Dante Rossetti’s, Jenny: A Cautionary Tale of Sexual Knowledge and its Destruction of Women “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them” - John-Jacques Rousseau England in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how pressing a flower into a book can “crush the flower within the soul” (256). He appears to make a social commentary within his poem about the unknown thoughts of a common whore about the debate on women’s education. Rossetti uses the books to symbolize the idea that too much knowledge, in Jenny’s case carnal, can in fact restrict a woman from her true potential. He also alludes to other texts and examples of female purity and what is expected of a woman throughout the poem. In this paper, I will argue that Rossetti is cautioning women from pursuing a life of sexual and/or physical gratification. To provide some context, Rossetti himself was born in 1828 to parents who encouraged their four children to study and become learned human beings. His sister, Christina, was also a renowned poet and just as scholarly as he. Christina found some modicum of success as an illustrator, but as a woman, most of her artwork, according to Lorraine Kooistra, was “for private pleasure rather than public…
A group of people that inhabited much of Great Britain regions of what is now France, Belgium and the Netherlands, the Anglo-Saxons were a group of people from Germanic tribes that took control from the 5th century to about the 8th century. Their culture survives in many regions today and they are associated with the re-establishment of Christianity in Europe. Emerging from medieval Europe during the end of roman rule, the massive migration of the Celts, Picts, and Scots from the North allow…
chamber burial (O’Brien, 2008). They analyzed various burial grounds to compare the ritualistic aspects in Barleston Staffordshire, Oxton Nottinghamshire. Benty Grange Derbyshire, Lowbury Hill, Aston Upthorpe, and Oxfordshire (O’Brien, 2008). The article inspects the status of the remains based on the artifacts found such as the armory in the burials with the Anglo Saxon Christian beliefs (O’Brien, 2008). This article can help elevate the argument in analysis of the structure of the burials. It…
Career and College Research paper A Funeral director, known as a Mortician, is a highly respected job. The job, itself, is a fairly simple one. You pick up and prepare corpses as instructed by the family of the deceased, and set up the paperwork for the funeral. Most funeral homes are family owned as a common practice, where multiple family members work together, each in individual fields. Sadly, this kind of job does not come easy, the schooling and education requirements alone are enough to…
Mead, accompanied Charles Bellamy when he “motored” to New Glasgow where they met Mrs Bellamy who had “been receiving medical treatment” in Halifax. Not only was Charles Bellamy superintendent at the Hazel Hill cable office, but he and his wife Annie may have been close friends of the Dunnings. The Bellamies’ plots lie be-side the Dunnings’ in the cemetery of All Saints Anglican Church in Can-so. In 1939, the Second World War broke out in Europe. John had re-tired by this time. William joined…
It was a frigid Halloween evening, and we were standing in line for the Ruby Falls Haunted Caverns. There were people standing in front of us, behind us, and beside us because of the way the line was setup. Most people stayed in their own groups, huddled together for warmth. The line was right beside the road/parking lot where cars kept searching for spots to park in. To the right of us was a rocky face leading to a dark, concealed forest. Hunter and I sat on a rock about halfway there. Hunter…
belongings. Although Ötzi's find site drains to the Austrian side, surveys in October 1991 showed that the body had been relocated 92.56 meters inside Italian territory as delineated in 1919. The province of South Tyrol therefore claimed property rights, but agreed to let Innsbruck University finish its scientific examinations. The second piece of physical evidence from ancient civilization I want to talk about is the Gobekli carved stele. Archaeologists and scientists have claimed it as the…
Over Spring break, the cemetery I visited was Holy Sepulchre in Worth, Illinois. It is run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The cemetery itself is massive. From what the city records say, it covers 320 acres and there have been well over 95,000 people buried there. When you initially arrive at the cemetery, there are large, impressive gates that greet you. To the left of the gates there is a main office and an area where they can actually help you locate love ones by simply providing…
Dead people usually look creepy and dreadful. But mummies --- the preserved bodies that had been embalmed are amazing. Their intact internal organs and elastic skin make them nice to look at. And there are some really appealing mummies that will certainly surprise you. In the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Italy, many tourists assemble near a coffin. In the coffin, there is a mummy called The Sleeping Beauty. She is Rosalia Lombardo. Many tourists are astonished by the preservation of the…
the main hall was decorated as mourning hall, a thick wooden coffin rested died person 's body for three days. During the three days, the Taoist practiced, turning undead (release souls of the deceased person from purgatory), monks struck Muyu (木魚)(a wooden fish,or wooden clapper — a percussion instrument made of a hollow wooden block, originally used by buddhist priests to beat rhythm),recited scriptures. Friends and family members all came, burned incense, hell money,kowtowed (kneel and touch…