Notes

Tickets, please.
Tickets, please’ was first published in 1918, while the First World War was still raging. But D. H. Lawrence’s short story of love, sex, betrayal, and vengeance is set on the home front rather than the western front and centered on the battle of the sexes rather than the horrific conflict in northern France and Belgium.
In paragraph three Lawrence shows and tells us how they react to each other ” In this subtle antagonism they knew each other like old friends, they were as shrewd with one another almost as man and wife.” This tells us that when they flirt with each other they are like old friends, it is almost like a routine they both know of by heart but carries it on nonetheless. An example of how John Thomas reacts to Annie is on page eighty-four where Annie meets John Thomas at the fair. The example is in the fourth paragraph.
Annie seems horrified by this because the very thought revolts her due to what he is. In John Thomas’s humiliation, it is almost as if the humiliation that has been inflicted upon him has been traversed to Annie as she begins to realize the full consequences of what she has done. She has cheated on her boyfriend and she also feels humiliated by inflicting pain and taking her revenge too far.
John Thomas Raynor ( “Coddy”): He is the good looking chief inspector on the tram lines. ...
Annie Stone: Annie is typical of the fiery women who work on the trams during World War I. ...
Nora Purdy: Annie's tram line friend, she is tall, pale, and has beautiful blond hair.

Look back in anger
Look Back in Anger, a play in three acts by John Osborne was performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an “angry young man” was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain.
Anger is present in Look Back in Anger. It is embellished in the title and it is presented through Osborne’s criticism of his society as seen in different attacks on class and religion. The plot of Look Back in Anger is a pretty common one. It tells a story of the marriage between two people from different classes in the society, the problems of such a union, the wife leaving the scene and returning eventually. Overall, it is a pretty straightforward dramatic, yet realistic plot.
However, although the plot is simple, the story conveys issues such as class, isolation, and post-war issues.
Class is one of the major issues attacked in the play. Alison’s father, his wife, Helena, and all of Alison’s friends, and the Bishop of Bromley represent the enemies that must be attacked because they belong to the “privileged” class. To Jimmy, these people are “militant, arrogant, and full of malice or vague” (19). They are those with “money and no brains” and are insensitive to others (44).
Jimmy expresses his anger through the use of language which reminded me of biblical language. He uses the word “blood” throughout the play to describe his relationships. When I hear blood, I think of sacrifice and violence. Jimmy seems to feel as though he has sacrificed much of his life to a lifeless relationship with his wife. The use of the word blood symbolizes the non-physical, yet deep psychological violence between Jimmy and Allison. I’m debating whether or not to consider this play a comedy or not.


Jimmy Porter
Jimmy Porter is an educated young man in post–World War II England. He is disillusioned with life in general—his own life, his wife and marriage, and his country. He is a relentless critic of everything around him, sometimes acerbic and hurtful, sometimes playful and vulgar.
Alison Porter
Alison is a young, educated woman stuck in a difficult marriage with a difficult man. Bred of upper-class stock, she shunned her parents' admonitions against marrying Jimmy—especially her mother's angry and somewhat vindictive threats. Alison simply tries to survive the heated and antagonistic environment she lives in.
Cliff Lewis
Cliff Lewis is Welsh, an old friend of Jimmy Porter's, and he frequently endures his friend's malicious wrath. He shares a similar background to Jimmy as well as his disillusionment with modern England. But while he often agrees with Jimmy, he also sets himself apart from his friend with his laid-back, genuine character and more hopeful view of life.

Helena Charles
Helena Charles is an actress and one of Alison Porter's oldest friends. She is aware of the negative marriage situation Alison is in, and she is not a fan of Jimmy Porter. Helena comes to stay in the same building with the Porters while passing through with a touring show.


The fox
The Fox is a novella by D. H. Lawrence which first appeared in The Dial in 1922.[1] Set in Berkshire, England, during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence's other major works, deals with the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill Banford struggle to maintain a marginal livelihood at the Bailey Farm. A fox has raged through the poultry, and although the women—particularly the more masculine Nellie—have tried to shoot the intruder, he seems always to elude traps or gunshot.
Bamford and March live on a farm together because it does not look like they will marry. Although they are only in their late twenties, in that era women who were still single at their age were generally considered to have forgone the prospect of marriage. Bamford is thin and frail, in contrast to her physically masculine companion. However particular emphasis is given to March's face, which is feminine and expressive. The women are depicted as fearful of femininity and fertility. For example, they sell a heifer before it calves.
The fox becomes a hindrance to Banford and March, but March finds she cannot hunt it, and rather, she becomes entranced by it. Shortly after this, Henry, a young man, comes to stay with the women, and a link is established between the fox and Henry.
This intriguing novella explores gender roles, sexuality, femininity, and the pity of war, as do two other Lawrence novellas that are written at the same time, The Ladybird and The Captain's Doll.
he Fox by D. H. Lawrence
2 the fox is an animal that lives in woods Physical characteristics: reddish-brown and white fur and thick tail The fox represents cunning and cleverness TITLE
3 PLOT Banford and March live on a farm together One day March meets the Fox and it is considered dangerous, but at the same time she is attracted by it A young man and soldier, Henry, lives with them Banford has an interest in Henry Henry wants to marry March Banford dies Henry and March get married
4 SETTING The story is set in 1918 in England in Baley Farm The setting illustrates the difficulties of the War and the conditions of life of two women that manage a farm The farm is isolated: that means the search of people to find security and protection in a world in which there are no points of reference
5 NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES The narrator is a third-person omniscient narrator Using descriptions to describe characters’ physical aspect Using the shift of the point of view Using the free direct style and the free indirect style The reader is free to give meaning to the fiction He is into characters’ mind
6 CHARACTERS Banford: She manages the farm with March She deals with economical business She is rational She is interested in Henry March: Her name calls to mind the third month: it is connected to Mars, the god of war, and to World War First She is masculine She is instinctive She is attracted by the Fox: she is estranged by it because the Fox represents instinct and unconscious
7 The Fox: It is something mysterious, dangerous, and fascinating like unconscious It is an animal, but it represents Henry Henry: He is dangerous and unknown like the Fox He is a predator like the Fox He is tender and seductive like a hunter
8 THE MESSAGE The “defeat” of reason represented by Banford and the “victory” of the instinct represented by March Giving more importance to instinct not only to the reason The reflection in the relationship between a woman and man Woman is snuffed out by man

Two bluebirds
'Two Blue Birds', the classic triangle of the man, the wife, and the secretary, struggling to work out what their relationships are with each other. Neither of the women seems to want the man sexually but the secretary offers devotion while the parasitic wife has more insight into the man and his work. All the relationships seem unhealthy, all three seem to want something different but are incapable of expressing what they desire