Despite the shift in context from 19th century England to late 20th century Beverly Hills, Austen’s main plot and ideas have been retained to a great degree. However, the different ways in which these ideas are portrayed in Clueless, as well as the variations from Emma’s plot, provide new insights into both contexts and hence emphasises the contextual influences that cause the changes. Through the consideration of Austen’s 19th century context we gain a deeper understanding of the impact of class attitudes on people’s behaviour and relationships. Social hierarchies are addressed through Mr Elton’s denial of Harriet and the corresponding action of Elton’s rejection of Tai. The character Mr Elton represents the class based attitudes of 19th Century England when he claims that “everyone has their own level”.
Certainly, it contains sex and violence, characteristics of any age, but its strength is in its use of language, its power is in its structure. Ragtime accurately reflects the turn of the century in the “awakening” of the consciousness of women, the rush towards industrialism, the struggle for racial equality, and the horror of working conditions for immigrants. I can see myself pulling a tad bit of information from this book just because it talks about the racial issues that was faced back then that caused a lot of controversial issues. Would I recommend this book to others? I would be cautious to whom I recommend this to, because of the censorship, and the controversial issues; but, it does help with certain
Browning’ poetry explores the consequences of obsession. How effectively does F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby deal with this issue in a different context and form? An idea that continually preoccupies and intrudes on a person’s mental and physical state is a term referred to as 1obsession and can lead to a character’s salvation or undoing. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, composed in the Victorian age of unparalleled power and industrial revolution, reflects significantly on the ideas of obsession and it’s ramifications through figurative language, poetic devices and techniques. Ideas such as idealistic love and societal expectations are heavily embedded within the Petrarchan sonnet form, which, on the
Even in 1976, Herbert Schiller recognized a shifting towards cultural imperialism in work Communication and Cultural Domination. He describes cultural imperialism as, “the sum of the process by which a society is brought into the modern world system, and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even to promote the values and structures of the dominated center of the system” (Galeota, Julia). An example of the usage of brides for cultural imperialism may be seen in United States policies in the Cold War. The United States began to heavily employ foreign aid for democratic promotion in order to keep European states from becoming allies with the USSR. Each ally was important for the acquisition of power.
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When faced with the obstacle of trying to find one’s self in a deteriorating world filled with racial Inequality based on skin color, patriarchal control, and female sexual repression in the pursuit of happiness, individuality gets distorted and sexual indeciviness erupts, causing a multitude of questioning about one’s own identity in relation to the rest of the world. Therefore, in the collection, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, the main characters, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry ,in Passing, are forced to face the sexual and racial repression in their own lives with the hope of establishing an identity away from the falsehood they are displaying to others around them Most importantly, Larsen, allows the characters, and the readers
- No doubt or confusion in her mind, this can be contrasted to skrzynecki doubtful expression in “migrant hostel” even though both poets explore culture. - Easy to see whom’s perceptions change and who’s stay the same. Migrant hostel This poem depicts the many hardships and emotional challenges that beset migrants struggling to adjust to new cultural environments. Changes that are physical, personal, social and economic overwhelm those who have exchanged their worlds on one side of the world for another seem foreign. Culture has been sacrificed for dreams of new opportunities and new beginnings.
Atwood discusses the several genres of fiction that are available in this time and explains how this is not only a time of gender crossover but of genre crossover. By using the comparison she shows how literature has evolved as well as gender relations. In conclusion Margaret Atwood’s speech “spotty handed villainess” is a speech that explores the flaws in extreme feminism, challenges the patriarchal order and examines the intentions of literature and fiction. The speech still has relevance today as it examines gender roles and expectations in modern day
Althaus-Reid “Indecent Theology” In her essay, “Indecent Theology”, Althaus-Reid talks about the notion of theology and how it affects sexuality and society. This essay was very unique and was quite difficult to fully comprehend. The author talks about liberation theology and its presence in Latin America and other countries that are classified as poor. Althaus-Reid states that theology of liberation likes to locate itself at the point of the fall of the Grand Narratives of Latin America in the sense that it wants to locate its theological subjects in the concrete work of the people who made the centuries-old counter-discourse in Latin American from their suffering bodies. Poor have always been obliterated in Liberation Theology.
Racism, the term used to describe discrimination of a race it condescends people who are victims by disrespecting their identity. Australia’s history is evidently filled with racist attitudes and policies and is fair to state that the peopling process of Australia has been dominated by a racist discourse through the clear myriad of historical events and policies since colonisation in 1788 effectively highlighting the racist views towards non-white races. Such events include the near genocide treatment of indigenous Australians upon arrival, the British control, assimilation and extermination of indigenous people and the exploitation of the Chinese immigrants during the gold rush period. The arrival of immigrants has varied over time. Attitudes