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This 3 page paper discusses the similarities and differences between Stella Gibbons' parody of the Victorian genre of writing, paralleling the works of Hardy and Austen. Quotes cited from texts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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surrounded with relatives no more genteel than the animals they tend? Go to work. This is the mindset of Flora Poste as she arrives at Cold Comfort Farm. Using literary
clich?s to satirize and poke fun at human conventions, Stella Gibbons weaves literary references, especially those to Austens Emma and Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd, into cold comfort of
this work. Flora Poste is suddenly orphaned and without means. She determines that the only thing that she can do is to seek out distant relatives living in a place
called Cold Comfort Farm. When she arrives, much as Austens heroines always do, the farm is dark and foreboding. She sets about to make the best of it. The
satire is often exposed as Flora is juxtaposed with the rude and crude crowd that are supposed to be her relatives. She is often affronted by their ways, much as
some of the characters in Hardys novel might have been. The overall and pervading gothic element is rampant throughout the novel as well. Like Austens Emma, Flora is a
mixture of independence and unconventionality and yet, she also has a warm side to her. Emma has a set code of behavior which she adheres to, though it causes her
great inner pain and conflict as does Flora. She refuses to give in to the superstitions which seem to govern the lives of her relatives. A telling statement by Emma
could as easily have been rendered by Flora: Emmas statement: "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way,
than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner" (Austen, 224). As Thomas Hardys example
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