Society is predominantly patriarchal. It is expected that men are the successful breadwinners and women are the housewives. Looking at a piece of Literature with a gender lens requires the reader to focus on how a work reflects or distorts these gender norms in society. In My Antonia the gender lens can be applied to reveal the overarching theme of self reliance. More specifically the gender lens can be applied to reveal the self-reliance of pioneer women such as Lena and Antonia.…
Civil War battlefield surgery, surgeons, and nurses were more common on the battlefield during the war because of the severity of the injuries and sickness from disease. Civil War battlefield surgery came to be known as butchery, though it saved many lives of soldiers and helped them possibly get back on the battlefield. The most common surgery that surgeons performed was amputations. Most deaths didn’t occur because of the amputation itself but because of the “surgical fevers,” which usually developed during the septic state of surgery. Surgery as a treatment for injuries incurred by soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War was brutal.…
Julia Hawthorne Mr. Bender Survey British Literature 10 May 2016 Wife of Bath: Tragic Love Stories In the prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer introduces the Wife of Bath as someone who strives for sovereignty over her husband. The tale which the Wife of Bath later narrates is appropriate because it captures her exact intentions: women wanting dominance over their husbands.…
HOOKFILLER___________________________________________________________________________________________________________. All of the stories had a static or dynamic character, a person that either changed over the course of the story or a person that stays the same. You can tell a character is dynamic or static by the thoughts and feelings or what they do in the story. In the gift of the magi Della was a static character. The other two, most dangerous game and the necklace where both dynamic characters.…
Through the quilt, the women protect themselves as women, silently defending the legitimacy and significance of the daily events and activities in the life of a woman, despite the criticisms of their husbands and of their…
so when news of her husband’s death is told it needs to be done lightly. Louise’s sister, Josephine is the one who tells her the news of her husband. One of her husbands’ friends, Richards, saw a railroad…
“Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker is a short story roughly about an unsuccessful household who scuffles to make things right and in order. The story says that Maggie and Dee’s mother was very hardworking and wanted to make everything possible and joyful for them. She went out of her ways and tried to make the whole household happy. In the story, “Everyday Use,” there was Maggie who was very respectful, unselfish, she never wanted more than what she needed. Maggie also helped her mother around the house and outside.…
Reading Everyday Use, the reader is able to understand precisely why Mama wants so badly for Maggie to have the quilts. Mama seems to have favored Dee a bit more since Maggie is shyer and more reserved than Dee is. After reuniting and seeing how much her daughter has changed, she snaps out of it and realizes Maggie is the one who can truly appreciate and honor their…
Philosophers have contemplated if aspiring for material wealth is contradictory to moral life. Guy Maupassant explores this concept of materialism in his short story, The Necklace. Set in Paris in the late 1800’s, the story focuses on Monsieur and Madame Loisel. The latter is unhappy as hse finds life to be inadequate and empty of the luxuries she deserves. The Loisels revcieve an invitation to a ball.…
Because of this, Beth inspired her sisters that although gifts are nice, the presence of people is more meaningful and special. At another part of the March’s lives, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy were conducting their “Busy Bee Society”, and speaking about each other’s castles, their hopes and dreams. “Margaret…said slowly, ‘I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things- nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money.’ …‘Mine is to stay at home safe with Father and Mother, and help take care of the family,’ said Beth” (211). Again, the girls dreamed of such materialistic things such as money and luxury, except for Beth, who wished nothing more than to assure safety for her parents by staying at the house.…
To further displays her youthful fancy at the performance at Uncle’s house. She performs in all her comical wonder as if she and her brother were again young children. When around her family, she can be completely herself, feel comfortable in doing so, and not feel outside pressures to conform to a character…
However when you view things from Ms. Mallard’s side of the door you might find things are playing out a little differently than Richard and Josephine might think. When you begin to read and you see things from Ms. Mallards point of view you might believe that the others were correct about Louise. You first see the scene Josephine also witnessed, Ms. Mallard “did not hear the story as many woman have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.…
Explore the issue of belonging and how it is presented in ‘An Unknown Girl’ (Moniza Alvi) and ‘The Necklace’ (Guy de Maupassant) Although one is a poem and the other a famous short story, both ‘An Unknown Girl’ and ‘The Necklace’ are united by one ubiquitous theme: the issue of belonging. ‘An Unknown Girl’ explores how the narrator, who remains anonymous, finds her sense of belonging in an Indian bazaar through hennaing, with the help of an unknown girl. In ‘The Necklace’, Maupassant tells through realism the tale of a young woman, Madame Loisel, who attempts to leave behind her mediocre life and find acceptance in the upper classes of society. This ultimately results in the loss of a diamond necklace, and Loisel’s spiral into deeper poverty…
Alice Munro is a phenomenal author who won the 2013 Nobel Prize and is the “master of the contemporary short story” ("The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013”). Munro has an uncanny ability produce normal every day characters with a unique and driven story that highlight many themes. In her short story, “Carried Away” Munro attempts to unveil the mysteries of fate, love, sex and death in a unique and original perspective from a young library set in the early 1900’s. All of these themes, which may seem vastly different in some cases, create a beautifully constructed story that falls away from the cliché story contemporary writing has become prone too. Munro’s theme of fate in this story is the extremely plot driven, and if any part of this story…
Virginia Woolf’s The New Dress has many themes and literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened.…