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    In Lady Mary Wroth’s “In this Strange Labyrinth,” the speaker, on a denotative level, addresses her concerns about where to turn in a maze, but on a connotative level the speaker is conflicted with decisions in his life. The speaker struggles, but follows her heart in the end. Similarly, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is the most intellectual among her sisters and she enjoys walking, even alone, both of which oppose the standards for a woman in Georgian society. Elizabeth judges that Mr. Darcy is too proud of his wealth and rude upon their first meeting, but as she learns more about Mr. Darcy, she begins to have feelings for him; however, she is indecisive about these feelings, for she is embarrassed of her family, tarnished by Lydia’s elopement with Mr. Wickham, and her entire town thinks poorly of Mr. Darcy. Balram, in Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, comes from a very poor town in India and contends with his desires in a different way. Balram calls the system in which servants are kept servants, “the Rooster Coop,” and he expresses his claustrophobia and desire to escape; he becomes a driver, whose master 's name is Ashok, a man in the coal mining business who bribe politicians to avoid taxes. Each of these works focus on the desires of the individual and how they differ from societal norms to stress the importance of internal happiness. All three characters try to convince themselves to follow society’s path, but they struggle with the decision to…

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    The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

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    GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…

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    the 19th century. Examining the rights of married women in the 19th century, one would agree that the marriage benefited only the husband. Kate Chopin’s work was published during a time of industrial and social change. Many married women were not confined to just…

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    According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the Jewish American Princess can be described as "a stereotypical well-to-do or spoiled American Jewish girl or woman" ("Jewish American Princess" Merriam-Webster). Jewish American Princesses or "JAP," for short, are Jewish girls who come from environments in which they do not have to do anything for themselves. They are spoiled daddy's girls. They do not work and expect men to always take care of them. Jewish American princesses tend to come from…

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    Role of a woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve J.RANJITH KUMAR Assistant Professor Department of English Priyadarshini Engineering College Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt. E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the…

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    A person’s personal knowledge or historical accounts are the basis for a memoir. There are various authors that have various ways to create a memoir that fits them and their story. William Faulkner, an American writer, won a Nobel Prize in Literature from Oxford Mississippi in 1949. During his banquet speech, he shared his perspective in writing memoirs and writing in general. As he put it the “writer’s duty” was that young writers are forgetting the problems of the human heart which is in…

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    that question. They have something in common – both women immigrated to the United States with their families and both decided to major in English to become writers. However, these are the only few similarities that authors have. Everything else is different and almost antithetical – mother that had her own “broken” English for Amy Tan and…

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    Final Exam Option 1 Being in several college classes and taking two English classes. I have seen a lot of papers that have been required to write and turn in. I have progressed and critique my writing so that I was able to make major improvements over the past year and half or so here at JCCC. Looking at paper’s that I wrote when I first started going here, to where I am now, is somewhat embarrassing comparing my writing skills from then and now show great improvements. Most of those…

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    The campaign also aims to motivate young women and girls to be confident after they hit puberty when their confidence typically drops. The Always campaign accomplishes this goal through the use of branding, challenging text statements, startling statistics and research findings on young women’s confidence, and critiquing the common place of the phrase “like a girl.” Always and the #LikeAGirl Campaign. The international feminine hygiene company…

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