Elizabeth Montgomery

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…

“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” (Fitzgerald.) This is one of many examples of how women are treated with manipulation in, ‘The Great Gatsby.’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel, written in 1925, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This historical fiction takes place in 1922, following characters that live in New York. ‘The Great Gatsby’ movie was released in 2013, as a romantic drama, and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. It contains the same…

“Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

Emma and Moll, Breaking the Mold The 18 and 19th centuries are remembered for the literal and art creations as depicted in the Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders of 1722 and Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary of 1856. The two pieces are novels exploring the lives of heroines Moll Flanders and Emma Bovary respectively. Similar to other pieces of increasing critical thinking such as law and philosophy at the time, the two novels were based on societal changes…

her husband. And Mr. Bennet, if he has any true qualms about Lydia's behavior, does nothing to stop it. When Elizabeth confronts him later in the novel about his cultivation of Lydia's alleged frivolity by allowing her to go to Brighton, Mr. Bennet brushes her concerns off by saying, "Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other" (Austen 158). Elizabeth continues to protest his decision, arguing that her own respectability will be negatively affected by…

paragraphs to develop. Austen chose the title of her novel to subtly point out that the characters involved contain a certain level of both pride and prejudice. Elizabeth, Darcy, Miss Bingley, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Collins are all characters who possess these two traits to varying degrees. Even though Elizabeth and Darcy, the two central characters in the novel, are plagued with pride and prejudice, there are others who also hold these two character flaws. In the…

of that, John Hale cannot lie because he is a minister and it will ruin his reputation if he lied. Although John Proctor and Reverend Hale’s motives were similar, they were still a little different. John Proctor tries to stop witchcraft to rescue Elizabeth Proctor, his wife, and to bring the execution of innocent people to a halt. Hale also has to stop the witches and the executions, but Hale isn’t stopping witchcraft to save his family, he is doing it because he is an expert at it and he wants…

Comparative Analysis: The Namesake & Perfume Analysis of Perfume by Patrick Suskind and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Both texts are post-modern writings that either directly or indirectly focus on the identity of its central characters in the first two chapters. Lahiri being a diasporic writer reflects her diaspora in her work through her characters key features or conflicts. Süskind bases his story in the Victorian era; it is however, influenced heavily by the industrial revolution as well,…

Elizabeth Bennet, an at first young and vulnerable woman, is soon perceived to be the dire opposite of vulnerable, as her characteristics materialize throughout the novel. She is first revealed to be uncommonly modest regarding her personality, and later displays bravery as she is true to her personality, even when doing so may lead to criticism from the women surrounding her. Criticism may also come from her refusal to conform to the ideas of marriage, a decision validated by denying a proposal…

“Chillingworth was the worst he tried to get revenge and kill someone!” “Dimmesdale is the worst, he was a minister and committed adultery.” “Pearls the worst she was a disrespectful kid.” These all sound like bad people but seriously, we all know Hester has got to be the worse character of them all. Hester is the reason everything happened, without Hester none of the other characters would have had any conflicts. If Hester did not go to the woods with Dimmesdale, or if she would have told him…