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Daisy Miller

 

Henry James British author of American origin. He is the founder and leader of the realism school of fiction, his fine work that has led many academics to consider him to be the greatest master of the fictional style. He spent most of his life in England, and his works became public view shortly before his death. Henry is particularly famous for a series of novels depicting the encounter between America and Europe, and his novels focus on personal relationships, the appropriate test of strength in such relationships. Raising ethical questions, and his way of writing from the point of view of the character gave him the opportunity to explore the phenomenon of consciousness and concept. His creative use to convey his feelings in his writings, and the internal psychological struggle of the characters (a monologue), in addition to other elements such as the credible narrator within the novel that the reader trusts in his narration. Literature in the sense of beautiful writing emerged at the top of the market that began with newspapers, and which has been important to the political, social and cultural life of America since colonial times. After the civil war, their number and influence grew. As the United States became an international political, economic, and military power during this half-century, its literary production continued, and it welcomed (in translation) the works of prominent European figures of the time.

 

Realism (1865-1915): the portrayal of life as it really is. This movement began in the nineteenth century as well and emphasized what was realistic versus what was imagined. Realists tried to write honestly and objectively about people in ordinary situations. And what they wrote was a response to romance. They refused the heroics, adventures and the unusual. The realists were joined by those known as naturalists who focused on the impact of genetics and the environment on people unable to change their circumstances. American realism arose out of the works of local color writers such as Bret Hart and Sarah Oren Jowett. Realism is particularly evident in the works of writers such as Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells.

Among the most praised American writers of the period were Henry James, James believed that man is greater than suffering, and that he can control his life and destiny through awareness and facing reality. It is true that the societal models that he portrayed have disappeared, but the human problems that he dealt with and the attitudes that he embodied remain.

Daisy Miller is the most aggressive female model of male security. He (Henry James) created a girl stripped of familiar moral identities, which usually involved men's steps to move toward what are believed to be the correct directions of possession. A human spectrum that eludes romance and insanity, illuminated by a disturbing mixture of tenderness, indifference, spontaneity, sarcasm, politeness, obstinacy and tolerance. Daisy Miller did not break into the personal worlds of European conservatives with subversive intent, but rather an even greater transgression. She sided with her independence from the rigid aristocratic principles that govern these worlds, and even without thinking she was committing this emancipation. All that meant her was to satisfy the infantile obsession with fun, that is, that instinct inherent in its formation, which continued to lead to impulses of cautious, anti-public space constructed with the power of parental and maternal authoritarianism. Confusion or shyness did not hinder Daisy Miller's steps towards achieving this pleasure, without being guided by naive consciousness or emotional negligence, and her perception of reality was pure from relying on revolutionary beliefs or anti-normative values.

Dialogue for Henry James is characterized by the ability to accomplish many constructive functions that go beyond the traditional roles of exchanging conversations between characters. Dialogue in Daisy Miller's novel, for example, performs the task of a careful observer of space and time, as it extends beyond their boundaries to merge the history of the moment with its present, without a direct recall to the past, but through the circulating suggestive signals. Dialogue also performs in the novel the work of a monologue by moving between the outward and the inner of the speaker, that is, it creates common spaces between speaking and thinking, which is what makes other dialogues take place between souls during the exchange of speech between tongues.

 

 

 

 

References

· Scharnhorst, Gary, and Tom Quirk. Realism and Regionalism, 1865-1914 (Research Guide to American Literature). 1st ed., Facts on File, 2010.

· Wikipedia contributors. “Henry James.” Wikipedia, 17 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James.

· Wikipedia contributors. “Daisy Miller.” Wikipedia, 9 Sept. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Miller.