Blog number 4: Party Time

While reading and talking about Cecilia this week in class, especially the later chapters that revolve around a party, I couldn't help but think of all the other parties I have read about in literature through high school. This majestic party atmosphere is a setting fairly common in literature, regardless of where the novel came from. What I mean by that is that while reading I was thinking about the connections between Cecilia and here party, and other novels or plays where a party takes center stage. American writer Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby is an excellent example of a party being the center. Shakespeare liked to do this as well, whether it was the Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, or Romeo and Juliet, the party always gives the story a good, public location for events to happen. George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion also utilizes a party as the coming out for Elisa after her transformation to a classy woman. My point in saying all of this, and listing a bunch of classic novels and poems is in saying that this concept of a party offering a location for events to occur is an idea that is very common to literature. The party offers a public location like I said before, but it also creates an immediate public reaction, so when events occur, they immediately offer consequences as a direct result. So, what we see here is that no matter where the author comes from, no matter their background, parties still offer a great place for the plot of a story to unfold or become relevant.