Charlotte Brontë

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery Critical Analysis Theme: The Conflict between Imagination and Social Expectations Anne of Green Gables was written by a Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomary in 1908. It was the most famous novel of its time. It was considered as a children novel in twentieth century. It describes the adventurous story of a 11 year old orphan girl who is by mistake sent to on an Island where a brother and a sister are going to adopt her and want her to work with…

The Film ‘A Little Princess’ directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995 and tells a story of a young girl from India, who is sent to stay at a boarding school while her father goes to fight in war, as her mother is dead. On the other hand, the novel ‘The secret Garden’ was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911 and tells a story of a spoilt ten year old girl who has to move from India to her uncle's house in England after her parents had died from a disease. Both film and novel displays the theme…

The pressure to conform to beauty standards that don't resemble yourself lead to feelings of shame and inferiority. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison she writes in chapters naming them each season of the year. In this chapter she talks about the season Winter. There is a new girl introduced at school named Maureen Peal who is a light-skinned, wealthy black girl who the whole school loves. Claudia and Freida dislike her and the attention she receives from everyone so they search for flaws in her…

Plot Analysis of Sidney Sheldon’s “The Other Side of Midnight” Introduction The other side of midnight is the story of two women who grow up in completely different situation. However, one day their stories meet and that is when the big problem starts. One woman is Noelle Page, who is pure and moral, almost too beautiful to have come from the loins of hard labor parents. She was born in Marseilles as a poor fisherman’s daughter. The older she grows, the more beautiful she becomes. As a young…

The Flower Girl’s Great Transformation “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” In George Bernard Shaw’s fictional play, Pygmalion, Liza Doolittle also known as The Flower Girl, is the protagonist and is under an experiment for six months. Liza lives with two old gentlemen, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering. She later discovers her new identity, a better lifestyle where there is education, etiquettes, social class, and fashion…

Taekwondo: Reality vs. A Novel The novel, Eliza Bing Is (NOT) a Big, Fat Quitter by Carmella Van Vleet, explored an integral part of my life, which is Taekwondo. Though the novel explained Taekwondo to some extent, Van Vleet poorly portrayed the relationship between the student and their sport. The main character, Eliza, and I experienced different introductions, contradistinctive emotional experiences, and contrasting achievements. Eliza and my own introduction to Taekwondo differed greatly.…

Katherina Minola, also known as Kate, is the first-born daughter of Baptista in Taming of the Shrew. “Shrew” is an expression used to label an aggressively assertive woman. From the beginning, Kate is frequently referred to as “a shrew whom cannot be tamed”. However, as the composition progresses, Kate’s personality drastically transforms when she comprehends the effects of her actions on other people. Kate becomes conscious of this after her husband, Petruchio, starts imitating her. His mission…

The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen could not have been named better. This is because of the personalities that result in the actions of the two main characters, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. Elizabeth Bennett, or Lizzie, is one of the five Bennett daughters, but is nothing like her other sisters. She completely refutes society’s ideas about a woman’s purpose and marriage. This often leads to her having more pride than the average woman of the Regency Period. Elizabeth does…

The work of Susan Griffin is unique, and it may not be easily to classify it in the existing genres of literature. When one goes through her work for the first time, it is easy to assume that it is a novel, a story about her past. However, it becomes clear as one continues to read her work that this is not just a simple novel meant to entertain her audience using fiction. The details she provides about various events and the manner in which she chooses her words clearly points out that this is…

In The Secret Garden, readers learn the devastating effects on a child when he or she is shown no love. Mary Lennox, the protagonist of the story, was given all the goods and things that she wants, but with no real feeling from her parents, she feels neglected and soon adapts a very nasty character. When you first read it, it may seem like she might never change, but when she encounters a secret garden tucked away in a hidden room in a giant mansion, she changes completely. Frances Hodgson…