Jo Shapcott’s poem is about the Great Storm and she describes the damage and chaos of the storm on her home and how something comforting like here home can be turned into a nightmare. In last stanza Jo Shapcott compares her love life and the storm together which gives a strong idea of how chaotic her life is. In the first stanza Shapcott describes literally what she is seeing and how chaotic it is: “Through the window everything was horizontal.” This description of the effects of the storm is very powerful because it creates an image of how strong the winds must have been to topple and push down objects. This description also is very eerie and must have been frightening to Shapcott since you would never expect to see every bin and shed toppled over and trees being uprooted which tells the reader of how there was no objects that were tall left creating a horizontal image. The result of this shows how the environment around you could be
These are not just any clouds, but sinister, threatening clouds that represent Alcee who is approaching. In this description, Alcee is portrayed as a threat to Bobinot and Calixta’s marriage. The reader is then taken by the third party, omniscient narrator, to Calixta, our protagonist, who is busy at home “sewing furiously… She did not notice the approaching storm. But she felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads” (122). This line pairs heat and humidity with the storm to suggest that even though Calixta doesn’t know it’s coming, she is subconsciously aware of the threatening storm approaching her, and is enveloped with a heat of desire.
Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour. As shown in the item most of this work is ‘unpaid and hardly recognised work at all’. Oakley argues the only way women will gain independence and freedom in society is for the role of the housewife to be removed aswell as the present structure of the family. Wilmott and Young believed the family is symmetrical and that both husband and wife have joint conjugal roles making the family a functional institution and their research showed that men do help women with housework. Radical feminists such as Dobash and Dobash also disagree with Willmott and Young’s theory that the family is symmetrical.
She tells John, “It isn’t right to leave me here alone. Surely I am as important as your father.” She also takes the risk and asks him to take better care of himself, asking him to shave and not to work so much. She recognizes that her needs are not being met. “It was something of life she wanted, not just a house and furniture; something of John. Not pretty clothes when she would be too old to wear them.” When John refuses to stay home or to heed her requests, she busies herself by painting, baking and by thinking about how things might get better.
In the first verse the lyric “She dreamt of para-para-paradise” appeared. This fits Jane perfectly because of her imagination and fascination with mythical and paranormal creatures. It would stand for her day dreaming, about how she would imagine ghosts and see herself differently in a mirror to be able to escape from reality. In the 6th verse the line “I know the sun must set to rise” refers to someone knowing that life has to get worse to be able to get better. This applies to Jane's life when her home life wasn't great and it just kept getting worse, until she got to go to Lowood and she liked Lowood more then home.
Such as women can not perform manual work as well as men, on the other hand, a man’s entire chemistry is different allowing him to be less emotional than a woman. Jane Addams and her colleague Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House a place for down and out women. Jane treated these women as friends and ignoring their faults, became very close to these women. Being close to these women allowed Jane to understand their struggle but much of the information she gathered remained unpublished. She saw social differentiation as a block that society needed to get over, infuriately she herself was a victim.
His good looks forced her to say “I’m sick of shadows” and break the curse by leaving the tower, which results to her tearful death. ‘The Lady of Shalott’ includes many magical and mysterious things, like; the curse, The Lady of Shalott herself and the fact the weather reflects the feelings of the lady of Shalott. This makes the poem super natural and it also leads onto the next question, which is the HOW part of the title- HOW did Tennyson make the atmosphere mysterious and magical? (Using the magical and mysterious things) Tennyson used some extraordinary techniques to create the poems atmosphere, the mood of the poem and vivid imagery. Such as: - Pathetic fallary and personification.
. . she wanted to store in her head.” The birds, symbols of creatures perfectly comfortable in their surroundings despite the brutal cold, foreshadow the spirits that soon glide across her “floor without creaking”. Ultimately, the birds she wanted to invite in emerge as trapped within her own skull and their violent attempts at escape can only end in tragedy. “Inside her head, birds flew from the wall.
In Jane Austen’s Emma, Austen expresses the importance of not judging others based on class, their employment, or events of the past. This belief of Austen’s, is shown throughout the novel: from the opening when Emma discourages Harriet to marry the wonderful Mr. Martin, based on his employment, to insulting the kindly Miss Bates because of her tendency to speak dully. Ironically, Emma judges others so harshly, when she does not heed nor take criticism aimed at her lightly. Austen employs motifs to further show this tendency to judge others in the form of reoccurring insight to the judgmental mind of Emma. This parody, set in the early nineteenth century, shows the constraints of culture in England, and the tendency to judge others, but not one’s self.
Save the turf’ this shows us how the Mundy sisters are trying to envelope the fact that they are not stable as in that society it was patriarchal and needed a man to run the household as Jack is unwell they are unable to rely on him so he is more of burden on them . We can get a sense of injustice within the sisters as they feel they are treated unwell by Kate. Kate who is the dominate sisters within the family she has taken on both roles of bread winner and the mother figure and leaving the sisters to be filling in the gap of the male roles. ‘Two unpaid servants’ Agnes who is voicing for not just herself but Rosie as well gives us the feeling that she is dominant with Rosie or even more of a mother figure to her . ‘Rose and I’ this gives us a feeling of partition between the sisters as Agnes and Rosie have created a unit, this gives the audience the image of love and desperation as the sisters are affected by their financial situation as well as their personal .