Elizabeth Gaskell

What happends when twins get jealous of each other? The short story about Sparrow and Finch tells us about that. Two siblings, where the older one of them is more loved than the youngest and have a better life and where the youngest just stand along the sideline watching. The protagonist of the story is a girl named Sparrow after the bird, for short she is called Spaz, however she prefers to be called Rowie or Row since Spaz isn’t that nice. She is the youngest twin and she claims that it was…

The Temple of My Familiar After a huge success of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1983), another novel, The Temple of My Familiar came which was published in 1989. Though the events in the novel were beautifully woven but it did not receive much acclamation. bell hooks praised the novel and called it a “multivocal experiment with postmodern romance and magical realism (hooks)”. The novel is considered a sequel to Walker’s The Color Purple. Alice Walker herself described the novel as “a romance…

The importance of Abigail’s lie is that she ultimately stabs herself with a needle in order to cast doubt on Elizabeth. Abigail realizes that if Elizabeth is convicted of witchcraft, then she will more-than-likely be executed as well. Meaning that if Elizabeth is eliminated from the picture, it would leave John available for Abigail. All of these scandals show that there is a continuous trail of lies present. When Reverend Parris’s…

The Wicked Effects of Prejudice: Prejudice and Discrimination Glinda. Delightful. Angelic. The Wicked Witch of the West. Wretched. Demonic. Although it has been a few years since I last viewed the Wizard of Oz I still recall these perceptions of the characters from the movie. Even now, when I picked up the book Wicked, taking place in Oz, however under different pretenses, these perceptions that I had formed from viewing the Wizard of Oz all those years ago left a lasting impression. After…

Sir Walter’s highest hope is for his beloved and eldest daughter Elizabeth to marry well. His disappointment in his youngest, Mary, stems from her failure to marry a man of higher rank than her husband Charles. Sir Walter is indifferent to his daughter Anne altogether except to approve of Captain Wentworth when he and Anne…

Life would be so much easier if the truth was black and white, but in reality, the truth is more of a grey area. In the play Doubt: A Parable, Father Flynn’s innocence is unsure to both the readers and the characters in the play. Although there doesn’t seem to be enough evidence to prove he is guilty, Sister Aloysius is “armed with her certainty” and gets Father Flynn to leave the school (Shanley . The lack of physical evidence makes Sister Aloysius attempts to expose Father Flynn fruitless, but…

bigger key role threw out the whole story. Also the main characters have lust or greed. Lust is what Abigail has and she is one of the one's who started the whole witchcraft accusers and she drank blood and tried to get Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth. Greed is more than one character in the story because some just wanted what someone else had. Most of Salem during this time was in panic and worry. Why is because someone wouldn't know who else would be accused or it was going to themselves…

The Crucible and 12 Angry Men are two differing plays that unite in the aspect of the justice system. In both plays, we have the conflict that the accused are seen as guilty before the evidence is thoroughly looked into. A difference that sets the two plays apart is that the young girls accused of being witches are not given as much of a chance as the young boy accused of murder. This is due to the differing time periods in which both plays took place in. These similarities and differences are…

Sylvia Plath clearly embeds the story of Esther Greenwood into the political situation of the time. The Bell Jar introduces its setting by referring to the execution of the Rosenbergs. In the summer of 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of and electrocuted for espionage. It was believed that they had passed secret US military information on nuclear weapons on to Soviet Intelligence. The fear of the so-called “red scare” was omnipresent, and it was believed that more and more people…

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses women for their strengths.” (Lois Wyse) She Stoops to Conquer is an 18th Century play by Oliver Goldsmith which tells the story of how a lady crosses class lines to conquer her love. The plot is unravelled when Charles Marlow, a man who is brought to marry noble woman Miss Kate Hardcastle by her father, has a minor foible whereby he is frozen stiff with fear when it comes to talking and socializing with upper-class women. However when it comes…