Rozbor Humfrida

sender Matthew Bramble – sendee Dr. Lewis

sender Jerry Melford – sendee Sir Phillips

sender Lydia Melford – sendee Miss Letty Willis

sender Tabitha Bramble – sendee Mrs. Gwyllim, the house-keeper

sender Winifred Jenkins – sendee Mrs. Mary/Molly Jones

1. Postcolonial Method

It is obvious by a storytelling of Leutnant Lismahago – he was soldier/he served in America (war) where he met Natives – Indians.

First example – his own stories

Second example – gadgets, symbol, products, connected with different culture

Third example – party in Bath, two blackmen were by Mr. Bramble after their performance – drums, shout, dance – connection with colonial approach – oriental people/different culture = primitiveness

Fourth example – mention about mulato woman, wife of a Scottish sir

?Fifth example – medicine of Dr. Lewis – connection with India – tea?

2. Psychoanalytical Method

Freud - ego/superego

Matthew Bramble(Loyd)

EGO: rationalist man, gentleman, loves order (in society, health or in architecture)

SUPEREGO: be a gentleman, secure family

Lydia Melford

EGO: chastity, meekness, modesty and frailty girl, she guards reputation of her and also of her whole family, in love with Wilson (George Dennison)

SUPEREGO: get married, be mother of children, be good wife and mother

Jerry Melford

EGO: womanizer, gentleman, highly-educated young man

SUPEREGO: being unique/special, do not get bored, find an ideal of a woman

Tabitha Bramble

EGO: her character – money, tries to save money and accumulate those, wants to get married, she depends on her brother, and she knows her duty

SUPEREGO: get married, be mother of children, be good wife and mother

Humphrey Clinker (Loyd)

EGO: dutiful, loyal servant, very religious. His introduction into novel – bare, desolate human being, having no property, nothing but his own humanity

SUPEREGO: take care of management of the squire´s mansion

Jung archetypes

(the anima, the animus, the shadow, the persona, the self)

The anima of Matthew Bramble: he always complains like a woman

The persona of Jerry Melford: be a gentleman, be educated, take care of family, have an heir

The shadow of Winifred Jenkins: open-minded, gossip, astonished about everything

The animus of Humphrey Clinker: he is brave, hard-working, strong, The Self: simplicity, provincial background

The anima of Lydia Melford: virginity, virtue, education, The Self: sexual desires, love

3. Gender/Qeer Method

Mr. Bramble/Jerry Melford – gentlemen representation, protective attitude,

Lydia Melford – virtue, calmness, affection – ELECTRA COMPLEX – used to be protected by his brother/stepfather

Tabitha Bramble – affection, gossips, dissatisfaction

Humphrey Clinker – power, strong young man, protection X service to his master (women attitude)

Female bounding – Judith Butler – presented by letters written between women, support, gossips, female talk

4. Structuralist Method

Chronological development

Narrator is intradiegetic, omniscient, all the stories are told in the 1. person