"Surviving the Middle Passage." Spectator Book Club. (2009): n. page. Web. 24 Sep. 2011.
A Woman’s Duality By Maya Asfour Edna’s self reserved character and the propensity to mask her emotions had a lot to do with her mother’s death when she was at a very young age in addition to not being close to either of her sisters, and that all the girls she befriended happened to be of a self contained type. Edna decided to take her place as a married woman with dignity, thus sacrificing her needs to attain the demands of society. But even though she does not attend to her needs they exist inside of her, causing her to question and desire while her body does what others expect her to do. Madame’s Ratignolle compassionate gesture at the beach provokes Edna to realize that she was brought up to be a reserved woman. The gesture also inspires Edna to speak openly and freely and by doing so Edna feels intoxicated as if she tasted “the first breath of freedom” [VII Chopin].
“1920s Music & Entertainment.” www.angelfire.com/retro2/lisa3/20smusic. N.p. N.d. Web. 17 May 2011.
(http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/) It's a bit ironic compared to the Alison in the story, considering she has been having an affair with a man that her husband is renting a room to. The name Alison being given to this character is a cover up of who she truly is; just as she is tricking her husband, she is also tricking readers into thinking she is an honest, noble person. Her name goes to better exemplify how everything about Alison is not what it appears to be. Alison’s relationships with others are very complex. Alison and her husband do not have the typical loving marriage; he is many years her senior and she is basically a trophy wife to him.
Accessed at http://www.biography.com/people/elena-kagan-560228. November 5, 2011. National Archive News. 2011. “Records Pertaining to Elena Kagan.” National Archive News.
In my essay I will be exploring the role of the woman in 19th century England in relation to the treatment of woman. I will be looking at Marry Shelley’s life how her mother being a feminist impacted her views & her novel; I will be looking closely at how she created for Victor Frankenstein the mother she had wanted for herself. I will also be looking at how, woman are portrayed & voiced in the novel through the males of the novel, I will be exploring how the woman wasn’t an individual person but was the property of her husband & the fact they couldn’t access higher education or vote because they belong in the home - a stereotypical view of woman during 19th century England. I will be looking at how Victor tries to create life & how this gets rid of the only of the woman, their only importance which was having children, I will also be looking at the purpose of woman in the novel. In the Woman in black I will be looking at Jennet Humphrey how she had a child out of wedlock & wasn’t allowed to keep her child because of the strict Christian values inflicted on them during 19th century England.
Karen Elliott Miss Dennis English 1302.05 March 22, 2011 Kate Chopin, a Writer of Scandalous Fiction Kate Chopin was a Victorian icon who was known for her illustrations of southern life and women’s battles for freedom. In the era Kate lived women were not allowed to voice their opinion, they were to obey their father and husband. “In this man’s world, woman should accept a special standard for the “more expansive” sex, and for herself, she should eagerly welcome the “sanctity of motherhood.” As Mme. De Staie’s Corinne is told: “Whatever extraordinary gifts she may have, her duty and her proper destiny is to devote herself to her husband and to the raising of her children” (Seyersted 103). Kate Chopin an independent woman born way before her time was a rebel, and a writer of scandalous stories who dared to be different.
She did what she was told without question, even when it went against her own desires, shown when her father ordered her to stop seeing Hamlet, to which she responded with promises that she “shall obey, my lord,” (1.3.136). However, she was not nearly as innocent as she seemed, in my unofficial opinion. Innocence is defined as when one is without guilt, or it can also be thought of as when someone does not have any personal experience with the evil widespread throughout the world. Ophelia’s well of innocence starts to run dry when she confronts her brother, Laertes, on his impending trip to Paris. She says to him, “But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And reaks not his own rede” (1.3.46-51).
She writes about the five categories of “difficult mothers” listed below: I. The Angry Mother II. The controlling Mother III. The Narcissistic Mother IV. The Envious Mother V. The Emotionally Unavailable Mother Many people complain about there so called “impossible mother” thinking that because their mother is not perfect the automatic alternative is that she’s difficult, but there is no such thing as a perfect mother.
She states, “She had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature” (Brontë 1.239). She describes Miss Ingram as beautiful but a shallow person with no depth. Along with Jane, Mr. Rochester seems to see this and her true aspiration of only marrying him for his money. On the other hand, Jane’s wittiness and sharp responses to Mr. Rochester confusing comments enraptures Mr. Rochester. Mrs. Reed and her children had always treated Jane with disrespect; but when Mrs. Reed is dying Jane forgets her harsh treatment and stays with her until she died.