Free Essays - Yoricks Attitude Towards Women in A Sentimental Journey :: Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey

If we are to read Laurence Sternes A Sentimental Journey, we must abandon the fixed idea about unremarkable travel, which are misfired with detailed descriptions of the landscapes. In Sternes work, however, there are unparalleled descriptions of human persuasions, compared to the other ordinary travelogues. Consequently, the whole work makes readers confused at first. However, once we are absorbed in that story, we can easily succeed Yoricks unique thoughts. Especially his attitude towards women is interesting. He meets many women and his attitude towards them does non change. That is, we can see there exists near principles when Yorick faces women. Therefore I willing discuss Yoricks attitude towards Lady at the Remise the Grisset in Paris the fille de chambre Maria and Eliza. Why does Yorick meet so many women in such(prenominal) a short time? As there is not a single passage about his own profile in the story, we cannot make what he is and what he does in his country. Ne vertheless, Yorick seems to be single, because nobody ever told Yorick not to go abroad in the first episode. And also Yorick is really alarmed of being kept in prison. Though it is a human body of public fear that everybody can be scared, Yorick seems to be even more conscious about being limited to a particular place or group of people. He tries to set free the starling (71-3), because he does hate the impressioning of confinement. A marriage possibly can be a sort of confinement to Yorick. That is, being a free single man, Yorick does not fate to be tied to particular person. And that makes him meet so many women in such a short time and have lots of relationships with them. so what is Yoricks attitude towards these women? First of all, he is a little bit supine when he approaches them. Yorick is usually left with a woman in some place, such as the Remise, Desobligeant. It is totally different from others way of making impropriety with someone. For instance, in case of La Fleur, he directly goes to some female child and have a good time with her (101). As the following case show, Yorick, is not active at all. Mons. Dessein left usYorick and a lady together with her give way in mine (16). When he is in the shop with the Grisset, she willingly asks him to feel her pulse (53).