In comparing both “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” you find both stories contain a woman repressed by her circumstances. From an emotional standpoint, you could say they are the same, but in reality their situations couldn’t be more different. In “A Rose for Emily, Emily Grierson leads a life of conformity, loneliness, and desperation; while in “Hill like White Elephants,” “Jig”, may too be desperate, but her repression is not caused from loneliness like miss Grierson, but rather by her questionable freedom. Although repression takes on different forms, it is all the same and can eventually leave you consumed and breathless. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson lives a secluded, and turmoil filled life which has revolved around inexplicable loneliness characterized by the harsh abandonment of death being that of her fathers.
Susan Hill creates mystery by referring to her as “the woman in black”. This gives us a desire to find out more because her name doesn't give anything away. However, at the same time we feel fearful because we are given no other details by this about her character and how she may appear. “Black” gives a chilling feel because the colour black has connotations of death. The description of her appearance in the chapter “The Funeral of Mrs Drablow” creates an enigmatic tension.
I quote: ‘‘The last word he pronounced was—your name. (Conrad, 2003: 161)” He told her that Kurtz’s last word was her name, instead of: “The horror! The horror! (Conrad, 2003: 145)” Maybe he’s trying to protect the woman from the cruel reality of the world, like the imperialism or the slavery. Kurtz’s fiancée represents the innocence of the Victorian society, its ideas and personality, she ignores what is happening in the African continent and she believes in the good deed of the civilizing mission.
This statement represents the American definition of beauty that has evolved throughout the world and history; this idea that whiteness symbolizes beauty and blackness denotes ugliness. The idea of a woman having long, straight hair, light-skin dehumanizes Black women because society has created the idle “Barbie” in which every woman should represent in the American society. This is one of the main reasons Black women find alternative ways to beautify themselves, as a way to show that they are equally as beautiful as a bi-racial or white
So, it would be interesting to explore how Walker uses this blackness to her advantage. Even the very title of Walker’s essay “Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and Partisan View,” intimates that she goes beyond being a mere Hurston enthusiast, she’s a fervent supporter. The word partisan indicates more. For example, it can also be taken to mean Walker is aligning herself to Hurston in terms of being female, a writer, but also, a sister in blackness. Hurston had this to say in Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook: I dislike insincerity, and most particularly when it vaunts itself to cover up cowardice.
For many of the older characters of the book, remaining on the island is their only way of preserving their lives as they knew them as well as preserving the clan which is fundamental. “…it seems that we can only stay forever if we stay right here. As we have stayed to the seventh generation. Because in the end that is all there is – just staying.” The geography and climate of Cape Breton both shapes the lives of the characters and also limits their futures. The choices for career and livelihood on the island are limited to fishing, coal mining, farming and logging.
The Role of Women in Lanval By: Nikole Smith 5/2/2012 Prof. Howard Canaan. In the story Lanval the author Marie de France’s describes the roles of women to be very stereotypical. These gender stereotypes are actually considered to be harmful, as well as degrading; some example of these gender stereotypes would include: “The fairy appearance in court, the old temptress queen, and Lanval’s lover. According to carlavangrove.com” Women is described as “sexy objects and beautiful maidens in distress, as well as obedient to men and their bodies are their best feature.” (http://carlavangrove.wordpress.com) Some example of this quote would be: “Their clothes were in expensive taste, close-fitting tunics, tightly laced, made up in deep-dyed purple wool.” (Norton P.143) Another example is “My lady, sir Lanval who is so free, beautiful, wise, and praise worthy ordered us to come for you. For she herself has come here too.
“The Tell Tale Heart” Short Story Essay Owen Meredith, a blind woman, stated, “Those true eyes [t]oo pure and too honest in aught to disguise [t]he sweet soul shining through them.” Owen Meredith well describes the beauty that eyes of every individual holds. Edgar Allan Poe on the other hand portrays the negative to the message Owen Meredith convey’s when she describes her vision of eyes. In the story “The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe focuses his story on the narrator’s insanity, due to the evil eye of an old man. The narrator observes the man for seven nights; after the eighth night, due to the disturbance the evil eye brings him, the narrator kills the old man. Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the insanity an eye can bring to an individual and what it leads to.
It is believed that she goes into the darkness with us, and for us, to swallow our sins, worries and concerns. The Goddess of Kali has many different names. The name Kali is derived from the Hindu word that means "time” and that also means "black". Kali means darkness but she takes away the darkness. Kali also means she who is beyond time.
Ivan Panin once said, “ For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it,” meaning someone will see you, listen to you or someone will love you. I agree with the quote because the toughest part about life is deciding when to give up or to try harder. In The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison shows how Pecola, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly because she and her community base their ideals of beauty on "whiteness" giving up and not trying hard for her wish of the bluest eyes.