Tapestry

which is written in four parts, tells the story of a Lady, who is cursed and imprisoned on the secluded island of Shalott. She is forbidden from venturing out in the world and also from glancing outside the window. She spends her days weaving a tapestry as reflected by her mirror that is illustrative of the outside world. The lady later defies her custom when she hears the voice of Sir Lancelot as he rides outside. She is captivated enough to break her custom and looks outside through the window…

Italian cities when it came to art and architecture. The merchants of the city supported the arts to the point of obsession (Sayre 535). The stone walls of residences of royalty were covered in tapestries. They were very colorful, warmed the rooms of the residence, and could be transported with ease. The tapestries were very complex and refined. Still, in the city of Bruges, painting was a critical part in the city’s trade. The artists of the north painted their works with incredible realism. As…

Insane or Tormented The little arrow on the clock ticks every second that passes by. What if that little arrow stopped one day and ticked counterclockwise? The clock is a symbol of Hamlet's sanity. He lived in a world where his father was alive and his mother was married to his father. That was the time that his life was ticking happily. However, when his father died and his mother married his father's brother. Everything stopped ticking for Hamlet and the glass timer started for his sanity.…

The Oxford Living Dictionary defines anonymity as the state of being anonymous or of having no outstanding features. Analogously, the word anonymity also exemplifies the condition of women prior to the advancement of feminism, as previous to this, women were marginalized and rarely recognized as capable of achievements beyond childbirth and housework. As Virginia Woolf explained, anonymous “was often a woman.” Although, some anonymity may be relaxing, the thought of total anonymity is…

Henry the VIII may be known for his thick stature, his multiple wives and the search for an heir at all cost, but there is more to be known for the King of England and the time during his reign. Thanks to author Alison Weir who goes in to great detail of King Henry’s life, from how he decorated, what he ate, how he ruled, to his famous wives, and children. There was much more to King Henry, whom seemed to not have a dull moment. It was not just the fact that he ruled with an iron fist, but Henry…

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of becoming known, understood, loved or wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and so she let herself be married to a minor official at the Ministry of Education. She dressed plainly because she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as unhappy as if she had once been wealthy. Women don't belong to a caste or class;…

"Will I then be forced into this marriage trap" (100). In the book Catherine Called Birdy, a journal written by a young girl in medieval tie mes, Catherine is troubled by her father, her fiance and her lady tasks. Catherine feels that her father is a cruel man who is just selling Catherine to Shaggy Beard for profit. At her brother's wedding she met an old disgusting man that goes by Shaggy Beard. After the service Shaggy Beard told Catherine's dad he would like to buy and wed Catherine.…

Clytaemnestra Clytaemnestra is unlike most of the women of the ancient time period. Normally, women during this time period are passive, submissive, and cunning, while the men are more dominant and controlling. On the other hand, Clytaemnestra exhibits behaviors that are both masculine and feminine; however her behaviors are mostly masculine. She uses her cunning behaviors to help her carry out actions that she feels are justified by the cycle of revenge/justice. Clytaemnestra…

Gods of Metamorphoses: Orderly Regulators or Brutal Predators? Ovid’s ever-present theme of change in Metamorphoses is reflected often in the reader’s fluctuating perception of the gods throughout the epic. Two perspectives of the gods are presented in the weavings made by Minerva and Arachne in Book VI; Minerva weaves a symmetrical, balanced portrayal that praises the gods and the order they believe they represent in their power to punish humans, while Arachne’s finished product portrays…

Edgar Allan Poe introduces a castle setting in the very beginning of the story when he states, “The Chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the apennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.” ( Poe 1). With this in mind, Edgar Allan Poe uses the first element of gothic…