Those will now be closer examined. .
Clare Kendry is like her schoolmate Irene a light-colored African-American who lived her cultural identity as daughter of an alcoholic janitor until he committed suicide. Hence, she was sent to two white great-aunts who treated her really badly because of her African heritage. Because of this racial environment Clare, who was a little girl at that time and of course needed love and emotional comfort, had to deny her black identity and started passing for white. She had to abandon her black identity in order to be treated like a human being. Thus, Clare seems to be a quite ambivalent, selfish, lonely and at any rate a very unhappy character.
- " nothing sacrificial in Clare Kendry's idea of life, no allegiance beyond her own immediate desire. She was selfish, and cold, and hard. And yet she had, too, a strange capacity of transforming warmth and passion- (172).
- "Catlike. Sometimes she was hard and apparently without feeling at all; sometimes she was affectionate and rashly impulsive. (173).
- " seems so unhappy- (181).
- "That was exactly like Clare Kendry. Taking a chance, and not at all considering anyone else's feelings." (205).
- "To count as nothing the annoyances, the bitterness, or the suffering of others, that was Clare." (212).
- " attractive, somewhat lonely child - selfish, willful, and disturbing" (233) .
Ironically, as an adult she marries a rich white man, who is a racist. Because he doesn't know that his wife and the mother of his daughter is no real Caucasian but has only passed for white Clare has to keep her origin dark hoping that her husband will not discover her secret. The result is a life full of lies, self-denial and moral discordance and the quest for something that is of course impossible to achieve for her: the wish for living as well in the white and the black society.
The first attempt to connect the two worlds fails miserably when Clare invites her "suitible" friends (those with light-colored skin) Irene and Gertrude to a tea party.
Passing is a novel about racial identity and its inherent conflicts. ... From the beginning, Passing implies women's jealousy. ... It is not Clare's passing that Irene's hates, but Clare's success. ... Passing had become a way of life for her. ... The unresolved matter of who killed Clare is an indication to an end to passing. ...
In the novel Passing by Nella Larson, the author uses this quote to show the struggles of how Irene Redfield is caught between her husband cheating on her with an old childhood friend, Clare Kendry, who has lied to the world about not being a Negro, her race and her herself. ... Clare's husband, John, does not know of Clare's past and married her thinking that she was a white woman. ... "She wished to find about this hazardous business of 'passing,' this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another environment, not entirely stra...
Nella Larsen's novel Passing concentrates on this theme with the story of Clare, a "tragic mulatto" who "passes" as a white person. Not only is Passing representative of the problems of the "tragic mulatto", but it is also a novel that explores the insight of human relationships. ... In Passing, Clare seems to have one overriding urge to return to the African American world she left. ... Passing becomes for Clare is a never-ending problem. ... This proves the struggle that black women or man "passing" in society face a double-edged sword, which will never go away. ...
Clare receives Laura's Diaries from Lionel and Timothy but these diaries don't provide Clare with the truth nor help her seek absolution. ... Mark says that Clare has maximised her role in history and his version of the truth does not help Clare get the comfort she seeks. Clare and Sam's relationship is very complicated. ... Sam reads Clare's new Book Absolution and wonders if Clare "knows the truth about Laura". ... Yet Clare's truth is not a complete truth. ...
LADY CLARE ESSAY The Ballad Lady Clare' is about a woman finding that she is not a rich Lady, but she is in-fact a poor maid. she then goes to her fiancé and, trusting his love for her, tells the truth. The Lady in the ballad was not rich because the real Lady Clare died while feeding from the nurse and the she swapped the child with her own. ... The ballad is very well told because it goes into a lot of detail, explaining some points very well, it also gave you a clear description of lady Clare's personality because, in the ballad although the doe had only just met Lady C...
John Clare and Mary Wollstonecraft were both writing at a time of great social upheaval and change. ... (Tibble 25) Clare's reactions to this can be seen in much of his poetry. ... Brinkley suggests that here Clare is concerned with the loss of 'customary rights' and that Clare's 'woods provide a kind of sweet, equal republic'. (345) Thus as Lucas suggests, laments 'for a destroyed world occur frequently ... throughout Clare's work. ... (Kelly 219) Clare's view of the French Revolution was very different to that of Wollstonecraft's ...
Clare demonstrate how these gender issues were played out during European medieval times. ... Clare of Assisi. ... This admonition is a lesson for not allowing oneself to assume the role of being over others, yet he assumes the role of being the leader of his order and "Father- (Clare, 211) to Clare and her sisters. ... Reason for this assumption can be found throughout the various works of Clare where she regards Francis as being the "Father- and sisters as being "poor- (Clare, 211) living in "humility- (Clare, 219) and have "patience in difficulty and weakness- (Clare, 223). ... Franci...
Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield were both brought up as African-American women in a time where race was a social issue and of confusion. ... For a person like Clare Kendy this feature becomes an outlet for her from her African descent, which allows her to pass as white American women. ... In a sense she is also jealous of Claire's social status as passing as a white women. ... She couldn't have Clare Kendry cast aside by Bellew. ... For Claire Kendry, passing as a white female takes on a whole new meaning of life for her. ...
The Thrust's Nest', by John Clare, is a poem describing a thrush which built her nest and laid her eggs and the birth of the little birds. ... Clare's purpose is to share with us his observation of a thrush's efforts to build a nest and the happy moment when new lives were given birth in the nest. ... Now the reader is taken by Clare into his adventure. ... In the last part, Clare reveals the reason. ... In order to present the reader a suggestive poem, Clare is not only satisfied in portraying a picture, but gives hints to lead the reader to read between the lines. ...
