Cold Comfort Farm- Symbols, Themes and Motifs
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- Created on: 06-05-13 20:22
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- Cold Comfort Farm- Themes, symbols and motifs
- Social class
- Flora/Hawk Monitors comfortable middle class, try to bring Elfine into their world
- They are working class, but they do have a lot of money
- Civilsation
- Controlled behaviour
- Politeness
- Flora's common sense
- The desire to be happy, and lead a life uncomplicated by deep emotion
- Education
- Elfine's education is natural, in the woods and forests, in keeping with Rosseau's ideas
- Flora wants to impose a civilised education on Efline so that she will become civilised, someone that people will want to marry
- Flora evidently has had a civilised education
- Emotion vs Reason
- Flora's guide "The Higher Common Sense" embodies her practical approach to life
- Flora mistrusts wild, execessive emotional indulgence
- Much of CCF behaviour is meldodramatic, hysterial and self indulgement
- Nature
- Life at CCF ruled by the rhythms of the natural world
- Flora's believes- "nature is all very well in its place, but it musn't be allowed to make a mess"
- Controlling matriach
- Aunt Ada rules CCF by exploiting by deep emotion
- Judith tries this with Seth-fails
- Controlling women
- Flora herself- the most controlling women in the novel
- Flora is deux es machina figure, flying away at the end of the novel
- Aunt Ada- manipulates and controls the farm and the people living there
- AAD and Flora go head to head
- Sukebind
- Invented flower metaphor for sexual desire
- Link between the seasons and human behaviour
- Made up flower- Gibbons does this a lot
- The bull
- Tethered for most of novel, showing the control and influence of AAD
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- Oepdias complex
- Judith and Seth's relationship is pure Freud
- Shades with Aunt Ada and Seth, she seems to favour Seth (my darling Seth!)
- Social class
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