Tuesday, October 23, 2012
HT: Appreciation
"She sat at the window, when the sun began to sink behind the smoke; she sat there, when the smoke was burning red, when the colour faded from it, when darkness seemed to rise slowly out of the ground, and creep upward, upward, up to the house-tops, up the church steeple, up to the summits of the factory chimneys, up to the sky" (123). I found this quote particularly beautiful because I could visualize it clearly in my head, and even enjoyed visualizing it in my head. The change in words from "sink", "sat", and "faded" to "rise", "upward", "summits" and "sky" causes the imagery to flow smoothly from one idea into the next. One is able to follow the eye of Mrs Sparsit and actually feel as if one is Mrs Sparsit looking out the window.
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I also agree that this quote is really cool because of the imagery that it portrays and the "flow" that it has. Another significant piece to this evidence is that the dark color, smoke, and "creepiness" correlate to Mrs. Sparsit because she is the one sitting at the window. It almost portrays Mrs. Sparsit as the villian who controls all of the chaos that is occuring. This would be true to her character because she is very manipulative by always "pitying" Bounderby. She tries to make Louisa look like a horrible wife at the end of book two: "It became the business of Mrs. Sparsit's life, to look up at her staircase, and to watch Louisa coming down" (195-6). This attempt to bring Louisa's status down connects to the imagery of the quote above because they both portray her monstrous capabilities.
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