Hope in old age In "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes, the author paints a picture of a man whose family has grown up and moved on. The poem shows that a man, older and alone in the world, can still hold on to hope for the future.…
During a time our country faced immense inequality, violence and a social uprising, Dorothy Day was able to pursue these radical causes with her objective to transform society through her spirit and faith in God. In her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, she explains her life endeavors through three different timeframes; her time of “Searching,” her time of “Natural Happiness,” and a time where she believed that “Love is the Measure.” In the first section of the reading, we discover how Dorothy finds meaning during her first twenty five years of life as she introduces us to her childhood, religious practices and her interest in writing. In the second section Dorothy explains her marriage, the birth of her child and her new found appreciation…
In the play The Glass Menagerie Laura is a character that many young women across the nation can easily relate to. Although she was crippled at a young age, Laura’s insecurities often times run her life. Like Laura, many women find their insecurities at the forefront of their minds. Laura is a shy, quiet and often times invisible character throughout the play. However, she is a strong, unique, and lovable character as well. Often times we see our flaws as a disadvantage and something that can only do a disservice. Flaws and imperfections make us all unique and that is what sets us apart from the other people in the world. Laura’s imperfections are often pointed out by her mother and she cannot help but see them in a dismal way.…
“Science, it would seem, is not sexless: he is a man, a father, and infected too” (Woolf, 1938). Feminist Virginia Woolf declares this bold statement to express how science is sexist; gender bias by which women’s interests, insight, or perspective are disvalued and ostracized. Over the decades, there has been an outburst of the feminist writing on the philosophical development in literature and history. A majority of the feminist writings harshly criticize the philosophical traditions, which include topics of epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and brings up the expected question of why does the history of philosophy have such an importance impact on feminist philosophers? Countless feminist philosophers have studied the philosophical development throughout the years…
The article illustrates how the novel Mrs. Dalloway depicts the effects of World War One. One of the major topic is the war has “created a parallel between time and deaths in one’s intense consciousness”. Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway has experienced the dangers of war, after witnessing the death of his best friend in trenches, he realizes how vulnerable life is, and death can happen at any time. He is sensitive to time passage that every time the Big Ben strikes, he would think of the horrifying war, and he would recognize death and aging is inevitable, so he chooses to end his life to be freed from this fear. “Clarissa is the only character who comes to terms with death and the fleetingness of time”, she is pleased to the hear the news that Septimus…
Flowing from Virginia Woolf’s poem “Memoirs of Being” is a beautiful piece of her childhood. This picture that has been created, is one that is filled with imagery, anaphora, and is an allusion to a time when her cares were not burdened in the way that they would become later in the poem. We can see that the piece is a picture of a time of youth. One that is not yet marred with the understanding of consequences. And a joy can be seen from start to finish, but her understanding of that joy experienced growth during this piece. Although, she doesn’t agree with her truly enjoys her trip, she finds that the joy experienced therein is one that is a ‘momentary glimpse’ of her childhood, and not one that would be repeated.…
Death is an inevitable process of life, when a significant other is lost it can cause a traumatic disruption in the way someone continues living their life. When someone neglects change the feelings of being isolated, may be resulted by self-imposed thoughts of not belonging with society or by being rejected by others leading to the feeling of loneliness. Just as in the short story “A Rose for Emily”, in which William Faulkner conveys the struggle of loneliness and isolation from the inability to adapt and accept change. This is emphasized through the relationship Miss Emily had with her father, Homer Barron, and society itself.…
In "The Story of an Hour" the main character Louise mentions how she was rarely happy with her husband but would have spent the rest of her life with him due to the social implications of divorce during her time period. If Louise didn't feel as though she was forced to be with a man due to social standings, she would be able to live a life in which she was happy. Louise finds herself grappling with her feelings about her husband's passing. Being forced to let go of her spouse caused her to alter her grip on herself, allowing her to have the realization that "When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” (Chopin 1). Not only has Louise lost her husband, but she has lost what society deemed as her keeper. Like a dog without an owner, Louise finds herself free from the control society gave to her superior. "Free, free, free!" is how she feels once the chains of her perceived gender roles are broken, and she realizes she can live for herself now instead of her husband. The way in which gender roles play a part in the female self-image is highlighted in Slaughters mentioning of how "millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up" (Slaughter 678-9). Women are blaming themselves for their inability to succeed due to a favoring of family over career, when in reality they are unable to succeed to begin with because society enforces a mindset that women will be happier in the…
One of your customers has just said to you, “The service here is terrible.” You should say:…
In the essay A Room of One's Own, the author Virginia Woolf states that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She believes that women need money as it would release them from their dependence on men; and a room of their own as it would provide them with the time and space in order to write with no interruptions. The money and the room are symbolic of greater issues, such as freedom, privacy and financial independence. In the early 20th century, due to their lack of opportunities and access to luxuries, the literary achievements of women notably suffered.…
Have you ever thought of having a world with no pain, loneliness, or love? Well in the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry Jonas never thought of a world with it. His world was perfect. Until the day he turned twelve. Jonas had been given a job to work with The Giver. All is well until JOnas has to have the things in life he never knew of, even though those emotions are why Jonas has become the person he did at the end of the book. The GIver shows how valuable emotions like pain, loneliness, and love can change a person.…
Though it is a controversial topic, gender has always played a tremendous role in society. In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman explores gender roles, especially the gender role of the main character. During the 1890’s, when the story was set, males were the head of the household, and the women had to take care of the house, children. In addition, women, including the main character, had to listen to their husbands, and it was the same way with the main character. In the story, the main character was controlled because she is a woman, and this led to her feeling confined. Her feelings of confinement play a major role in the development of her insanity. It is possible that she became insane because of the men…
3. In The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall took the position that members of the “third sex” are different from birth. Though today, some critics use different terminology and label characters like Stephen “butch,” “mannish” (Esther Newton), or even “transgendered,” do you think that Hall was ahead of her time in suggesting that lesbians are biologically (essentially) different in some way? How is Stephen different from most of the other lesbians in the novel? Even Hall sees two types of lesbian. Though this essay allows for you to be speculative, try to ground your thoughts in some details from the novel, please.…
Tylencia Harvey Ms.Bowser English 1101/MWF 12 October 18,2012 A Question for Philosophers In Judith Butler’s essay Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy she discusses sexuality and what actually makes a world livable. Judith is a gay rights activist and doesn’t believe that your gender is not who you are skin deep, but it is who you define yourself as.…
Isolation, like loss, is also an essential part to living. Even though isolation and loss both have negative connotations, Dickinson puts a positive emphasis on both of them. Dickinson spent most of her adult life as a recluse writing poetry in her Amherst home, so she was very familiar with being isolated. In her isolation, Dickinson was able to write nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles” as they were commonly referred to as (“Emily Dickinson” 5). Dickinson uses isolation in her poetry to set the speaker apart from other people, indicating that they are special in a way. The amount of pain that human beings experience will typically exceed the amount of positive experiences, making the positive experiences purer moments of ecstasy and makes joy…