{"id":565,"date":"2017-09-05T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=565"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:41:38","slug":"descriptive-comparisons-of-george-and-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/05\/descriptive-comparisons-of-george-and-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Descriptive Comparisons of George and the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI cannot tell how long he sat blankly staring at one paragraph amongst the list of deaths, before his dazed brain tool in its full meaning\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The quote above can be found in chapter 4 of <u>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u>. The more \u201cobvious\u201d reading of the paragraph puts readers in the perspective of George, who has returned from his three year voyage to find out from a paper of his wife\u2019s (Helen) death. What may catch the eye of careful readers is the repetition of terminology for length or time, and also how, when describing widower George\u2019s state, he seems almost dead himself. Upon examining the former point; notice the wording in the line. Terms contrast to pursue significance, such as in the direct \u201clong\u201d-ness of the list of deaths, and George\u2019s focus on only \u201cone\u201d. The contrast of these terms helps to paint the scene for readers, almost as if we are also checking the list with this character. Regarding the latter point, <u>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u> is not the first book to demonstrate romantic connections and the feeling of being \u201cunable to go on\u201d, nor will it be the last. What was unique to this paragraph was that George seems to resemble a walking corpse in his shock and disbelief. Take the lines, \u201c\u2026he sat blankly\u2026\u201d and \u201c\u2026his dazed brain\u2026\u201d for example. These are traits we often associate with the deceased, or at least medically deceased. The chapter seems to place George in a state of supreme focus (during the quest to find his wife\u2019s name \u2013 or rather to not find it) and then throw him into a numb state of semi-consciousness, where, perhaps as a method for grief, George can only seem to react to the events around him as if his senses were blocked by invisible barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI cannot tell how long he sat blankly staring at one paragraph amongst the list of deaths, before his dazed brain tool in its full meaning\u2026\u201d \u00a0 The quote above can be found in chapter 4 of Lady Audley\u2019s Secret. The more \u201cobvious\u201d reading of the paragraph puts readers in the perspective of George, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/05\/descriptive-comparisons-of-george-and-the-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Descriptive Comparisons of George and the Dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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\/3626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}