Elizabeth of York

In Erin McCahan’s book Love and Other Foreign Words, sixteen year old, gifted Josie tells about her trials in trying to understand love and it’s nature in all relationships. Josie’s sudden urge to comprehend being in love was triggered whenever her older sister Kate gets engaged to the intolerable Geoff. She automatically could not stand him because he was just as witty as she was. In attempt to start to understand love, Josie agreed to go to Prom with her former friend Stephan Knot which ended…

In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, he highlights the issue of language in relation to class structure. Borrowing ideas from the Greek myth Pygmalion, Shaw creates character Henry Higgins, a phonetician, who tries to transform the flower-selling, cockney Eliza Doolittle into a lady. While exploring the idea of creation between Higgins and Doolittle, Shaw chooses to focus on their social dimensionality. While Eliza is trained to speak and act like a lady, she does not gain the proper instincts in…

Within the play God and the Indian by Drew Hayden Taylor, the characters of Johnny and George are more about contrast than similarity. Throughout the play we see the main character George undergoes many changes as he tries to protect himself and his reputation from being blamed for the abuses that have happened in the “St. David’s”(28) Residential school. Through the whole story he argues with the second character Johnny who is an “Indian” woman comes to his office and cliams that he have…

Sex and Economics The third and final rubric I devised for the remaining two texts of the course is regarding sex and economics in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. These two texts are very deeply rooted in sex and the economics of marriage. Woolf presents yet another willful, married woman. Yet Mrs. Dalloway seemingly trapped in a conventional and boring marriage with a conventional man, appears to be fairly content with her decision. The debate of marriage…

The Evolution of Elizabeth Elizabeth Bennet There is a complex and intricate weaving of gender, classism, and societal ideology of the institution of marriage in Elizabeth Bennet’s era of time was intricately built upon the foundations of patriarchy, social class restrictions, and female subjugation. All of these finely defined constructs formed a cohesive bond within this interestingly and distinct tapestry within the framework of patriarchal dominance, female submission, and playing the game…

In “The Crucible”, Abigail shows power throughout the book in many ways. She doesn’t start out with power, she isn’t handed power, she simply fights for it in a smart way. In doing what she does, she hurts many people but helps herself not get in trouble. She shows power more than any other character in this book because everything seemed to go wrong mainly because of her. She did something she shouldn’t have done, doesn’t allow others to tell the truth about her, and she creates mass hysteria…

contrasted by lies that are taking others’ lives. A principal theme in The Crucible is that not all lies are malicious. John Proctor is generally honest and full of good intentions. Most of the lies he tells are not intended to harm others. He tells Elizabeth that her rabbit stew is good, as not to hurt her feelings. She is never harmed by John’s lie, and is happier because of it. Proctor is reluctant to go to the court and acts as though he did not speak…

and is in a coma like state, yet it is found that it was all just a hoax to not get into trouble. This is also a reason for Abigail to take to personal interest. By dancing in the woods Abigail hoped to accomplish the death of John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth Proctor, by casting a spell or charm on her. Of course this does not work, and so her actions of witchery lead her to trouble, which then evokes her to blame others in order to stay self-preserved. Abigail claims that Tituba forced her into…

The short story Demon Lover written by Elizabeth Bowen, as well as the ballad Demon Lover appear to revolve around the same concept. The short story is about a woman that was once in love and engaged to a soldier, who fought in World War II. When she returned to her former home she was blindsided by a letter she found on her table.No one had known that she would be visiting her home. The letter forced her to recall a promise that she had made to her former lover. Along the lines of the Demon…

In order to understand how the productions drastically change the discussion of sexual harassment within the play, we need to look at how the directors take away the gendered powers of the sub settings through lighting, props and music. For example, we see from the play the convent and whorehouse are spaces dedicated to women and empower them in lecherous sexuality or loyal chastity. Meanwhile, the prison is where both genders meet and are at the same level because of how everyone sins. What the…