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Writer, Virginia Woolf, in her speech, “Professions for women,” discusses the controversial topic of women in jobs, and argues that women are taken for granted in the workplace. She explains her job as a writer, leading her audience to believe it was an easy profession to acquire. Woolfe then turns around and lists difficulties she had when she first started out. She speaks with a condescending, stuck up tone at the beginning of the speech, but later transitions into a vulnerable tone, to allow…

. The reader learns immediately from Louis, another outlier, that “…Bernard, Neville, Jinny, and Susan (but not Rhoda) skim the flower beds with their nets” (Woolf 6). Woolf’s use of a parenthetical statement, which interjects a modifier into the sentence, emphasizes Rhoda’s absence from the activity. In addition, Louis’s statement about Rhoda and her lack of participation in the butterfly catching is the first external description the reader has of her as a character. By making this initial…

The United States has always been a nation that has been segregated. The Nation was founded on segregation and has long remained a part of its history. Especially during the Antebellum Period, the United States were not as united as one would think. Sure, each of the states that existed in that period were united as one whole country. However, each state instead, based on its location, was more segregated than ever. The states became victims of sectionalism which was how the division…

In this rational I will discuss how meaning is made in performance in relation to the site specific space. I will deconstruct some of the underlying themes presented in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in order to examine the ways in which they correspond with the chosen performance space. I will demonstrate how the context of the play and my chosen space interconnect with each other and how site specific space can further help me to explore the motives and themes that appear throughout the play…

The repetitive and circular nature of history is embodied in both the past and present of Crick’s life. This circular movement is most easily identified and elucidated in the details surrounding his wife’s incarceration. According to “The Construction of Cyclical Time in Waterland,” Swift “constructs circular time not only by structuring Waterland's narrative cyclically but also by didactically presenting time as circular” (Rao). With that being said, along with attempting to refute Price’s…

GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…

In the “Mirror”, by Sylvia Plath, shows the lack of confidence women face with image/reflection and the hours associated with aging through personification and metaphors. The author is accomplishing numerous forms of figurative language devices. Symbolism to show images only last for a very short time and resulting, the speaker’s attitude toward truthfulness. In the next couple paragraphs I would like to focus on the theme, tone/attitude and figurative language device used in this poem. The…

The stories "An Adventure in Paris"(NASF. 493) by Guy De Maupassant and "Everyday Use"(NASF. 816) by Alice Walker showcase similar and different ways to present a story through point of view and characters. Both stories have characters that are functional and symbolic to the story. Each of these stories uses both a foil and utilitarian through one character, Dee and Jean Varin, that ultimately changes the protagonist for the better and allows them to see what they have. De Maupassant makes his…

The text under analysis entitled “Karen” belongs to emotive prose style and to the genre of short story. It is an excerpt from the novel by Edwina Currie “A Parliamentary Affair”. The episode takes place in the house of the main character Karen, a teenage girl. The child is alone at home at Christmas (“School was finished”, “loads of people were flying away for the holiday” and “the heating had switched on automatically”). The story tells the reader about the loneliness of the girl growing up…

Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for women” is an essay, but it sounds like a speech. Woolf recalls that when she worked as a journalist, she felt restricted expressing down her real feeling and reviews about men’s writing. When she worked as a novelist then, she also had to worry about if men would be shocked or disagreed with the truth she told. Her own two specific pieces of experiences reveal women’s struggle in today’s society and also try to provide solutions for defending women’s rights.…