{"id":1140,"date":"2018-09-18T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T02:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2018-09-18T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T02:30:26","slug":"blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2018\/09\/18\/blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

One paragraph that stood out to me in Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/em> was the first paragraph on page 57. In what seems to be an act of foreshadowing, Braddon is describing a beautiful countryside in comparison to cruel murders. Tranquil words such as \u201cquiet\u201d, \u201crustic\u201d, \u201csweet\u201d, and \u201ccalm\u201d are used in comparison to cruel words such as \u201cagonies\u201d, \u201cpoisoned\u201d, and \u201cviolent.\u201d The words murder and peace are repeated throughout the paragraph, juxtaposing the beauty of nature and peace with the violent nature of man. The \u201cspreading oak, whose very shadow promised \u2013 peace\u201d is juxtaposed with \u201csudden and violent death by cruel blows\u201d, displaying the antipode ideas of peace and chaos. Braddon describes a meadow on a quiet summers day contrasted with the murder and betrayal of a young woman by the man she loved and trusted, introducing the idea of evil in what seems to be a tranquil place. The contrast between chaos and peace is perpetuated by the lengthy, vivid crimes, ending with just one word – peace. By incorporating the emotions of chaos and peace into the same sentences, Braddon juxtaposes the images of violence and beauty. This suggests that chaos and beauty are not exclusive from each other. This idea of beauty and tranquility hiding dark, cruel secrets and the suggestion that chaos and beauty are not exclusive may be indicative of Lady Audley. Throughout the book, she is continually described as being an unmistakably beautiful girl, but this passage may be suggesting that she is hiding darker secrets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One paragraph that stood out to me in Lady Audley\u2019s Secret was the first paragraph on page 57. In what seems to be an act of foreshadowing, Braddon is describing a beautiful countryside in comparison to cruel murders. Tranquil words such as \u201cquiet\u201d, \u201crustic\u201d, \u201csweet\u201d, and \u201ccalm\u201d are used in comparison to cruel words such … Continue reading Blog Post #1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}