Connor Haggerty AP Literature and Composition 12/11/11 Mrs. Lehman, per.5 Jane and the Supernatural The common belief of living is growing and finding who “I” am. Each experience is a brick to add to your path because it will only help you move forward. This is how Jane lived. She was able to focus on the road ahead of her and live to her own beat; however, she didn’t live without doubts, or suffering. Throughout Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” the superstitious presence surrounding Jane represents her transformation from an insecure young girl to a strong, independent woman.
Aunt Fay writes to her niece Alice in the hope of teaching her about Austen and her writing and what better way to do that than by direct reference to Austen’s most successful text, Pride and Prejudice? Weldon in turn helps the actual reader understand Pride and Prejudice by commenting on the characters’ behaviour and the plot by giving her personal opinion, as well as identifying typical language features and explaining why Austen is valued today. She expresses empathy for Mrs Bennet which encourages the reader to reconsider their own opinion Her use of first person language tells the reader that they are reading a biased opinion, but also helps the reader trust Weldon as she is speaking
An Author to Her Book Explication Anne Bradstreet’s poem “An Author to Her Book” is the narrative story of an author’s struggles and tribulations with a piece that he or she has created. The complex emotional connection that an author feels for his or her work is displayed through Bradstreet’s use of metaphor. Anne Bradstreet is also able to draw up similarities between being an author and being a parent through the use of personification and comparison. Bradstreet portrays the struggles, difficulties, and fears that a mother experiences as those that a mother would experience when creating and releasing a new work. Bradstreet’s use of metaphor allows her to relate the complex relationships of being a parent to being an author.
As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories. The short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) and Angela Carter (1940–1992) both sideway the same idea; the confinement of women in particular roles and positions in both personal and professional lives, posed on them by patriarchal figures. Toril Moi quotes in her examination of feministic criticism, Sexual/Textual Politics (2002), Elaine Showalter’s idea that “women writers should not be studied as a distinct group on the assumption that they write alike, or even display stylistic resemblances distinctively feminine” (Moi, 2002: 49), which comes across when reading the two stories which are stylistically already very different. It might be so that a feminist reader of both times (there’s some 80 years difference between the two stories) did not only want to see her own experiences mirrored in fiction, but strived to identify with strong, impressive female characters (Moi, 2002: 46), and looked for role-models that would instil positive sense of feminine identity by portraying women as self-actualising strong identities who were not dependent on men (Moi, 2002, 46). The two stories bring out two female characters, very different by position and character; the other a new mother, scared and confused of her own role, and the other a young newly-wed girl, still a child, being fouled by a much older man, mainly as a mark of his authority over women in general.
One technique used by authors is writing type. Books can be proposed in many different ways by using different forms of writing like a narrative or a diary. Rosanne Hawke, author of the book ‘Zenna Dare,’ uses this technique very effectively. Zenna Dare is switches from a narrative written by the main character, Jenefer, to a diary written in past tense by Jenefer’s triple great grandmother, Gweniver. The diary is being read by Jenefer, who is trying to piece together her past, so as the diary progress’s, Jenefer and the reader learn more.
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the protagonist is Offred and the confidant is the Commander, and in Pride and Prejudice the protagonist is Elizabeth Bennet and the confidante is Jane Bennet; and in both novels the confidant(e) is similar and different from the protagonist in many ways, but regardless the confidante is by the side of the protagonist throughout the novel. Ultimately the confidant(e)s in both the novels help the protagonist overcome key obstacles within the novel, and the Nasir 2 confidantes are the reason that the protagonists are alive in each book. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, the protagonist, has a unique relationship with her confidant, the Commander; Offred and the Commander use each other in order to survive within the society they live in. They live under the rule of a totalitarian government, which supposedly “protects women”. Under this society sex is a tool to initiate reproduction, and only for reproduction, not love, not lust, just reproduction.
Jane Eyre Bronte purposefully uses resources of language to display Jane’s development and maturation as a character. The use of diction and figurative language thoroughly illustrate this aspect of the novel. One of the final passages of Jane Eyre, closes the novel with use of these literary elements, and displays strong emphasis of Jane’s growth. One of the tools utilized by Bronte is diction. Throughout the novel, Jane goes through periods of time where she is encompassed by her internal conflicts, mainly as a result of her self-reliance and value of self-dignity.
Hunt begins the argument growing from of Richardson’s Clarissa and Pamela. She also touches on Rousseau’s Julie. What's interesting to me is that these novels weren't philosophical or political. The rise of the novel allowed people to develop profound feelings for the autonomy of another person. It dug up in folks the hidden ability to relate with other people in different situations than that of themselves.
Analyse the form and style of A Room of One’s Own and assess what they add to Woolf’s argument. In 1929, Woolf was asked to give a lecture to the female students of Cambridge University, on the subject of Women and Fiction. The lecture, based on two essays’ that she had written to address the subject, later were paired to become the book ‘A room of one’s own‘. Woolf’s thesis was simply that; ‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’. As to be expected, this thesis opened up a multitude of hugely controversial sub-topics, and in dealing with such controversial and heavy subject matter, Woolf utilized a writing style and used to her advantage the ‘liberties and licences of a novelist’ that allowed her more literary freedom.
Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time. They search their own path and destiny, disconnecting theirelves with the normal society's expectations. Love Love is the main theme in both novels. Not only love as a feeling, but love as a pursue of happiness and stability, this last being totally necessary, at the time, to girls with lack of fortune. In the case of Anne, her search for love serves to redeem her past mistakes and, finally, be with the one that she has chosen, not her relatives.