In Volume 2 of her 2-Volume novel Hope Leslie, Catherine Maria Sedgwick makes no attempts in hiding how much of a horrible person Sir Philip Gartner is. His infatuation and obsession with Hope Leslie and getting rid of Rosaline lead him to commit various actions such as springing up the trap that put both Magawisca and Faith in jail after Hope tells him she has no intentions of marrying him.…
She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and was an organist at All Saints Church when she was young. She completed a music teacher's diploma, and also worked as a typist at the War Damage Commission from 1942.…
Gwen Harwood underlines the repression of women within society in Home of Mercy by expressing the restrictions that these girls face. The poem brings forward the way society view young females in the 1960s that act ‘indecently’ in societies view. Harwood is opposed to these views and believes that injustice has been done to these girls simply because they are not in a ‘traditional’ and ‘respectable’ marriage. Harwood uses descriptive language, religious imagery and irony to convey the hypocritical nature of the asylums, religion and society itself.…
It is clear to see that Greta lays in the leaves waiting for June to find her, this is Greta’s way of escaping reality, Greta escapes because she feels like she is moving too fast, she purposely waits for June almost like a child waiting for their parent.…
In the first half of the book we get to learn that Carrie believes way too much in luck. She thinks that her luck comes from one of her special red t-shirt. After losing it she gets really worried and feels that she’ll lose everything that she have gained. Her mom tells her that mistakenly her mom have donated it to one the charities. She also tells her that it has been sent to a foreign land which is India. Carrie wants that shirt back so badly that she goes to India to look for that shirt.…
In Anne Bradstreet’s seventeenth century poem, “The Author to Her Book” she compares the awareness of nurturing and properly raising a child to the writing and revising of a book. The speaker is caught between conflicting love of her book and shame of its weaknesses, both of which are expressed in the metaphor and in the tone – both expressing the true mammalian nature of her motherhood, ultimately creating a tone of sincerity and loyalty.…
This poem has an underlying theme centered around the concept of hubris being a negative influence in life. In short, this poem talks about a selfish man who feels entitled to the attention of his wife and child. To begin, one way the poet, Sherman Alexie, attempts to show hubris is towards the beginning of the poem where it says, “So I comforted and kissed him in the dark Bedroom, but my comfort was not enough… It’s hard for fathers to compete with mothers’ love. ”(5).…
In most cultures, being a housewife is the most important role a woman can have. If a woman does not the needed skills they need to perform their duty, then they are not seen as real woman. Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl” describes a young girl reciting the advice her mother gives her advice to be a respectable woman in society, take care of herself, and how to keep up her household once she is married. In the implied patriarchal society that they are in, the importance of feminine roles become the basis of how they will be perceived in their society. The narrator’s mother also has implications to the importance of sexual purity.…
The beginning is full of emotionally charged words that help to create a sympathetic image. She noted that she was “eight months pregnant” and that her husband found it kind of difficult to “fight with a massively pregnant person”. She evokes the image of the vulnerability’s and challenges that come with being so pregnant, and also the high emotions that a women feel at the time which introduces the argument and how serious it is. Her goal during this article was to make the readers feel sympathy for her. She added in her article words and phrases that add to her goal for sympathy words such as, sucks, Headachy, insisted, argued, and being judged. All of these evoke bad emotions about cleaning, which in turn makes the reader see the connection about women who feel judged or shunned may have negative feelings. Another idea she enforces with her choices of word throughout the article is the concept of fairness; more house work, fair share, and a week and a half more of a “second shift” work, were just a few of her brilliant choices or words throughout her article. The words she chose helped her establish the sense of unfairness that exists when a woman does all of the house work, these words also appeal to…
As a young mother, the narrator expresses how she wanted to be the best mother, the right mother for her child Emily. She admits that she was a first time mother " with all the rigidity of first motherhood " She reads books to educate her self and she believes the "experts" and what makes the best kind of mother. Tillie Olsen writes about how the character, through physical sacrifice, nursed her child. The story raises our awareness of gender and family roles by the comments of the narrator. We become aware of the constraints we place upon ourselves to fit in with what the majority believes each role in a family should be.…
Margaret Atwood’s Novel Alias Grace is a story based off of a historical murder that occurred in the nineteenth century. The court convicted Grace Marks, the main character, of the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his house keeper, Nancy Montgomery. A servant named James McDermott was found guilty of the murder, along with Grace, during the trial. The court ultimately concluded that James McDermott be hanged to death and Grace Marks sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace was eventually granted pardon although the truth of her involvement in the murder will never be truly known.…
It can be said that society has always been quite judgmental, and at times misguided when it comes to women. The negative perceptions that society has towards females are often times directly related toward her actions. What a female does seems to degrade her identity and capabilities in the eyes of some men. In the poems “The Lady’s Dressing Room” and The essay “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, we can see both authors use of tone, form and style to develop their works. These poems are mainly driven by men’s attitudes towards women. A man’s perceived opinion about women can negatively shape society’s views and perceptions of them.…
First and foremost, the main theme in Hemmingway’s poem is Krebs inability to relate to his mother and to his home life…
To what extent does the student show how his or her understanding of cultural and contextual elements was developed through the interactive oral ?…
Finding one’s place and purpose draws upon numerous factors within and throughout society’s restrictions and norms. Every individual pursues a constant struggle to discover who she/he is. The struggle continues when determining who she/he is in regards to society. Finding oneself is perhaps the most difficult task that many face and therefore, this search becomes the centre point for various British novels. Women face this task when deciding who they will become in society and what their purpose will be. Will they follow the family style life that is laid out for them, or will they pursue another route entirely? Female British novelists attack this question using strong female characters that portray determination and courage to reach specific goals. Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, and Oranges are not the Only Fruit, written by Jeanette Winterson, are two novels with strong female characters searching for a place within society. The two main characters, Mrs. Dalloway and Jeanette, are constantly looking for comfort – a place that guarantees safety and security. Mrs. Dalloway tries to find comfort by becoming what society expects her to be; while Jeanette tries to create her own place among her peers. Two different women aim at finding themselves in regards to society’s expectations in two very different ways. The different paths they choose show the range between possible paths for women to travel while reaching self-comfort and self-security.…