Governess

Throughout the book the governess has a never ending mental battle with the spirits. It gets to her head that she, and she alone have to protect the children from Peter Quint’s and Miss Jessel’s wrath of evil. This leads her to be very protective and anxious of what the children do each and every day. This make the children uncomfortable when the governess ask them questions like, why did you get kicked out of school Miles?,and where is Miss Jessel Flora?This causes the children to clam up and…

forward with the Governess in discovering Bly both an encouraging and perplexing space; the Governess feels more great outside, where she really gets the opportunity to escape and have some alone time, be that as it may, as the story goes on, the entire bequest feels more claustrophobic. The confinement of the characters adds to the story's uplifted feeling of steady pressure, since they have next to no contact with the outside world, aside from chapel on Sundays. The Governess Despite the…

When Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847, it was seen as unpopular due to its methods of storytelling as well as its lack of likable characters. It was Emily Brontë’s only published book and was very underwhelming considering her sister, Charlotte Brontë, had an impressive collection of critically good books. Years since its initial unpopular review, Wuthering Heights has been seen as a masterpiece. Readers today have appreciated the way the story is conveyed, but many still have…

In Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice undergoes a lot of changes that would normally happen if one were growing up . Alice is then trying to figure out how to stay to her normal size through of the book. She has to learn how to act like an adult throughout the book . Alice is troubled with these issues of suddenly acting like an adult and growing up . The Rapid Change of Growth Alice encounters many growth changes through the book. The first change she goes through…

Ved Verma 10th/ Sophomore Miss Parks Paper 1 “Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there”. Mrs. Reed is Jane’s aunt in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Mrs. Reed is a widow living with three kids, and Jane Eyre. She treats Jane not how she should be treated because she is different from her own kids. Mrs. Reed throughout the book has done nothing positive, every time she was brought up she did something malicious. We’ve seen various ways Mrs. Reed fill in the archetype of the…

Sula by Toni Morrison, follows the story of two young women from childhood into adulthood, in their monotonous hometown of The Bottom. These two girls, Nel and Sula, are presented as opposites of one another throughout the book. As kids, Sula lives a non-traditional life, in a busy boarding house with her grandmother Eva, and her promiscuous mother Hannah; Nel, however, lives in a very ordinary and structured home with her strict mother Helene. Nel longs to be more like Sula, free and individual…

The Film ‘A Little Princess’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995 and tells a story of a young girl from India, who is sent to stay at a boarding school while her father goes to fight in war, as her mother is dead. On the other hand, the novel ‘The secret Garden’ was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911 and tells a story of a spoilt ten year old girl who has to move from India to her uncle's house in England after her parents had died from a disease. Both film and novel displays the theme…

The pressure to conform to beauty standards that don't resemble yourself lead to feelings of shame and inferiority. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison she writes in chapters naming them each season of the year. In this chapter she talks about the season Winter. There is a new girl introduced at school named Maureen Peal who is a light-skinned, wealthy black girl who the whole school loves. Claudia and Freida dislike her and the attention she receives from everyone so they search for flaws in her…

In writing Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte sought to oppose her sisters’ beautiful heroines and prove she could make a heroine “interesting on any other terms”, stating, “I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours”. Bronte created a character that strayed far from the conventions of the beautiful but weak heroine. She was able to create such a character because Bronte herself didn't fall into the standard definition of the women of her…

In Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Edible Woman, the main character Marian is depicted as a “normal” woman, who is perfect and desirable. This perfection leads her to be “consumed” by men and those surrounding her, illustrating the name of the novel, “the edible woman.” Throughout the novel, The Edible Woman, Atwood connects this to the consumption of food around Marian leading her to reject any form of food that may be taking advantage of animals. In the final passage of the novel, I believe that…