Monday, February 20, 2012

Using the novel Summer, by Edith Wharton. as a study, can someone focus on the humanistic need to be loved as women in a society?

Charity Royall, the main character in Wharton's novel
Summer, looks to many different places on her quest for love.
First, intrigued by a stranger, Lucius Harney, in the library where she works, Charity
begins to dream of being loved by him and begins a romance with him as the action of the
novel moves forward.


Charity also flirts with the fact that
she is loved by her uncle and legal guardian, Lawyer Royall. Royall announces his love
for Charity, but, given the fact that she wishes to be loved by Harney, she renounces
him.


One last, and final, place where Charity looks for
love is the mountains (a far different kind of love based upon the fact that this is
where she came from and hopes to be accepted by) from which she came. After returning to
the Mountain, Charity finds that her existence in North Dormer has been one far more
privileged than the one she would have lived in the
mountain.


Charity is continually looking for love. When
shunned by Harney, Charity finds no other choice but to marry Royall. Her internal
desire to be loved by another comes to be far more important than her love for Harney.
Therefore, her humanistic need to be loved far outweighs her desire to love
another.

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