Governess

Edith Cavell was born on December 4th, 1865. Her father, Fredrick Cavell was a minister, and her mother was his housekeeper’s daughter. She obtained extra education before marrying Fredrick in order to become accepted as a minister’s wife. Edith and her siblings grew up in a house built next to the Swardeston Church her father worked at. They grew up with little money, but plenty of maids. As Edith was growing up she became a wonderful painter. She loved the outdoors and would draw and paint…

Head in Heart Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, once said, “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” In a battle between the head, the thoughts, ideas, and logic, and the heart, the feelings, emotions, and passion, one often faces a critical choice: to follow one’s head or one’s heart. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane, an orphaned young lady on an odyssey to find love and true happiness, is faced with this conflict of balancing…

Startled, I looked up to see Rose staring at me intently. Of course she sees my nervousness. She comes closer puts her hands on my knees and says, “You will look amazing if you do this, but, you don’t have to, I support you either way.” Her famous line, “I support you.” This explains the depth of our friend, not only can she sense my nervousness but she truly lends her support to me no matter the decision. I give her smile and say, “I did promise you.” The barber starts measuring my hair.…

which Jane meets Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers show her in different positions towards each man, which lead to different relationship dynamics. Edward Rochester, who happens to be the owner of Thornfield Hall, is Jane’s employer since she is the governess of Adele Varens, while John Rivers is a distant relative of hers. Jane’s first encounter with Mr.…

G ender Roles from 1837-Present The gender roles of both men and women have changed from a small amount to a large amount since the beginning of the Victorian Era in 1837 to the present. This can be summed up in three main points which are male gender roles, female gender roles, and both gender role behaviors. These three points show how much the world has changed over time. The first point to discuss is the male gender roles. The male gender roles in the Victorian Era were that they were the…

Wollstonecraft, the English writer and passionate advocate of education and social equality for women, wrote her famous book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which argues for women’s equality in a society dominated by men. Nearly a century later, another writer appeared. Virginia Woolf made an essential argument in "A Room of One’s Own", She argues mainly about how women were rejected and mistreated in the society. Wollstonecraft and Woolf both focus on women’s inequality and the role of…

Isabella Baxter was a new woman. She was a human being that needed to learn how to speak, how to write, how to read. All of this things, Godwin offered to Isabella and in return he expected nothing. Now, the man worshiped the woman and he did everything he could to empower her, to enlighten her mind in order for her to be happy. He takes Bella around the world to discover herself and to be able to construct, to build her own personality, deprived of any England social rules with respect to…

During the Civil War, a lot of people played different roles on both the Confederate and the Union sides of the war. There were spies who used their seductive powers to get information out of the officers and women who dressed up as men to be accepted as a soldier 's. The Civil War influenced much of society by beginning segregation, secession, and gave rights to slaves. According to the biography on her website, Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City,…

The French Revolution changed the country of France permanently when the people overthrew the monarchy and established republic. Although the Revolution had many causes and long-lasting effects, in his book When the King Takes Flight, author Timothy Tackett argues that Louis XVI’s decision to flee France with his family, and its ultimate failure, was a major event that altered the course of the Revolution. The townspeople who had discovered the King were faced with the difficult decision as to…

based on their gender alone. Elizabeth I of England, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was one of these many dignitaries. Despite the ideas that rule by a woman was against nature and the holy sacraments, Elizabeth I ruled as the supreme governess of her realm, dealing with the great contempt held against her by soldiers, church officials, and even ordinary subjects. Elizabeth I pursued her career with bravery, prayer, and political strategies in order to prove her authority as…