Eliot's view on leisure is that it has change over time, but it has changed so much that it isn't leisure. Now days, people are using their electronics all day everyday not leaving any time to relax and enjoy life. People are with watching tv, listening to music , or are playing on the Internet not leaving time for themselves. The technology is not give the people time to relax. Eliot says that leisure is a time to enjoy life. For example, it would be just to lounge on a chair, next to the pool, with a cold cup of lemonade in your hand, and not have to be be thinking of things, but be enjoying your time to yourself. That's how it should be, but because of the advancements in technology it take our time not leaving any just for ourselves.
The author George Eliot expressess her thoughts and ideas through imagery and diction. She uses imagery to gel the reader understand her thought on leisure. It helps her express that she believes that leisure does not exist in society. "[...] scenting apricots when summer pears were falling. " show how she uses imagery to compare the old leisure to the new " modern " leisure . She prefers to maintain the old leisure, which is expressed through her diction. She was straight forward and to the point. She would use " leisure is gone " to capture the readers attention as well as examples to explain her views and ideas on leisure.
George Eliot demonstrates her point of view ob leisure using stylistic devices such as imagery and diction to support her idea on leisure. She shows how time has a major role on leisure and it will continue to if we don't do anything about. The leisure will be gone completely.
I like the example you used in the second paragragh. The first sentence of your essay is awesome. Ha wish I would have thought of that.
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