{"id":954,"date":"2016-09-30T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/?p=954"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:49:41","slug":"fiery-sensations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/2016\/09\/30\/fiery-sensations\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Sensations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartright\u2019s account of Sir Percival Glyde\u2019s death appeals to the visual and aural senses to subliminally accentuate a happiness that would be inappropriate, by Victorian standards, to express in correlation to Glyde\u2019s passing. The juxtaposition of the \u201cdazzling brightness of the fire\u201d to the \u201cmurky, starless sky\u201d during the burning vestry scene symbolizes a satisfying shift from darkness to illumination; this shift implies that Glyde\u2019s death will eradicate the obscurities that conceal the secrets within <em>The Woman in White <\/em>(Collins, 463). Since illumination is typically linked to the acquisition of knowledge, a fire is the perfect plot device to signify new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hartright\u2019s actions display that he is working diligently to save Glyde from the rising flames, his melodramatic inclusion of details suggests that his actions betray his intentions. Hartright attempts to prove that \u201cAll remembrance of the heartless injury the man\u2019s crimes had inflicted; of the love, the innocence, the happiness he had pitilessly laid waste; of the oath [he] had sworn in [his] own heart to summon him to the terrible reckoning that he deserved- passed from [his} memory like a dream (Collins, 463- 464.)\u201d However, Walter\u2019s overcompensation to assure the readers of his noble empathy in which he \u201cfelt nothing but the natural human impulse to save him from a frightful death\u201d is something that I cannot buy.<\/p>\n<p>During his description of Glyde\u2019s escape attempts, Walter claims to \u201chear the key worked violently in the lock\u201d from the other side of the door (Collins, 463). The violent imagery of this sexual euphemism, regardless of whether it represents a literal occurrence, suggests that Hartright is thinking about Laura Fairlie and her function within her marriage as a reluctant lock that refuses to yield to her husband\u2019s overbearing demands. Congruently, I believe that as the light from the fire becomes \u201cbrighter and brighter,\u201d Walter becomes increasingly more exuberant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartright\u2019s account of Sir Percival Glyde\u2019s death appeals to the visual and aural senses to subliminally accentuate a happiness that would be inappropriate, by Victorian standards, to express in correlation to Glyde\u2019s passing. The juxtaposition of the \u201cdazzling brightness of the fire\u201d to the \u201cmurky, starless sky\u201d during the burning vestry scene symbolizes a satisfying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/2016\/09\/30\/fiery-sensations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fiery Sensations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111380,111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-360-victorian-sexualities","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}