In my analysis‚ I will compare Susan and Martha‚ who are characters from two British short stories. Martha is a main character from Fay Weldon ’s short story The Weekend and Susan is a main character from Doris Lessing ’s short story To Room 19. These two key female characters try to cope with roles of wife‚ and mother‚ but they are different in a way they approach their problems and how they try to handle their lives and families. Martha works for advertising company‚ but her main job is to be
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A feminist reading of Doris Lessing’s ‘To Room Nineteen’ and ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson using ideas discussed in ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir. The concept of Simone de Beauvoir’s myth of women discussed in ‘The Second Sex’ was still very much prevalent in the 1960s when ‘To Room nineteen’ was set and certainly at the time of ‘Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’. In the 1960s‚ in accordance with the second wave of feminism‚ women were thought
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Through out the 50s there were hundreds of actors and actresses. To name a few Vivien Leigh‚ Audrey Hepburn‚ Marlon Brando ‚Grace Kelly‚ Bette Davis‚ Katharine Hepburn‚ Burt Lancaster‚ Bing Crosby‚ Dorothy Dandridge‚ Judy Garland‚ Elizabeth Taylor‚ and Doris Day. Each of these performers have received Oscars nods for their played roles. Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4‚ 1929 in Belgium. Hepburn was a cosmopolitan from birth as her father was an English banker and her mother a Dutch baroness. In the movies
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for Children in Poverty (NCCP)‚ “between 20% and 30% of adolescents have one major depressive episode before they reach adulthood”. Adolescence can be a very difficult‚ and sometimes dangerous‚ time. In the short story‚ “Through the Tunnel”‚ by Doris Lessing‚ the stages and hardships of adolescence are shown through the mind of an eleven-year-old boy. The author uses symbolism and imagery to portray the theme that transferring into adulthood is a difficult stage. The author uses the calm beach and
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Injustices and Subjugation Doris Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia‚ which is now Zimbabwe. Doris saw the injustices and racial inequality that the native Africans were put through. She wrote the story “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” to implicitly tell the Imperial Europeans of their wrong doings. She could not come out and directly write her true message because she was a white woman in the 1950s. By analyzing the dialogue in “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” it is evident that native Africans were subjugated
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What is Doris LessingÕs purpose in the following extract and how effectively does she achieve it? Comment on her point of view‚ tone and language and any other important aspects of style. By Adam van Sant The extract from Sunrise on the Veld was written by Doris Lessing. He purpose is to make us feel like we are inside the head of the main character. The main character has come across a dying buck in a field and is contemplating whether to put the buck out of itÕs suffering. Lessing uses many
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“Group Minds” by Doris Lessing‚ she makes a point of acknowledging how individuals will violate their own common sense‚ and moral codes in order to be accepted by their peers‚ and argues why we as a society can’t apply this knowledge to explain how people could be cautious of group pressures. Doris Lessing has been called “the best female novelist” post war era; since 1959‚ she has written over twenty works of fiction‚ and has received numerous amounts of scholarly attention. Lessing continuously states
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often get into conflict. How many times have you not argued with an old man about something which was obvious to you‚ but for him it was veiled? This conflict caused by the generation gap happens in the short story In the National Gallery by Doris Lessing from 2007. Through a first person narrator we become a part of a public space‚ London’s National Gallery. The narrator‚ whose age‚ gender and appearance remains hidden from us as readers‚ watches‚ observes and comments on activity in the gallery
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In Lessing short story‚ “To Room Nineteen‚” she explains about being in “tragedy” represents “a failure of intelligence” is when she rents a room for solitude and she cannot find a way to her real self except by killing herself and her marriageis a failure (2759). Although‚ the author uses ”intelligent” and “civilized” to explain that it’s ironic and her intelligence to show that if led her to commit suicide (Lessing 2762). However‚ this story starts in a very ironic tone by bringing up the failure
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plague waiting to spread like wildfire throughout your school‚ your workplace‚ even your home-life. Some may think that’s too dramatic‚ but I envision it as the horrid truth. The article “Group Minds‚” written by Doris Lessing‚ comes from her series of the 1985 Massey Lectures. Lessing declares “When we ’re in a group‚ we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find "like-minded" people. But we also find our thinking changing because we belong to a group.” I believe
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