How does Tennyson tell the story in Godiva? In this poem, Tennyson retells the story of Lady Godiva, based on the ancient medieval legend, which he is reminded of when passing through Coventry. The poor were overtaxed, which leads Lady Godiva to go to her husband the “Grim Earl” to get rid of this taxation. She offers to ride naked through the town in order to get rid of the tax, which “builds herself an everlasting name.” Tennyson portrays Godiva as a heroic figure who breaks free of the stereotypes of women. At the beginning of the poem the Earl is presented to us using the adjective "grim" to create a negative figure within the story.
The music, in the background “bright lights, big city” is ironic as Melanie insults her old friends at the small-town pub by asking, “how do you people live like this?”. This is like Gwen’s angry rhetorical questions like “Why do they live like that?”. Melanie’s turning point is when she choses to give up the fairy tale to remarry Jake. She realises the relationships are more important. Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake.
Rebecca Wagner Book Report One English 9 Block 4 9/14/11 Ride Like The Wind True Colors by Kristen Hannah is about a crime that shocks a small town, a terrible mistake made by our legal system, sisters who have lost their way, a boy who doesn’t know how to be a man without his father, and true love. I went on a journey to a corner of Washington State, 1992 where girls look forward to the County Fair and sleep in a dusty stall every once and a while. I loved this book and I could relate to a lot of the characters. It was compelling, passionate, and inspiring. It shows that even through hardships, your family will always be there for you.
Fear is created by Bronte in chapter two as the room is remote in comparison to the rest of the house, and once inside, Jane is isolated from the rest of its inhabitants. She “resisted all the way” which shows us that Jane is scared of going into the bedroom; as she has previously stood up to her cousin, who we know hurts her physically, the fact that an otherwise brave girl is scared of and trying to avoid going into a room makes us think that it is something to be feared. Bronte also created fear in the chapter through the words of Miss Abbot, who says “something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away” telling a child this is bound to scare them and created fear in the child and in the audience. The mystery in which the room is presented also makes it seem frightening, it is not mentioned to have a purpose, and is only mentioned by a colour, “the red room”. Whilst red is the colour of passion and lust it is also the colour of a more sinister thing; blood.
The film begins with the protagonist named Sophie who works as a hatter, on her way to the local bakery, unexpectedly meets Howl, who is thought to be invisible as no one has seen him, takes a liking towards her. This is then seen by the films antagonist for the first half of the film, the Wicked Witch of The Waste, who wants the heart of Howl. She then curses Sophie by turning her into an old woman who cannot tell anyone of the curse. Searching for the cure to her dilemma, Sophie then begins her physical journey from her house to find the Witch in order to remove the curse. On her way she finds a possessed scarecrow who eventually leads her to howl’s castle and becomes the cleaning lady in order to
Essay 4 (Option A) Charlotte Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre, alludes to the corridor in the story of “Blue Beard” by Charles Perrault. This allusion plays an important function in chapter eleven of Jane Eyre and is connected with the rest of the novel. The story of “Blue Beard” consists of a man with a blue beard who is deemed ugly and frightful to all the ladies of the village, therefore is unable to obtain a wife. After allowing many residents of this village, including the ladies, to take full advantage of his wealth and possessions by permitting them to use all his apartments and houses, many of the women realize that this ugly, wealthy man was not so frightful. As a direct result of his generosity, he obtained a wife, one of the village girls.
Sally Lockhart Sally is sixteen and uncommonly pretty. Her knowledge of English literature, French, history, art and music is non-existent, but she has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack. When her dear father is drowned in suspicious circumstances in the South China Sea, Sally is left to fend for herself, an orphan and alone in the smoky fog of Victorian London. Though she doesn't know it, Sally is already in terrible danger Sally and her father were very close. Her upbringing was pretty eccentric: he taught her all about book-keeping, how to fire a pistol, and how to speak Hindustani like a native.
In the beginning of the book, the crew travels to Aeolia, where the Wind God gives Odysseus a bag containing all the bad winds. The sailors could not restrain their curiosity to see what valuables it contained. Due to this incident, horrible winds and hurricanes are unleashed, sending the ship back to Aeolia. In Ithaca, Penelope tricked the suitors three years, tempting them by saying she would choose a husband after she finished weaving a shroud, however, when nightfall came Penelope would unravel her day’s work. In the poem “Penelope to Ulysses”, it illustrates her as a spider saying “…each night I unweave the web of my day…About me the insistent buzz of flies drones louder every day.” (797,2-5), while the flies are the suitors.
It is literally a prison that holds back the women behind the wallpaper as they try to escape and it is figuratively the jail that holds the narrator prisoner. The narrator's feels a sense of being watched by the wallpaper which accentuates the idea of a prison. It emphasizes the theme of how confinement and forced submission for women into the domestic life can drive any person insane. The wallpaper is a condensed version of all of society. It wallpaper traps the narrator as she comes to identify with, and later become, the woman in the wallpaper.
My nose was continuously assailed by whiffs of "Twin Sister" hair oil mingled with the smell of her hair. Though the odor was rather unpleasant, it was part of the security I felt in lying by Mother's side, and I would fall quickly off to sleep. (2)Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Mother would thoroughly wash her hair. According to rural custom, hair could never be washed on ordinary days as the dirty water would flow down to where the king of the underworld would store it up to make one drink after death. Only if the hair was washed on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month could the dirty water pass harmlessly out to the Eastern Sea.