As the protagonist of the tale Anna's tone of voice and depiction of fellow characters are forced upon the reader, for example we feel distancedtowards Josiah as Anna had never heard a word of praise from her father's lips. Brooks intentionsfor this are quite clear; this subliminally causes the reader to take on Anna's beliefs and convictionsof each individual character and towards the tragic events of the plague. As Anna shows distancetowards
In Wide Sargasso Sea, repainting the image given to the reader of Rochester, Rhys characterises him as the antagonist rather than the hero portrayed Jane Eyre, sympathetically transcribing Bertha’s stream-of-consciousness as the oppressed wife sinking into the madness he helped to cause. The first comparison to be made, therefore, is that the reader has a possible pre-existing knowledge of some characters and issues present in Wide Sargasso Sea. In Jane Eyre, the madwoman in the attic was given no voice, incapable of uttering any intelligible speech. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys gives her an entire perspective and narration. This raises the possibility of an allegorical reading: the reader learns that Antoinette is the descendant of a Creole Caribbean family whilst Rhys also draws on an understanding of the position of plantation families following Emancipation.
Theme shared by “Raisin in the Sun” and The House on Mango Street The play “Raisin in the Sun” was written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. Over twenty years later Sandra Cisneros wrote the novella The House on Mango Street. “Raisin in the Sun” is written in a style portraying realistic speech and the reality of the way characters express their feelings. Whereas in The House on Mango Street, the style is very poetic and often uses figurative language to describe the character’s feelings. Although “Raisin in the Sun” and The House on Mango Street are two distinct pieces of literature, a theme they both share is that struggles faced as a minority influences the character’s dreams.
This will be done by examining Wide Sargasso Sea’s Antoinette’s identity as a Creole living in the 1830 Caribbean. In Wide Sargasso Sea, identity is approached from many aspects. The author Jean Rhys approaches the topic from the issue of race, cultural integration and heredity. She also toys with issues such as madness and ancestry. This is all carried out with the main character Antoinette Cosway and afterwards Antoinette Mason.
Through a feminist critique of Othello, it is possible to examine the influences of sexism in the society by inspecting the construction of the patriarchy, the idea that gender is not the same as sex, and lastly, the construction of femininity within the play. Feminism, is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary to be “the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes”, and as A. Balu Vijayaraghavan said, by applying feminist criticism, one could “investigate how Shakespeare’s plays relate to the codes and conventions of the gender system specific to the early modern period”, as well as having an understanding of “how thoroughly Shakespeare shared the gender assumptions of his own time and the ways in which his plays must have disrupted these assumptions”. The
Atwood, Kesey and Plath reflect the balances and imbalances of power in contemporary history, each producing works which became symbols of rebellion against conformity. Keasy’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest has been depicted as ‘holey successful as an indictment of modern society ’. The reciprocally dependent bond between power and resistance in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest reflect the progressive nature of the late 1950’s. Keasy’s novel demonstrates as a reflection upon his time working with mental patients, it serves as a critique of
Autonomy and individualism are given preference by the transcendentalists. Disappointment, discontent and distress affected the writers of Realism after the industrial revolution in America. Modernism can be considered as a branch of realism in American literature which has motivated the writers to go ahead with a new and novel style. This movement was initiated with the hope to change the mind-set of the
“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?” (Austen Northanger Abbey 21) Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park and to show the reader how the author depicts the main figures in these two different novels. This literary essay will focus on giving a description and comparison of both characters, Catherine Moland and Fanny Price. It will be also address how the two female characters of these novels belong to different prototypes of heroines. Introduction Jane Austen was born in 1775 in the small town of Steventon, Hampshire and belonged to a close and respectful family. Her father was a cleric who encouraged his children to read and write novels and plays.
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.
Deconstruction, according to Jacques Derrida, started in late 1960s France and “upends the Western metaphysical tradition. It represents a complex response to a variety of theoretical and philosophical movements of the 20th century. Barbara Johnson writes that “The term denotes a particular kind of practice in reading and, thereby, a method of criticism and mode of analytical inquiry…A deconstructive reading is a reading which analyses the specificity of a text’s critical difference from itself” [ (Stanford University Humanities, 1992) ]. Imperialism has many meanings, one is that it is a “imperial government, authority, or system” (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2012), but this is not the definition of