Escape by W.S. Maugham

ESCAPE By William pass Maugham The text nether interpretation is overleap by William Somerset Maugham. W. S. Maugham was a well-known English playw obligation, novelist and short story writer. He was the son of a British diplomat. He was educated at Kings groom in Canterbury, studied painting in Paris, went to Heidelberg University in Ger some(prenominal) and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. So, he put his hand in different executionivities and thats why he is versatile and experienced person. S.Maugham was critical of the morals, the narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy of bourgeois society. much(prenominal) novels as Of Human Bondage, The Moon and the Sixpence, The Theatre and others came under his pen. He was also the master of the short story. Among them are Col mavinls dame, Friend in Need, Lions Skin, etcetera S. Maugham was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the gamyest paid author during the 1930s. Maughams style of compos ing is clear and precise. He doesnt impose his views on the reader. He puts a question and leaves it to the reader to answer.I also akin his revealing the weak sides and vices of man nature skilfully. His books are chatty and easy to read. This is clearly viewed from the given extract. black market is a story ab reveal greens stack in common station, and Maugham manages to tell it with the sense of humour and in a actually kindle delegacy. The essence of The prevail, to my mind, is that Roger and condolence have diverse approaches towards the relations. Of course, the men and the women like the first step flowers, paying attentionness, passion. But then their paths diverge.The romance disappears, the man looks for the way out, he craves for new emotions, but the woman deems that the relations should develop into the marriage. And The Escape is the example of such a mismatch. The story washbasin be logically divided into four main purposes the exposition, passages about pathoss and Rogers chouse, Roger falls out of get it on and the break-up. The story has a bully line narrative structure with authors digressions at the beginning. I think that the beginning of the story serves as its subject matter, where the author recounts his menstruation of view on marriage.He convinces us that if a woman once do her mind to marry a man nothing but rank flight could save him. As an example he told a case, which happened with one of his friends, who seeing the inevitable marriage menacing before him, excessivelyk ship and spend a year traveling round the world. He hoped the woman would deflect him, but was mistaken. When he got back thinking himself safe, the woman, from whom he had fled, was waiting for him on the quay. This funny thing supports the idea that the inevitable loom of the marriage frightens whatsoever men and they try to avoid it.It should be mentioned, that he describes that awkward situation very skilfully and in a very ironical way. It could be confirmed by some cases of irony, used by the fibber bit flight and inevitable loom menacing before him, escaped with whole a to a faultthbrush for all his luggage, which show us concern and trembling of men before the difficulties of the marriage. Maugham establishes realistic setting to his piece of writing. As the author uses the first-person narrative structure we advise guess that the narrator is the inessential character of the story.The main ones here are Roger Charing and Ruth Barlow. To describe them, Maugham uses the study characterization. For example, he gives it when speaks about of Ruths eyes using the appellations ( gauzy, moving, big and agreeable), a detached epithet ( unforesightful dear) all in the ironic way. Further on the narrator says that he knows only one man who escaped successfully. Once upon a time his friend, Roger Charing told him he was going to marry. Roger was tall and handsome, rich, experienced middle-aged man. Of course, many women ingenious to marry him.But he was happy to live the sprightliness of an undivided man the epithets sufficient experience, careful give the direct rendering of his lifestyle. But then he met Ruth Barlow. He fell in heat with her. He immediately trusted to look afterward her and apply her happy. Ruth was twice a widow, she was younger than Roger. She was preferably good-looking and she had big, beautiful, ghastly eyes and she had the gift of pathos. When a man saw those big, sad eyes, he wanted to help Ruth. The epithet defenceless expose the power of her look.It was Ruths mode to get what she wanted because she had no other sum (money for instance). This gift helped Ruth to reach her goals. The metaphor the gift of pathos, the epithets bright dark eyes, the most moving eyes, big and lovely eyes and the repetition of the word eyes convey us requital our attention to this peculiarity. And Ruth made her mind to marry Roger he was rich, considerate, and discer ning and was glad to take care of her, so he was the best sort for her. He didnt let down and made a plan of marriage to her and they were going to marry as soon as ossible. fleck reading we came across a lot of sharp literary row (gift, splendid, wonderful, hazards, distress, lovely) and some cliches (the world was too much for her, stand between the hazards of life and this bemused little thing, how wonderful it would be to take the sadness out of those big and lovely eyes) which are peculiar to the comment of ordinary situations concerning love affairs, so we see what kind of story The Escape is. The narrator provokes us to perceive it ironically.Through Rogers vision, Ruth was very unlucky. Indeed, she seemed to be very miserable, everything was wrong with her. If she married a husband he turn tail her if she employed a broker he cheated her if she engaged a ready she drank. She never had a little lamb but it was sure to die. We can observe hopelessness of Ruths life t hrough the epithets helpless little thing, rotten time, unfortunate, poor dear, the metaphor a little lamb, parallel constructions if she married and pure literary words such as sufferings, hazards, sadness.Roger took an interest in her destiny and was ready to relieve it the repetition of the pronouns she and her in Rogers speech, the epithet dreadfully sorry prove my assumption. The epithets very happy and pleased make us believe that it wasnt a nuisance for him. But match to the narrators opinion, Ruth was two-faced woman of few ideas he called her stupid and scheming. This epithets, the simile as hard as nails add some points to her description, so it again proves that the method of character-drawing here is direct.We see two people, Roger and Ruth, as the future family, so this is the idea of this extract of the text. The author describes the first part of their relations which were rather standard. As thousands of men and women, they met, fell in love and decided to be togeth er. But then, on a sudden, Roger fell out of love. This was the second part of their relations. There was no evident reason. Perhaps, his heart-strings were no bimestrial touched by Ruths pathetic look. Roger became acutely sure that Ruth had a mind to marry him. He gave a devout oath that nothing would induce him to marry Ruth.But he was in a quandary. He was aware that Ruth would assess her feelings at an immoderately high figure if he asked her to release him. Besides, he didnt want people to say that he jilted a woman. The epithets acutely conscious, a solemn oath and an immoderately high figure stress the importance, conditional relation of his decision as to the epithet pathetic look and the metaphor heart-strings (at the same time it is a cliche), they produce the humorous effect. Falling out of love is the most terrible thing I can imagine.Recently it was an acute diversion for Roger to do everything for Ruth. He was charmed, but, as I suppose, it wasnt a atrocious and profound feeling Roger lost it too easily. It is obvious Ruth was a narrow-minded woman and she didnt authentically love Roger. But thither are some arguments to be said in her defence, she lonely and wanted to be protected. Probably she would be a good wife. The repetition of the scene to have a mind to reveals the conflict of Rogers and Ruths interests. Ruth desired to have relations of long duration she cried for the moon.On the contrary, Roger wanted to escape with no loss. And again we are the witnesses of the usual continuation of the love story. Its rather banal. Roger kept his own counsel he remained attentive to all her wishes. It was decided that they would be married as soon as they found a suitable house. Roger applied to the agents and visited with Ruth house after house. It was very hard to find a satisfactory one. Sometimes houses were too large, sometimes they were too small, sometimes they were too expensive and sometimes they were too stuffy, sometimes they we re too airy.The idea is that only such dishonest, shabby act as the flat-chase tactics seemed to be appropriate for Roger. I think, it was like a committing a crime. Rogers behaviour wasnt fair, it was even disgraceful, but regrettably such conduct is not uncommon, the men trick the women very often, because their attitude towards the relations differs. Parallel constructions sometimes they were too large, sometimes they were too small, sometimes they were too expensive and sometimes they were too stuffy, the metaphor house-hunting, the epithet innumerable kitchens describe Rogers scheme of the trouble-free parting.Firstly I took Rogers side, because I consider that each person should have a right for free choice, but then I was sorry for Ruth, Roger tired her out, she didnt understand what was happening. The epithet exhausted demonstrates her state brightly. At last Ruth revolted. She asked Roger if he wanted to marry her. There was an unaccustomed hardness in her voice, but it di dnt affect the gentleness of his reply. Roger persuaded her that they would be married the very moment they found a suitable house. Ruth took to her bed. She didnt want to see Roger, but he was as ever occupied and gallant.Every daylight he sent her flowers, wrote that he had some more houses to look at. The epithets assiduous, gallant display his dissimulation. A week passed and he received the letter Ruth let him know that she was going to get married and claimed that Roger didnt love her. He answered that her news shattered him, but her happiness had to be his first consideration. He sent Ruth seven orders to view. He was quite sure she would find among them a house that would exactly suit her. So, we can see that Roger appeared to be very smart and sly person.He appeared quite cute to predict Ruths following actions. When he got the look of Ruth, he pretended he was still in love very gallantly, until she got the hang of him, and I should say it was a more civilized way of ji lting a woman than just to leave her. So, I think the message of the story is that a woman can be sly and scheming, but a man can make it his way also. This story carried me with its eternal bewitch the war between male and female. We may be in sincere about it or may try to ignore it, but it really takes place and this problem will exist until the end of human history.