In Timothy Findlay's the wars, Robert Ross's journey of love, loss and war resembles a parody of romance. When someone thinks parody, they think of mimicking or imitating to criticize an initial piece of work. A parody can neutrally illuminate and/or simply comment upon a piece of work without necessarily mocking it. In this case, we see a parody of the typical romance; a strong male, a damsel in distress or perhaps some sort of wealth and the long fighting journey he takes to get to his goal. In the novel, Roberts journey starts because of loss and he is set out to forget this loss only to find something he didn’t know he was looking for, knowledge. The novel ends in his death, there is no ideal ending or happily ever after, it is life, it
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Once again Robert is expected to kill because of his superiors but instead he lets the horses run free. Although it did not go as planned when then shells started to explode and the animals started to die. It took him half-an-hour to kill the mules and horses. Then he tore the lapels from his uniform and left the battlefield (Findlay 178). This moment returns Robert back to his roots, he no longer follows the ridiculous requests that his superiors give him. He returns to the kind of fellow-feeling with nature that Rowena and her rabbits exemplified (Pirie 78). Robert learned to survive with these feelings and be an individual who doesn’t care what others expect of him. Although the horses ended up dying in the fire, releasing them replenishes Roberts compassion for life even though this new wisdom would cost him his.
Timothy Findlay's novel The Wars well represents a parody of romance. Rowena's death acts as the catalyst rather than a hero's search of love. A lot of the parody is found in the journey, Roberts journey to lose his guilt, while also finding knowledge that he wasn’t looking for and ending up breaking the stereotypical quest by not following expectations. His journey then ends in love and death, which is what parodies the ending, the happy part is that Robert will once again be with his sister to love her but he had to die for it. The Wars parodies a typical romance in the most similar but completely reversed
Once again Robert is expected to kill because of his superiors but instead he lets the horses run free. Although it did not go as planned when then shells started to explode and the animals started to die. It took him half-an-hour to kill the mules and horses. Then he tore the lapels from his uniform and left the battlefield (Findlay 178). This moment returns Robert back to his roots, he no longer follows the ridiculous requests that his superiors give him. He returns to the kind of fellow-feeling with nature that Rowena and her rabbits exemplified (Pirie 78). Robert learned to survive with these feelings and be an individual who doesn’t care what others expect of him. Although the horses ended up dying in the fire, releasing them replenishes Roberts compassion for life even though this new wisdom would cost him his.
Timothy Findlay's novel The Wars well represents a parody of romance. Rowena's death acts as the catalyst rather than a hero's search of love. A lot of the parody is found in the journey, Roberts journey to lose his guilt, while also finding knowledge that he wasn’t looking for and ending up breaking the stereotypical quest by not following expectations. His journey then ends in love and death, which is what parodies the ending, the happy part is that Robert will once again be with his sister to love her but he had to die for it. The Wars parodies a typical romance in the most similar but completely reversed