Cold Comfort Farm Characters
- Created by: Isabella
- Created on: 01-05-13 17:03
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- Cold Comfort Farm- characters
- Amos Starkadder
- Dominate patriarchal figure
- In charge of running the farm, and does not like Reuben
- Farmer preacher
- Preaches about hell
- Uses hyperbole- "there'll no butter in hell!"
- Typical religious country person
- Married to Judith- not close to her
- Name= Amos was a prophet
- Dominate patriarchal figure
- Mr.Mybug
- Based on DH Lawerence
- Sees sex in everything- includes nature
- Intellectual type
- Likes Flora
- Creates excuses- he blames young women for not sleeping with him
- Makes instinctive decisions
- Marries Rennet in the end,getting over Flora
- Thinks of himself as higher then he is- he gatecrashed the high society party
- Judith Starkadder
- Dark and depressing character
- More so after Seth's depature
- High neurotic
- Often refers to Flora's "rights"
- Oepdial relationship with Seth,more from Judith's side
- Has more than 200 photos of Seth in her room
- Married to Amos- not at all closer
- Dark and depressing character
- Elfine Starkadder
- Typical romantic child- learns from nature
- Associated with nature, the outside and mythical creatures
- Flora at first only sees her briefly
- Originally engaged to Urk- desires Richard Hawk Monitor
- Flora "civilises" here- cutting her hair, changes her clothes, teaches her things
- Eventually marries **** H-M
- Name= elf,
- Aunt Ada Doom
- Controlling- comes head to head with Flora
- Uses emotional blackmail to get what she wants- "I saw something nasty in the woodshed!"
- Gets everyone to stay and arranges their lives for them
- Controls the farm's money, so everyone seems poor
- Refers to herself in the 2nd person- controlling
- Pretending to be mad- Flora sees through her act
- Seth Starkadder
- Stereotypical strong and silent type
- Rooted in the nature- many animal references when Seth appears
- Seducer- father to all Meriam's babies
- Oedipal relationship with his mother- reluctant on his side
- Has a secret dream of films ("the talkies"), ends off going to Hollywood to make a film
- Tries to seduce Flora- contrasted with her reluctance and ignoring his advances- "can you pass me that cotton spiel?"
- Flora Poste
- Heroine
- Deux es machina
- Comparisons to Emma Woodhouse of Emma
- Advocate of the higher common sense
- Takes on the challenge of reforming of CCF to make it comfortable and pleasent
- Very controlling- shown in the way she deals with CCF and goes head to head with AAD, the other controlling character
- Modern, young women- suggests the use of birth control
- Life is just a game to her, and the other characters are just pieces which can manipulate
- Reuben Starkadder
- Wants to run the farm- sees Flora as a threat to this
- Thinks he will better then Amos- he is new
- He is hostile to Flora- makes an image of her being horrible- contrasts with her question- "would you like a cup of tea?"
- Warms up to Flora eventually
- As she gets the farm for him
- Seems to dislike his family
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- Amos Starkadder
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