Kerchief

become. Nevertheless, the grandmother implies that her unnamed daughter-in-law is not "good" through the description that she gives her. The grandmother states that "the children’s mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief" (O’Connor). The use of the word "still" creates a impression that the grandmother is waiting for her daughter-in-law to change her appearance in order to become "good" according to the social codes of the Old South. This social codes…

Pawl, the Court Healer and a widower, had a problem with drink for years and years until he’d recently married Lady Lindara. Now he was fit and happy, but still brewing up his tincture for those in need, like Gawain. “Bless you, Perceval.” Gawain uncorked the bottle, pinched his nose, and downed the gelatinous, repulsive fluid in one go, gagging the moment it slid down his throat. The taste and texture was that of a rotten egg. However, since this was the only effective remedy he knew of, he…

It took the men seventeen minutes to realize that I was following them. I had removed my shoes and was creeping silently along the forest floor, pausing when they did and moving at their pace. The men had arrows knocked as they stalked their way through the forest, following the tracks of a deer. I, however, was on another venture entirely. They paused suddenly, and I almost collided with a tree. Crouching on my toes, I looked around and soon saw the object of their attention. A young buck…

Questioning Identity: Examining the Historiography of South Asian Immigrants The historiography on South Asian immigration to the United States needs to be further developed because it is extremely under-developed. While the story of their immigration to America does not follow the popular narrative of other American-bound immigrants, in which most came to straight to the United States and settled, there is no excuse for their historiography and all its unique facets remaining unexplored. The…

her Trianon she no longer played the part of Queen of France but instead lived as she innocently stated ‘like a private person’. Madame Campan also recalled the informal dress code of the Queen and her ladies, as she stated ’a white gown, a gauze kerchief, and a straw hat were the uniform dress of the Princesses’ (Figure…

Relationships and marriage are examined in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The heroine of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the shrew of The Taming of the Shrew deal with gender differences in marriage. The works express similar and dissimilar ideas about marriage. In Shakespeare’s time marriage was often arranged by the parents to benefit each family with wealth or prestige. The woman would bring a dowry and become…

By the end of the play when Othello is about to kill his wife, he has her beg for forgiveness from God. This is done so that Othello can ensure that Desdemona would go to heaven even though she had “sinned”. This makes it seem as though Othello still cares for his wife and did not wish for her to go to the worse place she could be “hell” because of one mistake which the audience knows she did not commit but Othello has not been privy to this information just yet. After Desdemona is killed and…

In the play, Miss Julie, Strindberg has effectively incorporated the theory of naturalism; the theory of naturalism encompassed the idea that a person and their motivations are rooted from their environment and their ancestry. In the case of Miss Julie, the daughter of a Count, she was ultimately thought to have gained the upper hand by being born into a family of status. However, her position in society quickly deteriorates when her engagement is broken off and she copulates with Jean, the…

Pride comes before the fall. The main characters in both “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Ozymandias” are very prideful. They both put great importance in their individual statures. In one story, there is the very superficial and conceited “lady” being the Grandmother. In the other story, there is the great “king of kings” Ozymandias. The two of them find out that pride can often blind you. In the Bible, in Proverbs 16 it says “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”…

“At any rate as they appeared to me;/Tell who they were, their status and profession,/What they looked like, what kind of clothes they dressed in” (Chaucer 2). In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, nothing speaks louder or stronger than clothing. Right from the start, Chaucer uses physical appearance and clothing to characterize social hierarchy. During the 14th century, appearance and clothing categorized people into different social classes and the type of clothing someone wore…