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Poor Relations ( Charles Lamb ) Presenter: ( NAME HERE )
INSTITUTION: ( NAME HERE )<br>
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Charles Lamb Born: 10 February 1775
Inner Temple, London, England
Died : 27 December 1834 (aged 59)
Edmonton, London, England
Other names: Elia
Known as: English essayist, poet, and antiquarian
Known for: Essays of Elia
Tales from Shakespeare<br>
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The Salient Features of Charles Lamb Writing Intimate and Self Revealing Essayist Always writes gentle and humorous way Criticism and Appreciation Starts with Personal Experience The Prince among
“English Essayist”<br>
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Poor Relations Poor Relations is one of the most interesting essays of Lamb
Lamb opens the essay in a humorous way by listing some of his views and thoughts regarding a poor relation, without any praises and compliments.<br>
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Male Poor Relative Man is known by his knocking style
The man arrives with two contrasting things:
1. Familiarity
2. Being poor makes him feel embarrassed
He is in one way too “familiar” while in one way too “diffident” and shy.
The servants get confused how to serve him
He comments over each and everything<br>
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Female poor Relative female poor relative is even worse than the male poor relative
Harder to hide her financial status and act as slightly strange
Dressed in a way between the gentlewoman and a beggar
Being aware of her poor status, she acts too modest and abject that people take her for granted and consider her as worthless.<br>
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Story of MR.W Lamb now narrates the story Mr. W__ and relates it with Richard Amlet, a character in Sir John Vanbrugh’s comedy, the Confederacy.
Richard Amlet is the son of Mrs. Amlet who is a rich, however, a vulgar woman who stands as a hindrance in the path of her son to marry a rich lady.
A real-life Amlet is the poor Mr. W__ who studied with Lamb and then went to Oxford University.
Mr. W__ then joined army who killed or make himself killed in the Portugal war because he was unable to endure his father’s poverty.<br>
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Story of Father’s Poor Friend Lamb, now, narrates the story of his Father’s poor friend who visit them at dinner every Saturday.
He was an old gentleman, neatly dressed in black.
This man encountered an insult from Lamb’s aunt when she strapped him a second serving of food uttering that he must take the food as he didn’t get it every day.
The old man didn’t say anything on the spot but avenge his insult in the evening in an argument by emphasizing his poverty by labeling Lamb’s aunt as outdated. This poor man died soon leaving behind enough money for his burier. Lamb here emphasizes on the dignity of a man that he left enough money so that he won’t be indebted to anybody after his death.<br>
