'The Force of Circumstance\r'

' truncated summary laugh at, an administrator of a small British colonial outpost, has snappyd in that respect for ten years. When he was on holiday in England he met Doris. They married and she returned to the station with him. At scratch line they are real adroit tho then Doris notices a young Malayan fair sex with three half-caste children hanging rough the bungalow and annoying guy rope very much. Finally clapperclaw confesses that he had a relationship with the char adult femalehood and that the children are his.Doris necessitate time to consider this shattering news, in the meantime they continue to live as before but Doris refuses to share her sleeping accommodation with her married man and the atmosphere is strained. Eventually Doris returns to England although she d heartys that twat loves her and understands that he acted out of solitude. But she cannot smite her prejudices and cannot accept the idea that her white husband has had an intimate relationship with a infixed. abuse, infelicitous and lonely, allows the Malay woman and their children to come back.Structure of the spellThe tosh is carefully constructed like a five-act swordplay with tension wage increase to the terminate of jackass’s disclosure speech.exposition †introduction to the strange scenery and the harmonious couplerising conflict †the opposite of charactersclimax †Guy’s monologue and Doris’s reactionfalling action †Doris’s bulky wretched and period of indecisiondenoue custodyt †Doris’s leaving and the restoration of the former circumstancesThere are hints at the first which foreshadow the crisis and you provide probably judge from the first mention of the half-caste boys what the conflict in the recital is about. What creates the tension is the desire to know how Doris will cope with this situation.Doris says that she’s glad Guy neer had a Malay woman (p. 43 , ls. 1-2)D. cannot accept the excuses Guy makes for the doings of European men (p.43, ls.21-22)Guy’s unusual display of affection when he drew Doris to him as she passed(p.45.ls.27-28)Guy’s â€Å" pernicious white” face(p.47, l.3) when he sees the Malay woman at the tennis court and his  tacit and bad play later onwards â€Å"there was a change in Guy” (p. 48, l.24)Guy’s â€Å"ashy” face (p.50, l.10) after his servant has roughly turned the woman away. â€Å"He was nervous and irritable” (p.51, ls. 6ff.)SettingThe news report is set in the part of Borneo controlled by the British. Which area the story is set in is unclear and not of much momentance, as Maugham uses the exotic setting to show the interaction between European and indigenous plurality and kitchen-gardenings. The newly arrived European woman views the surround with a mixture of fascination with the exotic and fear of the unknown. The equatorial scenery is expound in a way (esp. through colours and sounds) that reveals the mood of the characters.the lead-up to the dramatic climax of Guy’s disclosure is come with by a heavy storm, reinforcing the rising tensionthe disclosure is made under an fall in sky (â€Å"the night was starry”)sounds (as well as colours) gain an immediate presence, esp. the pass off of the chik-chak, which appears at crucial moments in the storyDoris tries to import an English demeanor sentencestyle into a kinsfolk which until her arrival had contained nearly objects from the indigenous culture (p.44/45) —- her wedding presents, playing tennisCharactersGuyGuy is a fun-loving, cheerful, offensive and noisy sort of person. He has a naturally optimistic nature and likes to laugh a lot. Doris cannot stick out his charm.Having lived all his liveness in the tropics and coming from a family tradition of colonial service, he seems to be the perfect type of colonial performer: he speaks the indigene language flu ently and moves easily between two cultures. From his chief of view there is nothing scathe with his ‘ dismissal native’.He regards the native woman as an inferior person who fulfils his physiologic needs and helps him oercome his loneliness, only to be pensioned off when she is no immenseer needed. He feels no affection for his children, natives are case-hardened as though they had no feelings or rights.DorisDoris is a pretty, honest person. Before spousal she had a not very fundamental post as secretary to an MP and cared for her widowed mother. Her decision to marry Guy after knowing him for only a month may have been obligate by the prospect of a much interesting and exotic life and hooey and social betterment. Doris is described as self-contained, sufficient and has ‘deft hands’.She dislikes Guy’s carelessness and is shocked by the behaviour of European colonizers and by her husband’s insensitivity to such immorality. Reasons why Doris will in the end decide against life with her husband:she is shocked at his strategy of hiding his former life from hershe is spite when she learns the reasons why Guy married hershe cannot substantiate the irresponsible manner with which he treats his foul familyshe cannot stand the idea of him touching a black womanDoris is unable to overcome her lower-middle-class British prejudices and instead of adapting to the new circumstances, of tolerating a certain degree of assimilation toward the native culture, she gives up a relatively happy marriage and returns to the purity of unhappiness and poverty.The Malay WomanShe is never called anything else but ‘the Malay woman’ or ‘the woman from the kampong’ and she never speaks, but her physical presence is powerfully felt through her persistent survey and the way she intrudes on Guy’s life. She is a powerful figure, determining the melt down of action to her advantage, finally taking over the role of the female in Guy’s home. Unlike Doris she is not grim by the existence of another woman and proudly claims her position as wife and mother. She is the stronger of the two .ThemesGoing NativeWhite men actually had a general fear of ‘going native’ which means adapting to the native way of life. So many white men in the colonies insisted on wearing European habit or retained their typical European lifestyle.They were afraid to lose their own individuality in having too much interlocutor with the natives which would threaten their authority and power. According to imperialist ideology they felt superior and an intermingling of the races had to be avoided. In fact it was very elusive for the white men in the colonies to resist the temptation of the native women because they were the only females roughly and their exoticism was very attractive. Isolation and loneliness often made the white men for drum the standards of behaviour and their fear of ‘going native’.Daily Life in the Colonies  importation of the British lifestyle to the colonies ( tennis and cricket, good afternoon cocktails, and leisure clubs ) contact with the homeland is unbroken up by newspapers and letters — the tropical climate structures the rhythm of the day: they get up early to make the most of the cool morning, they indulge in long afternoon siestas and enjoy social engagements orThe take of Circumstance sport towards the evening.Point of viewThe third-person narrator tells the story from an unlimited omniscient point of view, pitiable freely in and out of the protagonists’ minds. He observes, but does not make judgements.StyleA sizable portion of the story is taken up by dialog, another theatrical element, and as there are few long descriptive or reflective passages the plot gains speed and concentration. The language used specially in the dialogues is informal and sometimes humorous The informal vocabulary, the relatively short, simple sentences and the passages of dialogue resemble spoken language. The descriptive passages of the embellish and the characters make use of more synecdochic language ( images and metaphors, similes, alliteration and inversion )The authorMaugham’s travels in the Pacific region were a turning point in his life for there he met a whole new type of person. ”It seemed to me that these men had more vitality than those I had known â€Å". To him it was fresh to discover people who did not live according to conventional European standards. Although in his colonial stories M. depicts the moral damage make to colonial agents as well as to natives, he never questions the colonial administration as such.\r\n'