Laura Hardy

for the world” (Hardy 21) because she does not want them to learn that her father is too drunk to go and that she could not manage it herself . Her stubborn refusal to ask for help results in the death of the family horse, Prince. Tess continues to make decisions influenced by her pride when she refuses help from others and rather take matters in her own hands. When Angel leaves Tess after learning of her past she does not make a scene as “pride, so entered into her submission” (Hardy 225). The…

Romanticizing Abuse Todays’ society is mentally misconstrued on what they believe is romantic and an act of love. Then again there are books, television series, movies, and even social media which say otherwise; they paint the ideal picture of what ‘Love’ is, in its many forms in popular culture. Fifty Shades of Grey is a renowned trilogy among the younger generation that explores a peculiar relationship between Christian Grey, a sex crazed Multimillionaire and Anastasia Steele, an…

commonly known as the original “Girl Sleuth”, is the lead detective of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. A young girl of 16 or 18 years of age (her age varies between stories), she was created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, famously known for his The Hardy Boys detective series, and written by a variety of ghostwriters under the penname Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew 2015). Nancy Drew is a female, amateur detective who stumbles upon mysteries in the fictional town of River Heights where she lives…

“The Ruined Maid,” by Thomas Hardy, is a closed-form poem that uses imagery of the “ruined” maid to satirize Victorian social conventions. Thomas Hardy wrote “The Ruined Maid” in closed-form to magnify the poem’s imagery. The poem is Anapestic meter and follows the unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllabic pattern. This meter gives the poem a sense of joy and bounciness that adds to the maid’s new happiness. Hardy also uses an AABB rhyme scheme for each stanza. The rhymes, along with the meter,…

“ Believe that fate is the optimal combination of choice and chance” (Cindy Hilsheimer) This means that fate happens because of your choice and the chance you have. Not only do your choices affect you they also affect others. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare the king of the fairies makes a decision to put his wife under a spell. In the process, he accidentally puts the spell on 2 other people who are in love and that leads to a break up, because of his choice he altered other…

Laura Mulvey argues in her essay that women do not see the world as observers and instead, they are only to be seen. Outlets of popular culture, such as magazines, tell women to wear certain clothes, stand with a specific posture, and make a pouty, sexy face to obtain a man. These attributes put together symbolize the straight female. In a heteronormative world, this is what it means to be beautiful and sexually available. Thus, the male gaze is ubiquitous in culture of the past and present.…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is a story about a photographer on his last week of recuperation from his last assignment where he was severely injured on the race track taking a picture of the wreckage. While recuperating Jeff has come into the deplorable habit of people watching his neighbors outside his rear view window, while watching he suspects one of his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his…

is a portrayal of “The Nuclear Family”, DiCaprio clearly being the “Breadwinner” in this whole situation by being the sole provider in the home and Robbie being portrayed as the “Homemaker” or a housewife that has to stay home and be domestic. In Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) states that “Women Stands in patriarchal as signifier of male others, being bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies”. The movie relates with this point because in one…

inspection that isn’t the case. “His Girl Friday”, though progressive for the time with the main female lead being masculinized, still fits the male-active/female-passive binary set for movies, according to Laura Mulvey’s theories. In her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey writes of how film form is structured by the unconscious of the patriarchal…

Laura Mulvey’s piece, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, emerged during second wave feminism and the classic Hollywood Film era. Mulvey’s work has since received various criticisms (Torres Lecture 10) however, several of her ideas are still prevalent in films today –specifically male characters as active and female characters as passive (Mulvey). Mulvey theorizes, “pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto…