Comparison between Tony Kytes and The Seduction :: English Literature

equality among Tony Kytes and The Seduction===============================================Both Tony Kytes and The Seduction deal with relationships between early men and girls. Both tell of the ways in which the men seethe girls, gaining what they want at the girls expenses. They bothdetail the insensitive treatment of the girls and search theattitudes towards sex, marriage and the opposite sex from both themale and effeminate rank of views.Tony Kytes is a humorous account of a young man called Tony and his clash with three prospective young women whilst driving his cartback from the nigh market. The first is sly and worms her way intoTonys affections. However his fiance Milly appears and Tony requestsUnity to cutis under the tarpaulin in the back of the cart to avoid adifficult confrontation. Milly arrives and climbs aboard the cart, yetthey have not travelled farther before Tony spies another pretty girl,namely Hannah Jolliver. This time he persuades Milly to obscure in t heback of the cart and she too consents. Hannah requests a lift andopenly flirts with him, making Tony wonder about who he really wantsto marry.He notices his Father, who offers somewhat good advice - that he shouldmarry the one girl who didnt ask for a lift (Milly), Tony immediatelydisregards it. Meanwhile the horse has run off, tipping the cart oerand revealing all three girls, forcing Tony to make a quick decision.He asks Hannah, who refuses him due to her fathers presence. Unity isasked next, but she refuses him, as she was only second choice. Tony then(prenominal) requests Millys hand in marriage, she accepts they get marriedshortly afterwards.The Seduction is a rather different account of yet another encounterbetween a young man this time only one female is involved. Set inTyneside in 1980s it describes a meeting between a young man and ayoung girl at a party, and the ensuing aftermath. At the party thegirl is plied with alcohol, which makes her more and more relaxed, work fi nally the man takes her to a favourite spot of his by the riverwhere he takes advantage of her alcohol-fuelled state.When the girl realises she is three months pregnant she is devastated.She realises that she can no longitudinal be the innocent girl she was andcan no longer discover forward to carefree summers with her friends. Sherecognises that she will not get to experience teenaged life in thesame way again and is mortified by this.Tony Kytes is set in the 1800s in a rural Wessex farming community.We hunch it is a farming community due to the references of the