Comparison Of In This Strange Labyrinth, Wroth's Pride And

In Lady Mary Wroth’s “In this Strange Labyrinth,” Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, characters make decisions that discord with their society’s criterions. In the poem, the speaker, on a denotative level, addresses her concerns about where to turn in a maze, but on a connotative level, the speaker struggles with decisions in his life; nevertheless, follows her heart in the end. Similarly, in Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is the most intellectual among her sisters she enjoys walking, even alone, both of which oppose the standards for a woman in Georgian society. Upon their first meeting, Elizabeth judges that Mr. Darcy is cavalier, but as she learns that Mr. Darcy is merely socially awkward, she begins to have feelings for him; however, she is indecisive about these feelings, for her family, tarnished by Lydia’s elopement with Mr. Wickham, embarrasses her. Balram, in White Tiger, comes from Laxmangarh, an impoverished town in India and contends with his ambitions in a different way. Balram calls the system in which servants continue living as servants, “the Rooster Coop,” and he expresses his claustrophobia and yearning to escape. Hence, he becomes a driver, whose master's name is Ashok, a man in the coal mining business who bribe politicians to avoid taxes. Each work focuses on the desires of the individual and how they differ

Toward the end of the sonnet, the speaker declares, “Yet that which most my troubled sense doth move / Is to leave all, and take the thread of Love” (Wroth, lines 13-14). There is enjambment between “move” and “is to leave all,” which highlights the fact that movement is terrifying, but she must continue to move forward, although she is leaving everything behind. Also, she employs a metaphor of Love as thread, suggesting that delicate Love will be her guide in