Student+Responses+-+The+Force+of+Circumstance

// Writing Assignment: // //What are your thoughts and feelings after having read this story? Please do not write an "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" type response. Instead, respond to the content of the story itself. What did the story make you think about? What feelings do you have about the events or characters in the story? Did anything confuse you? Is there anything you would like to know more about?//

To my mind Maugham doesn't accept going native, because Guy isn't happy at the end of the story. As a result of going native, Guy has to accept, that he can't live an European life with an English woman on a British outpost. As a consequence his life will be lonely and isolated for ever; that's //The Force of Circumstance//. (Linda)

I think the author excepted "going native" because the way how he describes the character of Doris shows a positive undertone. She doe's only positive things and reacts calm. (Theresa Kramm)

I reckon the author doesn´t has a positivity for going native. Guy´s unhappiness and Dori´s behaviour supports this idea. Also guy wouldn´t have been travelled to England to meet a girl if he´s accepting goind native. (Julian Hölzer)

I think, the author approves of going native. With the character Doris he criticizes the colonial wise of seeing the natives life. She avoids the contact to the natives and never speaks in a positive way about the relationship between them an the natives. yaha

In my opinion the author supports western norms and he rejects "going native". This the author shows us in the way how he describes Doris. In the story she is the one that is allways acting correctly, while Guy becomes an negative undertone. The way he is acting is moraly inacceptable. In the end Guy looses his moral supperiority, which he seemingly had had in the beginning, while Doris leaves with her intact superiority. (Anna)

In my opinion the author exepted "going native". It is visible how Doris reacts and aviods with the native life. Espeacily when she had to manage difficult situations. She stands almost in a good shine and is the only positive character. (Astor; tiped in with theresas account)

I think the author supports the contact between the natives and the Britis people. He knows this contact and knows, that it is natural to have an affair with a native women! 1278621085

The author seemed to dislike the idea of going native or at least the fact of not being faithful about it, Guy gets punished for being an unmoral person, be it because he went native, how he treated the native women and his kids, or because he tried to live a lie with his new wife. 1278877361