The Housemaid

him to “jump clear” off the wagon and save himself from the flood while he is still holding on to Addie’s coffin. Cash also takes care of his siblings in other ways. He shows concern for Dewey Dell, while the other family members treat her like a housemaid. Anse tells her to prepare dinner immediately after Addie’s death, and when she only cooks vegetables, he tells her that she “ought to took time” to clean and cook the fish. However, Cash tells her to forget about the fish, sit down, and eat…

The Victorian Era marked a large step into the modern world and provided some of the most famous writers of all time. The era can characterized by rapid change and more progressive ideals. Wilkie Collins was an author who published many novels through a series of weekly distributed papers, that reflected the rapidly changing time period. Collins’ highly detailed style of sensationalist novels, was truly reflective in his mystery works; riddled with undertones of a truly tragic life in victorian…

Nadine Gordimer is a renowned female writer who was born in Transvaal, South Africa in 1923 and received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout Gordimer’s writing career, she repeatedly insinuated the political issues of Apartheid and racism in South Africa and demonstrated to her readers that social inequality can eventually lead to destruction ("Nadine Gordimer”). During the late 1900s, the policy of Apartheid in South Africa segregated nonwhite majorities from the white minorities and…

the equal rights for all citizens under the law. However, this struggle against oppression is not as one dimensional as it seems. Caroline or Change helps to show oppression in a new light by following the life of Caroline, a single mother and housemaid. Caroline helps to forward this new idea of oppression by showing how oppression can impact every facet of a person’s life. This can have deeper consequences…

The marital life of his parents was also a disturbed one; Mohan’s mother was a professional cook who earned money cooking for wedding feasts. She had also to face the harassment of her husband. “My mother never raised her voice against my father however badly he behaved to her, ‟ he had said to me once.” (TLS 83) Mohan’s thoughts and ideas about women are based on his observation on his mother’s behavior. For him, anger makes a women “Unwomanly”. Mohan had grown up in a strongly traditional…

damage that fear caused in South Africa. Micheal Shurgot, literary critic and author of an article entitled “Imagery and Structure in Gordimer’s ‘Once Upon a Time’”, argues that “there is a self-defeating element in this contradiction.” “They had a housemaid who was absolutely trustworthy and an itinerant gardener who was highly recommended by the neighbors” (Gordimer 25). Analytically speaking, “this black workforce, with its determined consciousness, is precisely what the boy’s parents attempt…

“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell, creates more stereotypes for male and female behavior than it unseats. Glaspell is entering male dominated literature of detective fiction. During this time period the men are the main characters, protagonists/antagonists, and usually solve the crime. This is the only major stereotype that is unseated because the women solve the murder mystery from Mrs. Wright trifles. They find all crucial elements that provided motive and explanation for murder such as the canary,…

Gender roles before the 1920’s were very distinct. Women were lower than men on the social scale and had little to no power. They were strictly in charge of the domestic issues and chores. Women taught and raised their children, as well as did the cooking, cleaning, and other chores throughout the house. card 24, Gourley As the 1873 Supreme Court stated, “The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the creator.”…

From the beginning of time, man has continued to strive to better himself. Throughout most of history, ones reputation and social class has dictated the quality of life and of many people. Lower class peasants envied the opulence and ease of the rich, while the royal upper class resented the freedom of common life. In both The Good Earth and the Prince and the Pauper, characters discover that their new lifestyle causes unexpected changes in themselves. This change causes the characters to…

Rashmi Usha Mudiganti The Lost Generation: American Literature between the World Wars November 23, 2016 RASICM IN NATIVE SON Native Son, Author Richard Wright surfaced in 1940.during the peak time of world war-2.when the whole world was in turbulence both economically and politically. At this time when the novel surfaced the world has been taken by strife by the devastating effects of world war 2. The novel stays away from the political issue of the world that is world war-2 but hugely…