Charlotte Mason

Throughout the book, Austen takes us through two main friendships within Elizabeth's life. One that is shared with her sister Jane and the other with her neighbor Charlotte. These relationships offer different insights into what it takes to be in a female friendship. With Jane, the bond shared is much more supportive and valued, while with Charlotte, their relationship is noticeably less prominent and more of a competition. Elizabeth and Jane’s friendship can be argued as the most important…

Narrative Nonfiction Michaela DePrince´s complicated, problematic and painful life from war orphan in Sierra Leone to a star ballerina in the United States is a story worth telling. Michealas life in Sierra Leone was devastating. Both of her parents passed away at a very young age, and her cruel uncle took her under his wing but he claimed she was ´unsightly´, so brought her to an orphanage to get rid of her. Things were not any better at the orphanage for Michaela in the beginning, she was…

Feminist is what the character Hester Prynne represents in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To be feminist is a woman who is independent, strong and who is self determined. A person who doesn’t count on anybody else but themselves and that moment when they do show hopelessness to somebody that somebody will have a strong connection with the feminist. A woman who even in their darkest moments can pull through to see the bigger outcome of the problem. For example, Hester Prynne…

Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion.…

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the life story of Elizabeth Bennet, a young girl from an aristocratic, yet not wealthy family. Elizabeth places utmost value in five core qualities: knowledge, intellect, humility, judgement, and integrity. She only respects people who exhibit these values, and who also see these values in her. Elizabeth believes that men and women are equals along these qualities. Even though she believes this, she does not act that way in social situations. In fact, the…

Tess Essay In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy challenges the ideas that the Victorians had. He does this through themes and the three main characters, Tess,Alec and Angel. The two main themes that challenge the Victorian ways is the idea of the perfect woman and social criticism and the main characters that challenge the ways of Victorian ways is Tess, Angel and Alec. The perfect idea of a woman was that they do what men want them to do, stay at home…

Ratan is one of the simplest and yet one of the most enigmatic feminine characters in Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories. She is a twelve year old, poor orphan girl. Her parents died when she was very young and hence, she has lived in this solitude all her life. She is a simple, honest and caring girl. She is illiterate but slowly learns to read and write under the guidance of the postmaster. Infact, she has a high grasping power which is well proved by the speed with which she learns to read…

Literature sometimes embeds secrets in the narrative of a text. What remains unreachable for the reader produces the desire for them to find the truth about something). Bennet and Royle call this “the process of unfolding and revelation” (271). Brontё’s Jane Eyre accounts to “telling [the reader] the plain truth!” (111) indicating that narrators in Literature can be ‘all-knowing’ and ‘all-telling’. However, Bronte relies on the first-person narrative to have readers think that Jane and they…

Jane Eyre is a novel whose main theme could be debated as being religion. The statement that the novel is an “anti-Christian novel” has a good basis as there are clearly anti-Christian sentiments expressed at various points in the novel primarily through the characters like Jane and Helen, Brocklehurst, and Mrs Temple. Jane herself, the protagonist within the novel, is the character that seems to hold the most anti-Christian philosophy and resentment for those who are followers of the religion.…

During the French Revolution, many significant events took place. The beheadings of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, along with thousands of their aristocratic followers in 1792, was a pretty significant one because it meant the end of the terrible monarchy that was ruling over France. However, the change in the arts that the Revolution brought was probably the most important of all. From 1789-late 1790s, the people had enough of their country being bankrupt, and desperately…