It is hard to imagine a world where women had no power over their own lives, but being powerless was the reality for Jane Austen and her characters Catherine and Eleanor. Northanger Abbey is a novel by Jane Austen, about a young girl named Catherine who longs to be a gothic heroine in the 1700s. Austen has to reinforce gender norms of male dominance and marriage for purely financial stability over her female characters, Catherine, Eleanor, and Isabella because of social norms that caused an inability for females to be heroines. Catherine is unable to overcome the gender norm of male dominance over females in her interaction with John Thorpe. While Catherine is in a carriage with John Thorpe, he judges all the women they see, and Catherine…
Joan felt his body overheat even if he was walking under a sunset. All he wished for was to lay in one of the mango trees. While he was lost in his thoughts…
Summary John Gustafson and Max Goldman were former friends who had known each other since childhood. Once the boys began to grow an interest in women, their friendship was not the same, as they would fight over women. They soon began a rivalry between each other, that ended up lasting for 50 or more years, as they would try to win over the women’s heart.…
“My Antonia” is a book written by William Cather, the book starts out with two friends on a train traveling through Iowa, after a while running into a girl named Antonia. Antonia and the narrator lost touch, but Jim had kept up with her, staying friends. Jim also wrote in the book, all the memories Antonia and he had. The narrator mentions about the writings, this reminds me of myself, I write when I have a marvelous day or even on a horrible day. I write it down so this reminds myself as a result of myself and the narrator being the same.…
My father was very protective over our family sword. He was so protective that I, Princess Cordelia, his daughter, couldn't even touch it. Not a single poke or a tap. It was awful to be honest. Father had told me many stories when I was younger of the battles that took place on this soil hundreds of years ago and how my ancestors fought to conquer this land with that same sword.…
The novel opens with Alexandra, a strong and independent woman, visiting a doctor’s office in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, a town that looks out of place on the vast prairie. The streets are empty except for one young Swedish boy named Emil, Alexandra’s little brother. Emil is distraught; his gray kitten was chased up a telegraph pole and has no way down. Emil and the shivering kitten wait for Alexandra to return. Upon her arrival, Alexandra disciplines her younger brother, then goes to find help.…
“Every new beginning comes from another beginning’s end.” -Anonymous. During my nine years at St. Anne’s, I have grown as a person, created memories, and learned profound lessons. The people at St. Anne’s have assisted me to grow into an open-minded, loving individual. Through the years, kindergarten to eighth grade, the teachers have taught me valuable lessons and my peers and I have created many memories.…
1 item, 3 stories, 1 ending By Caitie Moore The crunching sound of cheerio’s under her white double strap Birkenstocks broke the silence of the still but eerie evening. She didn’t bother locking her Suzuki Swift, she wouldn’t be going back to her 16th birthday present anyway. The breeze along with cold spits of rain had settled into the air, with the hairs on her arms and legs shooting straight up. It didn’t bother her, she liked the feeling of discomfort, it distracted her. Her knuckles turned white from gripping the barrier of the bridge so hard, the sound of the crashing waves on the rocks beneath her were swiftly brought to her attention.…
Abigail’s Journey “Abigail, go get some roses from the forest!” Dad yelled. I walked outside wearing my plaid skirt and red T-shirt. My brown ponytail shimmered in the sun. When I got to the edge of the forest, I didn’t know whether this would be a new experience or a death trap.…
“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime, the late 1700s through the early 1800s. Steventon, Hampshire, England: December 16, 1775, Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra brought Jane Austen, future renowned author, into this world.…
The short stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro have strikingly different tones established by the two authors. The stories both consist of a narrator with a love interest, however the authors’ use of diction, imagery, and setting create a difference in tone of the two stories. In “Araby,” Joyce begins the story in a setting with a very dark, gloomy tone. Joyce accomplishes this by mentioning how the priest, the former tenant of the house, had died in the back drawing-room (2). With the story starting on a depressing note, the narrator, a young boy, begins gushing over his love interest, Mangan’s sister.…
Miranda in The Tempest is comparable to Jennifer Lawrence in that they are both beautiful, outgoing, and empathetic, among other traits. Miranda is one of the protagonists in the play. She is the daughter of Prospero, who originally held the title of the Duke of Milan until he and Miranda were escorted out in the night. They, along with servants Caliban and Ariel, have been stranded on an island for twelve years at the start of the play. Jennifer Lawrence is an American actress born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 15, 1990.…
At Long Last Love The reason I gave this article this particular title was because even though Elvira Grunte met and saw Latvian poet and writer Eriks Raisters several times in Riga, Latvia they never dated. There was only a six year different in their ages but because Eriks was older and already finished with university to him Elvira seemed to be too young for him. In fact when they first met Elvira was just finishing high school.…
In a small quaint village lives a fairy who’s name is Freya. Freya lives in a large tall oak tree where she has her cozy house. In her house she has her kitchen, living room, dining room and a small staircase that leads upstairs to her small bedroom and bathroom. Freya’s house is made from some of the old sappy wood from the oak tree which she lives on. When Freya first moved to the small village she was glad to know that the weather was nice and warm.…
When Marianne notices a ring on Edward’s finger, Elinor is convinced that it is her hair. Even though Edward mostly ignores her during his visit to Barton Park, she fails to take the hint or acknowledge the possibility that the hair on his ring might belong to another woman. Elinor, in this one instance, is too tempted to miss the “opportunity of satisfying herself beyond all doubt that it was the exact shade of her own” (95). Elinor’s doubtful character and her tendency to check her hopes appear to have completely vanished in this one instance as she ultimately allows hope to misguide her to conviction. Even Elinor, who readily gives up hopes and desires, is tempted by the “lurking flattery of hope” (337).…