The Ruined Maid

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  • The Ruined Maid
    • Thomas Hardy
      • Dorset
      • partial and sympathetic to the plight of women
        • social commentator
          • abuse of working and rural class
            • 2 poor working girls
          • disappearing countryside
            • Industrial Revolution
            • uses old dialect
            • captured a vanishing world
      • corruption of love
    • structure and form
      • 6 quattrains AABB
        • refrain "ruined, said she."
          • bitterness
            • wishes to be back to her old life
            • "some polish is gained with one's ruin"
              • humiliation
              • lost dignity
          • superiority
          • matter of fact
      • dialogue
        • creates a lively scene where the reader has to imply the sub-meaning
        • requires active readership-reading between the lines and bringing our experience of scandal
        • jealousy
        • punctuation
          • - for speaker
            • interjection
            • unrefined
          • " " for 'Melia
            • minor role
            • change in personality
            • difference in speakers
              • innocence
              • corruption
    • language
      • irony
        • 'The Ruined Maid'
        • oxymoronic
          • prostitution
          • purity, virtue
            • Victorian ideals
              • two types of women
                • noble, virtuous
                • ruined, whores
                  • darker side to society where sex was repressed and private
          • two lives she's led
            • clash
            • conflict over former and current self
            • urban vs rural
      • dialect
        • o 'Melia
          • only name
          • true roots
          • apostrophe
            • shock
            • exclamation
        • "thik oon"
          • informal language
          • true self
        • "spudding up docks"
          • familiar language
      • imagery
        • rural vs urban
        • poverty
          • "blue and bleak"
            • harsh, alliteration
            • challenges prejudices
          • "left us in tatters"
        • decadence
          • "bright feathers"
          • "little gloves"
          • "fair garments"
          • facade of a lady
            • people will know who she is and what she does
      • "my dear- a raw country girl"
        • derisive
        • patronising
        • ridiculing her admiration
        • parody of a woman
    • other poems
      • Garden of Love
        • social commentary
      • To His Coy Mistress

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