Jane Eyre Essay

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren was first translated into English in 1950, yet decades later, it continues to challenge notions relating to girlhood and gender, and remains a deeply feminist work of children’s literature. Through the use of unconventional characterization of a lead female character, the author brings to life a red-headed, parentless, nine-year-old, who isn’t afraid of anything or anyone. The adventure driven plot, and comedic yet moral dilemmas, help craft a timeless…

The characters in the novel Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee play different key roles in the advancement of the plot and themes of the story. One such character is Lucy Lurie. Since the introduction of the character Lucy Lurie in the novel, she is presented as a calm, humble and hardworking woman who continues to live in the suburb and outskirts of town. It is however difficult to notice that Lucy is related to David who is presented as a sophisticated individual with a very well set life as opposed to…

Monopolization of female psyche in The Lowland by Jumpha Lahiri. Abstract : The Lowland is the second novel by Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It deals with a mother in Diaspora, Gauri, and her daughter ,Bela. Human character and their attitude to life are defined and revoluted by surroundings and circumstances in which they live.The transformation of their psyches are processed by such factors .This transformation have been critiqued in this paper. Gauri goes…

Room by Emma Donoghue is a dramatic novel focusing on the lives of Ma and Jack. The author explores the idea that physical confinement is not the only form of imprisonment. Donoghue relates to wider ideas of imprisonment, such as the responsibilities of motherhood, social expectations and mentality. Characterization, motif, symbolism, theme, narrative perspective, imagery, and allusion are all manipulated effectively within the text to explore different forms of imprisonment. The views shown…

Sexuality in adolescence Sexuality is the most notorious and common sign of development in adolescence.“The House on Mango street”, by Sandra Cisneros is a coming of age novel where Esperanza transitions from a girl into a young teen. In her journey, Esperanza comes across many challenges, she is forced to grow up by life’s adversities. In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother advises her daughter and scolds her into becoming a good woman. In her guidance, the mother is worried…

Ha in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai and the universal refugees have a lot of similarities and some differences. Before she becomes a refugee, Ha is a 10 year old Vietnamese and like any other 10 year olds, she is rebellious, naughty, jealous of others and sometimes thinking about the fantasy that won’t come true. One of her fantasy is her dad, she lost her dad because of the war and hopes that he will come back. Then her life gets harder because of the war and they have to…

illette, Victorian Women, and Opium Villette, by Charlotte Brontë, confronts women’s anxieties about new roles and uncertain social and economic statuses through its narrator, Lucy Snowe: intrepid young woman extraordinaire, yet a cautious and controlling character and author. It is when Lucy’s subconscious takes greater control, due to the opiate dose by Mme. Beck, that the novel expresses most explicitly the fears and emotions of an English schoolteacher displaced in a foreign world. The…

Both The Secret Garden and To Kill a Mocking Bird are Bildungsromane. They narrate the psychological and moral growth of two young girls, Mary Lennox and Jean Louise Finch (Scout). The Secret Garden adapts a third person omniscient point of view approach where the narrator scrutinizes the characters, and narrates the story in a way that shows the readers that she has more knowledge about characters than they have knowledge about themselves. To Kill a Mocking Bird, on the other hand, is written…

Beli had a horrible life, much worse than any other character in this book. Our first interpretation of Beli was that she was a mean spirited woman and a crappy mother. In chapter 3, we realize that there is a reason for this. Her life does not really begin until La Inca finds her at a very young age in horrible conditions. This chapter is called The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral because Beli is someone who loves with everything she has. To me, the three main heartbreaks are referring to…

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is a memoir depicting her life growing up in poverty with her siblings and neglectful parents. Her and her siblings weren’t through many traumatic experiences due to the neglect and ignorance of their parents. One of Jeanette’s earliest memories is that of a traumatic one. While left alone at three years old Jeanette is cooking and while wearing a tutu it catches fire and badly burns her, this lands her in the hospital which her father later reveals he was…