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Table of Contents (1)

• The Age of Innocence
• The Writer Edith Wharton
• The Director Martin Scorsese
• The Plot Chart
• Character-analysis

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Table of Contents (2)

• 3 Melancholic scenes in Martin Scorseses film
• the opening flowers scene along with a
  performance of Faust at the Academy of Music
• the abstract painting with a faceless woman in
  Lenskas parlour
• Mays wedding photos
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Edith Wharton(18621937)Wikipedia

• Born to a wealthy family in New York City on
  January 24, 1862.
• Published in 1905, The House of Mirth was
  Wharton's first critically acclaimed novel.
• She published volumes of short stories and
  novels, which earned her a faithful following,
  critical acceptance, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1921
  for The Age of Innocence.

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The Writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• 1885, Wharton married Teddy Wharton, who was
  twelve years older and ended the marriage in
  1913.
• Their marriage fell apart for Teddy had a
  mistress.
• Also, Wharton had fallen in love with Morton
  Fullerton and had been sexually awakened.

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The Writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• 1900-1938, created a lot of novels.
• 1905, The House of Mirth marked the true
  beginning of her career.
• 1911, Ethan Frome
• During WWII, traveled extensively and helped with
  refugees in Paris, and only once again back to
  America for the Pulitzer prize for The Age of
  Innocence.

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The Writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were
  all guests of hers at one time or another
• Her friendship with Henry James influenced on
  her writing.

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The Writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• The House of Mirth was published in 1905 when
  Edith Wharton was forty-three.
• A novel of manners biting criticism of New York
  aristocracy

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Martin Scorsese(1942-)

• Martin Scorsese, born in 1942, is an American
  motion-picture director.
• His films of the 1990s include an adaptation of a
  novel by American writer Edith Wharton, The Age
  of Innocence (1993).

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The Age of Innocence

• The novel takes place among New York City's upper
  class during the 1870s
• when there was a small cluster of aristocratic
  "old revolutionary stock" families that ruled New
  York's social life.
• First published during July to October 1920 in
  the Pictorial Review

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Character-chart in The Age of Innocence
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Major Characters-Newland Archer

• . He lives with his widowed mother and his
  unmarried sister, and is engaged to May Welland.
• . He fancies himself erudite and well-educated,
  not realizing how much his own thoughts and
  experiences are limited by his immediate
  environment.

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Major Characters-Ellen Olenska

• May's mysterious cousin
• Returned to New York to seek a divorce
• Her situation is scandalous and risks the good
  name of her family
• She represents sophistication, worldliness, and
  tragedy.

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Major Characters-May Welland

• The sum of her New York society upbringing, and
  is beautiful, proper, and innocent.
• Determined to be a perfect wife to Newland
• May seems
• childlike and carefree,
• But also knowledgeable about the complexities of
  relationships than Newland is

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Mrs. Manson Mingott (GradeSaver)

• May and Ellen's grandmother. The matriarch of New
  York society.
• Although she is the archetype of convention she
  attained her position by being defiant and
  aggressive in her youth.

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Lawrence Lefferts

• The "model of form" in New York society
• He is addressed whenever matters of style or
  decorum are at issue.
• Yet, ironically, he is a lying adulterer.

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Sillerton Jackson  

• An elderly gentleman and good friend of the
  Archer family
• Jackson is the unofficial archivist of all New
  York gossip and family history.

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Julius Beaufort

• A scandalous womanizer
• He represents "new" money and new standards.
• He is the first to embrace Ellen into society
  although his intentions may be less than
  honorable.

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Regina Beaufort

• The wife of Julius Beaufort.
• When Julius' reputation becomes mired in scandal,
  she appeals to Mrs. Manson Mingott, who is
  angered that she would ask the family for backing

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry van der Luyden

• A socially influential couple capable of making
  or breaking any reputation.
• They are consistently in control of Ellen's fate.

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Mr. Letterblair

• Newland's boss at the law firm. Convinces Newland
  to persuade Ellen not to get a divorce.

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1. The Flowers Scene

• The pre-oedipal imaginary language reviews social
  systems by transgressing the constraints of the
  Symbolic language whose fixed connotations is
  opposed to poetic languages multiplication.

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1. The Flowers Scene

• Thus, Newlands desire of romantic love
  encourages him
• to liberate from restricts of the signifying
  patriarchal society of manners
• to create his imaginary craving on the fringes of
  new system of motherhood

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2. The Abstract Picture

• The second scene, describing Newlands impression
  on an abstract picture painted image of a
  faceless woman in white with a parasol hanging on
  the wall of Ellens living room

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2. The Abstract Picture

• In her essay Creative Visions (De) Constructing
  The Beautiful in Scorseses The Age of
  Innocence, Karli Lukas illustrates the meaning
  of this faceless woman image

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2. The Abstract Picture

• Yet this image is also proffered as an ironic
  symbol of Newlands perfect woman-someone who
  he is able to mould and manipulate into any
  woman. In Newlands case, this is the type of
  wife befitting his station-someone who captures
  and reflects his own narcissistic image.

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• In the third scene, Scorseses use of wedding
  photographs to visualize true essences of
  Whartons novel to depict Mays character.

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• The sequence of wedding photographs is staged in
  the film
• just right after Newland imagines the possibility
  of breaking social restrictions,
• which is then devastated by May and her familys
  decision to their marriage.

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• In the following scene, the director cuts Mays
  images into 3 sequences
• then reproduced in a multiplication into 3
  replica images presented in the 3 mirrors behind
  her

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• Mays shifts of visions in this sequence,
  thereby, propose
• not only that their mismatched marriage
• but also her increasing influence on Newlands
  life as a conventional Victorian wife.

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• Newlands subconscious fear of being consumed by
  the semiotic mother-image Ellen
• that leads to maneuver himself out of this
  alliance with the good mother
• and seeks at all costs to manifest his relation
  with the phallic mother-image May.

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3. Mays Wedding Photos

• May is a phallic mother who has a penis inside
  her body that could indicate her power.
• Newlands alliance with May suggests
• this imaginary matricide to Ellen who is an evil
  power devastating Newlands social position.

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Websites Reference and Bibliography

• A Film Review by James Berardinelli.
  http//www.reelviews.net/movies/a/age_inno.html
• Spirituality and Practice. http//www.spirituali
  tyandpractice.com/films/films.php?id3540
• Castellitto. George P. Imagism and Martin
  Scorsese Images Suspended in Time Extended.
  Literature Film Quarterly 26.1 (1998) 23-29.
• Christe, Ian. The Scorsese Interview. Sight and
  Sound 42.2 (Feb. 1994) 10-15.
• Horne, Philip. The Age of Innocence Scorsese,
  Wharton and James. Film Studies An
  International Review 3 (2002) 5-17.
• Lee, Robert A. Watching Manners Martin
  Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's
  The Age of Innnocence. The Classic Novel From
  Page to Screen. Ed. Giddings Robert Sheen Erica.
  Manchester, England--New York, NY Manchester
  UP--St. Martin's, 2000. 163-78.
• Levine, Jessica. Delicate Pursuit Discretion in
  Henry James and Edith Wharton. Studies in Major
  Literary Authors V. 13. New York Routledge,
  2002.
• Lukas, Karli. Creative Visions (De)
  constructing The Beautiful in Scorseses The Age
  of Innocence. Senses of Cinema. 8 Sept 2006
  lthttp//www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/ctequ/03/2
  5/age_of_innocence.htmlgt.
• Murphy, Kathleen. Artist of the Beautiful. Film
  Comment 29.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1993) 11-15.
• Nicholls, Mark. "Male Melancholia and Martin
  Scorsese's The Age of Innocence." Film Quarterly
  58.1 (2004) 25-35.
• Olin-Ammentorp, Julie. Wharton through a
  Kristevan Lens The Maternality of The Gods
  Arrive. Wretched Exotic Essays on

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Websites Reference and Bibliography

• Skaggs, Carmen Trammell. Looking through the
  Opera Glasses Performance and Artifice in The
  Age of Innocence." Mosaic A Journal for the
  Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37.1
  (2004) 49-61.
• Stern, Lesley. The Scorsese Connection.
  Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana UP, 1995.
• Tebbetts, Terrell. Conformity, Desire, and the
  Critical Self in Wharton's The Age of Innocence.
  Philological Review 30.1 (2004) 25-38.
• The Age of Innocence Script. (recommended)
  http//www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a/age-o
  f-innocence-script-transcript.html
• Villasur, Belâen Vidal. Classic Adaptations,
  Modern Reinventions Reading the Image in the
  Contemporary Literary Film. Screen 43.1 (2002)
  5-18.
• Wagner-Martin, Linda. The age of innocence A
  Novel of ironic nostalgia. New York Twayne
  Publishers, c1996.
• Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York
  Scribners, 1970.
• Wikipedia on The Age of Innocence.
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_
  (film)

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