The following essay will be concerned with Jane Austen’s coming-of-age novel Northanger Abbey. The modeled social order and how Austen’s protagonist Catherine Morland finds her place in society will be described in detail by analyzing the generic traditions and the narrative strategies. In reference to this, lucky and rather unfortunate events, experiences and Catherine’s acquaintances will be studied in detail. For this purpose, the motif of reading will be the most important argument. In Northanger Abbey there are two kinds of reading: reading books or letters respectively and reading people.
The novel Jane Eyre is an autobiographical account including elements of a fairy tale, gothic mystery and is Bildungsroman, as it follows the characters internal development. This essay will focus on Jane’s controversial standing in her autobiography, where she searches to be independent and of a higher social standing. The way in which Charlotte Bronte imposes the style of writing in describing scenes and passages containing letters sets the content of the novel and leads to the climax of the text and inevitably the ending of the novel. From the opening paragraph which creates the scene for the narrators essential traits, to the letters perceived throughout, provide the context for the plot. Jane Eyre is an autobiography in which she tells of her journey through life, imposing her need of achieving independence and social stature to be at last happy and fulfilled.
The author has expressed his own thoughts and ideas through the play and has presented a story of a woman using some characters. This play had aroused great controversy at that time because of its crucial attitude towards the marriage norms. There are many authors and people who have argued with the statement and play of Henrik Ibsen. This paper focuses on the views and ideas of different authors regarding the play “A Doll House” written by Henrik Ibsen (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/themes.html). Author Henrik Ibsen was one of the best and major writers and directors of the 19th Century.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice written in the early 19th century is a classic novel that can be well dissected and understand by considering the values and attitudes in which people performed in that context. Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, written in the late 20th century has enhanced this understanding through the intensive facts in which she has provided in her text about Jane Austen’s context. Both being a successful female writer, audiences are able to see the similarities in which both authors has made about the world of women. This similarity is established through the numerous values in which both texts have used to allow audiences to compare the lives of women in the two completely different contexts. These values include: marriage, self-actualisation.
She portrays strong feeling regarding the social class system of the time, the view towards women and marriage, and the complexities friendship and compassion held in the 19th century. Together, the events and feelings mould together Austen's satirical novel, and allows Austen to give her own opinions using her omniscient narrative throughout the book. Of course, in William Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice', we explore more of these strong feelings, however they are not at all similar- or so it seems. Shakespeare's use of unique dramatic methods expose hypocrisy in the Elizabethan Venice setting regarding the social intolerance between the Christians and the Jews. Not only this, but throughout the play, we can see obvious feelings of revenge and compassion, especially in Act 4 scene 1 where Shylocks loss of revenge evokes our compassion towards the emotionally broken man.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women Essay A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the earliest works of feminist ideals. In the text, Wollstonecraft deeply responds and criticizes many influential political theoreticians from the 18th century who did not believe that women should have the same basic rights as men. Her arguments vary from how women should contribute to society to how women should be treated in a relationship. All of her viewpoints not only played a crucial role in the feminist movement of her time, but also helped pave the way for modern feminist movements. One of the main points that Wollstonecraft touches upon in A Vindication of the Rights of Women is the issue regarding women and education.
Discuss the presentation of society and its influence on Emma Woodhouse and Sebastian Flyte In this essay I will discuss how the authors show the different effects society can have through their characterisation of Sebastian Flyte and Emma Woodhouse. In “Emma”, a novel by Jane Austen about a young woman obsessed with making matches between others, but failing to recognise her own feelings, leading to many disastrous consequences, being brought up in a high society has a profound effect on Emma prompting her to think of herself as being far more “superior” than everyone. Conversely in “Brideshead Revisited”, a novel by Evelyn Waugh relating how a WWII soldier looks back on his acquaintance with the Flyte family, and especially his intimacy with the eccentric Sebastian Flyte and his sister, Julia, the society Sebastian has been brought up in makes it very difficult for him to make the transition into adulthood from youth. An example of where society can have a bad influence on a person, is where Emma, having been allowed too much her own way all her life, I allowed to influence Harriet’s life too much. At the beginning of the novel Jane Austen states that “the real evils indeed of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way”, which is cleverly disguised as an ordinary introduction, but its importance can’t be recognised until a second read of the novel, where it can be seen how the word “evils” could apply to Emma.
Mrs Graham, a champion for women´s rights? The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848) is thought to be one of the first feminist novels. In this essay I mean to prove that Anne Brontë was inspired by a time when female emancipation was debated and that the character Mrs Graham was created to represent criticism against the contemporary attitude towards women. As the excerpt of the novel found in Stream of Literature focuses on child-rearing it is in relation to that subject these conflicting beliefs are debated. To begin, as we are introduced to Mrs Graham it becomes apparent that the author was not portraying what society then considered being an exemplary woman of the Victorian era, as it is stated in the prologue that Mrs Graham was “considered unconventional from the start because she lives alone at Wildfell Hall with only her son and an old woman servant”.
Women were never to challenges a man’s authority; she was simply to do as she was told. Women, however, did find ways to benefit from things going on in society. An example of this was during the Victorian era. When England was undergoing major changes due to the rise of industrialization, so were women. During this period “the woman question” emerged in many Victorian literary works and many authors linked it to the “condition of England question.” In order to first understand how “the woman question” and ‘the condition of England question” are linked to each other, one must first understand what each of the questions were and how they developed over time.
It was in the early 1800s when women began to question various issues such as their roles in society and their rights as a woman, or their lack of rights and unjust inequality in comparison to males. Interestingly though in 1792Marry Wollstonecraft, who was a significant driving force in the women’s right movement, wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In her book she argued that women were rational beings who should be able to be educated, earn their own livings, and develop their characters “regardless of the distinction of sex” (pg 24 Alison M Parker). Then in 1820 the activist Frances Wright went on to further publicize her work. At the time Frances Wright was best known for being a early proponent of the notion that marriage was a form of cohesive bondage for women, who there thereby denied the right to inheritances, wages, and joint guardianship of their children.