Ewrt 1 c class 14 post qhq the story of an hourjordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on short stories by Kate Chopin and Gabriel García Márquez. The class will discuss Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It provides biographical details and historical context for the authors and analyzes elements like point of view and setting in Chopin's story. The document concludes with potential discussion questions.
01. The story follows Paul Roberts and his love affair with Susan Macleod in 1960s England. Paul was a 19-year-old university student and Susan was a 48-year-old married woman and mother of two.
02. Their passionate but ill-fated love affair took place in the suburbs outside of London. However, Susan's mental health declined and she was eventually hospitalized.
03. The story is told from Paul's perspective and jumps between the past and present as he looks back on their relationship decades later. Much of the story examines the themes of memory, love, loss and how relationships are perceived over time.
The short story describes a man who was once kind and gentle but became cruel and violent after struggling with alcoholism. He hung his beloved black cat after it scratched him in a drunken rage, feeling deep remorse. Later, his house burned down leaving only one standing wall, which crowds were examining with interest due to a strange marking on it.
Reconstucted Memory of Love in Julian Barnes's The Only StorySneha Agravat
The document provides a summary and analysis of Julian Barnes' novel The Only Story. It discusses the author, main characters, narrative structure, and themes of memory and love. The narrative is told from the perspective of the main character Paul Roberts and uses flashbacks and reconstruction of memory to recount his love affair with Susan MacLeod. The third and final part sees Paul reflect on the relationship and his understanding of love in older age, realizing memories are fallible but the experience of love remains profoundly impactful.
The Only Story is a 2018 novel by Julian Barnes that explores themes of memory, love, loss, and self-delusion. It tells the story of Robert Paul, who recalls his passionate but doomed love affair with Susan MacLeod in 1960s England. The affair took place when Paul was a 19-year-old university student and Susan was a 48-year-old married mother of two. Through Paul's fragmented memories and diary entries, the novel examines the contradictions of love and how fulfillment and suffering are often simultaneous. It also questions the reliability of both personal and historical memory over the decades.
comparison between Pamela and Jane Eyre Sneha Agravat
This document provides a comparison of the novels Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It notes that both novels have lower class female protagonists, Pamela and Jane respectively, who overcome obstacles to marry their masters whom they love. It outlines similarities in their refusal to live with Mr. B and Mr. Rochester without marriage, and how their faith and virtue are integral to their characters. The document also discusses social differences, appearances of clergymen, and how fortunes tellers are used differently in the two novels.
The document provides an agenda and background information for an EWRT 1C class discussing the short story genre. It introduces James Joyce and one of his short stories, "Araby". Context is provided about Joyce's life and times in Dublin and literary techniques like stream-of-consciousness. Anton Chekhov is also introduced along with his short story "The Bet". Discussion questions are posed about themes, symbols and character perspectives in each story. Historical and political context of Ireland and Russia during the authors' eras is summarized as well.
Ewrt 1 c class 14 post qhq the story of an hourjordanlachance
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on short stories by Kate Chopin and Gabriel García Márquez. The class will discuss Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It provides biographical details and historical context for the authors and analyzes elements like point of view and setting in Chopin's story. The document concludes with potential discussion questions.
01. The story follows Paul Roberts and his love affair with Susan Macleod in 1960s England. Paul was a 19-year-old university student and Susan was a 48-year-old married woman and mother of two.
02. Their passionate but ill-fated love affair took place in the suburbs outside of London. However, Susan's mental health declined and she was eventually hospitalized.
03. The story is told from Paul's perspective and jumps between the past and present as he looks back on their relationship decades later. Much of the story examines the themes of memory, love, loss and how relationships are perceived over time.
The short story describes a man who was once kind and gentle but became cruel and violent after struggling with alcoholism. He hung his beloved black cat after it scratched him in a drunken rage, feeling deep remorse. Later, his house burned down leaving only one standing wall, which crowds were examining with interest due to a strange marking on it.
Reconstucted Memory of Love in Julian Barnes's The Only StorySneha Agravat
The document provides a summary and analysis of Julian Barnes' novel The Only Story. It discusses the author, main characters, narrative structure, and themes of memory and love. The narrative is told from the perspective of the main character Paul Roberts and uses flashbacks and reconstruction of memory to recount his love affair with Susan MacLeod. The third and final part sees Paul reflect on the relationship and his understanding of love in older age, realizing memories are fallible but the experience of love remains profoundly impactful.
The Only Story is a 2018 novel by Julian Barnes that explores themes of memory, love, loss, and self-delusion. It tells the story of Robert Paul, who recalls his passionate but doomed love affair with Susan MacLeod in 1960s England. The affair took place when Paul was a 19-year-old university student and Susan was a 48-year-old married mother of two. Through Paul's fragmented memories and diary entries, the novel examines the contradictions of love and how fulfillment and suffering are often simultaneous. It also questions the reliability of both personal and historical memory over the decades.
comparison between Pamela and Jane Eyre Sneha Agravat
This document provides a comparison of the novels Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It notes that both novels have lower class female protagonists, Pamela and Jane respectively, who overcome obstacles to marry their masters whom they love. It outlines similarities in their refusal to live with Mr. B and Mr. Rochester without marriage, and how their faith and virtue are integral to their characters. The document also discusses social differences, appearances of clergymen, and how fortunes tellers are used differently in the two novels.
The document provides an agenda and background information for an EWRT 1C class discussing the short story genre. It introduces James Joyce and one of his short stories, "Araby". Context is provided about Joyce's life and times in Dublin and literary techniques like stream-of-consciousness. Anton Chekhov is also introduced along with his short story "The Bet". Discussion questions are posed about themes, symbols and character perspectives in each story. Historical and political context of Ireland and Russia during the authors' eras is summarized as well.
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is a historical fiction novel set in 1867 that follows Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff. Charles is engaged to Ernestina Freeman but falls in love with Sarah, a mysterious woman who lives alone after being abandoned by her lover. The novel explores their relationship amid the social constraints of Victorian England. It also features a narrator who comments on the story and writing process, highlighting the constructed nature of fiction.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows Hester Prynne, who commits adultery and bears a child out of wedlock in 17th century Puritan Boston. As punishment, she is forced to wear the letter 'A' on her dress. It is later revealed that the child's father is Arthur Dimmesdale, the town minister. Hester's husband Roger eventually discovers their affair and seeks revenge. Dimmesdale dies after publicly confessing his role in front of the townspeople. The novel examines themes of sin and punishment in Puritan society through the characters of Hester and Dimmesdale.
FEMINISM "ON PORTRAIT OF ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN CHAPTER:4"Fatima Gul
1) Stephen rigorously applies spiritual discipline to his actions, depriving himself physically and mentally through ascetic practices like limiting his senses.
2) He pictures himself joining the priesthood but begins to feel unrest, seeing his disordered home life is not conducive to the church.
3) Stephen reflects on his difficulty merging his life with others and finds constant failure leaves him feeling spiritually dry.
This document provides biographical information about Jane Austen and summaries of criticism of her novel Pride and Prejudice from Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, and W.F. Pollock. It discusses Austen's life, her works including Pride and Prejudice, and praise her realism and ability to distinguish seemingly ordinary characters.
The document provides context and summaries about Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. It begins in 1642 Boston where a group of somber Puritans wait outside the prison for Hester Prynne, who has been convicted of adultery. The opening scene depicts the gloomy and punitive society. Hawthorne expands on themes of secrecy, guilt, and the lingering effects of Puritanism. The plot involves Hester standing on a scaffold in front of a hostile crowd, reflecting the public exposure of private wrongdoings in Puritan Boston. Much of the text was drawn from literary analysis sources on the novel.
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This class discusses the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. It introduces the author Kate Chopin and provides historical context about women's roles in society during the time period. It then discusses the literary style and techniques Chopin uses in the story, such as narrative point of view and irony. The class concludes with questions for discussion about themes and interpretations of the story.
Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'Dilip Barad
This presentation is about the narrative technique used by Modernist female novelist Virginia Woolf in her novel 'To The Lighthouse'. It deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The interior monologue, free association etc are explained in this presentation.
1) Jane Eyre follows many Gothic conventions including a female protagonist who is threatened by an aggressive male and confined in a great house under male authority. Jane is imprisoned in restrictive houses like Lowood and Thornfield Hall.
2) Bertha Mason, Rochester's wife, represents the "madwoman in the attic" trope. She is physically imprisoned in Thornfield's attic, paralleling Jane's psychological entrapment. Bertha embodies Jane's repressed anger and acts as her "truest and darkest double."
3) The novel Wide Sargasso Sea serves as a prequel to Jane Eyre from Bertha/Antoinette's perspective, providing the
Our group analysis based on Stylistics of the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. We made this presentation for our final exams in Stylistics. Our group is composed of William Amaro, Merilene Bindol, Wendy Hocon, Mark Joseph Halili Nusug and Cecille Susano. In addition, this specific presentation will be printed out to be submitted to our instructor.
The document provides a summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. It describes the plot, which involves Hester Prynne who is forced to wear the letter "A" after giving birth to a child from an adulterous affair. The summary also introduces the main characters of Hester and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and discusses the novel's themes of sin and conflicts with society. It analyzes the purpose of assigning the novel, noting that it explores complex human motives and remains relevant despite being written over 150 years ago.
Lady Mary Wroth was a 17th century English woman who was the first to write a full-length prose romance and sonnet sequence. This poem analyzes a sonnet written by Wroth that warns women about the untrustworthy nature of men. The poem describes men as crying children who are never satisfied and will use flattery to deceive women. It advises women to leave men alone once they start crying for attention and not to seek them out, as men are prone to leaving quickly. The analysis discusses how the poem offers a perspective on the harsh treatment of women by men during this time period through its use of metaphors and warnings to readers.
This document provides background information and a summary of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Some key details:
- Pamela is an epistolary novel told through letters written by the character Pamela Andrews, a servant struggling against her master's attempts to seduce her.
- The novel established the epistolary form and dealt with themes of class, gender, and morality. It follows Pamela's efforts to defend her virtue from her master Mr. B's advances.
- By the end of the novel, Pamela agrees to marry Mr. B, retaining her virtue while gaining social status and acceptance into the upper class. The work was influential and popularized
The document discusses the role and importance of the reader in Henry Fielding's novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. It explains that Fielding viewed the reader as an active participant in constructing the meaning of the novel, rather than a passive receiver. He used techniques like contrast, ambiguity, and direct addresses to the reader to encourage participation and independent thinking. The document also analyzes how Fielding provided guidance to readers through author-reader dialogue, while still allowing complexity and open-ended interpretations.
This document provides a comparison of the characters and settings in the short stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Both stories depict older women living isolated lives. The document analyzes how the authors use setting elements like the houses and character descriptions of Emily and Louise to convey attitudes toward love and death. Emily and Louise experience changes in how they view love over the course of the stories that end in their deaths. The houses are also significant settings that reflect details from the authors' own lives and the changing feelings of the characters.
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour". It includes:
1. An introduction of Kate Chopin, including details about her life, works, and rediscovery in the 1960s.
2. Historical context on women's roles and the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th century when the story was published.
3. An overview of Chopin's use of literary techniques like point of view and irony in "The Story of an Hour".
4. Potential discussion questions about themes in the story and Chopin's critique of marriage.
Literature presentation “she was a phantom of delight”vickyquiroga
This poem describes a woman who was initially seen as a phantom but upon closer observation is revealed to be both spiritual and human. In the first stanza she appears mysteriously beautiful. In the second stanza the poet sees her doing household tasks and finds her to be a pleasant companion. By the third stanza he sees her as a perfect woman with strength, skill and the ability to guide him. The poem explores the poet's growing understanding and admiration of this woman, who is revealed to be his wife Mary Hutchinson.
This document provides an overview and discussion of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ahead of reading Curtis Sittenfeld's modern adaptation titled Eligible. It recaps the plot of Pride and Prejudice, discusses themes of first impressions, letters, Darcy's letter, Pemberley estate, and characters. It also addresses challenges of adapting classic works and strategies used in other Pride and Prejudice adaptations. The document prompts questions for discussion and a writing prompt on character traits.
The document discusses Virginia Woolf and her modernist novel To the Lighthouse. It provides background on Woolf's life experiences, including her childhood in an intellectual household and several mental breakdowns brought on by deaths in her family. It describes stream of consciousness as a literary technique used by Woolf involving the continuous flow of a character's mental processes without a coherent structure. Key characters from To the Lighthouse like Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe are outlined. The novel is divided into three sections spanning over a decade and focuses on the Ramsay family and their attempts to visit a nearby lighthouse.
The portrayal of male fools in jane austen pride and prejudiceAli Albashir
This document analyzes the portrayal of male fools in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It discusses two male fools in the novel: Mr. Collins and Mr. Wickham. Mr. Collins is described as a humorless and pedantic fool whose marriage proposal to Elizabeth Bennet provokes laughter due to its lack of passion and care. Meanwhile, Mr. Wickham is portrayed as using his charm to deceive others, most notably the Bennet family. The document concludes that while these characters do not change, they are interesting devices that Austen uses to critique pride and expose human folly.
INTERNAL ELEMENTS OF A NOVEL: A SHORT INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS OF ‘MRS. DALLOWAY’tacioabarros
This document provides an interpretive analysis of Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" focusing on its internal elements from a space and time perspective. It discusses how Woolf uses stream of consciousness and references to time through bells to explore characters' thoughts and critique 1920s London society. The story follows Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party over the course of one day, with flashbacks revealing characters' pasts. Through its examination of time and inner minds, the novel holds a mirror to post-World War I society and questions the human experience.
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is a historical fiction novel set in 1867 that follows Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff. Charles is engaged to Ernestina Freeman but falls in love with Sarah, a mysterious woman who lives alone after being abandoned by her lover. The novel explores their relationship amid the social constraints of Victorian England. It also features a narrator who comments on the story and writing process, highlighting the constructed nature of fiction.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows Hester Prynne, who commits adultery and bears a child out of wedlock in 17th century Puritan Boston. As punishment, she is forced to wear the letter 'A' on her dress. It is later revealed that the child's father is Arthur Dimmesdale, the town minister. Hester's husband Roger eventually discovers their affair and seeks revenge. Dimmesdale dies after publicly confessing his role in front of the townspeople. The novel examines themes of sin and punishment in Puritan society through the characters of Hester and Dimmesdale.
FEMINISM "ON PORTRAIT OF ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN CHAPTER:4"Fatima Gul
1) Stephen rigorously applies spiritual discipline to his actions, depriving himself physically and mentally through ascetic practices like limiting his senses.
2) He pictures himself joining the priesthood but begins to feel unrest, seeing his disordered home life is not conducive to the church.
3) Stephen reflects on his difficulty merging his life with others and finds constant failure leaves him feeling spiritually dry.
This document provides biographical information about Jane Austen and summaries of criticism of her novel Pride and Prejudice from Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, and W.F. Pollock. It discusses Austen's life, her works including Pride and Prejudice, and praise her realism and ability to distinguish seemingly ordinary characters.
The document provides context and summaries about Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. It begins in 1642 Boston where a group of somber Puritans wait outside the prison for Hester Prynne, who has been convicted of adultery. The opening scene depicts the gloomy and punitive society. Hawthorne expands on themes of secrecy, guilt, and the lingering effects of Puritanism. The plot involves Hester standing on a scaffold in front of a hostile crowd, reflecting the public exposure of private wrongdoings in Puritan Boston. Much of the text was drawn from literary analysis sources on the novel.
Asking to write a Literary Analysis on such a topic, teachers are waiting for something interesting and unusual to read. That is why we prepared you an article which you can find very helpful https://essay-academy.com/account/blog/literary-analysis-on-the-scarlet-letter-by-n-hawthorne
This class discusses the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. It introduces the author Kate Chopin and provides historical context about women's roles in society during the time period. It then discusses the literary style and techniques Chopin uses in the story, such as narrative point of view and irony. The class concludes with questions for discussion about themes and interpretations of the story.
Stream of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'Dilip Barad
This presentation is about the narrative technique used by Modernist female novelist Virginia Woolf in her novel 'To The Lighthouse'. It deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The interior monologue, free association etc are explained in this presentation.
1) Jane Eyre follows many Gothic conventions including a female protagonist who is threatened by an aggressive male and confined in a great house under male authority. Jane is imprisoned in restrictive houses like Lowood and Thornfield Hall.
2) Bertha Mason, Rochester's wife, represents the "madwoman in the attic" trope. She is physically imprisoned in Thornfield's attic, paralleling Jane's psychological entrapment. Bertha embodies Jane's repressed anger and acts as her "truest and darkest double."
3) The novel Wide Sargasso Sea serves as a prequel to Jane Eyre from Bertha/Antoinette's perspective, providing the
Our group analysis based on Stylistics of the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. We made this presentation for our final exams in Stylistics. Our group is composed of William Amaro, Merilene Bindol, Wendy Hocon, Mark Joseph Halili Nusug and Cecille Susano. In addition, this specific presentation will be printed out to be submitted to our instructor.
The document provides a summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. It describes the plot, which involves Hester Prynne who is forced to wear the letter "A" after giving birth to a child from an adulterous affair. The summary also introduces the main characters of Hester and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and discusses the novel's themes of sin and conflicts with society. It analyzes the purpose of assigning the novel, noting that it explores complex human motives and remains relevant despite being written over 150 years ago.
Lady Mary Wroth was a 17th century English woman who was the first to write a full-length prose romance and sonnet sequence. This poem analyzes a sonnet written by Wroth that warns women about the untrustworthy nature of men. The poem describes men as crying children who are never satisfied and will use flattery to deceive women. It advises women to leave men alone once they start crying for attention and not to seek them out, as men are prone to leaving quickly. The analysis discusses how the poem offers a perspective on the harsh treatment of women by men during this time period through its use of metaphors and warnings to readers.
This document provides background information and a summary of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Some key details:
- Pamela is an epistolary novel told through letters written by the character Pamela Andrews, a servant struggling against her master's attempts to seduce her.
- The novel established the epistolary form and dealt with themes of class, gender, and morality. It follows Pamela's efforts to defend her virtue from her master Mr. B's advances.
- By the end of the novel, Pamela agrees to marry Mr. B, retaining her virtue while gaining social status and acceptance into the upper class. The work was influential and popularized
The document discusses the role and importance of the reader in Henry Fielding's novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. It explains that Fielding viewed the reader as an active participant in constructing the meaning of the novel, rather than a passive receiver. He used techniques like contrast, ambiguity, and direct addresses to the reader to encourage participation and independent thinking. The document also analyzes how Fielding provided guidance to readers through author-reader dialogue, while still allowing complexity and open-ended interpretations.
This document provides a comparison of the characters and settings in the short stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. Both stories depict older women living isolated lives. The document analyzes how the authors use setting elements like the houses and character descriptions of Emily and Louise to convey attitudes toward love and death. Emily and Louise experience changes in how they view love over the course of the stories that end in their deaths. The houses are also significant settings that reflect details from the authors' own lives and the changing feelings of the characters.
This document provides an agenda and background information for a class discussion on Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour". It includes:
1. An introduction of Kate Chopin, including details about her life, works, and rediscovery in the 1960s.
2. Historical context on women's roles and the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th century when the story was published.
3. An overview of Chopin's use of literary techniques like point of view and irony in "The Story of an Hour".
4. Potential discussion questions about themes in the story and Chopin's critique of marriage.
Literature presentation “she was a phantom of delight”vickyquiroga
This poem describes a woman who was initially seen as a phantom but upon closer observation is revealed to be both spiritual and human. In the first stanza she appears mysteriously beautiful. In the second stanza the poet sees her doing household tasks and finds her to be a pleasant companion. By the third stanza he sees her as a perfect woman with strength, skill and the ability to guide him. The poem explores the poet's growing understanding and admiration of this woman, who is revealed to be his wife Mary Hutchinson.
This document provides an overview and discussion of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ahead of reading Curtis Sittenfeld's modern adaptation titled Eligible. It recaps the plot of Pride and Prejudice, discusses themes of first impressions, letters, Darcy's letter, Pemberley estate, and characters. It also addresses challenges of adapting classic works and strategies used in other Pride and Prejudice adaptations. The document prompts questions for discussion and a writing prompt on character traits.
The document discusses Virginia Woolf and her modernist novel To the Lighthouse. It provides background on Woolf's life experiences, including her childhood in an intellectual household and several mental breakdowns brought on by deaths in her family. It describes stream of consciousness as a literary technique used by Woolf involving the continuous flow of a character's mental processes without a coherent structure. Key characters from To the Lighthouse like Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe are outlined. The novel is divided into three sections spanning over a decade and focuses on the Ramsay family and their attempts to visit a nearby lighthouse.
The portrayal of male fools in jane austen pride and prejudiceAli Albashir
This document analyzes the portrayal of male fools in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It discusses two male fools in the novel: Mr. Collins and Mr. Wickham. Mr. Collins is described as a humorless and pedantic fool whose marriage proposal to Elizabeth Bennet provokes laughter due to its lack of passion and care. Meanwhile, Mr. Wickham is portrayed as using his charm to deceive others, most notably the Bennet family. The document concludes that while these characters do not change, they are interesting devices that Austen uses to critique pride and expose human folly.
INTERNAL ELEMENTS OF A NOVEL: A SHORT INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS OF ‘MRS. DALLOWAY’tacioabarros
This document provides an interpretive analysis of Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" focusing on its internal elements from a space and time perspective. It discusses how Woolf uses stream of consciousness and references to time through bells to explore characters' thoughts and critique 1920s London society. The story follows Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for a party over the course of one day, with flashbacks revealing characters' pasts. Through its examination of time and inner minds, the novel holds a mirror to post-World War I society and questions the human experience.
Fanny Price is often criticized as a weak heroine in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, but this paper argues she undergoes a remarkable transformation and is a worthy heroine. It summarizes that Fanny starts as a poor orphan but grows to be cherished by the Bertram family. While critics argue she is too passive, the text shows her acting with courage, restraint, and moral fortitude. Through subtle changes, Fanny transforms from a timid girl to a courageous woman who asserts her independence and morality, making her a complex and progressive character.
Mla style essay women need to reach some level of values in order not to be...CustomEssayOrder
The document discusses how women have been degraded in society and denied equal opportunities and dignity. It argues that for women to be treated with respect, they need to attain certain levels of education, rights awareness, and independence. Specifically, it states that women should have access to education to make rational decisions, know their legal rights regarding issues like property and reproduction, and not be solely reliant on men but able to support themselves. Only by gaining these things can women overcome stereotypes of weakness and gain proper respect and dignity in society.
The document is analyzing an "inspirational letter" sent from Buckton Vale Primary School to its Year 6 pupils. It examines how the letter constructs ideas about the school, pupils, and their relationship. Specifically, it looks at how the letter claims to know its pupils and positions the school as having power over them, despite portraying an alternative type of education. The letter's formatting and wording are dissected to understand how it positions Buckton Vale as the sender and authority over the pupils, who it addresses in an attempt to build a relationship with them. The date on the letter is also examined for what it implies about when the school exists in relation to the pupils.
This summary analyzes Cunningham's novel The Hours and how it expands upon themes from Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway through strategic narrative choices. Cunningham sets his three protagonists in different time periods and locations but connects their conscious experiences through themes of love, identity, and madness. By using present tense across the different timelines, Cunningham makes their experiences feel equally immediate and linked. He also combines qualities of Woolf's original characters into new amalgamated characters, further complicating themes of identity. These narrative choices allow Cunningham to take Woolf's theme of universal human interconnectedness to new dimensions, demonstrating how experience can transcend time and place.
Virginia Woolf employs the symbol of time in her novel Mrs. Dalloway to provide structure and connect the characters. The chiming clocks throughout London mark the passing of time over the course of one day. Time dictates the actions and thoughts of the main characters, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, as Clarissa plans a party and Septimus struggles with his mental health. After Septimus commits suicide, both his wife Rezia and Clarissa are reminded of the inevitable passing of time through the sounding of clocks. Time serves as a constant backdrop that the characters cannot escape, as it simultaneously offers Clarissa an anchor in the present and reminds all that life must continue its progression forward.
This document discusses how female "disease" is framed in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It argues that madness or deviance from social norms is often constructed as a female disease by male characters in order to place women in a sick role. For the unnamed narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper", her creativity and imagination are seen as a nervous weakness by her husband John, and she is diagnosed as diseased. For Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, her sexuality is portrayed as excessive and deviant from expectations of femininity, leading Rochester to view her as diseased. Both women experience unease or dis-ease from the restrictive social roles imposed
Jane Eyre is a film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel about a young orphaned girl named Jane Eyre who becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. She falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester, but their wedding is interrupted when it is revealed his insane wife is still alive. After leaving Thornfield, Jane finds herself alone and impoverished until taken in by the Rivers family. When she inherits a fortune, she returns to Thornfield to find it burned down and Mr. Rochester blinded, but now free to marry Jane after his wife dies in the fire. They marry and have a child, living happily ever after.
O documento descreve as características do narrador onisciente no livro "Mrs. Dalloway", de Virginia Woolf. O narrador tem conhecimento dos pensamentos dos personagens e alterna entre seus pontos de vista. A narrativa também se caracteriza pelo realismo desrealizado, focando nos pensamentos humanos ao invés de detalhar o cenário.
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded the first farm workers union in the 1960s to advocate for the rights of Latino farm workers in California who faced poor working conditions and racial discrimination. They organized peaceful protests and strikes, gaining national attention with a 25-day march to Sacramento where 10,000 protesters demanded better treatment and wages. This marked a major victory for the farm workers movement and inspired other Latino civil rights leaders across the country to challenge inequality and discrimination in education and politics throughout the 1960s-1970s.
Pride and Prejudice: past questions WJEC Unit 2bEmma Sinclair
- Elizabeth Bennet encounters Mr. Darcy unexpectedly while walking on the Pemberley estate with her aunt and uncle. They are both embarrassed by the encounter.
- Mr. Darcy's behavior and mannerisms are markedly different from when Elizabeth last saw him. He is polite but seems distracted, repeatedly asking about Elizabeth's family.
- Elizabeth is confused by Darcy's changed demeanor and ashamed that he found her on his estate without an invitation. She wonders at the impropriety and what he must think of her for being there.
The document discusses the characteristics of successful marriages in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It analyzes four marriages: the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett lacks love and respect but has financial stability; the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Collins has respect and financial stability but lacks love; the marriage of Mr. Bingley and Jane has all characteristics; the marriage of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth is considered the most successful as it possesses love, respect and financial stability.
1) In Jane Austen's time, women had few opportunities for financial independence and careers were largely closed to them. Most women relied on marriage as their only means of social standing and financial security.
2) Without a husband, women would live with family as dependents. Only heiresses with inheritance and no brothers could set up independent households. Leaving one's family without approval implied an illicit relationship and was considered scandalous.
3) Marriage was thus considered almost obligatory by both society and families. It offered women freedom from their family as well as financial support through their husband. Failure to marry meant a life of dependency on one's relatives.
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The Depiction of True and Pure Love in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Dr.Ali Albashir Mohammed Al-Haj
1 Faculty of Arts& Humanities , Department of English& literature , Jazan University, Jazan,
Kingdom of Arabia
Correspondence: 1 Faculty of Arts & Humanities , Department of English& literature , Jazan
University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia .P o. Box 114. E-mail:dr_abomathani@yahoo.com
Abstract
The current study aims at studying true and pure love in Jane Eyre. In this story,
the writer's idea about true and pure love expressed an independent woman need to be
loved by a companionate couple, with some kind of' equality between the couples.
Love in Bronte's concept is pure, perfect and true and it cannot by measure by jewels,
riches, wealth, or position and power. Through her heroine Jane Eyre Bronte depicts
this true love and pure love between couples. Also, in this story the writer does
attempt a more ideal scheme of marriage which without love is lifeless, hence she
rebuffs and rejects any proposal except that of her beloved lover. Mr. Rochester
who marries her at the end and she obtains the true and pure love through her long
and hard pursuit and both they lead a very happy life.
Keywords: true Love, pure love, marriage, equality, ideal.
1. Introduction
Jane Eyre is an autobiographical novel to the extent that it relies on her experiences
as a governess and her humiliation she felt in this post, but it is also wish or dream
fulfillment on a grand scale. It is at once the Cinderella or rage-to—riches story, a
moral tract, and a novel of mystery and passion.To many readers this passion is
synonymous with love, and to these it is as a love story that the novel appeals, a love
story told with great frankness by a woman who, as Cross (1991) would put it, is'' a
realist of the feelings'' (p., 163).
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The greatness of a work of art is commensurate with the greatness of its inspiration
and the adequacy of its means of communication. Now, the story of a woman in true
love would be interesting but not necessarily great; the story of a woman's fight to
express her own personality in love would be even more interesting but yet not
necessarily great. Jane Eyre is great because it is these things and also something
more.. It is also the record of an intense spiritual experience, as powerful in its way as
King Lear's ordeal of purgation, and it ends notably on a note of calm.(
Boot,1998,p.37) . In Jane Eyre, young Jane discovers passion and fears it; and her
early anger and sense of injustice are strongly and directly expressed.
When Jane Eyre opens, the reader learns that she has reached her goal: she is
married to Rochester and has a son by him. The novel celebrates young Jane's
ambition and determination in overcoming adversity and social prejudice. The novel
has a distinctly Gothic atmosphere. Both the setting (a mansion with a mysterious
attic) and Rochester's mad and violent wife create mystery and suspense. An element
of the supernatural is also introduced through such devices as the telling of dreams
which foreshadow real events.
Young Jane's story, as well as being that of a romantic and Gothic heroine is also a
progression in moral and spiritual terms. The situations in which she finds herself
require that she should learn a Christian attitude to her own nature. Young Jane has
also certain strong characteristics. She is passionate and imaginative-human
sympathies and affections have a powerful hold on her. She thinks' to much of the
love of human beings. She longs for a wide experience of life.
True and pure love, indeed, is the one of main themes of Charlotte Bronte's Jane
Eyre: for it was inevitably the central preoccupation of so passionate a temperament.
Charlotte's power to describe it is, of course, conditioned by the nature of her genius.
The novelist cannot dissect the workings of passion, nor can she illuminate its effect
on character. What she can do is to convey its actual present throb. And this Charlotte
Bronte does as it had never been done before in English fiction.( Al-Haj,2012,p.25)
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2. Charlotte Bronte's Contribution, Reputation and Quality of Writing
2.1 Charlotte Bronte's Life: Family background
Charlotte Bronte was born in April 1816 at Thornton in North Yorkshire, but when
she was four her father became rector of Haworth, near Keighley, and the family
moved into the parsonage which was to be Charlotte's home all her life In 1821,
when Charlotte was just five, her mother died and all five sisters were sent to live in
an orphanage. Charlotte and her sisters were avid readers of Shakespeare, Milton,
Byron, Scott, the Classics and the Bible. She and her sisters showed an early gift for
writing, as a form of amusement they wrote miniature books about fantasy worlds of
their own creation( Al-Haj,2012,p.19). In 1835 Charlotte left family home and took
up a position as a teacher, but soon returned home suffering from homesickness.
Charlotte worked for a time as governess in Brussels before returning and settling in
Haworth. She began to move in literary circles. She travelled around England and
wrote a novel set in Brussels, Villette (1853).In 1854,after much hesitation, she agreed
to marry a local clergyman, but after just a few months of married life she died due to
complications associated with pregnancy.
2.2 Charlotte Bronte's Contribution, Reputation and Writing Career
Charlotte began writing as a child, and she was still writing in the year of her death.
Her known spans twenty-six years, from her imitation of Blackwood's Magazine to
her unfinished last novel, Emma .She usually wrote rapidly, feeling herself impelled
to dash on. Sometimes she was overwhelmed by the need to write; at Roe Head in
1835 she noted, 'I am just going to write because I cannot help it
'.(Bronte,1986,p.32).She welcomed this creative force, describing it ( in the Preface to
the 1850 edition of the novels) as ' something that, at times, strangely wills and works
for itself'.( ibid,p.33).And she remarks in Shirley that' those who possess this
imagination would not give it for gold'(Shirley,p.89) . For most of her writing life she
did nothing to discourage this urge, which often led her to disregard the stricter
requirements of organization and plot, and made her obstinate about revision. None of
her plots achieve the coherence of Emily's or Anne's. She is often tempted to include
long irrelevant passages (Such as Lucy's visit to London in Villette), and she
sometimes relies too heavily-especially in Jane Eyre, and Villette – on improbable
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coincidence. The plot of Shirley is astonishingly wayward for a writer of such skill.
However, she learned from this novel, and as she became more distrustful of her
'inspiration' she spent more time on her plots. Villette is much more solidly
constructed, and there are signs that in her last fragment, Emma, she intended to
discipline her creative urges yet further. (Sullivan, 1996, p.37).
Jane Eyre is the first novel of a writer whose identity is concealed from the curious
a pseudonym. It is not only the finest novel of Charlotte Bronte; it is perhaps the
finest novel of our time. In no other modern novel does one encounter three characters
so worthy of attention or which grip the imagination so powerfully as those of the
little governess, the erring aristocrat and the despotic clergyman.
Charlotte Bronte's experience as governess left her embittered about the wealthy,
leisured classes. It was not until late in her life that she encountered wealth combined
with kindness. With the exception of Rochester and Shirley, all her chief characters,
and all whom she admires, are people who have to earn their own living. The wealthy,
such as the Ingrams (Jane Eyre or the Sympsons (Shirley), do not command her
respect, and indeed some are overdrawn to the point of caricature (Sullivan, 1996,
p.35).
Bronte's second masterpiece Shirley(1849)is a book about the predicament of women
in love who suffer from unrequited love, women who have never, and never will be,
loved. Charlotte never underestimates the power of love. In all her novels it
overcomes formidable barriers of religion, wealth and rank, and endures through
hopelessness and pain. The novel's two chief love-stories are entwined with other
loves and marriages, past and present. Although it must be assumed that the marriage
of Shirley and Louis, and Caroline and Robert, will be happy, happy marriage in
Shirley are few and far between. Mrs. Pryor's marriage was disastrous, Helstone had
made his wife wretched, Yorke married Hester only because he was jilted elsewhere,
and Hester's view on marriage are briskly cynical. With the exception of Louis, the
husbands and the men in love do not behave well; Robert proposes to Shirley for
reasons of business, and the curate Malone sees no disgrace in pursuing marriage for
wealth.
In all her writings career Charlotte shows herself sharply aware of class structure,
in its relation both to rank and to wealth. Her own experience as a governess left her
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with a hostile contempt for the kind of prosperous, worldly families who had
employed her.( Sullivan,1996,p.70)
The chief themes in Charlotte's Villette (1833)are all encompassed with Lucy's love
story .Through her readers see a reconciling of the rational and the passionate, as she
grows painfully from an observant, through repression and despair, to a loving,
liberated woman.
In the Professor(1857), we have a description of Charlotte's ideal of womanhood.
Mademoiselle Henri is an independent, warm, intelligent woman, who pays for her
own lessons by lace-mending. She survives her dismissal, her aunt's death, and the
loss of William with courage, before she finds security as a teacher. She has the spirit
to stand up to the aggressive Hunsden, and insists that she retains her teaching post
after marriage. She has little of Lucy's repressed emotional fervor, but they have much
else in common. Taken in one dose, these accumulated virtues are difficult to
swallow. But she has also the necessary qualities of independence, truth and honor,
and ' the flame of natural passion burning under the eye of reasons'(Professor, p.87).
Henri is the first sketch of the typical Charlotte's heroine, in her typical posture-
orphaned, little, plain, unnoticed, poor, but independent of spirit , firm of principle,
and ambitious. Had Charlotte chosen to present the story through her eyes, the novel
might have been less wooden. As it is, we see her only through Crimsworth's eyes,
and in this way the main characteristic of her heroine is smothered- her strong,
spirited egoism, which is revealed through thought and feeling as much as through
deed.
Charlotte Bronte seems to have been happiest writing in the first person. Only one of
her novels, Shirley, is objectively narrated, and she returned to the first person for
Villette and the unfinished Emma. The method seems to have well suited to her
strong, self-absorbed personality. Charlotte's aptitude for this form may be connected
with her problems in creating characters. The ''I'' narrative enables her to identity with
her heroines in such a way that she could make direct use of her own feelings and
experience.
To conclude, Charlotte's personal reputation, helped to create a sympathetic
atmosphere for the arrival of her new work. It was also the case that she had less to
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lose with her third novel than with her second, for the successor to a best-selling first
book almost inevitably courts reactions of disappointment.
3. The Portrayal of True and Pure Love e in Jane Eyre
3.1 The Chief Theme of Jane Eyre
The main theme of Jane Eyre is revealed as a girl's growth to mature independence,
and an equal partnership in love. Jane achieves her independence by her own spirited
struggle through adversity, and she understands in the end that she is her own woman
and can manage her own life. Although she chooses to devote herself to Rochester,
she is not dependent on him and her choice is free. Not only is she free, but in her
own eyes she is eventually his equal; ' equal- as we are!' she cries (Jane Eyre,p.34).,
when they finally come together. The development of young Jane's love for
Rochester, with all it reveals of the difficulties of a satisfactory relationship in love
and marriage, lies at the core of the novel.
3.2 The Story of Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre begins her story as a ten-year old orphan in the house of her aunt, the
authoritarian and unfeeling Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Reed accuses her of lying as a
punishment sends her to Lowood Institution. After an unhappy adolescence there, she
becomes a teacher and finds a job as governess to Adele, the illegitimate daughter of
Mr. Rochester. Jane and Rochester fall in love, but on their wedding day she
discovers that mysterious mad woman who lives in total seclusion in Rochester's
house is really his wife. Despite his desperate pleas Jane runs away and is cared for by
the Rivers family. She learns that she and Rivers are cousins and that she has inherited
a considerable sum of money. When she is on the point of marrying Reverend St.
John Rivers and emigrating to India, she telepathically hears Rochester's voice asking
her to help him. She goes to Rochester Hall and finds it burnt down. Although
Rochester has been blinded, she marries him and his sight is partially restored.
Jane's story reveals also, an abiding concern with religion, and the right relation to
God. Although for awhile God's image is obscured by that of Rochester, through all
her sufferings Jane never doubts divine mercy, even when for a brief time she finds
she cannot pray. When she leaves Rochester and faces death on the moors, she returns
to God. Commending Rochester and her own soul to Him. Several different attitude
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to faith are exhibited and rejected; Mr. Brocklehurst's cruel hypocrisy, St. John's cold
fanaticism, Helen's gentle acceptance , Mrs. Reed's refusal to forgive, and Eliza's
rigid Catholicism, are all censured in various forms, fiercely, gently, or covertly. Jane
believes it is right to struggle against adversity, but hatred and revenge are not
permitted. Even as a child, momentarily triumphant after her outburst again Mrs.
Reed, she soon regrets what she has done.
To conclude, it is also clear, from all we know of Charlotte's thoughts and feelings,
that Jane's character is a close reflection of her own. Her painful conviction of her
own lack of beauty, her views on love and marriage, her motherless state, her high
intelligence, and her perseverance in adversity are all traits she shares with her
heroine. But the fact that so much is drawn from Charlotte's life does not detract from
the achievement of the book. Her creative intensity is such that all the material, real
and invented, is equally fused into the stuff of her story.
3.3 Jane Eyre and Idea of True and Pure Love
Jane sees marriage as based on romantic love. Her passion for Rochester reveals
itself trembling and flushing, and she is apprehensive about the strength of her own
feelings. She rebuffs his advances, refutes to be treated to jewels and riches, and
refuses to become his mistress. When they married she sees herself fulfilled as ' bone
of his bone and flesh of his flesh'(Jane Eyre, p.93). Like her, however, he is capable
of learning from experience, and he grows in stature through the book. Again like
Jane, he grows through suffering; which all his hopes of happiness, and then his
physical strength as well, are removed from him, he struggles painfully through to a
gentleness and calm. When Jane finds him at Ferndean, he has come bitterly to
regret his attempted bigamy. He is mellowed and chastened, and has found a new
strength in his submission to God's will. Although to today's reader her words seem
so guarded, Charlotte never wrote so frankly again; critics accused her of coarseness
and crudity, and the attack went deep.(Sullivan, 1996,p.55).
3.4 Depiction of True and Pure Love in the Novel
The world for Jane is to be Thornfield Hall, and her testing is to be in terms of that
craving for love which she has always felt. Jane shows herself equal to the occasion.
She can control her emotions even under Mr. Rochester's pretence of being in love
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with vivacious beautiful Ingram who is is determined to capture Mr. Rochester's
wealth. Mr. Rochester encourages Ingram's hopes in order to arouse Jane's jealousy
to, but he knows she does not love him. In spite of her pain, Jane finds it impossible to
be jealous of her, because she is so contemptible. They are two totally contrasted
women, one beautiful, the other plain; one rich, the other poor; one shallow, the other
deep and complex.
Jane is horrified by Rivers' belief that love is not necessary in marriage, for to her
love and marriage are indissoluble. To her Rivers' view of marriage is a kind of
sacrilege, while to him it is a duty in the service of God. The ruthless force of his
character is such that Jane begins to waver, and believe she ought to accept his
proposal. His moral pressure places her in' an iron shroud'(Jane Eyre, p.98) and
under' a freezing spell' (Jane Eyre, p.99), and his kiss becomes a seal on her fetters.
He is merciless in his determination to take her to India as his wife, and stonily
rebuffs her attempts at friendly reconciliation. Unscrupulously, he practices a kind of
hypnotism on her, and she is almost on the point of surrender 'down the torrent of his
will'(Jane Eyre, p.120) when she is saved by Rochester's cry. Pinion (1991) has
rightly pointed out that:
This extraordinary openness to feeling, this escape from the bondage of the trite,
continues in the Rivers relationship, which is a structural parallel to the Rochester
affairs: as in Rochester the old sex villain is seen in a new perspective, so in Rivers
the clerical hero is radically refashioned; and Jane's almost accepting a would-be
husband is given the aesthetic status of a regretful yielding to a seducer.
When Jane Eyre leaves Lowood School, she is but a novice in the world, in spite of
her contact with the spiritual in the saintly Helen Burns and with the fleshly in Mrs.
Reed. Indeed, to Jane the greatest thing in life is to be loved by a person. And we need
not be surprised, for love of any kind has been so far denied to the child throughout
her short life. Before such a novice, to whom the yearnings of the flesh and the spirit
are at best indistinguishable, is placed the specious temptation in love, love imagined
in its most stirring form, impetuous and violent- Mr. Rochester.
When Jane sets out for Thornfield next day, she arrives a day and a half later she
finds it a blackened ruin. She discovers that it was burnt down by Bertha, who
perished in the fire, while Rochester lost his sight and his left hand. He is now at his
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other house, Ferndean, thirty miles away, Jane finds him there, blind and helpless. He
is at first unbelieving, then overwhelmed with joy. They arrange their marriage, and
realize that each hearted the despairing cry of the other.
Writing ten years after the event, Jane finds their marriage perfect. Rochester has
recovred his sight of one eye, and is able to see their first-born son. The last lines of
the book are with St. John Rivers, who will soon die in his noble Christian service in
India
Jane's struggle is a hard one; after the broken marriage at Thornfield, she is unwilling
to leave her lover, Mr. Rochester, although she has seen the danger. Jane surmounts
the obstacles and returns to Mr. Rochester and succeeds in obtaining true love and
leads a happy life with him after a hard struggle.
4.Conclusion
In an age when women were denied access to education and excluded from political
debate, the publication of Jane Eyre was like a breath of fresh air. Her fiery
independent temperament and fearless conviction were characteristics that went
against the traditional portrayal of women. Charlotte Bronte, the most outstanding of
the Bronte sisters, was not prepared to accept a world where women were second-
class citizens. Jane Eyre is not only Charlotte Bronte's finest novel; it is perhaps the
finest novel of our time. According to Macpherson (1983, p.297): ''Jane Eyre is
marked by strong romantic elements and the role of nature is especially important'.
Charlotte Bronte admired men who were strong in will. She expected in marriage to
be 'well-ruled and ordered) by an exacting , rigid ,law-giving and passionate husband
Through her protagonist Jane , the writer Bronte reflects that marriage without
pure and true love is lifeless and motionless one , therefore, an ideal husband or wife
selection is based on pure and pure love. Mr. Rochester and Jane marry, not in that
first violent, physical anguish in which we saw them, but in a calmer, nobler mood,
'all passion spent'. Neither the flesh, nor the spirit, will tear Jane again, for from her
double ordeal she has emerged unscathed, neither a profligate nor an ascetic, but a
woman who has found an equable solution to the age-old problem which troubled
others besides the Victorian but which troubled them intensely.
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To conclude, that is Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre as it appears to us, a new
contribution in English fiction which reflects aspects' of early Victorian social and
economic phenomena. What Charlotte Bronte achieved in Jane Eyre was the
cornerstone for a generation after generation .
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