Black pride

“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John…

Judge Wilhelmina Carson is the lead character of the Judge Wilhelmina Carson series otherwise known as the Justice series of novels by American author Diana Capri. The first novel of the series was the title Due Justice that was first published in 2011. Diana Capri the author of was born and raised in a small American German small town just north of Alabama where she spent much of her childhood reading books. She attended the Wayne Law School before she went on to become Wayne Law Review editor.…

It is obvious, that describing the society of that period of time, Dumas was not able to omit this sphere of human relations. At the beginning of the story, Mercedes is known to be the Dantes` fiancee. However, being not able to resist society, she also betrayed Dantes and married a wealthy man who was able to guarantee her further life. At the end of the story she said Dantes "you have had trust in God, and God has sustained you. But as for me, I have been a coward. I have denied God and he…

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, is a significantly well-known and well discussed novel. As was expected at the time and the nature of novels by the Bronte sisters, the core focus of said novel by the readers was the romantic relationship between our protagonist Jane & the surly Mr Rochester, especially upon first reading of Janes arduous journey through life. The ‘will they, wont they’ nature of their relationship and natural inclination of readers to focus on the romantic theme within…

Irene Alder: Incongruent for Her Time in History The expected role of Victorian women was limited to the responsibilities of caring for the home and family while catering to their husband, a highly restrictive existence, where life centered around their spouse and subsequently their children. However, Irene Alder does not fit into the social expectations of the 1890’s because she is an intelligent and powerful woman, who is independent and capable of existing outside the environment of home and…

According to Genesis,“Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her”( Genesis 30:1-2). In the beginning of the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood introduces her book with five different quotes. Every quote relates to what is going to occur in the novel. Atwood uses this quote at the beginning of the novel to foreshadow that certain characters in the novel will be forced to fulfill certain roles. In the novel, The Handmaid’s…

Virginia Woolf explores the social intricacies of gender relations in early twentieth century England. In her novel, Jacob's Room, Woolf uses sequences of characters sketches, circulating around the figure of Jacob, as a means to analyse the roles of men and women in her contemporary society. Contrary to the stereotype of the passive woman and active man, women actively maintain household operations. In addition to the domestic sphere, Woolf examines the shifting roles women perform in the…

Royal Bodies Hilary Mantel The 21st of February, award-winning and best-selling English writer, Hilary Mantel is born in 1952, who is particularly famous for her historical novels, held a speech, called “Royal Bodies”, at the first one of the year’s London Review of Books lectures at the British Museum. It’s focused on the UK monarchy, the royal family, how they’re being exposed to the public, what Hilary Mantel’s opinion on them and her style of approaching them. But what is her view on them,…

One of the most widely read books in the English language is written by Emily Brontë in early Victorian Age (1930–1901) – the novel Wuthering Heights, firstly published in 1847 as her only novel. While in the preceding Romantic period poetry had been the dominant genre, in Victorian period it was the novel which became very popular. Novelists were inspired more so by playwriters and poets than other novelists. People were so strict, hypocritical, prudish, and stiff, minding their own business…

the Earth. To others, she is thought of as the most venomous and intrusive lady to ever live. The imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh, one who places herself above all the rest, plays a somewhat smaller role in the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice”, but her exceptional character and qualities stand out immensely over the others. Even though she only appears occasionally, her intricate traits and characteristics are able to capture the audience's attention almost immediately.…