The Captain's Daughter

Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter is a coming of age narrative. Throughout the work, Pushkin illustrates many familial relationships surrounding the protagonist, Petr Andreevich Grinev. These relationships Pushkin creates in The Captain’s Daughter are beyond Petr’s mother and father, stretching into non-biological relationships that mimic the growth-fostering environments and experiences of the nuclear family. When considering Petr’s migration to Fort Belogorsk, these non-biological relationships play a critical role in his maturation process from child to adult. By critically analyzing Petr’s relationships to other in the story, it can be seen that Pushkin uses these familial relationships as a facilitation mechanism for Petr’s development…

As Imperial Russia continued to expand, Serfdom took its place as a commonality in Russian culture. While social classes grew more and more apart, peasants were hit with the harsh reality of this class separation. As Kizhanich mentions in the source book; Medieval Russia, “in the middle of the fifteenth century, conditions of Russian peasants deteriorated rapidly. By the early seventeenth century the majority had become serfs of one kind to another.” Serfs did not live the best life, this can…

for death. Kent doesn’t die because his passing would not teach Lear the lesson he needs to be faced with as the death of an advisor is far less impactful than the death of a family member. The question that remains is what the relevance of Kent’s banishment could possibly be, and the answer to as much is that his banishment is the catalyst itself. Kent’s attempt to overturn Lear’s judgment is the latter’s last chance to save himself and his daughter. Kent says it quite plainly himself, telling…

In one situation in describing Dee’s high acquisitive approach to life, Mama recalls, “Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own: and knew what style was” (Walker, 61). Notice that Mama does not confront her daughter and instead she “fought off the temptation.” In another scene, where their house burns down and Dee has no remorse towards the situation, Mama proclaims, “Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her. She had hated the…

talking about. By letting the readers try to imagine themselves in that position who Kincaid is talking about. Kincaid added, this creates respect in the community as being an honest, hardworking woman. “Kincaid is trying to teach her daughter the steps into womanhood and how hard you have to work to learn the true ways of becoming a lady that is respected into today’s society” (Kincaid, 2013, p.172). Throughout…

But let that go… This in obedience hath my daughter shown me, And more above, hath his solicitings, As they fell out by time, by means, and place, All given to mine ear.” (Act 2 Scene 2) Hamlet is clearly distressed due to his father’s death, and the marriage that soon followed. Hamlet conveys his interest and disinterest towards Ophelia. Rather than Polonius offering support towards her daughter, he uses the situation as an attempt to show his worth to the King. What Polonius had before is now…

characterization, figure, and emotional feeling, “chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle” (167). Maggie has been like this ever since she had received the marks when the house burned down. Maggie does not have much confidence about herself;“how do i look, Mama?” she felt like this because of the scars she had on her body. She is a sensitive child that her mother worried about her “have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car,…

First off, one of the standards that aren’t always seen equal is intelligence. For instance, some parents tend to think that their sons are smarter than their daughters are. They believe that their sons will exceed educationally more than their daughters. For example, in the New York Times they states that “Parents are two and a half times more likely to ask “Is my son gifted?” than “Is my daughter gifted?” However, in reality, girls are about 11 percent more likely to be in a gifted program…

RAISING DAUGHTERS James E. Faust once said, “To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself”. Faust speaks on how in his eyes, parents should try to be less enthralled in their children’s lives in order to be “good”. The preceding…

Mothers and daughters have good bonds with each other, but some of them end up in conflicts. This is a part of a life skill between mothers and daughters. The relationship with the two must create boundaries to help improve their relationship. The mothers’ job is to manage their daughters and help them fix the problems, such as break-ups with boyfriends or help with their schoolwork. The daughters’ job is to obey their mothers’ rules and follow their guidelines. Mothers and daughters can be a…