Elizabeth Strout

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

Austin captures in the book Elizabeth as the strong independent person who can stand by herself in terms to find love instead money like what her mother wants. She showed this point when Collins propose to her because Collins is the only male heir close to Bennet family so after Mr.…

INTRODUCTION. The Age of Innocence is one of the most famous novels of Edith Warton since it won the Pulitzer in 1921. It is placed in 1870 old New York. It explores its society, its conventionalisms and its rigid system in which everything has an order and a purpose. We are introduced to a love triangle which will show us a society that fears scandals more than feelings. Trough the three main characters, Edith Wharton portrays a society she knows well, and that eventually would have to flee.…

The play, “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller starts off with an unconscious girl named Betty Parris, and her distraught father. The situation that led to this outcome started a whole pandemonium which was known as The Salem Witch Trials. A few centuries later, a similar issue called McCarthyism would come up, and yet again, destroy people’s lives. In the Salem trials, however, innocent people were killed, and there was one main man to directly blame for those lost lives: (Judge) Thomas Danforth.…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s book The Namesake, whose central theme is the immigrant experience, is a beautifully written novel. One may certainly expect this from Lahiri. She is highly educated, possessing three Master’s degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies between Literature and the Arts ( Britannica 2017). She has a deep personal connection with the recurring themes and topics of migration, identity, and immigration that permeate her books. While being interviewed for the April…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has fear , hysteria , and revenge . In this play Abigail is a evil & flat static character who gets revenge at people in the play but does it in the worst way & she doesn’t feel bad for her actions . Abigail is evil throughout the whole story . At this point in the story Paris is now talking Abigail which is his niece , he is talking to Abigail about what he seen in the woods & she is denying all alligations she is dishonest with her uncle Paris. “ I…

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…