Katherine Mansfield

The story “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield tells the story of a man who has lost his son due to a war. It shows how difficult it can be for someone to come to terms with losing a loved one and being able to move on. This process takes different amounts of time for everyone. For some, it’s a few months. For others, it’s long torturous years. In the boss’s case, it has been six painful years knowing his son will never return. He has great difficulty getting over his son’s death, although he is…

I will be discussing the transforming effect that the literature I have read has had on me. I will outline the discrimination in Freak the mighty and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss…

Among many works of British literature, authors and poets have challenged the oppressive societal expectations about the roles of women, welcoming assertive, independent female characters who seek power and control. Jane Austen’s Emma Woodhouse, Katherine Mansfield’s Rosemary Fell, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath, who should be content with their wealth and high-society lifestyles, continue to pursue more power and greater stature. In contrast to these affluent ladies, Chaucer’s Fairly…

In literature, the development is connected with the works of (among others) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and others. In their endeavour to divert from the stylish weight of the realist novel, these writers presented a mixed bag of artistic strategies that includes, the radical interruption of direct stream of narratives; the dissatisfaction of customary desires concerning solidarity…

1. may instigate and further advance the plot as a result of the death of the protagonist’s surrogate as displayed between the case of Achilles and Patroclus. 2. “Characters are not people” but are “products of writers’ imaginations – and reader’s imaginations.” Characters are neither real nor alive. In fact, the only reason characters are present is to further serve a role in fostering the plot line and are not conclusive themselves. 3. The death of the surrogate provides an opportunity to…

When reading Katherine Mansfield's “Miss Brill” the dusty clothing of the aging woman along with her lack of social acceptance create an atmosphere of rejection. Lastly, the complete change of mood and surprising ending develop a heavy shock factor in “The Story of an…

Haunting Histories-Ritchie Crosby Poveglia Island Venice, Italy In the South Lagoon between Venice and Lido sits the small island of Poveglia, which has been notorious for a dumping ground for the outcasts of society and the diseased of the “Bubonic Plague”. It has been a refuge for the criminally insane and the mentally challenged. And is most notorious for being the most haunted place on the face of the planet, given its tragic history it has all the reasons to. Poveglia first welcomed…

what is a myth. To a handful of people this might be a simple task, but to others, this can be an extremely tough decision. The way you are raised can play a major role when having to decipher this challenging question. "The Garden Party," by Katherine Mansfield, and "Yellow Woman," by Leslie Silko, both represent the contrast between appearance and reality. Even though they emphasize this similar theme, they are different in their delivery; one is told as a Native American myth, and the other…

This year in English 10H has allowed me to hone and improve my reading and writing skills. With this class, I have been able to be challenged far more than I would have had I not chosen to stick with an honors class. My writing has improved leaps and bounds over the course of the year due to the large amount of papers we wrote that covered vastly different subject matters. The first paper we wrote to start off the year was a thesis essay based on an independent novel that we read over the summer…

The Representation of Everyday Life in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ Modernism is a philosophical movement that arose from wide-scale changes in Western society, such as industrialism, rapid growth of cities, and the horrors of WWI, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Modernism rejects earlier ideas, such as enlightenment thinking, in part due to the religious undertones it entails. In 1915, Modernist poet T. S. Eliot’s famous poem, ‘The Love Song of J.…