Since the early ages‚ people have been dreaming of creating a perfect place‚ a place where everyone is going to be satisfied. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the many authors who developed these utopian ideas in their works. In 1915 she wrote a short novel Herland about an utopian maternal community. This novel is quite unique because the society depicted in the book wasn’t simply utopian. It was an ideal state created by women. This very idea was considered radical in the early 1900’s. But no
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Hsi Lai Temple Growing up as a Buddhist‚ my family and I would go to temple at least once a year to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Even though I have been going to temple‚ I did not even realize that there was so much I did not know about the culture until my recent visit to the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights with my geography class. The name Hsi Lai stands for “coming to the West”. The temple‚ which was founded by Venerable Master Hsing Yun
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Set in the nineteenth century‚ Jane Eyre describes a woman’s continuous journey through life in search of acceptance and inner peace. Each of the physical journeys made by the main character‚ Jane Eyre‚ have a significant effect on her emotions and cause her to grow and change into the woman she ultimately becomes. Her experiences at Lowood School‚ Thornfield Hall‚ Moor house‚ and Ferndean ingeniously correspond with each stage of Jane’s inner quest and development from an immature child to an intelligent
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a Women’s rights activist and a fantastic writer. She was a passionate feminist in an era in which women needed a powerful role model such as herself. She toured the United States giving lectures on social reform and sharing her views and opinions on Women’s rights. Unfortunately‚ she suffered from severe depression which was both a gift and a curse. The gift came in form of her writing. It gave her a deep passion which channeled into something spectacular; her most well-know
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a sophisticated and renowned Gothic romance novel. Its plot has many unconventional twists and turns and‚ although the novel has been widely accepted and appreciated in the world of classic literature‚ it has also had its share of controversy. From the beginning of the novel‚ it becomes clear that it does not perhaps preach the same religious values as other books written during its time (the 1800s)‚ and some have taken the view that this aspect of the book is
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Love comes along with many emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. Love is an emotional need that even Jane‚ from Charlotte Bronte’s book Jane Eyre‚ can’t ignore. Throughout the story line‚ Jane is searching to find love. She was looking‚ not just for the love of a man‚ but for the love of a family but Jane’s search for love sometimes ends up challenging her independence. Jane’s independence is related to autonomy which is seen throughout the story and is often used as the
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In the novel Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bronte wants the readers to be able to have insight about what it was like growing up as a female during this era. In my analysis of the book‚ I found that the novel did a great job portraying what it is was like for women to grow up in the era that the book takes place in. Women is this period of time were treated with disrespect‚ and were forced to be a typically housemaid and were not allowed to have real jobs. When Jane Eyre was growing up‚ she was often shunned
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what Jane has trapped inside. Jane finds her happiness in nature as well as the ability to grow past what she experienced in her troubling past. Nature acts as guidance for the reader to decipher Jane’s complicated emotions that she doesn’t show. Charlotte Bronte uses nature to parallel Jane’s emotions as well as her evolution from a small‚ unhappy child‚ to a grown‚ mature woman. For Jane‚ life at Gateshead is miserable‚ and dreary under the control of her aunt and cousins. She lives with her only
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Women writers use their personal lives as stimulus when writing works of fiction. As seen in the classic author Charlotte Brontë and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and also for the contemporary author Kathy Reichs. While Jane Eyre is a novel telling the life story of its title character‚ it is mostly based upon aspects of Brontë’s life. Kathy Reich’s uses her life and personally traits to develop the main character and her life in her novels as well. There are a few reasons why women use this technique
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Jane Eyre as Cinderella In charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ there are several paradigms that are used throughout the story; one of the most obvious is the Cinderella template. When looking at Jane Eyre through this template‚ the ideas of an orphan child‚ the stepfamily‚ and the fairy godmother seem to be all the characteristics of Cinderella. Jane Eyre is the orphan child‚ which symbolizes Cinderella. Jane‚ like Cinderella lost both her parents and is dependent on others to care for
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