In her short story, “Kew Gardens,” Virginia Woolf contrasts the chaos of life and human activity to the relative simplicity and stability of nature. Through this comparison, Woolf is making the point that nature is dependable and reliable in that its processes are always the same, unlike human nature, which is always changing and throwing others through loops.
Group 7 The different characters of Kew Gardens, find different meaning from the setting based on their past and their own journeys in experiences. Despite their contrasting lives, however, they do all find themselves in the same physical place.
Group 4: In our opinion the point of Kew Gardens is to show the intertwining relationship between nature and the lives of humans and how both setting and characters merge together. Nature is the outlet that influences the lives of humans. For example, when Simon is telling his wife the story of a past lover, the outcome is dependent on the dragonfly. This shows the large role that nature, the setting, plays in the lives of humans, the characters.
The point of the story is to show how things in the story are interpreted by different characters/the narrator. The narrator does not have the same interpretations as the snail, for instance.
Virginia Wolf contrasts the purposeful movement of nature such as the progress of snail with the aimless movement and thoughts of the people. The metaphor of the dragonfly illustrates that if people had taken initiative they would have been able to reach a definite purpose.
“Kew Gardens” is from the view of a flowerbed that pays as much attention to a snail as it does to an old man that may be crazy. It reveals the organic aspect of the people and their interactions, and rejects the typical expectation of a plot. This yields a fluid and natural painting about humanity and the similarities that humanity has to nature.
The garden and nature itself can prompt people's reactions and experiences and helps shape them as a whole. In Kew Gardens' setting is extremely important and serves as a framework and influences the thought processes of the various characters presented in the story. There is a distinct relationship between nature and the human interaction.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a lot going on in the world, and each is only a small piece; no one character is more important than another.
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ReplyDeleteIn her short story, “Kew Gardens,” Virginia Woolf contrasts the chaos of life and human activity to the relative simplicity and stability of nature. Through this comparison, Woolf is making the point that nature is dependable and reliable in that its processes are always the same, unlike human nature, which is always changing and throwing others through loops.
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ReplyDeleteThe different characters of Kew Gardens, find different meaning from the setting based on their past and their own journeys in experiences. Despite their contrasting lives, however, they do all find themselves in the same physical place.
Group 4: In our opinion the point of Kew Gardens is to show the intertwining relationship between nature and the lives of humans and how both setting and characters merge together. Nature is the outlet that influences the lives of humans. For example, when Simon is telling his wife the story of a past lover, the outcome is dependent on the dragonfly. This shows the large role that nature, the setting, plays in the lives of humans, the characters.
ReplyDeleteThe point of the story is to show how things in the story are interpreted by different characters/the narrator. The narrator does not have the same interpretations as the snail, for instance.
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ReplyDeleteVirginia Wolf contrasts the purposeful movement of nature such as the progress of snail with the aimless movement and thoughts of the people. The metaphor of the dragonfly illustrates that if people had taken initiative they would have been able to reach a definite purpose.
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“Kew Gardens” is from the view of a flowerbed that pays as much attention to a snail as it does to an old man that may be crazy. It reveals the organic aspect of the people and their interactions, and rejects the typical expectation of a plot. This yields a fluid and natural painting about humanity and the similarities that humanity has to nature.
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ReplyDeleteThe garden and nature itself can prompt people's reactions and experiences and helps shape them as a whole. In Kew Gardens' setting is extremely important and serves as a framework and influences the thought processes of the various characters presented in the story. There is a distinct relationship between nature and the human interaction.