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World of duty and responsibility

Her alleged affair with Varguennes and later her sexual encounter with Charles defies the strict teachings against intercourse before marriage and any open display of sexuality, particularly in women. She even goes as far as to lie (she pretends that she has hurt her ankle in order to have Charles come to her bedroom). What she lives her life according to the realization of her own desires and emerges, is that she chooses freedom over duty. Fowles intrudes for the last time;

THIRD ENDING:

In Chapter 61, he has just finished observing and directing the scene between Sarah and Charles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house and seems quite amused by it. He steps into a coach and turning back his pocket watch by fifteen minutes. leaves, Events are the same as in the second-ending version until Charles meets Sarah, when their reunion is sour; Charles believes he has been betrayed. Now, instead of denying that she has betrayed him, and finally admitting that she

Loves him, Sarah admits nothing; she remains as silent and enigmatic as ever. And again, utterly disgusted with himself and with the woman he allowed himself to fall in love with, Charles leaves. He sees the child in the arms of a young woman as he exits but takes no further notice of it. Charles and Sarah both face the world alone.

Thus, as someday their child must also, Fowles' final choice of a conclusion is not as random as he would make it seem. In discovering that he could reject conventional attitudes, and love Sarah regardless of the social consequences, Charles discovered a strength in himself that he did not have before. Fowles could have ended the novel there, with the couple reunited. But just as he worked within the conventions of the novel before, he rejects them now, and arrives at a conclusion where there are no lovers, only individual people (isolation is the result of this new awareness). Charles is shown alone, outcast, but independent.

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internal logic triumph of the existentialist of the novel, the “avante la lettre”. The French Lieutenant’s Woman a book obsessed with duty; is in one said be said to be Charles is very much under the sign of duty. throughout the early part of the book It is for some time the cement that holds together his already crumbling relationship with Ernestina, and curiously, it is the governing idiom of his first post coital conversation with Sarah. It is even the excuse Sarah uses to send Charles away (“she’s worthy of you I am Charles disastrous decision to sort things out with Ernestina before he returns not”). to claim Sarah, is similarly based on duty (he is a man of honour). The quotation from George Elliot is “God is unconceivable, immortality is unbelievable, but duty is peremptory an absolute”. Fowles splits the concept of duty duty to To achieve this end (core of the novel): others and duty to oneself. what is really In the novel all these duties are

rejected;approved of is duty to oneself, symbolized by Charles relationship to Sarah (duty to think for ourselves). We must prefer innovation over tradition, hazard, Darwinian change, The idea that is conveyed in the book is that we have an obligation to emancipation and to be free. The theme of evolution is bound into the narrative, and it is also reflected in the structure of the novel by making Charles an aristocrat by birth and a fossil hunter by inclination. His loyalty to Darwin, his relationship to doctor R, his choice of Sarah over Ernestina ultimately puts Charles on the side of evolution/change (existentialism).

Fowles does not however allow things to end there; the reader must be careful not to accept the keen closure of the traditional Victorian novel. In the final chapter he makes his second appearance and present himself twisting the tale once more. The physical character of Fowles, the author of the novel, has obviously broken all the rules by stepping in the story.

and changing its ending. The reader must choose an ending and in this way Fowles also provides his final impression on the importance he assigns to freedom in life and literature.

The celebrated 1969 film adaptation of John Fowles’s novel was directed by Karel Reisz in 1981, from a screenplay by Harold Pinter, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. The award-winning music score is by Carl Davis and the cinematography by Freddie Francis.

The challenge of the adaptation lay in the novel’s multiple endings, as well as in its filters the nineteenth-century events through a omniscient narrative voice, which twentieth-century lens, discussing every aspect of the characters’ lives, ranging from the distance between the time of the fashion of their clothes to their belief in hell (temporal narration and the story narrated). screenplay offers a sense of Pinter and Reisz alternative and layered storytelling tried to create a new cinematic approach that will achieve the same ambiguity of the novel.

Master is a film shot in 1980 on location in Lyme Regis, Dartmouth, Exeter, London docks, and Lake Windermere. The film explores the theme of personal freedom and power over men in Victorian society, contrasting it with the more relaxed modern life of a working film crew. It reveals the moral divide between the past and the present.

The film references the book "Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects" by William Acton, published in 1857. Streep's character mentions that in 1857 there were 80,000 prostitutes in London and that one house in 60 functioned as a brothel.

John Fowles's novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" had multiple endings, and the film adaptation presents two parallel stories with different outcomes:

1. In the Victorian story, which follows the plot of Fowles' novel, Sarah and Charles are eventually reunited, and it is implied that they will come back together (second ending).
2. In the modern story, the American actress Anna...

Sequences are more akin to gothic horror than Victorian romance, and the element of danger is affectively wrought throughout the film, creating a sinister element, shored up by Streep's haunted performance, that is far more pronounced than in the novel.

The film shows that women suffered greatly under the prevailing medical practices of the day, and behaviour like Sarah's, involving fantasy, sadness, sexual appetite, and artistic thoughts, meant pathology and committal. Or prostitution. As Anna does research for her role, in particular the delivery of the line "If I went to London, I know what I would become," she discovers the prevalence of brothels and prostitution in Victorian London. The reality for a woman like Sarah was that unconventional behaviour would see her either in an asylum or on the streets.

For the feeling of doom and danger that pervades the film is the inevitable destruction of Charles's life as he falls more deeply in love with her.

Little Women (1868) can be regarded as a classic (and the classic girls' book). It is a book which transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as with young readers. The novel is a realistic overview/portrait of the mid-19th century (during and after the Civil War, roughly 1861–1876). Although Alcott wrote it with the sole purpose of making money, the novel is without question her most notable and enduring work.

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