Paragraph starting with “Why, one of those diamond things would set us up in life, Phoebe,” and ending with “you shall have the public-house, Luke.” (34)<\/p>\n
I think this passage\u00a0<\/span>exposes the idea of preaching morality, but then turning around and doing the opposite for your own gain. Phoebe\u00a0<\/span>shrieks<\/span>\u00a0at Luke to put\u00a0<\/span>the bracelet down, and when he says that \u201c<\/span>one of those diamond things would set us up in life, Phoebe<\/span>,\u201d she responds by saying, \u201chow can you speak about such things,\u201d but in the end, Phoebe is the one that goes against her morals and takes something from the chest. Not only does Phoebe steal from the chest, but instead of stealing a diamond piece, that is\u00a0<\/span>valuable, while also\u00a0<\/span>replaceable<\/span>, Phoebe decides to take the belongings of a child, which I as<\/span>sume is more treasured by the family than the diamonds. I thought this passage pertained to the theme I have\u00a0<\/span>observed throughout the novel so far, which is the\u00a0<\/span>differences<\/span>\u00a0between appearances and reality. In multiple cases we see people performing an act to seem like a genuine, or\u00a0<\/span>exceptional person, when\u00a0<\/span>they<\/span>\u00a0can be malicious and devious. I saw this with George Talboys, how he speaks about the pure love he held for his wife and how he\u00a0<\/span>basically kissed the ground she walked on, but when we read about their relationship before he left, the author talks about thes<\/span>e rages that he would go into,\u00a0<\/span>showing how his actions contradict the things he says, which I see in this passage with Phoebe.<\/span> When Luke first opens this draw, Phoebe mutters, \u201cSo this is what my lady hides in the secret drawer,<\/span>\u201d this use of the words hides, se<\/span>cret, and mutters all\u00a0<\/span>refer to the theme of appearance versus reality<\/span>. In this instance the vocabulary is used to describe Phoebe\u2019s lady as well, showing that there are multiple\u00a0<\/span>characters<\/span>\u00a0that we\u2019ve\u00a0<\/span>meet<\/span>\u00a0so\u00a0<\/span>far,<\/span>\u00a0that connect to this theme.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paragraph starting with “Why, one of those diamond things would set us up in life, Phoebe,” and ending with “you shall have the public-house, Luke.” (34) I think this passage\u00a0exposes the idea of preaching morality, but then turning around and doing the opposite for your own gain. Phoebe\u00a0shrieks\u00a0at Luke to put\u00a0the bracelet down, and when … Continue reading Do as I say, not as I do<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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\/4753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}