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Willa Cather "My Ántonia" 1918
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Modern American Literature Mapa Mental sobre Willa Cather "My Ántonia" 1918, creado por meg.weal el 01/05/2013.
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Willa Cather "My Ántonia" 1918
Landscape
nature
symbolic significance of "The Plough"
"black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size...the ball dropped and dropped until the red tip went beneath the earth. The fields below
us were dark, the sky was growing pale, and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere"
alignment of setting sun & plough present the harmonious relationship between humans and nature in the rural
plough becomes smaller - suggests that nature will always be dominant over human creation
evocative/romantic description of landscape
poetic language of Cather/Burden
difference between rural & urban
Time
Presentation of the past
Inescapable past
links to Charlie in Babylon Revisited
loss & denial of memory & past
nostalgic tone & subject of narrative
novel is a representation of Burden's memories & the relationship that he has with them
Difference between Childhood & Adulthood
past is representative of childhood innocence
despite following Ántonia through tho adulthood - she is a depiction of childhood innocence & purity
forced to grow up because of her father's death
"Jim is still able to loose himself in those big Western dreams. Though he is over forty now...He never seems to me to grow older"
suggestion that adulthood coincides with the loss of dreams & the burden of commitment
this image of Jim is perhaps how Cather wants to see him - not how he truly is
charater relationships throughout whole novel are rose-tinted
haunting memory of past
depicted as the cause for Pavel's death
"Pavel died a few days after he unburdened his mind to Mr Shimerda"
incredibly violent & descriptive memory
"The occupants rolled out over the snow, and the fleetest of the wolves sprang upon them. The shrieks that followed made everybody sober."
"Pavel knocked him over the side of the sledge and threw the girl after him. He said he never remembered exactly how he did it, or what happened
afterward."
Jim Bürden
personal relation to narrative
immediately presented in title "My Ántonia"
significance of "introduction"
warning to reader that Jim does not know everything - leads to stories within the story
"He loves with a personal passion the great country through which his railway runs and branches. His faith in it and his knowledge of it have played
an important part in its development."
depicts key themes
Nature
The dust and heat, the burning wind, reminded us of many things...little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of
climate"
nature's dominant repression of humanity
Regionality
"We agreed that no one who had not grown up in a little prairie town could know anything about it. It was a kind of freemasonry
Ántonia
"a Bohemian girl whom we had know long ago...this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood"
ending is already given to reader - means dramatic tension is not present
Portrayal of Females
Ántonia
masculinisation
result of father's death
"She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recogniseby instinct as universal and true...She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl
...All the strong things of her heart cam out in her body"
can be seen as the real protagonist as opposed to Burden
continually refuses to sacrifice her independence to better her life
Lena
presentation of young adulthood/sexual wonderings
Immigrant Experience
Shimerda's
Mr Shimerda's suicide
"I knew it was homesickness that had killed Mr Shimerda, and I wondered whether his released spirit would not eventually find its way back to him own
country."
Peter & Pavel's story
haunting memory of the past
act of interpretation/falseness of stories being passed on
can be said for the entirety of the narrative
domineering power & presence of nature - attack caused by wolves
difference between Jim & Ántonia
Jim has a hopeful pursuit & education - Ántonia has to work to support her family after father's death
falseness of the American Dream
the image of a plentiful land of prosperity & hope
Shimerda's are plunged straight in to poverty
"He slept with the old man and the two boys in the dugout barn, along with the oxen. The kept him in their hole and fed him from the same room as the
prairie dogs and the brown owls housed the rattlesnakes"
dehumanised to the same standards as animals
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