"The Age of Innocence, A Literary Analysis"

[@darka2369]

actual literary analysis starts at 10:00

[@toomacchi]

Thank you!

[@emilerose1424]

Well done analysis. I have watched this film at least 10 times. Your analysis touches on some issues that tinkered around in the back of my mind--like how these people obtained their life style, how they maintained it, and where the poor people were. Thanks.

[@zyxw2000]

I love his use of paintings.

[@drunkenmonkey254]

Great video, even though I don't agree with the reading. When Archer says "it's more real to me here," he's speaking of the fake life he lived with May. The superficiality of his world is what keeps archer trapped. What's real cannot and will not be accepted. Earlier in the novel he tells Ellen that she showed him a "real" life and that she was asking him to return to his "false" one. A large chunk of the epilogue is just a summary of that false life he lived after Ellen left. That's what seems more real if he chooses not to see Ellen. By going to see her, it would reinforce how he wasted his life in the superficiality of it all. A Lacanian reading doesn’t really work because the novel is written as a tragedy, not as a mere critique. Wharton believes, unlike, Lacan, that there is something authentic in love, in contrast to the superficiality of Archer's world. Ethan Frome, I feel, supports this reading. Wharton lived in a world where people were trapped in loveless, passionless marriages. The critique is of the societies that facilitate such marriages, not on the individuals who yearn for something different.

[@pluckthelivingflowers]

Quite a Zizekian analysis of bourgeois culture she came up with that it’s intention is to, “obfuscate the lack of a real kernel underneath the social games”.

[@jennifersmall4027]

Please give examples of how her estrangement from her mother manifests in her novels.

[@zyxw2000]

Wharton criticized the society she grew up in, in almost all her novels: "House of Mirth," "The Age of Innocence," "The Custom of the Country," "Summer" and several others that I can't recall right now.

[@beddythecorgi4269]

Ffs really a content warning? This is an edith warton as buttoned up and polite book as it gets. Wtf do you feel you need a trigger warning for!?