Black pride

In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, he highlights the issue of language in relation to class structure. Borrowing ideas from the Greek myth Pygmalion, Shaw creates character Henry Higgins, a phonetician, who tries to transform the flower-selling, cockney Eliza Doolittle into a lady. While exploring the idea of creation between Higgins and Doolittle, Shaw chooses to focus on their social dimensionality. While Eliza is trained to speak and act like a lady, she does not gain the proper instincts in…

In Stephen Tanner’s The Art of Self-Deprecation in American Literary Humor, he explains self-deprecating humor as a means for the reader to understand the writer on a relatable level. He writes, “The reader, instead of feeling superior to the character, sympathizes with him or her and feels, ‘Here’s a person who suffers much the same frustrations I do…’” (55). In Fey’s case, she uses herself as the character and explains to her reader, females in particular, how she is different from the…

Sex and Economics The third and final rubric I devised for the remaining two texts of the course is regarding sex and economics in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. These two texts are very deeply rooted in sex and the economics of marriage. Woolf presents yet another willful, married woman. Yet Mrs. Dalloway seemingly trapped in a conventional and boring marriage with a conventional man, appears to be fairly content with her decision. The debate of marriage…

The Evolution of Elizabeth Elizabeth Bennet There is a complex and intricate weaving of gender, classism, and societal ideology of the institution of marriage in Elizabeth Bennet’s era of time was intricately built upon the foundations of patriarchy, social class restrictions, and female subjugation. All of these finely defined constructs formed a cohesive bond within this interestingly and distinct tapestry within the framework of patriarchal dominance, female submission, and playing the game…

Radclyffe Hall has brought forth a symbolic treasure, The Well of Loneliness, with the use of characterization, symbolism, and a establish mood throughout the novel, Hall symphosize a lugubrious tale. Through the whole of this novel, indirect characterization has been the primary approach Hall chooses to bring forth the multitude of character’s personality and inner beings. Alongside the use of indirect characterization, Hall utilizes symbolism to her advantage. Symbolism can be observed in the…

Caitlin Moran Real Love Is Not Unhealthy The romantic love plots in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё take form in selfishness and attraction. Many of the relationships described in the book were never sincere. However, it is possible to argue that Cathy and Heathcliff had the most genuine relationship out of all the couples in Wuthering Heights, but did that make it a healthy one? Cathy and Heathcliff were soulmates, but also each other's downfall. Their love was unconventional, making their…

of the other characters in the book allow readers to recognize the importance of self- recognition and self-understanding, “the necessity for insight.” Jackson believes Austen’s writing reflect real-world reality, with Emma’s flaw of ignorance and pride. The kind of irrationality of a real person. Structually, realism plays an important part in Austen writing for presenting her own values and moral. Jackson points out how a majority of Jane Austen’s novels are called anti-romantic. During the…

The young boy views himself as disgusting, repulsive and, ugly. On page 9 he says, “If anything I gave her credit for not throwing up.” In another instance on page 23 he talks about how he feels like people go out of their way to avoid him. He is very self-conscious about his appearance. He says this after a girl looks at him. From the main characters point of view, the guru looks like a cheerful old lady. He states that the guru has faded eyes and that there are wrinkles around his mouth and…

Through the interactive orals, I have a better understanding of Medea’s rage and her position as a God. In the play, Medea’s anger was justified because her husband takes another wife. Which makes others and me sympathetic towards her. Even though, knowing that Medea lets her passion rule her actions. However, in the interactive oral: Jason and the Argonauts, I found out that Hera convinces Aphrodite to send her son, Cupid, to a love arrow at Medea for she was a skilled sorceress capable of…

In the book, Much To Do About Nothing, the author talks about two couples that are in love ,but Beatrice and Benedick are the ideal couple because they share opinions on how to live their life and how one person shouldn't be tied down to another in the beginning of the story.This is proven when they say in the book ”Benedick:Then is courtesy a turncoat. It is certain I am loved of all you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none.Beatrice:…