Chelsea Troyer L204 Paper 1 Lee Anne Bache 7 June 2013 In A.S. Byatt’s The Thing in the Forest‚ it seems as though Primrose has moved on from the childhood trauma to which she and Penny were exposed. The two girls grow up in very dissimilar ways: Penny finding ways to mask her trauma‚ and Primrose extroverting herself to cope with it. The text suggests that extroversion is a healthier coping method than masking. Byatt’s characters Penny and Primrose have many similarities‚ yet their differences
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"The Thing in the Forest" by A.S. Byatt is a story of symbolism. Abandonment and the hardships and the psychologically effect on young children and their imagination prevails itself throughout the short story. Two innocent girls portray the effect of violence physically and psychologically throughout out their lives due to the hardship of a war. Abandonment is what Penny and Primrose felt when they were escorted off on a train with no idea where they were going or what their future might hold.
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When I first read The Thing in the Forest‚ I was immediately taken in. I wondered what the thing could be. Was she going to talk about the two little girls‚ Penny and Primrose‚ witnessing the making of weapons‚ the abused lives of other orphans‚ or even the murders of German prisoners? The exposition‚ especially the time when World War II was going on‚ had led me to expect hostility. And my expectations turned out to be right‚ but in a different form. “The thing” was a hideous‚ worm-like creature
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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Michael 1 Jean L. Michael English 1302 Renee Stubbs 3 March 2013 How Characteristics of Hybridization show up in A.S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forrest” In a clever way the author has taken the odd yet critical monster trait of hybrid‚ and created an unnerving tale of an encounter with a gruesome being in the forrest. Used in this sense‚ hybrid is the offspring of different species; one being human and the other‚ an amalgam of earth
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The Thing in the Forest Containing all the well-known signs of a fairy tale from the beginning‚ The Thing in the Forest is expected to include the fantasy aspect of a fairy tale. Unlike most fairy tales however‚ The Think in the Forest quickly turns into a very real occurrence that happened to children all over that particular region during that particular time period. Once the girls come within earshot‚ and then sight of “The Thing”‚ it takes on many figurative meanings. These meanings include
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Born Antonia Susan Drabble on August 24‚ 1936 in Sheffield‚ England‚ daughter of John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie England‚ Susan is now internationally recognized as A. S. Byatt. Antonia is known most for her novels and short stories. Byatt has an also famous sibling‚ who is a novelist and critic by the name of Margaret Drabble. It is well know that the two with hold a legendary rivalry. She was educated at a Quaker school in York‚ New ham College‚ Cambridge‚ Pennsylvania‚ Oxford and
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Importance of Symbols in “The Thing in the Forest” In many fairytales‚ we are given characters who set out on an adventure to better themselves whether they know that they are on one or not. In A.S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest” we are taken on such an adventure‚ but this is more than just a children’s fairytale. Through figurative language we are shown that the main characters‚ Penny and Primrose‚ are dealing with more than just a creature in the forest‚ and that with this use of symbols
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Vicky Limbrick English 102 February 13‚ 2011 Instructor – Handy Symbolism Symbolism and other figurative speech in The Birth-mark and The Thing in the Forest Birth – Mark : First and fore-most the birthmark represents the fatal flaw of humanity‚ and that eventually we all fall into sin‚ sorrow‚ decay‚ and death. I think that the birthmark represents the desire for perfection or in this case the lack of. Georgina’s husband found her birthmark to be all consuming blot on her otherwise beautiful
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them anymore? After they all have settled into this new place‚ they are separated yet again and put into new families. Never are these children explained to what is happening. In “The Thing in the Forest”‚ Primrose and
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she was 13‚ in 1949‚ she and her sister were sent to a Mount School‚ a Quaker boarding school in York. She did not like boarding school‚ citing her need to be alone and her difficulty in making friends. So far she was not a forthcoming child. A. S. Byatt declares that she felt “panic” about the outside world‚ and says that she didn’t speak to anyone willingly until she became about sixteen. “I had a strong sense of not knowing how to behave socially‚ handed down from my mother’s anxiety about having
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