Browsing by Author "Promsuttirak, Pisuda"

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    Jane Eyre and Helen Huntingdon: Making their Ways to Domestic Happiness
    Promsuttirak, Pisuda (2014)
    This paper examines the narratives of Charlott Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Ann Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in terms of the female protagonist’s progress towards their domestic happiness. Both novels end with the positive future prospect for the heroines after their marriage. However, in addition to this common feature, this study finds that the protagonists share quite similar vital experiences as the narrative progresses. As these experiences operate as the way by which the protagonists attain their domestic joy and as the stimulators of such ending, the paper will discuss in detail the experiences in terms of the heroines’ self-assertion and moral struggle, the influence of death on life, and the heroines’ contributive actions.
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    The Significance of ‘Surfaces’ and ‘Depths’ in Oscar Wilde’s Plays of the 1890s
    Promsuttirak, Pisuda; พิสุดา พรหมสุทธิรักษ์ (2014)
    Oscar Wilde’s plays have been well-known for students of English literature for quite a long time through the reading of original texts and experiencing their visual adaptations. The study is an examination of Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all written during 1890s. The method adapted to analyse the plays is close-reading, focusing on both the contents and the implications – thus uncovering the significance of ‘surfaces’ and ‘depths’ of the (con)text which is critically challenged by the author. The study is not, however, an attempt to specifically define the social situation in the late nineteenth century England. On the contrary, it presents the ways in which human relationship could conceal and yet expose vital complexity and frivolity; these ways include the depiction of social concealment, the ridicule of the ideal, and the question against wealth.