Duffy and Pugh both write about women experiences conveying similar and dissimilar connections in their poems. This includes Carol Anne Duffy’s poem on Mrs Tiresias and Mrs Aesop, alongside Sheenagh Pugh’s Tree of Pearls. Carol Anne Duffy’s Mrs Tiresias and Mrs Aesop are poems mainly based around legend, myth and fairy tales, featuring male characters or references to them by no other than their wives’ experiences on the account. Similarly, Sheenagh Pugh’s poem also uses references strongly based around legends and old tales from her early experiences reading about myths which leads into an experience told by ‘Cairo slave who went by the name of Tree of Pearls’. Duffy displays a woman’s experience about the spirited irony of the joke about a man who becomes a woman, finding the monthly ‘period’ a painful trial worthy of ‘one week in bed’ and ‘two doctors in’.
Last year, in my senior A.P. Composition and Literature class, we focused on a lot of fictional literature dealing with the same kind of societal issues. The Awakening by Kate Chopin as well as Daisy Miller by Henry James were both novels that showcase the oppression of women and evils of social hierarchy. These novels display the limitations and expectations that society pins onto women. Other novels I read include The Dead by James Joyce and Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, both of which addressed the theme of materialism and wealth as factors to being regarded highly in society, and how this way of functioning in society leads people away from living a true and happy life.
For instance, Mr Collins long, pompous speeches help the reader to realise his character within the novel and how he is a person who is full of pride in himself (which is one of the themes of the novel). Chapter 19 also contains authorial intervention. The authorial intervention in this chapter helps to not only tell the story but commentates the dialogue of the characters “she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him farther, and he continued.” The authorial intervention seems to show Austen’s annoyance towards Mr Collins who seems to constantly talk and helps make the reader sympathise with Elizabeth for being on the other end of his constant speeches. In all, through Austen’s use of the third
In both of these stories the authors use imagery to help drive home their main points, although in a somewhat different manner. In “Desiree’s Baby" Chopin uses imagery to hint at the “truth” and lead up to the ironic ending. While in Carver’s “Cathedral” imagery is used to reinforce his main theme of don’t judge a book by its cover. Now we will take a closer look at imagery, and examine the intricacies of how these great authors use it in their works. So what is imagery?
First of all we need to consider the debate about religious practice and the importance of religion for Christina: 'Religion played a major role in the formation of Rossetti as an individual, and it is oftentimes reflected in her poetry. I would venture to say that religion is a very strongly felt presence in “Goblin Market,” which some critics believe is a Christian allegory'[3]. Her poetry, her fairy tales characters, her use of grotesque can be related to a movement called “Gothic Revival”: 'it's an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England [...] In England, the centre of this revival, it was intertwined with deeply philosophical movements associated with a re-awakening of High Church or Anglo-Catholic self-belief concerned by the growth of
• Feminist critics are especially interested in issues concerning women’s culture. Also, they insist on the autobiographical side of the story, especially on the centrality of the act of giving birth. • An intertextual reading of the novel reveals echoes of several romantic poems, of various authors. It is a well-established notion that references to other texts add to the meaning of the work in question. In other words, if you consider ‘The Rime’ as a hypotext (= underlying text) to Frankenstein, your understanding of the novel may be enriched thanks to suggestion from Coleridge’s
In the book, nobody would have think of the idea of two souls living in a person, therefore, it makes the book become more suspicious. Through the plot gradually, the protagonist tried so hard to investigate Dr. Hyde, and he also thought that Dr. Jekyll was
Key points on Rebecca L. Walkowitz Rebecca L. Walkwoitz starts her article by giving us Coetzee’s “Diary of a Bad Year” as an example of what she calls Comparison Literature. Coetzee’s novel meets the criteria of comparison literature due to its circulation and production formally, typographically and thematically. Rebecca goes on to state clearly the difference between the field of national literature in which the scholars share the locus of production, and the field of comparative literature in which scholars share a structure of analysis. In Rebecca’s point of view, two requirements are necessary for comparison literature: First, new geographic lines are to be drawn for the literary works. Second, preserving the study within the historical context including the different editions and translations.
Both books have similar writing style as gloomy, but foreshadowing and dystopia bring about the effectiveness of gothic literature in both books. Firstly, the story’s title “The Fall of the House of Usher” has a symbolic meaning to itself. “The House of Usher” refers not only to the house, but to the family as well, the Usher bloodline. The title refers not only to the literal fall of the physical house, but the symbolic fall of the Usher family. There are many events which lead to the true meaning of the title, the author uses foreshadowing to enlighten the meaning.
In this essay I will be analysing and exploring how the use of gothic conventions influence the reader and convey Wilde’s themes of art, influence, beauty and youth through the supernatural, subconscious and conscious, and the use of a gothic villain. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Wilde’s only novel, exploring the interrelationship of art, life and consequence. Gothic literature started to become popular in the 1800s; an important and innovative reinterpreter of the Gothic in this period was Edgar Alan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. Gothic sprouted from the tradition of Romanticism especially in romantic poetry. Gothicism's origin started with the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, then increasing with