Miss Independent

One of Miss Marple’s biggest struggles in the novel is her resistance to the gentrification of her community. Throughout the novel she constantly laments over the modernization of her once quaint village. Agatha Christie demonstrates this at the beginning of the novel when Miss Marple visits “St Mary Mead was not the place it had been... Miss Marple, who was a very sensible lady, knew that quite well. It was just that, in…

conflict for Pip; however, Estella creates internal conflict for herself even though it is less obvious. Estella has been greatly influenced by Miss Havisham, despite the fact she is not her biological mother. Miss Havisham uses her own corrupt experiences to plant her ideologies into Estella’s head, hoping she can be the key to her revenge on men. Miss Havisham’s life experiences influence her daughter greatly, similar to “The Box”, where the protagonist discovers the deep and dark secrets of…

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decisions early on in his life. Pip became obsessed with wealth, social status, and possession. Pip was transforming into a materialistic young man because of the exposure he had to the higher class when he began to visit the Satis house, the home of Miss Havisham, and Pip’s love, Estella. External influences such as…

simultaneously felt both pressure and desire to enter the workforce. Part of being perfect wives and mothers entailed dressing nicely on a daily basis, tending to the home, and obeying the requests of their fathers and/or husbands. As a young, independent girl from a well-off family, Nancy Drew appeared to these women as an example of possibility: “Nancy’s license to engage in extra-domestic activity and participate in the conventionally male universe of mystery and adventure serves to liberate…

Despite offering a different character’s point of view, several of the dramatic techniques resident in Miss Julie are exhibited. Even more importantly, Strindberg again insists on placing the family of the play in the context of a Darwinian battle of the strongest. It is natural for us to expect similarities between The Father and Miss Julie due to the close proximity of their writing, but the points made about Strindberg’s later work help provide an additional insight into the playwright’s…

married and embraces her mother’s advice on how to find a man and start family. When in fact all she ever wanted to do was become a writer, but the closest she could come to a writer was with th Jackson Journal writing housekeeping advice column called “Miss Myrna.” Since Skeeter knows almost nothing about housekeeping she turned to her friend’s maid Aibileen, for…

On April 7th, my 10th grade honors English class was handed our final assignment. Our task was to find a topic, research it, write an essay, and present it. It sounded dreadful to many of us. Yes, we did have some class time to work on the 550 point assignment, but we had to do the majority of it at home. The essay was not due for over a month, so I had time come up with a topic. Initially, I thought it would be extremely difficult to choose something which I could devote multiple hours to,…

actresses who perhaps didn 't go the typical route to enter the profession. In those cases, you can almost always anticipate unique viewpoints, and Carolyn Bridget Kennedy is one such person. She has carved out a niche for herself in the world of independent film that seems to strike a chord with fans from all different walks of life. Recently, I had the opportunity to ask her some questions about her career, including her emergence within the genre of indie film, her future ambitions, and even…

he is, believed “[Miss Havisham] reserved it for [him] to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearths a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin—in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.” (Dickens). Miss Havisham, the lady of the house, makes Pip believe as if she was helping him, as if she was a force pushing him in the right direction. Now although Miss Havisham’s…