Women's writing in English

The fourteenth century was a very oppressive time for English women living under the shadow of the patriarchy. Men controlled nearly everything: marriage, property, the holy church, and all of academia. Women were commonly seen and treated as less than their male counterparts, often lacking basic education and career options. Male authors from the fourteenth century often portrayed many patriarchal influences against women in their writing. Such was the case with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury…

What do you intend to gain from this course? I would like to gain better writing skills and I hope that once I learn about Ethics that it will help me in my decision making skills. I intend to gain time management skills that I will enjoy following. 7. What is your discipline/area of major study? How would you characterize…

the narrator’s mental decomposition. Because the women is not able to naturally stimulate her highly imaginative mind, she still is imaginative but in an unhealthy manner. (Haney-Peritz, 116) Janice Haney-Peritz, who is head of the Department of English at Beaver College, took a close look at the mental breakdown of the narrator in Monumental feminism and literature’s ancestral house: Another look at “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrators first realization of the wallpaper is that it, “is dull…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is one of the most known novels in English literature. The story begins when Marlow, who works for a Belgian company, went on a journey to the heart of Africa as a steamship captain. Through his journey, he heard the name of Kurtz for the first time. Then the name repeated many times which made Marlow, who is our narrator in addition to another unknown narrator, interested to know about Kurtz. Kurtz works for the company as an ivory trader in the Congo which was…

Themes of nature in the works of T S Eliot T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work…

John Lyly was born in Kent, England in 1533. He is considered to be the first English prose stylist to leave an enduring impression on the language and helped develop the use of prose dialogue in English comedy. He went to London after he graduated from Oxford where he made two prose romances Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit in 1578 and Euphues and His England in 1580. These two works made him the most famous English writer of the 1580s. After 1580 Lyly went from romance to comedy works. In 1583 he…

Social history is the thorough analysis of the past and usually has to do with sociology, ethnology or fiscal matters that are mainly based on experiences typically focused on major issues, making it a topic of public interest. There are many ideas that concern social history and it may be difficult to recognize them. Social history is an exceedingly broad term as there are so many situations and examples that can fall into the group. It is popularly considered as an insight on cultural history,…

Sara Elizabeth Peets Karl Marx and the Communist English 4 Karl Marx and the Communist Communism. First known as Marxism, later changed the name to Communism due to the practices, that were just performed like Communism. Communism is a political theory obtained and formed in 1844 by Karl Marx, supporting class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and operated, and also each person is paid according to their abilities and needs. Karl Marx had a desire for this…

regulations still existed, a bad brew was punished by flogging. But in contrast the husbands were held accountable for their wives bad brews. Not all women who brewed were located in centralized areas, many women living on the outskirts of English towns brewed, for themselves, to bring to market, or even to serve to thirsty travellers making their way from town to town. It was customary for households with surplus beer to display this with an ‘ale stake’ a wooden stick with twigs and…

Githa Hariharan’s works are known for their feminist and social concerns. Along with the other women writers she believes in creating women who suffer on one hand and try to break the traditional setup in order to lead a free life on the other hand. Though she talks about various subjects in her works the major theme of most of her novels is rewriting of myths and stories. The Introductory chapter of the present study had discussed the role of women in Indian society and the impact of…