The Professor's House: The Life of Willa Cather as Compared to the Life of Godfrey St.
These are words that Willa Cather lived by. In the novel, The Professor's House, Cather's life is directly parallel to the life of the main character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter. Through St. Peter, the reader is able to observe the struggles as well as triumphs that occurred at that point in Willa Cather's life. Her struggle with materialism versus idealism, discovery of religion, and her own mid-life crisis are all shown through the character of Godfrey St. Peter.
In 1922, Cather became " increasingly distressed with the growing mechanization and mass-produced quality of American society" (Norton). This was the time her writing took a new direction and became more concerned with finding alternative values to the materialistic life she increasingly felt around her. This is shown through St. Peter's character in many instances. St. Peter was extremely idealistic and generally avoided anything that even remotely seemed materialistic. In Book 3 of The Professor's House, St. Peter reflects on Tom Outland's untimely death. He .
describes how the only way to remain idealistic in today's society is to die. "A hand like that, had he lived, must have been put to other uses, His fellow scientists, his wife, the town and State, would have required many duties of it .he had escaped all that. He had made something new in the world-and the rewards, the meaningless conventional gestures, he had left to others" (237). St. Peter believes that Tom was only able to retain his idealism through his death, leaving all the materialistic matters behind for others to handle.
One of the more subtle ways that St. Peter demonstrates his idealism is through his new house. "He couldn't make himself believe that he was ever going to live in the new house again. He didn't belong there" (247). St. Peter did not want to succumb to the materialism that he was increasingly seeing in his family.
The film begins at the Professor's house. Inside, the house is rather drab in that there is no real decorations or anything eye-catching. It just sort-of blends in, much like Professor Rath. ... The professor is a repressed, proper man. ... He remains silent throughout his part in the movie and always stares deeply at Professor Rath in each of his appearances as though he is trying to tell the Professor something. ...
The setting of the movie takes place in England, where Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering discover a poor lady selling flowers and spewing out the most dreadful words in a cockney accent. When Professor Higgins throws money into her flower basket, we expect that they will never meet again. Eliza proudly marches up to the professor's home and demands to be taught how to speak like a lady. Colonel Pickering then makes a bet with Professor Higgins and says that if he can turn this poor lady into a decent lady he will pay for all the expenses. ... He then tells her that for the nex...
Professor Tendler was so young we would not think this would be possible. ... Rat was devastated just like Professor Tendler. ... Professor Tendler was not warned that someone was going to come into his house and kill his entire family when he was only thirteen. ... '"We will eat, Fanushka saidYou get to sleep early, and you get up early, and before you grab the first tit on that cow I want his throat slit Then with goose feathers flying, Tendler moved through the house. ... For Professor Tendler, he had a great friend who loved him very much and did anything he could to help him ou...
Higgens house in a taxi. ... Higgens house, Eliza is treated as gutter trash. ... When she enters the house Mrs. ... Professor Higgens is astounded by her grammar and he constantly offends her because he feels that she does not belong among his class. When her training is complete, everyone except professor Higgens treats her like an upper class lady. ...
"Ibsen's ars dramatis centres on the way his heroines find that their doll's houses are turning, or have turned, into prisons."" ... In order to discuss the morphing of doll house' into prison' in A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler one must first examine what makes their domestic situations doll houses' in the first instance. ... Unsurprisingly the publication of A Doll's House greatly offended and upset Laura and has left Ibsen the title of being a greater artist than man'. ... Torvald is often criticised and blamed for creating the doll house howev...
The play Pygmalion exemplifies this concept as the relationship between the characters Eliza and Professor Higgins shifts. ... Both are displayed within Pygmalion as the type of relationship that Eliza and Professor Higgins begin and conclude with. ... (Unknown 1) Professor Higgins exclaimed, "Liar. ... Leaving them as both strangers in the same house as each of them have no idea of what to say or do for the moment. ... " (Shaw 21) With her determination to become a proper lady, Eliza seeks the aid from Professor Higgins. ...
Life and its Catastrophes In the books The Professor's House (Willa Cather) and Wobegon Boy (Garrison Keillor), the main characters, John and Professor St. ... Peter lives in a house with his family, where his daughters grow up. "Professor St. ... Professor St. ... Peter realizes that his house is really important to his life. ...
PUBLISHER The publisher of the book is Unlad Publishing House, Inc. located at 200 C-INSILAY, Pineda, Pasig City. This publishing house is considered one of the most trusted commercial publishers of books used in elementary, secondary and even in state universities and colleges. ... DATE OF PUBLICATION The book was published on the year 2010 by Unlad Publishing House, Inc. located at 200 C-INSILAY, Pineda, Pasig City. ... AUTHOR The principal author of the book is Professor Lilian S. ...
In the first act we see the two characters in the professor office. ... In the begining the professor never really seems to understand the problem she has probably due to the fact that he keeps getting phone calls about his house that him and his wife our purchasing. They are purchasing the house because John is receiving tenure. ... Also during the conversation we see Carol get very emotional and excited so the professor tries calming her down so he grabs her and sits her down. ... Now John is the one in jeopardy of losing his job and his precious new house. ...
