Title x2: “Pathedy of Manners” is about a woman who seems to have a perfect life, but the woman is wrapped in society’s “pathedy” (pathetic tragedy) of manners (expectations), and is too concerned with what is expected of her. From the title, I can infer that at first the woman’s happiness depended on living up to the expectations of society. However, in the last few stanzas of the poem she realizes that there is more in life than wealth and living in high society, and she regrets the decisions she made on how to live her life because they were purely made from the societal expectations. Theme: The theme of “Pathedy of Manners” is remorse and the importance of self-worth. If you get too caught up on society’s expectations of you, you loose
In The Bloody Chamber, the heroine tells us personally about how her suffering became the source of her enlightenment. Like many traditional fairy tales, "The Bloody Chamber" ends 'happily ever after.' But the heroine's happiness does not come from finding a stereotypical prince charming and living out her days in luxury. Rather, she marries a blind piano tuner, gives away her fortune, and lives with her mother and husband on the edge of town. This ending embodies a feminist perspective.
Lydia is incapable of seeing the shame she brings on the family through running away to be married, as shown in her letter to Harriet; “I can hardly write for laughing.” Her thoughtless attitude to marriage is highlighted here – although she is motivated by love, she hasn’t thought about the consequences of what she’s doing. This again illustrates a difference between herself and Elizabeth, who tells Lydia later that “I do not particularly like your way of getting
Another sign that a character might be a self-insertion is that she's really good at everything: she'll be the most caring, most talented character of the lot. So if you run across a character in a fantasy novel who's too beautiful to be real, with almond-shaped violet eyes and a perfect, voluptuous-without-being-too-curvy figure, who turns out to be a half-elven daughter of Gandalf with magic beyond imagining and wisdom beyond her age – chances are, that's a Mary Sue. And, in the best possible way, without all of those magic powers of the Faerie, Lily Briscoe is kind of Virginia Woolf's Mary Sue. She's the person who most closely mirrors Woolf's own preoccupations with gender and art (and she's also intriguing looking – for an analysis of the significance of Lily's "Chinese eyes," check out Patricia Laurence's book Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China). Lily Briscoe is a woman artist, and while she captures what she sees around her in paints rather than in words, her project in the novel is, in many ways, similar to Virginia Woolf's project for To the Lighthouse.
She states, “She had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature” (Brontë 1.239). She describes Miss Ingram as beautiful but a shallow person with no depth. Along with Jane, Mr. Rochester seems to see this and her true aspiration of only marrying him for his money. On the other hand, Jane’s wittiness and sharp responses to Mr. Rochester confusing comments enraptures Mr. Rochester. Mrs. Reed and her children had always treated Jane with disrespect; but when Mrs. Reed is dying Jane forgets her harsh treatment and stays with her until she died.
Elizabeth is also often upset and embarrassed by the behaviour of her mother and of her younger sisters. Her father is a landowner, but his estate, Longbourn, is entailed away under English law from his children because he does not have a son, and upon his death, Longbourn will be inherited by his cousin, Mr. Collins, a clergyman. Within her neighbourhood, Elizabeth is considered a beauty and a charming young woman, with "fine eyes" to which Mr. Darcy is first drawn. He is later attracted more particularly to her "light and pleasing" figure, the "easy playfulness" of her manners, her mind and personality, and eventually considers her "one of the handsomest women" in his acquaintance. Pride and Prejudice primarily focuses on Elizabeth and her experiences with Mr. Darcy, a wealthy, proud man who, on their first meeting, snubs her at a public dance in her home
Explore the presentation of women in The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. With emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925) and wider reference to J.D Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951), explore how women are represented across both novels. Fitzgerald largely ignores the experience of women in The Great Gatsby, which is symbolic in itself, but explores the representations of women in society at the time through its three main female characters - Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald often portrays women in the novel as corrupt, materialistic and reliant on men, exploring this idea through Daisy and Myrtle in contrast to the supposed independence women were experiencing during the 1920s, which is represented through Jordan Baker. In The Catcher in the Rye however, despite the fact women are also presented as materialistic at times, through Holden Caulfield J.D Salinger explores women as largely innocent and independent, rather than shallow beings who’s existence solely relies on the men in their lives.
The Idea of Eliza Doolittle staying with Freddy doesn’t portray what Alan believes is the best way to attract an audience or maybe even fit the idea of his own perfection of the literature itself. Instead of Eliza being deduced in the audiences mind to be with Freddy, she returns to professor Higgins to spread the idea of her love for him, although, the two characters never show there affection for each other. Most of the relationships that have developed among the characters, whether negative or positive, remain mostly the same throughout both pieces of literature. Eliza was the character that helps introduce each attitude towards the way the characters treat a women like her in their society. The relationship between Eliza and Higgins is the strongest of all in both pieces of work.
Ashley was so confused that the only thing she could think of to say was yes, when she should have said no! Ashley became their friend but she never got why they wanted to be her friend. The mean girls were totally the antithesis of her; they were really preppy and wore expensive name brand clothing, and Ashley was not preppy and did not have much money. Everyday Ashley wished she could just ascend to a higher stage in her life but she couldn’t. Both of Ashley’s parents were normally austere.
The theme is that love and happiness can be found even by those who are less fortunate, those with different backgrounds and those of different nationalities. Oochigeaskw- The Rough- Faced Girl is a Native American version of Cinderella. It is passed down by the Algonquians. The author sets a very interesting tone right from the beginning. I find this author’s prospective on Cinderella most intriguing because he shows through writing a certain level of equality, he shows how people are so easily misjudged based on their appearance as well as individuality.