Daughters

I hate about you has better character development. The relationship between the father and his two daughters had almost no similarities. The only one being that Baptista Minola did not want his younger daughter Bianca marrying until his older daughter, Kate, has a man of her own to wed. Similarly, Walter Stratford made a rule that his younger daughter Bianca could not date until his older daughter Kat started…

Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Prawar Jhabwalla and Githa Hariharan Mukherjee exposes many facets of feminism, encompassing agitation for equal opportunity, sexual autonomy and right to self determination. We find the same in the novel Desirable Daughters where the heroine Tara ventures to widen her horizons in matters of marriage, love and sex; redefines her roles as wife and mother. Social identities are far from getting fixed in some essentialized past, and are subject to the continuous…

This doubleness, registered in Hopkins’s passing narrative Hagar’s Daughter, is emblematic of a national economy in which the law itself is counterfeit. For the slave economy to exist, the idea of racial purity must exist, and the white economy has to remain in collective denial of racial hybridity (Tuhkanen 488). The social contradictions are overwhelming, as racial identity becomes a figurative inheritance (Rohrbach 486). As the plot unfolds, Hagar and Jewel are able to escape enslavement and…

The Heretic 's Daughter is a heartfelt and riveting tale of a family during the Salem witch trials who faced many perilous battles and had to learn the importance of faith and trust. The story is gripping and powerful and tells the tale from a realistic standpoint, beginning with a letter to Lydia from Sarah Carrier Chapman, telling about the witch trials and struggles she endured from her point of view, and ending with a detailed explanation of what became of her family after they were released…

Seclusion from the outside world can cause one to not be in their right mind. In the stories “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The Bet” isolation played an immense role. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Beatrice, was kept in a garden away from everyone. Her father, Singor, was a doctor who created medicines out of plants that he grew in this garden. Beatrice met a student at the University and he found out that her touch was poison. The reader learned that Singor would sacrifice anything that is dear to…

The novel Secret Daughter, written by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, is a story about family relationships and the way in which each member’s choice impacts how the family lives. The novel is set in two locations, India and America, and focuses on the Thakkar family and the Merchant family over the years of 1984 to 2009. The three protagonists are Kavita Thakkar, Somer Merchant, and Asha Merchant. These three women make decisions that influence the family member’s actions and behaviour over time. Within…

The Daughters of liberty The daughters of liberty were a group of women who were angry with Britain because of all of the unnecessary taxes being given to them, so they decided to rebel against the British by making homemade things instead of buying them from British merchants. The daughters of liberty consisted mainly of five women, Martha Washington born June 13, 1731 in New Kent County, VA, Sarah Franklin Bache born September 11, 1743 in Philadelphia, PA, Esther de Berdt Reed born October 22,…

I. Title: To A Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan -Importance of title? The title of the poem is an important element, for the reason that it gives the reader a clue about the topic of the poem. The title describes that the speaker thinks back to a moment when her daughter made an earlier retreat. II. Organization (Stanzaic or Continuous? Importance?) The poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” has an Stanzaic organization. The poem is one stanza long. The breaking of the poem may reflect…

Hatshepsut was the daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. Queen Ahmose’s family background is ambiguous as most believe she was of royal blood being related to Amenhotep I (his sister or daughter) or some member of Amenhotep’s family. On the other hand, Thutmose I may not have been of royal blood. Speculations of his origins include that he could have been the son of Amenhotep or an established military leader who had no royal blood at all. Thutmose I had two children with Queen Ahmose,…

The key to a fruitful and healthy relationship is communication and understanding one another; without it, love will fade away into the darkness, failing to grow as both parties separate. Such ideas are in The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, where she explores the development of relationships through identity and word. Ruth Young, the protagonist, struggles with comprehending the actions of her mother, LuLing, from her youth and present, of which an Alzheimer’s diagnosis exacerbates those…