Jane Patterson

Rationale I decided to write a diary from Lenina’s point of view, one of the main characters of A Brave New World, which takes place in a utopian society that is divided in five castes (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon). In this society people can’t have babies, families or feelings. Lenina belongs to the Beta’s caste which means that she is a shallow product of a materialistic society, but in her diary we can see her struggling against her caste. On her diary Lenina wanted to be loved by…

The seventeenth-century Gothic novel is associated with the combination of the supernatural realm and Romanticism. Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, is an attempt to critique the seventeenth-century Gothic novel by identifying Catherine’s sensibility through her over fascination and addiction to reading—such as Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. Austen utilizes Catherine’s obsession with novels as a means to highlight how such fascination has caused Catherine to become naïve and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850-bestselling, romance novel, “The Scarlet Letter” centers around adulteress Hester Prynne, doctor-tormentor Chillingworth and Minister Dimmesdale. Hawthorn effectively uses irony to develop his characters by writing their reactions opposite to what is expected of the audience; Hawthorn is effective in this because Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s reactions are consistent throughout the entire novel. Hawthorne’s use of irony developes Hester’s toughness,…

possible. She didn’t have any degree or training, in other words, didn’t have any experience with jungle, chimpanzees and any other animals. She wasn’t at university and could not tell if chimpanzees have minds as human beings; some scientists argue. Jane wasn’t appreciated because she didn’t have any knowledge, but her desire and love of being in Africa and investigating chimpanzee’s behavior didn’t stop her and followed her heart. She started working as a waitress and saved every penny;…

Authors often draw inspiration from the environment that they live in and Jane Austen is no different. Her novel, Pride and Prejudice, is reflective of ordinary life in the early nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on the life of the average country woman in England. Jane Austen explores and exemplifies the intricate nuances of society and its standards on its inhabitants, particularly through the characterizations of the plethora of characters appearing in Miss Elizabeth Bennet’s—the…

One keeps turning to the point that Woolf is a realist; the new method is to represent the real world as it is perceived in a culture which is a state of flux following the Great War. Woolf’s motive in writing this novel wasn’t just to present to us the confined life of a high-society housewife, or to explore homosexuality or feminism, but to take the reader on a psychological journey that takes postmodernism and…

1 Introduction “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine”. These are the words Jane Austen chose to introduce the protagonist of her novel “Northanger Abbey” and they seem to give the impression of Catherine being “desperately naive, dangerously unsophisticated, and frequently slow to comprehend“(Kindred 196) right from the start. This impression seems to be confirmed as soon as the reader notices Catherine’s disability of…

Kamala Markandaya occupies a prominent place among Indian English novelists. She won international fame and recognition with a publication offer very first novel, Nectar in a sieve in 1954. When she started writing novels, the themes hunger and degradation, human relationships, east – west encounter had already been dealt with by a number of Indian/English novelists. But Kamala Markandaya provides variety and vividness to these themes. In her all the novels these themes are reflected in the life…

Suffragette," detailing the push for ladies' suffrage in the United Kingdom in 1911-13, has both of these issues, despite the fact that it experiences increasingly the first. Coordinated by Sarah Gavron and composed by Abi Morgan, "Suffragette" makes it look like since one (Fictional) lady (Carey Mulligan) affirmed about her hardships to future Secretary of State for War Lloyd George, the suffrage development encountered a profundity charge of duty. In actuality, the development was an irritable…

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte is a story about a youthful orphan, named Jane Eyre, who was living an awful life with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds. Jane’s character developed throughout the novel. Bronte acquired the buildup in her characters by the multiple locations in the novel, since the settings mostly reflects the human’s emotions. The different locations Jane encountered had a huge impact on her character and the mood throughout the story. The novel started at Gateshead Hall, where…