Jane Austen is a renowned writer who portrays her personal life through the actions and spoken words of her novels. Many of the hardships that she had to undergo became the basis for her novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. The experiences that she had throughout her life became ideas for stories of young women desperately trying to break free of the social classes. Her novels normally revolve around a young couple deeply in love but torn apart by society and its views on wealth and fortune. In comparing the novel Pride and Prejudice (p&p) with film Sense and Sensibility (s&s), one is able to discern the obvious commonalities while search for the differences.
Writing about Theme of Story I have recently read a novel named The Color Purple written Alice Walker has a message which is the power of strong female relationships. Throughout the novel, Ceila has been discriminated for who she was, and didn’t accept her self. She was always used for, and had a male dominating her. In the novel, there were several characters that changed Celia, and it were women that were very close to her. Her sister Nettie was a big influenced to her and Shrug.
The third part was Gynocritics, which tried to “revise Freudian structures and... emphasized a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter's bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity” (Lee). All three parts relate back to Morag’s character. Morag is a writer and would like to agree with the Androgynist poetics and the notion that creativity is genderless and does not pertain to a particular sex but she faces the problem that arises with the Female Aesthetic where emphasis is put on the physical part of being a female. Morag is insecure when she is young because she does not know how to flirt and use that side of her femininity. She feels like will not “ever attain the status of high
However, in the play 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams a different sense of the female voice is identified particularly through the character of Amanda. Amanda is living in a world that fluctuates between illusion and reality. The viewer views her as a determined woman that unfortunately does not succeed in the life she hopes for. Throughout the different context of each text, the contrasting female voices engage the responder and takes them on a journey of different life experiences whilst also demonstrating the repercussions of certain actions that can take place in ones life. In the novel 'Before I fall', the protagonist Samantha Kingston portrays the female voice on many different levels, primarily through situations that she experiences.
Symbolisms of The Journey Shirley Evans English 125 Instructor Kristina Munz April 22, 2013 In the short stories of “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys, you would not think they have the same theme. “A Worn Path” is an interesting story of a woman whose journey is motivated by love, with a plot full of symbolism and several themes using third-person point of view; in contrast, “Used to Live Here Once” the narrator is also using third-person point of view, but with limited omniscient. This point of view is used as the narrator is telling the story of an unnamed protagonist whose story plot is of a journey back to a place she once called home, and the symbolism’s are used to communicate the journey as she reflects on her life. The authors of these stories give the reader a glimpse of the personalities and character of both women using the elements of themes, characters, symbolisms, and settings to find a definition which goes beyond the common definition of journey. Everyone has their own description of what a journey is, but the definition spans beyond the definition found in a dictionary.
Part of life involves overcoming obstacles. The Myth of the Latin Woman:I Just Met a Girl by Judith Ortiz Cofer and On being a Cripple by Nancy Mairs are both focused on overcoming obstacles, and while both essays express tenacity and love for books; they are also very different in the type of obstacle they face and the culture that surrounds them. Having an obstacle in life it’s hard. Both characters show a great way to handle situations in which their hardship can bring them down. On “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl”, the author describes how the character reacts when being offended by someone because of her condition.
The relationships shown in this novel show similarities to certain poems, the “Ballad of Birmingham” and “Dream Deferred” seemed to be the two poems which stood out the most. The women are forced to rely on each other when the world seems to shut them out. Despite their differences, the women of Brewster Place are bound by a sense of community and sisterhood that enables them to deal with the everyday pressures they face. One of the events that drew attention was the constant struggle of trying to be the best mother while living in these conditions. This is best exemplified in the events that had happened to Cora Lee as a child, which carried on with her through adulthood and motherhood.
By comparing and contrasting the way the authors use their writing style to achieve their intentions in "The Necklace" and "The Story of an Hour" they focuses on values that connect them in literary styles and in the fight for women’s self-determination. In both of these short stories, all of these elements are present. “The Necklace” and The Story of an Hour´ portray males to be better equipped for real life, while women are represented as lacking such integrity to attain their goals. To cope with their tragic fate of being born female, the heroines in both stories venture inward to escape the reality of life which was not of her own making. The female characters in these stories offer a universal representation of women as being the weaker sex through marriage, and are characterized by having evil intentions for which she is justly´ punished for in the end.
A Commentary on Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” With an empathetic tone, Anne Bradstreet creates a poem in which the speaker becomes frustrated while trying to complete a literary work. “The Author to Her Book” compares a writer and her piece to a mother and her child, calling the book her “ill-formed offspring of [her] feeble brain” (1). Most likely referring to a personal experience, Bradstreet uses structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery to convey the difficulty of producing a work with which the author is pleased. The purpose of the structure in this poem is to make words and concepts pop out to the reader. The speaker uses different techniques in order to make sure the certain points are emphasized.
“[T]hroughout the time known as the Romantic period, women were prolific writers and readers of novels, poems, and other kinds of writing” (Susan Matthews). Discuss the qualities of their work in the light of the times. Regarding the historical background in the early times of the Romantic period, women had immense difficulties to pave the way for participating in literature, especially in consideration of being accepted as writers in the same way as men. In these times, women were generally believed to be less intellectual than men and to be only capable of caring for the household, their husband and their children (Becker-Cantarino 2000, p.20). There existed a gender stereotype about how women should behave (Ross 1989, p.3.)