Elizabeth Van Lew

Watson 1 Jane Eyre Literary Analysis Nautica Watson Ms.Lovin AP Literature 02/08/18 SOCIAL CLASS STATUS IN JANE EYRE Charlotte Bronte's novel by the name Jane Eyre is set in Victorian England, a place that social class played a huge factor in life as well as in society. Therefore, the novel plays a critical role in exploring the Victorian England strict hierarchy. Of importance, is that through Jane the main protagonist in the novel, Charlotte attempts to show that social class relationships…

realizes that even though he may be a sinner, he can still do good. He finally moves past his shame and understands that he may have sinned, but this sin does not define him, that there is no need for shame to weigh down on him. Even Elizabeth remarks at this. Elizabeth is pleaded with to change John’s mind, but she professes, “[h]e have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!” (Miller 145). Dimmesdale, on the other hand, does not have this revelation. He believes he was rightfully…

through a time of losing trust and not knowing what to believe, mostly Elizabeth. As you read the Crucible you will get a better understanding of their relationship and the struggles they have faced. In the beginning of John and Elizabeth’s rapport there was a period of mistrust. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams and ruined his wife’s trust for him. Elizabeth says, “You were alone with her?” (Miller 53). Elizabeth gets this new information that John and Abigail were alone with…

come far too late; the terror of the Salem witch trials already begins to unfold, and later in Act Four he recognizes the consequences of his actions sincerely. Hale responds to his closed-mindedness whilst conversing with Elizabeth Proctor modestly by saying, “Let [Elizabeth Proctor] not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village as a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion...cleave…

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…