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Carregando... Ruth (Penguin Classics) (original: 1853; edição: 1997)de Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Autor), Angus Easson (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Well, that was a downer. I prefer Gaskell's other novels (North & South, Mary Barton), but appreciate what she was trying to do with this one. The main takeaway from this book is 'Mind your business. What other people do or have done is no concern to you.' ( ) Ruth, huérfana y aprendiz de costurera, es seducida y cruelmente abandonada por el aristócrata Henry Bellingham. Una vez «deshonrada» pierde su trabajo y es condenada a la exclusión de la llamada «sociedad respetable». Sola en el mundo, llega incluso a pensar en el suicidio aun estando embarazada. En ese momento encuentra refugio en el hogar del vicario Thurston Benson, que decide esconder a todos el pasado de Ruth haciéndola pasar por viuda... Ruth is Elizabeth Gaskell’s tale of an orphaned girl who falls into the hands of an unscrupulous man and finds herself in the usual predicament that such girls face. What might, in our time, be a difficulty but barely raise an eyebrow, was, in Victorian times, a serious path to ruin for both the girl and her resultant child. Illegitimacy was not just a mistake, it was a sin, and the attitude of society was particularly cruel toward the woman involved, regardless of age, in this case 16, or circumstance, alone in the world and innocently naive. There were, however, even in those times, those who were good and kind and wanted to see such a girl redeemed and not punished, and this story contains those souls as well. One of my favorite characters is Mr. Benson, the crippled gentleman who offers Ruth a chance to survive and make a better life. Ruth, in fact, becomes a story largely about redemption, the cost of judgmentalism, the hypocrisy of some professed Christians, and the value of truth when a lie seems the kinder route. No one could blame Ruth for anything other than desperation and poor judgment, but you could not say the same for many of those who have influence over her life. This is not a perfect novel. One would wish to see Ruth as a more realistically flawed person, but to make the point Gaskell is pushing home requires her to be better than human and almost angelic. This is Victorian England, strictly religious, male dominated and wholly dismissive of the fallen woman; that Gaskell is brave enough to tackle the subject and point out the un-Christian tenets involved in shaming and shunning both these women and their children is remarkable. She holds up a mirror to society in a way that was sure to make a large sector uncomfortable. To do this, she makes Ruth not only pitiable, but good and overly repentant of her faults, which soon seem scarcely as bad as those of the men and women who condemn her. This book was published a scant three years after [b:The Scarlet Letter|12296|The Scarlet Letter|Nathaniel Hawthorne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404810944l/12296._SY75_.jpg|4925227], some 30 years before Hardy’s [b:Tess of the D'Urbervilles|32261|Tess of the D'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1434302708l/32261._SY75_.jpg|3331021] and three years after Dickens’ [b:David Copperfield|58696|David Copperfield|Charles Dickens|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1461452762l/58696._SY75_.jpg|4711940] in which he also addresses the dangers to young women swept into the circle of unscrupulous men. It is significant that society was beginning to turn its face toward this problem and that this book was among the early efforts to highlight the problem and decry the unfair prohibitions that kept fallen women from ever reclaiming useful lives. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also won the approval of a number of her distinguished contemporaries. The text used for this edition is based upon thatof the first edition published in 1853. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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