Diapositiva 1

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The Fox
by D. H. Lawrence
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TITLE

• the fox is an animal that lives in woods
• Physical characteristics reddish brown and white
  fur and thick tail
• The fox represents cunning and cleverness

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PLOT

• Banford and March live on a farm together
• One day March meets the Fox and it is considered
  dangerous, but at the same time she is attracted
  by it
• A young man and soldier, Henry, lives with them
• Banford has an interest in Henry
• Henry wants to marry March
• Banford dies
• Henry and March get married

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SETTING

• The story is set in 1918 in England in Baley Farm
• The setting illustriates the difficulties of the
  War and the conditions of life of two women that
  manage a farm
• The farm is isolated that means the searc of
  people to find security and protection in a world
  in which there are not points of reference

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NARRATIVE TECNIQUES

• The narrator is a third person obnisient narrator
• Using descriptions to describe characters
  physical aspect
• Using the shift of the point of view
• Using the free direct style and the free indirect
  style

The reader is free to give meaning to the fiction
He is into characters mind
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CHARACTERS

• Banford
• She manages the farm with March
• She deals with economical business
• She is rational
• She is interested by Henry

• March
• Her name calls to mind the third month it is
  connected to Mars, the god of war, and to the
  World War First
• She is masculine
• She is instinctive
• She is attracted by the Fox she is extranged by
  it, because the Fox represents instinct and
  unconscious

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• The Fox
• It is something mysterious, dangerous and
  fashinating like unconsious
• It is an animal, but it represents Henry

• Henry
• He is dangerous and unknown like the Fox
• He is a predator like the Fox
• He is tender and seductive like a hunter

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THE MESSAGE

• The defeat of reason represented by Banford and
  the victoty of the instinct represented by
  March
• Giving more importance to instinct not only to
  the reason
• The reflection in the relation ship between woman
  and man

Woman is snuffed out by man