The author’s intent in “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs” is to show how freeing it is being yourself and speaking your mind, and the consequence of limiting yourself and your mind. The main character of the story, Mary, tries to fit in as much as she can, and slides under the radar as much as possible, but in doing so stifles herself. She is constantly repressed by those around her and she is always worried about standing out and saying the wrong thing. When Mary goes down from her interview in New York she finds out she is only there to meet the requirement of interviewing a woman for every open position, and she realizes she is not going to get the job, and never was. This brings to light the constant struggle for equality women…
Poems are pieces of writing that convey meanings through nature and rhetorical devices. Phillis Wheatley uses nature as well as light and dark imagery, reason and love to show the meaning in her poem “Thoughts on the Works of Providence”. Her audience is forced to think about the meanings of the poem through the imagery she uses. Wheatley efficiently uses rhetorical strategies to get her message across about God’s providence, which is how God provides for us. The reader must adequately absorb the imagery in order to understand what the poem is about.…
In “Oranges” a 1960 love poem by Gary Soto, a theme of sacrifice is present throughout the story by using the symbolism of oranges, the fruit, to portray warmth, love and passion. The twelve year old boy, sacrificed one of the two oranges which he had saved for later, so that he could pay for “what she wanted (Soto, 27)”. The young boy understood that to be in love requires sacrifice. His willingness to surrender everything in his possession to make her have “a smile starting at the corners of her mouth,” fulfilled his heart's desire (Soto, 28-29). The orange was a token of his love and helped illustrate the theme of sacrifice.…
This poem dramatizes the conflict between actually feeling love and the act of making love. In Sharon Old’s “Sex without Love” the speaker floats in the third person as more of a scientist experimenting with love. On the surface love is mirrored through the imagery of “beautiful as dancers “and “great runners” (Olds 2-3); making love, as Sutton said “favorable” (178). To continue this praise for loveless-love, Sutton points out that in lines fourteen and fifth teen: “the ones who will not / accept a false Messiah, love the / priest instead of the God.” sex without love is “holier” and more sophisticated “because their highest urges are not grounded in the physical” (178).…
An effective explanatory essay acquaints with the reader with a specific concept, or a major idea. That idea is then elaborated on. The essay titled Flow was much more effective in being educational and enjoyable. The flow of the information, pun intended, allowed the reader to focus much easier and to enjoy the reading while doing so. If I were to write an explanatory essay, I would use topics surrounding science.…
While reading Christina Rossetti's Goblet Market I could not help but notice the similarities and connections to the bible, in particular the story of Adam and Eve. The character in Rossetti’s work represent people from Adam and Eve’s story for example the goblins would be the snake, Lucifer, and the sisters maids Lizzie and Laura would be Adam and Eve. The market would be the tree of knowledge, this is directly related to the bibles story because it still is the forbidden fruit. The sisters know they shouldn’t eat fruit from the goblins but the temptations to do so is always there. For example, The goblins chant "Come buy, come buy; Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plum unpecked cherries..."…
The Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti can be interpreted in many ways, a possible reading of the Goblin Market can be the influence that drugs have on a person. Drugs cause psychological addiction and become associated with the release of pleasure inducing endorphins. But these pleasure come with a life threatening cost. As evidenced by the text, Laura goes through a traumatic experience, craving for the fruit and suffering the mental and physical consequences of an addict.…
Regardless of whether literary characters, authors, or readers believe in God/ a higher power, it is human nature to search for morality in the midst of immorality and injustice. Often that search leads people to seek answers above the fray of humanity’s wickedness from some divine being. Traditionally, prayer is seen as a form of this communication and search, while the cross is a symbol of a holy figure’s guidance; its base reaching upward to the heavens and the horizontal piece extending outward to humanity. However, these literary symbols also represent the daily struggle between good and evil in every individual’s life that instigates a hope for a better world. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard both emphasize…
Tabitha Silva British Literature 3 October 17th 2015 Paper #1 “Goblin Market”, written by Christina Rossetti in 1859 and published in 1862, is a tale warning of the dangers of temptation. This piece was written in a time period where many women were not educated because it was frowned upon just as the expression of a woman’ sexuality was frowned upon. I believe “Goblin Market” can be used to address all forms of forbidden female pleasure such as education and sexuality.…
Although Antonio loves to learn, his dream about the brothel reveals his anxiety about the morality of desiring knowledge. In this dream, he clearly associates knowledge of the flesh with sin. Antonio’s refusal to enter the brothel on the grounds that he may someday want to become a priest results from his anxieties over whether not fulfilling his mother’s wishes is immoral. In other words, he wonders if it is a sin not to fulfill her wishes. Anaya begins to link some of the thematic anxieties that have troubled the novel’s characters from the beginning: growing up, becoming independent from one’s parents, learning, and finding a clear moral framework in which to live one’s life.…
Emily Brontё spent most of her life isolated within the countryside village of Haworth, where Brontё experienced the brevity of life at a very young age. Her mother’s death and those of her family that followed influenced her fascination with mortality. The theme of religious doubt and uncertainty the forefront that inspired her works, including the poem “Plead for Me.” Within the poem, Brontё addresses the topic of morality as the conflict between religion and reason. Brontё’s speaker then attempts to find an ultimatum for this conflict, in the hope that their religious doubts can be solved.…
(Galt 79). The same goes for the poem written by Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market.” Many believe it was written as a cautionary tale for children however, it also has religious symbolisms embedded in the poem. The Goblin Market is a religious poem because it references temptation, sin, suffering, confession, and redemption. The first reference made from the religious perspective is concept of dealing with temptation and forbidden fruit being eaten when an authority figure cautions them about it.…
During the Victorian era, the role and expectations of women is an issue of much discussion throughout the period. While there are instances of individuals challenging the social constructs that prevent a woman from expressing her own self-interests, many still support the idea of women being inherently self-sacrificing. Women are expected to be the epitome of elegance and womanly virtue, and should — above all else — maintain this idealized self-sacrificing attitude in all aspects of their lives. These Victorian notions of the ideal women are reflected in the literary works written in this historical period. In Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, she emphasizes this concept of a self-sacrificing woman who will sacrifice her own happiness…
This essay will be discussing how the motif of sacrifice is used by Toni Morrison throughout her novel Sula (1974), namely the sacrifice of motherhood. Sacrifice is found in different forms in Sula; physically through self-mutilation, murder or suicide and also the emotional sacrifice of love. This sacrifice of love is shown primarily through the mothers in the story, through what they have had to give up to keep their children alive.…
It is well known that the contributions Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss made to the advancement of the study of sacrifice are groundbreaking and foundational. Whether or not later theorists have agreed with the concepts Hubert and Mauss have proposed, they cannot deny the influence that their Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function had. One commendable aspect about Hubert and Mauss is that they were self-reflective in their writing, stating that they “do not think of presenting [their theory] save as a provisional hypothesis: on a subject so vast and complex, new information in the future cannot fail to lead us to modify our present ideas” (1). They are aware that there will be research in the future that will challenge their understanding of sacrifice;…