Sense and Stylistic Analysis

Sense and rhetorical analytic thinking The Escape I would like to consider sense and stylistic peculiarities of the text that I have recently read. The title of the theme is The Escape, it was compose by summersault Maugham. First of both, some facts from the pens biography. William Somerset Maugham is whizz of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was born(p) in 1874 in Paris. He received a medical point however he never practised medicine, besides all his action he had a great desire to write.The first novel liza of Lambeth he wrote at the age of 23, alone it had no success. For ab issue 10 years he wrote manhoodifold plays and novels and starved. But he did not bring forth up. In 1907 he produced in London a comedy of tact Lady Frederic which finally brought him luck. Soon afterwards Maugham became internationally celebrated. So he became independent and began to travel. He came to know Europe, the United States, China, Spain, the South Seas. Some of his some other famous works are Cakes and Ale, Moon and Sixpence, Ashenden, Don Fernando etc.He died in 1965 at the age of 91. Now lets return to the story The Escape. It relates to the relationships between men and women. The master(prenominal) characters of the story are the fibber, his plugger Roger Charing and a charwoman ruth Barlow. The plot of the story is quite simple, but interesting at the same time. At the beginning of the text the fibber proposes a thesis that if a woman once made up her head to hook up with a man nothing but sec flight could save him. But he says that not every man could manage to escape.And here(predicate) the narrator tells us a short story, settled in one complex disapprobation, which has something in common with the following and the main story of the text. One narrators friend, having realized that a woman sine qua noned to alive(p) him, decided for a flight. He likewisek ship. The origin uses here parenthesis with a as well as thbrush for all his luggage, so conscious was he of his danger and the necessity for immediate action in swan to accentuate that a man was ready for everything to escape this marriage.Then he spent a year travelling around the world, but the first person he saw when he returned was that woman he tried to flee. The irony runs with the narration, supported by such words and phrases instant flight, required loom, menacingly, thinking himself safe. So, this short story serves as the introduction to the one following below. Then the narrator says that he knew single one man who managed to extricate himself in such situation. His name was Roger Charing. He was no longer a young man, but strong and hefty, and had sess of money.He possessed a common sense and worldy wisdom, and was prudent. But when he furious in love with poignancy Barlow, he went down like a row of ninepins this simile used by the author adds to the sarcastic tone of the narration. Mrs. Barlow was twice a widow, and now she made up her mind to marry Roger. She was very unfortunate person, sufferings followed her this fact is underlined in the following sentence constructed in the form of parallel construction If she married a conserve he beat her if she employed a broker he cheated her if she act a cook she drank.Besides, ruth Barlow had pretty, execrable appearance and splendid benighted eyes which were always ready to fill with tears. The author uses such epithets describing her as splendid juicy eyes, the most moving eyes, abject beloved, helpless little thing, lovely eyes, pathetic, unfortunate, rotten time. It was not surprising that she touched the strings of Rogers heart, and he wanted to do something for her, to protect her, to save her from the hazards of life. And when he decided to merry her and commit such a good action, he was very proud of himself.Here we must admit that everything was not so ambiguous. At first sight we should sorry for this poor woman, be in intelle ct with her, and admire Rogers kind heart. However, we feel that all the mentioned above stylistic devices make a humorous, ironical effect, and we understand that everything is not so gentle and sincere in this story as it waits at first sight. promote on the narrator characterizes Ruth already from another side the author uses the epithets stupid and scheming and the simile as hard as nails, so that we see her false nature and the narrators negative spot to her.Indeed, this woman was not so helpless, defenseless and poor, but rather canny and artful she used her pathetic appearance and various tricks in order to achieve her purposes, to arose Rogers compassion and in the long run to marry him. The author gives us to comprehend that Ruth just wanted to seem helpless and poor, but indeed she was not. As for Roger, he, on a sudden, neglect out of love. The phrase on a sudden supposes that this was not a deep, sincere feeling, but just a shallow, surface passion.Now Roger reali zed what the crystallise of woman he had to deal with. Of course, he already did not want to merry her. But it was awkward for a man to jilt a woman and in order not to get a fearful reputation he needed Ruth to release him by herself. That is wherefore he thought over one scheme. He said Ruth nothing about that change in his feelings. He remained attentive to all her wishes, he alsok her to dine at restaurants, he sent her flowers, he was eleemosynary and charming. And they arranged to marry as soon as they found a rear that suited them. Then the house-hunting began.They examined a great number of houses, but Roger always found a fault that made a house unsuitable. He said he couldnt bear to ask his dear Ruth to live in any but the perfect house. The narrator says Sometimes they were too large and sometimes they were too small, sometimes they were too far from the centre of things and sometimes they were too close sometimes they were too expensive and sometimes they wanted to o many re bridges sometimes they were too stuffy and sometimes they were too airy sometimes they were too dark and sometimes they were too bleak.The author deliberately uses parallel constructions to express the duration of the similar actions. The author ironically depicts how long they were looking for a suitable house, how many houses they examined and inspected, and how tiresome and tiring was this business. It was obvious that Roget was trying Ruths patience and was waiting for her to be the first to break their relations. Of course, Ruth guessed his plan and finally lost her patience. Ruths letter to Roger is the approach of the story, because all the events preceding this one have been tensing the atmosphere.Her letter, where she informed Roger she was going to merry another man, was the final point in their relationships. So Roger reached his aim. As for me, I sympathize with none of them. I think they make a pair Ruth had a scheme to marry him, Roger had a scheme to escap e. They be to each other, they tricked each other. I think the main idea the author wanted to bring to us is the importance of being honest. He reminds that one should stay honest to a person, even if one has fallen out of love with. But the relations based on trickery and scheming are doomed from the beginning.