Lydia

Lydia Goehr breaks down the question of how music is tied to politics, and specifically addresses arguments of whether it should be or not. The author starts her discussion with a historical example with the inquest of composer Hanns Eisler by the Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). The author’s intention in presenting this case appears when she focuses on the defense Eisler. He made statements to the Committee that suggested his music was “music, and nothing else,” having nothing to do…

The author of the novel Hobomok, Lydia Maria Child, was ahead of her time, and full of abolitionist and feminist views opinions in the 19th Century. Child was born in 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts into an abolitionist family and was highly influenced by her older brother, an Unitarian clergyman and professor at Harvard University. Child later in her life wrote her first published piece, The Frugal Housewife in 1829, an instruction manual and advice book for stay at home wives and mothers who…

I grew up knowing death too well. I was sort of like a modern day Lydia Deetz. Both my parents were morticians and they recall me talking to corpses and singing to the stillborns. I of course didn’t marry a demon but I did happen to wear a lot of black and fully understand death and both it’s beauty and it’s curse. My real father died when I was eight and up until then I believed that death couldn’t poison my life the way it did the lives of the clients that walked in and out the doors of my…

Analysis of “Head, Heart” Lydia Davis’s poem “Head, Heart” chronicles a short, yet meaningful interaction between the entities Head and Heart. Head and Heart have recently suffered an immense loss and feel great distress. In this time of great sorrow, it is Head’s duty to act as consoler to Heart, to comfort Heart in its moment of despair. Davis portrays the entities Head and Heart in such a way that allows the audience to connect with the characters in a manner that allows the reader’s own…

gender is viewed has stagnated. In the nineteenth century there were clear cut boundaries between what was expected of girls versus what is expected of boys. Girls were taught from a young age to care for a house and children. In the Mother’s Book by Lydia Maria Child women are counseled to give their daughters “A knowledge of domestic duties… Every one ought to know how to sew, and knit, and mend, and cook, and superintend a household” ( , 168). These girls are allowed to have an imagination…

Persuasion is a tactic used by abolitionist writers to persuade their audience that dehumanizing another human being based on their skin color, is wrong. From the story “The Quadroons”, one thing that differentiates Lydia Maria Child from other abolitionist writers is that she uses fiction and pathos, and not your typical non-fiction narrative, to persuade her predominately white audience that discrimination is, in fact, unethical. In the story, one sees Child use of an interracial couple’s…

why do so many couples cheat on their spouses?Davis's story "Break it Down", helps clarify the false assumption that marriages will lead to happiness or satisfaction when looking through the text "The Storm", by Kate Chopin. In "Break it Down" by Lydia Davis, the narrator is obsessively expressing eight days of romance in which he spends $600 for. When breaking down the affair, he comes to a conclusion that the inevitable pain is part of the whole process. Davis's story helps the reader…

As a preface to her Letters to Mothers (1838), well-known writer Lydia Sigourney exclaimed, “Does not the whole heart blossom thick with perpetual dew-drops? What a loss, had we passed through the world, without tasting this purest, most exquisite front of love.” In her wondering, Sigourney described the overwhelming feelings elicited in women as they became mothers. Though she explains the new role of love in child rearing of the 19th century, Sigourney’s excerpt is just one example of the…

Glaucon in his speech articulates his argument by telling a narrative about one of his ancestors, Gyges of Lydia. The narrative opens with a fierce storm which triggers a violent earthquake that rips the land into two parts forming a chasm. This massive chasm was formed right where Gyges was tending to his sheep. Moved with astonishment, he ventured down into the chasm. There, there were all types of magical things, but one unique object in particular caught the attention of Gyges. There was a…

their viewpoints of slavery, pro-slavery people giving their viewpoints, and a lot of slaves that were freed, and/ or escaped giving their testimonies. As mentioned previously, there were many white abolitionists who also wanted freedom for slaves. Lydia Child was an abolitionist who published a book, “Anti-Slavery Catechism”, was a book of different questions about the abolitionists views of slavery and statements based on slavery and Child would give her answer or opinion. Throughout this…