Daughter

The production of Iphigenia and Other Daughters, an adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Marya Sea Kaminski, is about a family set on avenging deaths that have wrecked their lives. It takes place in both Ancient Greek and World War 1. In Ancient Greek woman were inferior to men. They did not have any say in their lives and were viewed as property. In this case they were not allowed to exact revenge on behalf of their loved ones that was a man’s right. The fact that Clymnestra did…

of innocence in Rappaccini’s Daughter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bartleby the Scrivener written by Herman Melville is not simply as a characteristic or state of being, rather, it is a factor that influences and concludes the tragic events that occur in both stories. While this factor does not apply to all characters from each novel, it does apply to the narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener and to Giovanni and Rappaccini respectively from Rappaccini’s Daughter. In context, innocence is…

biodiversity is required to establish a healthy relationship. Mutual respect is accepting each other for the way they are. In the poem To a Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje, the father explains “When I thought of daughters,/ I wasn’t expecting this,/ but I like this more./ I like your all of your faults”(8). The father explains how he did not expect his daughter to be the way she is, but he has learned to accept it. When the faults and differences of others are accepted, the family members are…

the problem is society ignoring the abilities that these individuals do have. The novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards shows a journey of the life of a child, Phoebe, growing up with Down syndrome. The film I am Sam directed by Jessie Nelson is a story about a middle aged mentally challenged man, Sam Dawson, who is trying to fight for the rights to be the guardian of his daughter, while other difficulties appear in his life. Restrictions placed on a mentally disabled individual…

story of Eleanor and her daughter depicts the reality of inequality. Eleanor did not have an opportunity to go to the college. No one was expecting her to go to college. The school discouraged her from going to college. “they didn’t plan for you to go to college and they didn’t lead you to expect that it was something you should plan on either, they led you to expect to clean the houses of the girls who went to college” (Kozol, 2000) Eleanor devoted her life to send her daughter to a good…

Not without my daughter, written by Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer is a book based on real events about a woman who fights with bravery for her and her daughter’s freedom. It’s about the true struggle she faced in the patriarchal society of Iran, with courage and determination. The story revolves around a Michigan housewife who accompanied her Muslim husband with their daughter to Iran for two week trip. But to her horror and shock it becomes a permanent stay. She found herself and her…

Reading analysis of Clotel or the President's daughter places the topic of the historical setting of slavery where white men would clover slave or black women and slave women would ironically indulge themselves in their white oppressor. The characters of the story each stand for an actual platform during slavery. For example, the character Mrs. Green's hatred towards Mary, Clotel's daughter, even after selling her mother back into slavery shows how white women expressed their disdain towards…

Although paternal twins may not look alike, most of the time they have similar characteristics. That is the case in the short stories The Birthmark and Rappacinni’s Daughter. In each story, Hawthorne uses a woman in each science experiment. Although not twins, Georgiana in The Birthmark and Beatrice in Rappacinni’s Daughter show comparable characteristics while also displaying differences within the each story. Georgiana is described by Hawthorne as the most beautiful and pure lady of that day…

Sadie Larson Mr. Perry AP Eng. Lit. Per. 6 15 October 2014 “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” 1. a. In The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, written by Kim Edwards, the prominent characters are David Henry and Caroline Gill. Both characters contribute to the greatest incident that occurred throughout the whole story: the transferring of David’s down syndrome daughter, Phoebe, to the nurse Caroline Gill. In the middle of a blizzard filled night, in 1964, David and his wife Norah methodically traveled to the…

Throughout The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, the characters’ thoughts are revealed in different ways. I like the way that the author includes the character thinking to himself to reveal his/her thoughts. The author does include conversations, between the characters, but when their personal thoughts are included, it allows me to understand the character in more depth. For example, Caroline says in her head, “What will become of her?” (Edwards, 95). Caroline would never actually say this in a…