Songlian first met the first wife (JIN SHUYUAN), an elderly woman who snubbed her; the third wife, an ex-opera singer (SU MEI); and the second wife (CAO CUIFENG) who looks friendly in the outside but plotting a conspiracy against Songlian. Followed by a theme is a sequence of events. As I watched the movie, the plot flows easily from one scene to another. Just like when Songlian enters the Master’s palace, the acquaintance, luncheon, lighting the red lantern by the master that will determine which wives he will spend the night with and the foot massage. This sequence of event makes the plot more believable and draws the audience into the story line because it is repetitive and it became the casual routine of the three wives in their daily living.
In Willa Cather’s “Coming, Aphrodite,” there’s a theme of dependency and clouded judgement. Theres dependency and clouded judgment in both of the main characters. Eden Bower has this view of having whatever she wants in a perfect reality where her biggest motivation is wealth. Don Hedger becomes infatuated with Eden after she moves in across from him, making her his primary thought. They both have clouded judgement in where Eden thinks Don wants to be a very successful painter and make lots of money and Don has this idea of Eden being the perfect woman.
These were the people who made fundamental changes from the colonial era to the revolutionary era thus spawning the true American society. The first generation established new political and social ideas that broke away from conservatism. These new liberal ways, Jefferson’s new political culture, spurred the urbanization movement throughout the United States. New opportunities arose for most people—with the exclusion of blacks and women—of the newly founded nation. Families exercised less influence and this created more individualistic opportunities and chances to turn towards peers for guidance.
The Progressive Era STRAYER UNIVERSITY | The Progressive Era Through the Great Depression. | Writing Assignment Number 2: History 105 Professor Curran, M. | | R.J. Kenny | 8/6/2012 | This document will answer several questions regarding turning points, women’s voting rights and the Spanish American war for the period covering the Progressive Era through the Great Depression in United States History. | Kenny (1) The Progressive Era, which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s, was an age of reform, the nation’s response to the industrial revolution. Its effects touched virtually all Americans and transformed the role of government in American society. Although some areas of American life, namely, racial issues and women's rights, were neglected during the progressive age, the groundwork was laid for future reforms in those areas and others.
For my personal reading book I read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. From the beginning of the book, you can see that Rose Edelstein has a complicated family life; a fragile and trapped mother, a brother who is out of touch with the world and a strange father who is so scared of hospitals that he waited on the sidewalk outside during the birth of his children. On the day of her ninth birthday Rose’s mother makes her a birthday cake. Rose takes a bite and soon realizes that she can read her mother’s emotions through the food that she makes. Rose has to grasp with the fact early on that she will spend the rest of her life with this ‘superpower’.
Ernest was found in a hand-bag in the cloat-room at Victoria Station. He uses his fake brother Earnest as an excuse to go to town so that he can visit and spend time with his girlfriend Gwendolen who he plans to marry: “I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to propose to her” (Jack, 40-41). In my opinion, Wilde enjoys satirizing regular individuals of society because it is funny to view real life perspective through someone else eyes. For example, i’m pretty sure we all know someone like Lady Bracknell; she portrays a very strict mother.
As it was mentioned before, The Great Gatsby, is a classic that talks about love, class struggle and the morals that existed in the 1920’s in the United States of America. Even though the themes concerned in this novel are very general the reader will get a deeper understanding of the romance if the historical context is examined. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this American classic in the beginning of the 20’s, a time of profound change in U.S. society. The times that followed the World War I, between 1914-1918, is called The Jazz Age, it ended in 1929 with the stock market crash. Being victorious in the war, America experienced an economic growth, ate least for those who belonged to the upper class, the stock market, corporate profits increased
Austen’s use of satire is evident early in the novel and begins with the introduction of Mrs. Bennet. As a mother of a middle class family in 19th century England, “the business of her life was to get her daughters married…” (Austen 3). Not only does she seek husbands for her five daughters, but wealthy, upper-class husbands at that. This desire is an obsession of Mrs. Bennet’s and consumes her to the point of oblivion. At one point, she is so elated by the marriage of Lydia and Mr. Wickham that she forgets the fact that Lydia threatened the eligibility of her sisters when she recklessly abandoned her family to run away with Wickham.
Character Analysis of Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace (On Mathilde Loisel) “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant is a short story with an impactful ending, dealing with destruction of a vain woman’s life. The main character Mathilde Loisel is a woman who thinks she is born for luxury, and she is unsatisfied with her current life with his husband for she think she deserves more. One day Loisels are invited to a party, and she borrows a diamond necklace from her rich friend. She gets a lot of attention at the party with her beauty, which she desired so much. However, she loses the diamond necklace.
She told the lover what exactly happened, why she took Yolanda to New York – “that one was losing all her hair”, how crowded the bus was – “It was more sardines in a can than you could shake sticks at”, and how she worried when Yolanda got lost – “we broke into a run like two crazy people!” Second, Yolanda’s mother put so much expectancy on her daughter – “of course, she became a poet” – that she was “disappointed” because “she had always meant for her Yo to be the famous [poet].” And she tried to “convince her daughter”. Finally, she never stopped supporting and being proud of Yolanda. She went to “all the poetry readings her daughter gave in town” and sat “in the front row applauding each poem and giving standing ovations.” She confided to whoever sat next to her, “[Yolanda] has always had a great imagination.” And whatever happened, she always “smiled proudly at her daughter.” Even though sometimes the love of Yolanda’s mother made her embarrassed, there is no doubt that it was really an intense