The Housemaid

Oh! Oprah! Oprah Winfrey has dominated her industry and transcended into a household name through her self-titled television show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, owning her own television network, Harpo Productions Inc., and print publications, O, The Oprah Magazine and O at Home. Born into poverty and despair, she has overcome many obstacles from sexual abuse to racial profiling in order to defy the odds. She is the only African American on the Forbes 400 with a notable net worth of $3.2 billion.…

Freedom and personal dignity are extremely valuable possessions. Both give people an opportunity to do what they want, be what they want, and be who they are. Yet, what happen if that freedom is taken away from them, and the dignity has been lost due to undeniable and uncontrollable form of abuse? Throughout human history, vulnerable people have been subjected to become a puppet, wherein their actions and decisions are controlled by others. For this reason, human trafficking keeps on arising and…

Today’s racial films give us glimpses into the dark and dangerous lives of various slaves an activist. They allow us to see just how powerful the impact of segregation and slavery were on society and how dangerous it was to differ from the norm in those times. The Help and the butler are two gripping racial movies that depict the hard and dangerous the lives of black Americans in the 1950’s, both movies have various similarities, ranging from their production to their plot, but also carry…

first hand the reality of seeking power and how it can ruin everything around you. The ripples of Jekyll’s mistakes not only effect him but the ones around him, the ones who care the most about him. In Mary Reilly were introduced to Mary who is a housemaid of Mr. Jekyll. Mary feels very comfortable in her position and seems to take it very seriously even though she’s young. Mary faced a harsh childhood and…

The writers Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie both use allegory in their works. Nadine Gordimer wrote the short story, “Once Upon a Time”, which talks about racial segregation in South Africa. Salman Rushdie wrote the novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which talks about the importance of stories. Both “Once Upon a Time”, by Nadine Gordimer, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie use allegory to prove the danger of a governing body separating its citizens. In “Once Upon a Time”,…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner utilise language conventions to express similarities and differences in the ways they prove that good people have prejudice and that such issues can be overcome. Kramer creates these ideas visually through film techniques whereas Austen relies on active reading. First, prejudice is established through characterisation of protagonists and how it impacts their lives. Subsequently, how even the best people can react…

Uganda is a developing country located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its population is about 37 million people and more than 60% of the population consists of women (Geography Uganda). The country’s average literacy rate is only 64 percent and the average literacy rate for women is 62% (Geography Uganda). Many women are not able to go to school full time because of family responsibilities and many of them have to become prostitutes in order to pay for secondary education (Kyoheirwe 136). In Uganda,…

The Trojan War plays a crucial role in revenge in which the feelings of hostility between the characters develops leading to acts of vengeance against each other. For example, Agamemnon came back from the war to find that his wife had married Aegisthus, a coward who stayed behind while the others fought in the war. With her approval, Aegisthus kills Agamemnon and would have taken over his kingdom if not for Agamemnon’s son, Orestes. Orestes returns from exile and kills both Aegisthus and his…

sex drives and birth children. The patriarch, after visiting his son, noted that, “The boy will be happy anywhere where he can be touching the first woman he has all to himself” (Gordimer 112). The only other women mentioned, Alina, was Mehring’s housemaid. The economic system of When Rain Clouds Gather paints a contrasting image with apartheid’s traditional policies. In the village of Golema Mmidi, the women, not men, were the primary economic agents. Gilbert in fact specifically targeted women…

Both novels, Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson were written in the end of the Victorian era. Gender is a big factor in both of the books and how women were seen in the Victorian era. Stevenson’s book does not mention women very often and when he does they are referred to as ambiguous. Martin’s novel is written in a female perspective and how the poor and the rich are in different levels of society. There are many comparisons and…