for speedy action in company to emphasize that a man was ready for everything to escape this marriage.Then he fatigued a year travelling around the world, but the first person he saw when he returned was that woman he tried to flee. The irony runs through the narration, supported by such words and phrases instant flight, inevitable loom, menacingly, thinking himself safe. So, this short story serves as the understructure to the one following below. Then the narrator says that he knew only one man who managed to extricate himself in such situation. His name was Roger Charing. He was no longer a young man, but strong and hefty, and had hole of money.He possessed a common sense and worldy wisdom, and was prudent. But when he fell in cognize with condolence Barlow, he went down like a row of ninepins this simile used by the author adds to the satirical tone of the narration. Mrs. Barlow was twice a widow, and now she made up her mind to marry Roger. She was very unfortunate person, sufferings followed her this fact is underlined in the following sentence constructed in the form of parallel construction If she unify a husband he beat her if she employed a broker he cheated her if she engaged a cook she drank.Besides, Ruth Barlow had pretty, pathetic appearance and splendid dark eyes which were always ready to receive with tears. The author uses such epithets describing her as splendid dark eyes, the most moving eyes, pitiful beneficial, helpless little thing, lovely eyes, pathetic, unfortunate, rotten time. It was not surprising that she touched the strings of Rogers heart, and he wanted to do something for her, to protect her, to save her from the hazards of life. And when he decided to merry her and commit such a good action, he was very idealistic of himself.Here we must admit that everything was not so ambiguous. At first sight we should sorry for this poor woman, be in sympathy with her, and admire Rogers kind heart. However, we feel that all the mentioned above stylistic devices select a humorous, ironical effect, and we understand that everything is not so sweet and sincere in this story as it seems at first sight. Further on the narrator characterizes Ruth already from another side the author uses the epithets stupid and scheming and the simile as hard as nails, so that we see her false nature and the narrators negative attitude to her.Indeed, this woman was not so helpless, defenseless and poor, but quite cunning and artful she used her pathetic appearance and various tricks in order to achieve her purposes, to arose Rogers compassion and in the long run to marry him. The author gives us to comprehend that Ruth unspoiled wanted to seem helpless and poor, but indeed she was not. As for Roger, he, on a sudden, fell out of love. The phrase on a sudden supposes that this was not a deep, sincere feeling, but just a shallow, surface passion.Now Roger realized what the sort of woman he had to deal with. Of course, he already did not want to merry her. But it was awkward for a man to jilt a woman and in order not to get a bad reputation he needed Ruth to release him by herself. That is why he thought over one scheme. He said Ruth nothing close to that change in his feelings. He remained attentive to all her wishes, he took her to dine at restaurants, he sent her flowers, he was sympathetic and charming. And they arranged to marry as soon as they found a dramatics that suited them. Then the house-hunting began.They examined a great number of houses, but Roger always found a stigma that made a house un equal. He said he couldnt bear to ask his dear Ruth to live in any but the perfect house. The narrator says Sometimes they were too heroic and sometimes they were too small, sometimes they were too far from the centre of things and sometimes they were too close sometimes they were too expensive and sometimes they wanted too many repairs sometimes they were too stuffy and sometimes they were too airy sometimes they were too dark and sometimes they were too bleak.The author designedly uses parallel constructions to emphasize the duration of the similar actions. The author ironically depicts how long they were looking for a suitable house, how many houses they examined and inspected, and how tiresome and tiring was this business. It was obvious that Roget was trying Ruths patience and was waiting for her to be the first to break their relations. Of course, Ruth guessed his plan and finally lost her patience. Ruths letter to Roger is the flood tide of the story, because all the events preceding this one have been tensing the atmosphere.Her letter, where she informed Roger she was going to merry another man, was the final saddle in their relationships. So Roger r for each oneed his aim. As for me, I sympathize with none of them. I think they make a pair Ruth had a scheme to marry him, Roger had a scheme to escape. They lied to each other, t hey tricked each other. I think the main idea the author wanted to bring to us is the importance of be honest. He reminds that one should stay honest to a person, even if one has fallen out of love with. But the relations based on trickery and scheming are doomed from the beginning.