Pride and Prejudice

It is Conspicuous that the beginning of every story is what will get judged by the reader to determine if the reader will either accept or reject the book. Charlotte Bronte is the author of Jane Eyre. In the first chapter of this book, the reader is introduced to Jane. Jane is a 10-year-old girl and is also the main character who is living with the Reed family. The Reed family consists of 4. To start with, there is Mrs. Reed, she is a blind and deaf mother of 3 children. Then, there is Eliza and…

Jane Austen uses Elizabeth’s wit, aptitude, and humor to show the contrast between her and Women in the Regency era, It was important for Jane Austen to do this because the literary world had never seen something like this before. Austen writes Elizabeth as a character who is cunning and smart. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” She possesses beliefs that were not commonly seen…

This passage from Jane Austen’s “Emma” presents Emma’s character as one who is Obsessed with the Trivialities going on in her life as well as someone’s who is not thinking clearly while their mind is errant, and also being impolite One-way Jane Austen presents Emma during the passage is by showing us that she is Obsessed with Trivialities, by telling the reader that she could not forgive Jane Fairfax. “Emma could not forgive her” This demonstrates that Emma is obsessed with trivialities to Jane…

The Role of Each Husband The husbands in “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross play a specific yet similar role. While they are very different they aim to make their wives feel better and loved. Their difference in each short novel are quite a few. While John from “The Painted Door” is a quiet gentleman, the husband from “The Yellow Wall-paper” also named John is very controlling and outspoken over his wife and her actions. Their…

Thomas King’s short story “Borders” explores the idea of pride and its power to strengthen the Indigenous identity through the erasure of physical borders. The protagonist’s mother teaches him that he should not have to abide by the physical borders of countries to be living on the land because something as deeply personal as one’s cultural identity is worth more than “a legal technicality” (King 292). Her disregard of the American-Canadian border grants the protagonist the knowledge that when…

The essay “Huizong’s New Clothes: Desire and Allegory in Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk.” by Lara Blanchard argues that “… Huizong’s scroll stands as a double-edged comment on his fitness as a ruler, one that takes a Tang Dynasty image of elite women’s longing and bends it to the will of the Northern Song Emperor” (129). This article is effective because of its thorough examination of Chinese allegories relating to Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk. This essay starts off by…

Imagine being a woman in the Victorian Era, a time where the social expectation for women were the following: to get married, have kids, and perform maternal responsibilities. What if you did not meet the expectations of being a mother? Would you endure being frowned upon by society, during a mid-life crisis? Evidently, there is a possibility of being forced to deal with adversities. Given the setting there are consequences for betraying these social expectations. Edna Pontellier was a woman…

Flora and Fairuza: The Symbols within the novel, The Bluest Eye The definition of beauty is as indistinguishable as the definition of ugliness. However this has not stopped the human race from searching for the true meaning of both, and moreover obtain this beauty for the purpose of social standards. The same can be said within the characters of the following novel. The novel, The Bluest Eye by author Toni Morrison uses symbols to capture the emotional trauma within the African American…

Ellen Hopkins wrote the novel Crank from her experiences around her own daughters crystal meth addiction. Hopkins is a novelist, most of her published work has been New York Times best selling novels. Crank is part of a trilogy that consists of Crank, Glass, and Fallout. Among other books that Hopkins has written that share the same tone and style are Impulse, Burned, Identical, Tricks, Traffick, Perfect, Tilt, and Smoke. Hopkins is a very accomplished author who has won many awards for her work…

Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled…