Although set in the 70s, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the few timeless programs that remains relatable today. As an extremely likeable character, Mary embodies an innocence along with wholesome humor and her experiences are not too out of line with the average career woman today. While modern viewers of the show would perceive Mary’s life as normal, the experiences of a single independent career woman were anything but normal in 70s society; in fact, Mary Tyler Moore was regarded a…
Dana Elaine Owens was known professional by her stage name Queen Latifah. Queen was a Grammy-winning rapper, record producer and actress, known for her roles in ‘’Chicago”, “Bessie” and “Set it off” and many more. Latifah was born March 18, 1970 (age 47) in Newark, New Jersey. When she was 8 years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname. Latifah means delicate and sensitive in Arabic. She had an older brother name Lance Owens, who died in a motorbike accident in 1992. She attended Catholic…
rule, stereotypes, norms, and expectations. Gendered expectations such as the women are to be silent and homely housewives and that the men are to be loud opinionated powerful and the bread winner. Archaic family tropes in television such as “I Love Lucy” and “Leave It To Beaver” supported the very notion but as times progressed and cultural influences adapted to the counter culture and feminist movement it started taking a turn for a different perspective. Women had voices and men were…
Lucy Honeychurch threatens her own happiness greatly. She constantly battles within because she is composed of Apollonianism and Dionysianism principles. The contrast between honey and church in her last name represents her constant struggle between the two forces. The beginning of her last name, honey, taste sweet like the Dionysianism way of indulging one’s self. Then, the second half of her last name, church, represents a formal place thought of as strict or proper like the Apollonianism way…
Discovery Journal Writing Never Let Me Go — Chapter 7 I am curious whether there is a reason, or a meaning of some kind, behind Ishiguro naming the characters. I have read that whoever with the name Lucy, will always bring anything they start to completion. And I think this description fits the character Miss Lucy in Never Let Me Go. This chapter is mainly about Kathy's reminiscence of Miss Lucy, there were several flashbacks (of course, all in different time…
Dracula – Lucy’s case An old saying goes like this: Opposites attract each other. Often it refers to two completely different people finding each other falling in love. In this context, it refers to the main theme of the Bram Stokers novel Dracula from the late 19th century. Love, lust and horror frame the world-known book Dracula, which is about the evil Count Dracula travelling his way to London, England, turning young, beautiful women into vampires and allure them back to Transylvania in the…
wealthy count in Transylvania, real estate in London. After strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray’s, Johnathon’s fiancé, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. It is mostly just gossip, but there are several references to Johnathon. Through there gossip they introduce most of the main characters. Next, it shifts to Dr. John Seward, or Jack’s diary with a…
heart had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as might be.”(173) Because Lucy gained supernatural powers from Dracula’s bite she regained consciousness after her death. A character who we can presume was Lucy was seen sucking the blood of young children; the children called Lucy the “bloofer lady”. Lucy fell from being a socialite to a disgraceful creature who preys on children at nightfall. Lucy appearance is continuously depicted throughout Dracula yet characters like Reinfield…
female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires in Count Dracula’s castle. The vampires were describes as sexualized characters. In Victorian society women should be pure and innocent, yet the vampires were flirtatious and promiscuous. The three female vampires tried to seduce him and drink his blood.…
small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?’” (White 3).…