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Margaret'ın büyüyüp kendisi olduğu yeri görmek istedim...
Tags: north-and-south elizabeth-gaskell
Keşke sana ne kadar yalnız olduğumu anlatabilsem. Burasının ne kadar soğuk ve sert olduğunu. Her yerde bir çelişki ve cefa var. Tanrı'nın bu yeri unuttuğunu düşünüyorum. Sanırım cehennemi gördüm ve o beyaz, cehennem sevgili Edith, kar beyazı..."
E. Gaskell - Kuzey ve Güney
Tags: north-and-south elizabeth-gaskell
Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.
Susan SontagTags: society prejudice south culture stereotypes superiority clichés perceptions southerners northerners north-and-south north regions
when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
William FaulknerTags: metonymy north-and-south
I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: bad margaret north-and-south bessy
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