The Heiress

Shashi Deshpande is a leading woman novelist in Indian writing in English. She has written seven novels and four collections of short stories. In her novels she gives us a realistic portrait of middle-class educated Indian women who are self-confident, self-reliant and financially self-dependent. Such women are the protagonists of her novels, they get trapped between tradition and modernity, they undergo great mental trauma, they face the problems of adjustments and conflicts and then they go in…

suggests the King believed that if he did not acquiesce to Gerard then he would no longer be able to count on the support of the Templars. Gerard had a personal vendetta against Raymond due to the Count reneging on a deal to allow Ridefort to marry an heiress under his guardianship. This hatred Gerard held for Raymond led to him discrediting Raymond to the king as he persuaded him that the advice was just another…

Introduction With exception of war, no event has caused as much upheaval to American security, and its way of life than that of the Great Depression. Following the stock market crash of 1929, and spanning the entire decade of the 1930’s, this period saw at its height, a quarter of Americans out of work, with many barely able to feed themselves or their families. This period also saw many businesses that once flourished, shut their doors forever. However, one industry that still managed to…

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in Jupiter, Florida, in the year of 1952. To the untrained eye, Dandy Mott is the physical definition of beautiful, but underneath this alluring exterior is the epitome of excess wealth, and privilege taken too far to its detrimental conclusion (DeBussey, 2016). Dandy is an intellectual man-child, incapable of finding satisfaction in anything. The world is seemingly at his fingertips, and yet he is incessantly consumed with a gnawing feeling of…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё and Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief explore the importance of family. Jane Eyre presents the darkness of lacking a respected family name in a society whose tenet suggests inherited proprietary equals propriety. No Great Mischief promotes the importance of recognizing one’s familial lineage in all its glories and failures. Nonetheless, one can find a commonality between the two novels when analysing how, although they are nurtured differently and despite their…

A bird through close-set bars of a cage, flutters about restless, and unsure; a captive of her own mind. Her desire for love ensnares her, and keeps her there, though she has the means to escape. She sits and waits for her master, her love, to open the door and set her free. To be free she must discover her own self, to find love in herself, then she may burst through those bars and soar high above the clouds, and finally she 'll be able to see. Jane Eyre, a story of passion, mystery, and…

years. During this time we lost many of our people leaving us much more poor than before. Luckily, we had France and England behind us during this war against Austria and we signed the Peace Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle, giving Maria Theresa as the heiress to the Austrian lands. After this eight year long war we had the chance to take Poland. However, we were not…

During the years between 1598 and 1665 the Spanish Monarchy under the ruling of Phillip III and later on King Phillip IV faced many different challenges in this emerging country called Spain. However, Spain did not exist at this time it was ruled under the Habsburg Empire. What I shall be discussing in this assignment is the strengths and weaknesses that the Spanish Monarchy faced. During the start of the 17th Century what was known as the Habsburg Spain which was very much on the brink at the…

Introduction: Augustine was one of the most formidable minds that Christendom has ever witnessed. He is considered one of the giants of the faith; his writings so skilfully composed to leave even secular scholars to marvel at his genius. Yet, for the first three decades of his life, Augustine sought to live his life in the most pleasurable manner his bright mind could construct. Despite this, Augustine after his conversion, spent nearly half a century dealing with controversies against…

Jane Eyre has a suggestive name. Eyre might refer to “heir” but she is the heir of nothing, at least in the beginning of the novel; it also may suggest “ire” that Jane has inside her. The novel has an angry tone to it, almost as if Brontë had realized the roles and circumstances of women around her and depicted it in Jane Eyre: imprisonment, orphan, starvation, anger turned to madness. According to Elizabeth Rigby, Jane Eyre revolves around the personification of an unregenerate and…