Miss Julie

Am I American Yet? When someone is asked what they think of America, the person usually comes to a conclusion that the country has beautiful woman, famous people and luxury. In the United States, there are competitions in which girl children compete in beauty pageants in order to win a certain label or trophy granting her Grand Supreme. These children train countless hours in order to put make up, a costume or dresses and skin tanning in order to increase one’s chances of winning a competition…

Satis House is symbolic of Miss Havisham herself. Both were once beautiful, but after being unappreciated, unloved, and worn by time they show their own story visibly. The perception is that everything including Miss Havisham is stuck in the past. The clocks were all stopped at twenty minutes till nine, but the movie never makes mention of the significance of the time. The frozen clocks that the novel portrays allow the audience to connect puzzles pieces by knowing when Miss Havisham’s issues…

The Miss America pageant takes intelligent, talented, incredibly accomplished women, while excluding many other women, and turning them into sexualized objects in order to see which woman is the most beautiful for a scholarship. This ideology is sexist and…

lives in England with his sister Mrs. Joe Gargery and her husband Mr. Joe Gargery. His sister is cruel yet her husband is not, as he is often seen to sympathize for young Pip. Pip is then asked play with the stepdaughter of a rich lady by the name of Miss Havisham. This is when Pip is introduced to Estella, and changes the book entirely. Early on in the story Pip only has very minor feelings towards Estella, but later in the story it develops into clear love and desire. Even while he is young…

For instance, Miss Havisham, who is very wealthy seems to not care about Pip’s well being or his feelings while she uses him as a pawn to teach Estella to “break his heart”. (Dickens 42) This evidence is important, because all that is known about Miss Havisham coming into Satis House is she is part of an affluent family, and after Pip witnesses how Miss Havisham treats him and uses Estella for her own vendetta, using her status to…

characters are plagued with tremendous loss and face horrible and unimaginable tragedies. One character in particular, Miss Havisham, is confronted by catastrophe and misery multiple times, but allows these moments define her as a person. Miss Havisham is broken, never finding the strength to recover, and she forces herself to endure a life of sadness after that fateful day. The single…

The Changes That Occur In Pip In the novel Great Expectation, Pip is a growing individual. His personality changes many times throughout the story. He starts out as a young boy, who is bothered by the fact that he never got to meet his biological parents. While he was in the graveyard, he runs into a distraught man, who is dirty and soaked in water. He later realizes that the man was an escaped convict on the run. The convict grabbed Pip and hung him upside down. He then demanded Pip to…

The Impact of a Woman Imagine for a moment how we live our lives. For most of us, everyday we attend school and an after school activity, go home and do homework, eat dinner, and then get ready for the next day and go to sleep. What if that all changed? One day we wake up and we are in Kenya or Egypt and we have to wake up and hunt for our food every morning. There is no more school other than learning how to survive. No matter what life you are living, there is always at least one person who…

talking to Joe each and everyday. When Pip got the opportunity to visit Miss Havisham’s house and meet Estella, he started to think differently. He realized their was a difference between people of a higher class; Miss…

Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” is famous for being written on New Year’s Eve, which marked the turn of the century. The very work darkling is an old word which has been used since the 15th century, while the Thrush is a type of songbird which is known for its beautiful voice. The title as a whole could be literally interpreted as a songbird whose song which is slowly fading over time but will not be forgotten. A deeper interpretation could be the fact that Hardy is perhaps looking back on…