The New Era

Narration is important to any story, but it inevitably makes or breaks a detective story. The narrator creates a connection between the characters in the book, including the narrator themself, and the reader. In a detective novel the narrator performs the role of the magnifying glass that great detectives use to hone in on the clues of the case. They help the reader identify what is of use and what is just description to the story, and ultimately uncover the solution to the case. This essay will…

The Lady of Shalott: Tantalus’s Daughter Alfred Lord Tennyson is a Victorian poet who seldom strays out of narrative territory. His poems are stories, and “The Lady of Shalott” is no exception. The Lady of Shalott, for whom the poem is titled after, is a heartbreaking heroine who spends most of her life locked away in a tower, only to finally emerge and softly depart from the world. In the short span of four parts, her tale spans the themes of dreams, imprisonment, misogyny, and death. Not only…

The theme of power is explored in various ways throughout ‘Othello’, Shakespeare uses his characters’ flaws to denote power, often through the art of manipulation. The value consensus of the Elizabethan era also highlights the difference in gender roles, and the social expectations that were forced upon them, largely defined by the divine order. The power and influence of social mobility also creates a strong platform for the theme of power to be embedded upon, as characters such as Desdemona…

Patience and self-restraint were two of the most important characteristics that defined a woman during the Victorian Era. Bronte uses Helen to completely mutilate this preconception. Mariah Frawley describes Helen as being, “Spirited and unafraid to speak to men in her life with Shackelford 9 frankness.” (Frawley 141). In contrast, Frawley describes Helen’s friend Milicent…

and tied down a bear for Roosevelt to shoot. However, Roosevelt was beside himself! He refused to shoot the poor, struggling bear. But now it was injured, and clearly going to die. He requested that it be shot in order to put it out of its misery. News spread of this and on November 16th, 1902 Clifford Berryman published a political cartoon regarding this very subject in The Washington Post. More political cartoons sprouted following this one, and the bear in the cartoon became increasingly…

To learn more about Stanislavski’s theories and performance style we explored ‘Road’ by Jim Cartwright. Cartwright was born and raised in Lancashire – where his first play ‘Road’ is set. The play is set in the 80’s when Margaret Thatcher was in power. Margret Thatcher became most unpopular with Northern Ireland and England due to the large unemployment rates during her time as Prime Minister. Unemployment began rising in the 70’s as companies were modernising their businesses. However, rates…

Flatland, written by Edwin Abbott, is a novella written in 1884, which delves into the discrepancies in the treatment of gender in the Victorian era of England through the use of satire. Abbott creates a world of two-dimensions where the inhabitants are shapes, and social standing is based solely around the number of angles each shape has. This piece of text parodies the social positions of both women and men in Victorian England through the exaggerated treatment of each in Abbott’s novella,…

This paper will analyze Anna Fekete in “The Hummingbird”, “The Defenceless” and “The Exiled” by Kati Hiekkapelto. These are the books in the Anna Fekete series and are of the Nordic Noir genre. I will first discuss how Anna is a merge of first generation and second generation of female detectives. I will then examine how her change in perspective on family and relationships throughout the series have led to this merge. Lastly, I will analyze how the discriminated refugees from all three books…

“Internalization in The Female Quixote and David Copperfield” The Female Quixote, or The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox, and David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, are both early forms of the novel. Though written approximately 100 years apart the two novels are both influential in their respective periods of authorship. Arabella, as the novel will be referred to henceforth, is influential because of its examination of the novel as a newer form and its parody of the former…

In the Victorian period men and women’s roles sharpened and became better defined. Gender relationships and stereotypes characterize a society which sees eccessive hypocrisy and social expectations. Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, makes use of a simple and spontaneous writing style, associated with a refined and prone approach in the depiction of reality. In his play, Wilde continuously uses aphorisms and paradoxes to invite the reader to reflect upon the drastic change in…