footsteps. Incidently‚ Elsa Lanchester recorded this poem as a song on her Bawdy Cockney Songs album‚ some decades ago. It is a delightful ditty. In The Ruined Maid’‚ which Hardy wrote in 1866‚ Hardy focuses on one woman’s recent loss of chastity and how she is perceived by a once close friend who is returning to town. This Maid’ has found herself marring above her status and prostituting herself for riches and prosperity. Rather than feeling ashamed of her actions‚ she expresses a sense of
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After a day’s training‚ she is considered capable of cleaning with the team. She realizes that maid work is tiresome and involves physical‚ demanding labor. Furthermore‚ she discovers that the 30 minute lunch break promised in her interview is more like a five minute break. Likewise‚ the guarantee of leaving work at 3:30 usually results in returning
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Man’s Inhumanity to Man as reflected in “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield -------- An Analysis of the Concepts of Modernity as reflected in the short story “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield -------- In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Modern Literature (Lit 162) -------- By Tan‚ Vincent Paul G. B. S. Business Administration “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield I. Introduction: Katherine Mansfield A. Life B. Works C. Influences II. “The Fly
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In both of Katherine Mansfield’s stories‚ “The Garden Party” and “Bliss” we can find this “multiple personality” in the main characters. In the first one we have Laura‚ who is a young lady of a well-positioned family in an upper class neighborhood. The young woman’s world is presented almost like a fantasy; the description of the environment is filled up with “perfect beauty”. The girl is not like the other members of her family‚ she seems to reflect about the things she is doing and is affected
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Mansfield’s Short Stories Discuss the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories you have studied In this essay‚ I am going to discuss about the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield that I have studied. The two stories are "The Garden Party" and "An Indiscreet Journey". In "The Garden Party"‚ we have the Sheridan’s Family who live in the upper class side of an English Country. They are very high-class‚ educated‚ wealthy and
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Her First Ball – summary Leila was on the way to her first ball. In the taxi she imagined that she sat with an unknown young man. The Sheridan girls thought it was strange that she had never been to a ball. Leila tried to stay calm‚ but she was very excited about this new experience. They arrived at the drill hall‚ where the ball was. There were lights and happy couples everywhere in the streets. Inside‚ the girls went into the Ladies’ room. It was crowded with girls getting ready for the
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Despite having a relatively short life‚ Franz Schubert managed to compose over 1‚500 works‚ two of them being song cycles. The first of these is titled Die schöne Müllerin‚ which translates to “The Beautiful Maid of the Mill.” This piece‚ which is inspired by Wilhelm Müller’s poem cycle of the same title‚ depicts the story of a young mill hand who‚ while searching for work‚ finds love and meets his death as a result. While the text and music conjure beautiful scenes of a mill by a babbling brook
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Composition "the garden party" 16-09-’02 Klas A Third version The function of the hat in "the garden party" Almost everybody in the story wears a hat; it tells something about the person who wears it. It is used as a statussymbol; the classes are expressed by their hats. That is why it has an important place in the story. Laura’s feeling towards class distinctions is related to the hat. The hat gives her a status; when she walks towards the dead man’s house‚ she thinks everyone is looking at
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Two of Katherine Mansfield’s most famous stories are "Prelude" and "At the Bay"‚ both of them portraying a New Zealand family. Both stories‚ are revolving around the female characters‚ but the one link that connects all of them is Stanley Burnell‚ member and provider of the family. The New Zealand critic Carl Stead affirms that Stanley Burnell is a ’benevolent despot’ meaning that he is a kind person‚ and a tyrant in the same time. I agree with Stead affirmation‚ but as it seems somewhat incomplete
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Maids to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers by Nicole Constable Nicole Constable‚ in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong‚ their attitude towards their own lives and work‚ and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable’s primary purpose‚ from a scholarly perspective‚ is to document the particulars of the lives of these
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