I personaggi de Il giardino segreto, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica I personaggi de Il giardino segreto e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The secret garden characters MARY LENNOX: she is one of the novel’s main characters, she’s ten years old and after the death of her parents in India, at the hands of cholera, she is sent to live in Yorkshire, England, in her uncle’s house. Mary changes drastically during the story, her character at the beginning she was bad-tempered, disagreeable and unfriendly because of her life in India, but in England she is reborn understanding the joy of life with her new friends. ARCHIBALD CRAVEN: he’s the master of Misselthwaite Manor and he suffers from a crooked spine and ill health. He has been in depression after the death of his wife, ten years before the story. He spends most of his time abroad for work and he doesn't want to see the house and his son either. But at the end he’ll realize that his son is healthy and he’ll find his happiness again. LILIAS CRAVEN: she was Archibald’ wife. She died falling by a branch of a tree in the garden. She is described by all who knew her as the gentlest, sweetest and most beautiful of women. COLIN CRAVEN: he is the second protagonist of the novel, he’s ten years old and he’s Mr. Craven’s son. After the death of his mother, his father didn’t take care of him because his face reminded him of his dead wife. He grew up without the love of his parents and with the belief that he’s going to die soon with a crooked back like his father. Because of that he lives in bed giving orders to the servants that they have to obey. With Mary’s help at the end of the story will be able to take his life back in hand. MARTHA SOWERBY: she is a very gentle girl, during her free days she goes home in the moor with her siblings and her mother and she helps her with the housework because they aren’t rich, she is Mary’s maidservant and at the beginning Mary didn’t like her, but over time they became good friends. Her kindness and simplicity helped Mary work on herself. DICKON SOWERBY: he’s Martha’s brother, he’s two years older than Colin and Mary, he has lived in the Moor his entire life and he has an intimate relationship with the land and with the animals. He’s kind, lovely and friendly like his sister and Mary described him as “a Yorkshire angel”. SUSAN SOWERBY: she is the mother of Martha, Dickon and their twelve siblings. She is the symbol of motherhood, she is kind, understanding and unselfish, and both Mary and Colin express the wish that she were their mother. MRS MEDLOCK: she is the head of the servants at the manor, she is punctilious and rigid, but in fact she is kind. She and Susan in the past were friends. BEN WEATHERSTAFF: he’s a kind person, he is a gardener at the manor and he takes care of the plants. The meeting with him and with the robin changes Mary positively and he helps her and her friends with the secret garden. photos: https://www.storyboardthat.com/it/storyboards/elizabethpedro/the-secret-gard en---character-map plot The novel starts with the introduction of Mary Lennox, she is living in India with her parents, but she doesn’t see them often therefore she is always under the care of her servants and she doesn’t have any friends. One day an outbreak of cholera devastates the Lennox house and no one survives except Mary. She is sent to live in Yorkshire, England, with her uncle, Archibald Craven. His house is huge, it has over one hundred rooms, but they are closed by Mr. Craven because after the death of his wife he fell into depression. He has a crooked back and his health is frail, he’s always abroad for work. At the stuff" provides another instance of Christian Scientist ideology in the novel. Christian Science disapproves medical interventions because it believes that no disease is truly corporeal, but is in fact the result of sick and negative thinking. Colin must have contact with the life of the world if he wants to continue living, because this contact will eliminate his thoughts of death. Dickon says that Colin " He should not lie there thinking of death and illness, No guy could get well thinking this sort of thing." The fact that Colin's anger at Ben Weatherstaff provides him with sufficient strength to stand reinforces the idea that his past inability was only a product of his negative thinking. It also underlines the idea that if you only wish to beat your illness, you can. Negative thoughts are the human error that are at the heart of all disease, because "two things cannot be in one place." This notion is responsible for both Colin and Mary's amazing changes. Once they are thinking of the garden and nature, of Dickon and of their friendship, they can’t focus their thoughts about contrariness or the fear of becoming a hunchback and dying earlier. Instead, they become normal, healthy children, full of dreams of the future: "Where you tend a rose, my guy, a thistle cannot grow." the relationship between landscape and well-being One of the most important ways that the novel illustrates this theme is by creating an opposition between India and England. The novel attributes Mary's sickness to her childhood in India. India isn't a place for an English child and it is written as a place that causes illness and unbeauty. The time spent on the moor begins to change Mary, she begins to grow stronger and healthier, and her imagination is about exploration and search for the secret garden. Her contact with English gardens, English boys, and English moors cures her of her Indian illness. Similarly, Master Craven's sickness is confirmed by his travels "in foreign places." In the novel, all life and joy are contained on the Moor and leaving it is a health condemnation. Travel indicates that Master Craven has "forgotten and deserted his home and his tasks." The natural landscape is described as the mirror of its human habitants: it’s the howling of the wind that awakens Mary and alerts her to Colin's crying, the robin that reveals her the key and door to the secret garden. The natural landscape is subject to personification throughout the novel. The secret garden resurrects Colin and Mary, and they resurrect it in turn. the necessity of human companionship Susan Sowerby's comment that children who are unwanted never grow is another permutation of the Christian Scientist idea that no disease is corporeal, but is the result of morbid and negative thinking. Since both Colin and Mary weren’t loved, and both had childhoods full of anxiety and negative thinking, it is almost as though their parents wished that they would fall ill. Colin and Mary are so selfish because they are lonely and without friendship, they need the company of other children to take out their kindness. When they begin to attach themselves to each other, to Dickon, and the natural world, they become kinder and more friendly.