Emma Stone

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…

There are a few important themes which are treated again and again in the novels of Jane Austen, though in each case the novelist is able to impart something of freshness and novelty to the treatment. The business of getting people engaged and married is one of the important themes which the novelist takes up for the treatment in novel after novel. Jane Austen, sharing the opinion commonly held by her contemporaries and satisfied with the conditions that prevailed, was of the view that a young…

One of the major themes in the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is marriage. Unlike today, women in the nineteenth century women did not have a lot choices. One of the choices include marriage. Women in this time were held back and are not expected to have careers like men. Once they decide on a man, there is no going back and divorce was considered uncommon. The women in the novel, each display their thoughts on marriage. However, Elizabeth Bennett, who is opinionated and passionate…

throughout the films. Specifically in the first film, Hermione’s “bossy” attitude seems to be a predominantly known and well-recognized characteristic, so it came as a shock when she showed a shred of selflessness, in the beginning. In The Sorcerer’s Stone, Hermione had enough of the constant mockery and ridicule entreated upon her by Ron and Harry, so she fled to the girls’ bathroom where she wept. Ron and Harry had heard there was a troll near the same bathroom that Hermione was in, so they…

vomiting and laxatives and those old favourites, bleeding or leeches” (Robinson). Many of the illnesses prevalent in the early 1800s were caused by exposure to cold, damp weather. It is undeniable that weather plays a significant role in Jane Austen’s Emma, but it is the anxiety caused by the weather that plays an even more significant role. The term “under…

was able to marry her love and did, in fact, lose him forever. She wrote many novels and they were published under a man’s name due to society’s rules. Some of her most famous novels were Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion (“Jane Austen” Merriam Webster). In addition to writing novels, she also read them. During her childhood she read many famous books including those written by William Shakespeare, Thomas Grey, John Milton, and many others. Out of…

Change of perspective In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen we come across as a well told story where the characters are well drawn and supported. By observing the different encounters between Darcy and Elizabeth, we come to learn that she forms a prejudice against Mr. Darcy. Throughout the novel we see how these prejudices she has are ironic and even sometimes wrong and how he over comes his pride. In my essay I would like to look at three instances where we see how his actions are…

The novel Emma is a 19th century novel written in the Regency Era by Jane Austen. The political, historical, and social context during this time affects both the novel as well as the protagonist, Emma. From the start of the novel, Emma is described as “handsome, clever, and rich” by the omniscient 3rd person narrator. This clearly reveals Emma’s character and her superior status in her social hierarchy, as well as alluding to her egoistic personality. Her rich and comfortable world is further…

Jane Austen is of the famous authors of the 17th century. An English Novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the aristocrats earned a place as one of the most widely read writers in English Literature. Austen, a woman who expresses writing in a manner that bridges the gap between romance and realism. Her lifelong efforts remain in our possession and are well known across the globe. Austen reflects on her journey of life and peruses to express those events in the form of stories. From…

The State Theatre Company South Australia reinvented Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility in a modernised 2018 production that has the audience’s eye’s glued to the stage and leaving with aching cheeks from endless belly laughs. This fun and heart-warming adaptation still retains the classic quaintness of Jane Austen’s gossip filled world of late 18th century England. The State Theatre Company put a spin on the classic 18th century English grand style and flair. From the baby blue and…