Episode 19 – Anne Shirley

From the very beginning, death was around Anne’s story. Her journey begins with the death of her parents, and it remains invisible even after Matthew is more prominent in the story. Paul’s mother, twins’ mother and others Mr. Lind dies on the edge of the plot so that the main story can move forward. But now death has returned to the previous page of Anne’s life, because it was one of her closest friends Ruby.

We all know that it is not uncommon for young people to die. That ruby ​​death was even more surprising when it was called consumption (tuberculosis). Not only is it common in the 19th century, but it is considered a “romantic” death in the literature of the 19th century, as it brings lingering pain and skin color to the victims. Consumption is one of the most common ways for heroines to die in Victorian literature, something LM Montgomery is very aware of. Maybe that’s why she’s going to make Ruby die besides romance. Ruby felt pain, she suffered delusions, and most importantly, she desperately wanted to live. She has a great plan and plans for the future. It seems that there is no Fair It should be taken from her.

Anne’s attempt to write a story for publication intertwined, helping to bring home the harsh reality of suddenly staring at Anne: Death is more than just a plot device. From her Geraldine days, we have seen Anne romanticize death in her mind, even if she learns from Matthew’s about the pain it brings. But Matthew is Old;This is sudden, but perhaps easier to justify. Ruby is Anne’s age. She is her friend. There is nothing beautiful in the way she passes. Anne ended up putting her novel aside wasn’t about her statement of frustration with the magazine publishing industry, but more about her need to take a step back and really think. Matthew’s death changed her life, but Ruby changed her future.

Anne visited Bolingbrook and her return home to Avonlea might switch on the schedule to help this. When Anne visits Phil, Anne receives a closure about her parents, but that doesn’t really make her lose Ruby. Nevertheless, the wise use of poppy in the background helps symbolically show what she is going through: According to the 1879 book Our Deportationin the Victorian flower language, poppy means “comfort”, while white poppy specifically means “heart sleep”. This flower is about dealing with grief, both Anne and Ruby need to do it.

In the book, Montgomery wrote[Ruby] Death in her sleep, painless, peacefully dying on her face, with a smile on her face – as if after all, death was a friendly friend who led her beyond the threshold, not the phantom of sadness she feared. “It is difficult to find the people who stay in peace.

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After writing: I was shocked by the similarities between Ruby’s death and Alfredo Romeo’s Blue Skywith a series of interesting links. Anne Shirley It’s more than thirty years later Romeoso it is definitely inspiration. (I think that’s why weasels play such an important role; this is a callback to Piccolo.) But Lisa Tetzner publishing Black brothers In the 1940s, this meant that she could have been influenced by LM Montgomery, thus creating a circle of inspiration. Maybe it was a stretch, but I hope it was true.

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