Ursula's Anger in Chapter 23 of Women in Love: the Excessive Reaction of an “Angry Woman”?
1. Excess?In Women in Love, Ursula Brangwen appears more than once as an angry woman, excessive in her reactions and behaviour. In the ''Excurse Chapter,'' Ursula quarrels violently with Birkin. She shouts at him, refuses to let him go and see Hermione, "stamp[s] her foot m...
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Études Lawrenciennes
2019
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| Streszczenie: | 1. Excess?In Women in Love, Ursula Brangwen appears more than once as an angry woman, excessive in her reactions and behaviour. In the ''Excurse Chapter,'' Ursula quarrels violently with Birkin. She shouts at him, refuses to let him go and see Hermione, "stamp[s] her foot madly on the ground" and throws at him the rings he has given her. Can we consider her behaviour to be excessive or mad? “Excessive,” as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, refers to what is "more than necessary," an "outrage... |
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