Jane Arden

MARRY WELL……. MARRY REALLY WELL TOPIC: The tittle of the article is Marry well…Marry really well written by Ken Fisher. In my opinion, this article is an argumentative article. Marry is to become the legally accepted husband or wife of someone in an official. People nowadays tend to get married based on several aspects such as love, wealth, appearances. In the article, the writer focuses more on his belief that marrying for money is better sense than marrying for love as the individual who…

eality in George Eliot’s Understanding of Novel As a woman writer in a time when women’s presence in literature was just beginning to be acknowledged with the rise of novel, George Eliot was already among the best novelists of the time, women and men alike. While being among best novelists can be a subjective matter, perhaps it is safer to say that she was among the best realists. This feature alone has attracted attention from the male writers of her time around the world, so it is actually…

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

Maureen Johnson is an American author of young adult fiction and is recognized for the Shades of London series, including The Name of the Star. Johnson’s style is easily characterized by long, complex sentences, extensive use of allusion, and a modern story-telling ability. Mediocre metaphors aside, The Name of the Star is a well-developed novel through Johnson’s use of beautiful descriptions and believable dialogue. The novel is a part contemporary, part paranormal thriller, marked by two…

highest social class or have education to understand the humor, setting, characters and events. The era of Gothic literature majorly inspired and created her unique and acclaimed stylistic voice in her novels. Within the novel Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen employs extensive rhetorical devices and literary elements to establish the storyline, purpose, and themes of her writing. One of the most evident devices Austen cleverly uses is the narrator directly referring to the reader in order to…

Take the novel Mrs. Dalloway, while the ending is more precise than say Larsen’s Passing, there is still a question of what is to come. After the death of Septimus, Clarissa begins musing about him. “She felt somehow very like him… She felt glad that he had done it… He made her feel the beauty,” and then at the very end of the book, “What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was” (Woolf 110, 115). With these quotes, Virginia Woolf leaves the…

In this passage from Cordwainer Smith’s “The Game of Rat and Dragon”, Underhill sees himself as his nurse sees him, through the telepathic connection he makes with her. Not all humans in Smith’s story have the same abilities as Underhill. In fact, there seem to only be a select few humans with telepathic capabilities. The telepathic humans are employed as a sort of military force referred to as “pinlighters”. These “pinlighters” then, become infamous “others” to the un-evolved, or…

See, when I think of Regency Era books (Or Victorian or Lady-and-Lord books or whatever you call them), it's hard for me to think about women empowerment and girl power. It's not like the times were conducive to women's rights: Women belonged to their husbands and fathers; they had no legal recourse if their 'guardians' were abusive. Furthermore, Pride and Prejudice captured an important truth about society's expectations for the fairer half of nobility: One, they would marry well and two, they…

Surrounded by witnesses, a minister and Mr. Rochester, her fiancé, Jane patiently waits to get married, as the mystery of Thornfield Hall slowly unravels around her. Unbeknownst to her, Rochester’s actual wife, Bertha Mason, is within close proximity.The revealing of the mystery will pose as a test to Jane's morals and her character. Through Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte utilizes the events surrounding the mystery of Thornfield Hall by displaying specific passages in the novel that emphasize the…

independent will” – Jane Eyre. I think that Jane is an intelligent, simple, and honest girl who was forced to live through inequality, injustice, and humiliation. Jane Eyre is the protagonist of the novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. She was an orphaned child. Throughout the years, she grows independent and strong. She receives cruel and unfair treatment from her Aunt Mrs. Reed. In her search of finding freedom, she meets Mr. Rochester, a wealthy, rude man who works at Thornfield. Jane…