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- 141: The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
- ... vacation home John chooses the old attic nursery against his wife's wishes and laughs at her when she complains about the wallpaper (Kennedy et al. 424,425). In Charlotte Bronte's novel }{\plain \ul Jane Eyre}{\plain , Mr. Rodchester uses his attic to keep his insane wife hidden from the rest of the world. John's actions can easily be interpreted with the same malice. The narrator's insistence that John ... of inequality between the sexes. The setting plays an important role to strengthen the themes and also makes the reader question the innocence and simplicity of what is related to him. Works Cited Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet Classic, 1960 Kennedy, X.J. and Dan Gioia. Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, poetry, and Drama. Sixth Edition. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers Inc., 1995. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ...
- 142: The Yellow Wallpaper 3
- ... there are many symbols within the text that one can construe a myriad of ways. One of the most prominent and perhaps the most important symbol is the titled yellow wallpaper. To the main character, Jane, the wallpaper is at first a nuisance, then an obsession, and finally salvation. The material of the paper itself represents Jane s everyday life. The illogical pattern that decorates it, reflects the absence of logic in her mind. The very color of the paper depicts the illness that yellows her sight and imprisons her within an unpredictable life. The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane; she claims that it is confusing and contradicting. Because her disease confuses her mind and contradicts her logic, the paper parallels her mental state at this point. Desperately attempting to unravel the mystery she ...
- 143: "The Yellow Wallpaper": Decorating the Ugly Truth of Oppression
- ... of her that is trying to break free from the oppression. As her husband is able to enter her room she says "‘I've got out at last,' said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane'". Here the wife's name is heard for the first time. It is Jane, herself, that is trying to retrieve the part of her that is trying to escape to freedom behind the wall. The sane part of Jane was able to creep away and out the window from this oppressed situation. While the shell of Jane, the oppressed wife, is left behind to creep in her room. In this room Jane learned ...
- 144: Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
- ... refers to his studly roommate, Stradlater as a "very sexy bastard" because of his interest in all things related to sex. And then when Holden is obsessing over the idea of Stradlater, and his friend Jane having sex, he tries to think of her as innocent and naive, when he says "when we played checkers, she always kept her kings in the back row." Since he cares about Jane, he can't understand why she would want to involve herself with a guy like Stradlater in the first place. Thoughts about sex, seem to lead Holden into thoughts about death. After the fight with Stradlater over Jane, Ackley, the novel's most hated character, asks why they fought and Holden tells the readers that "I didn't answer him...I almost wished I was dead." And later on, when he is ...
- 145: The Importance Of Marriage Pri
- In Jane Austen s novel, Pride and Prejudice, marriage is a very serious topic, it determines a woman s class, their happiness for future life or even if they will have a life at all. Marriage Forms alliances between families as land, income and title are extremely fruitful topics. "Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony" -- Jane Austen, letter of March 13, 1816 In Jane Austen's time, when Pride and Prejudice was written, there was no real way for young women of the "genteel" classes to go out on their own or be independent. Professions, the universities, politics, ...
- 146: One Of The Weaknesses Of The N
- ... the weaknesses of the novel, Pride and Prejudice is that the characters are divided up between those you like and those you don’t. Discuss. The characters found in the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, are easily contrasted. While some characters are likeable, we have others who are seen as silly and petty. Thus, we have strong differences between the various characters, who present to us the nature of ... at face value by the other foolish characters in the novel. Mr.Collins is the prime example of the differences in appearance and reality. – What one seems to be, is not necessarily what one is. Jane Bennet, is without doubt a very straightforward person, who is extremely sweet tempered, and does not contain prejudice or pride. She is an angelic character who strives to see only the good in others. Charlotte ... reveal her affection for Mr.Bingley. This character trait resulted in the separation between her and Bingley and consequently, the reader begins to wonder whether being the ‘perfect’ person, is indeed something to wish for. Jane is disillusioned in the book because of her being unable to perceive the wrong in others This is related in the book, when Jane finds out from Elizabeth the truth about Wickham. ‘What a ...
- 147: Love And Marriage
- Throughout Pride and Prejudice, there dwells the omnipresent theme of marriage. Opinions on this complex subject vary from character to character in Jane Austen's book, but one aspect remains the same -- the notion that the institution is a necessary step in the economical and political maturity of a young adult. This idea is present in all of Austen's characters. Some, like Jane and Elizabeth, believe rather strongly that love, or companionship, is an integral part of marriage, while others, most notably Mrs. Bennet, view the institution solely as a means of enhancing one's station in life ... Mr. Bingley's return to Netherfield. Upon hearing of his return, Mrs. Bennet disdainfully replies that the information is meaningless to her, and should be equally so to everyone else in her family. Even though Jane is very fond of Mr. Bingley, her mother assumes that, since he no longer has any intention of marrying Jane, he is no longer a valued acquaintance. Later in the novel, Mrs. Bennet again ...
- 148: Pride and Prejudice: Irony
- Pride and Prejudice: Irony "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife".(pg.1) The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most famous opening of all English comedies concerning social manners. It encapsulates the ambitions of the empty headed Mrs. Bennet, and her desire to find a good ... is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization and romanticism, but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and realism of the characters as they develop throughout the story. Jane Austen's irony is devastating in its exposure of foolishness and hypocrisy. Self-delusion or the attempt to fool other people are usually the object of her wit. There are various forms of exquisite irony ... in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough."(pg. 230) Elizabeth's irony is lighthearted when Jane asks when she began to love Mr. Darcy: "It has been coming on so gradually that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his ...
- 149: Pride And Prejudice
- ... marrying one of her daughters because her main “goal” in life is to see her daughters married. Mr. Bingley is a rich and handsome man with little self-esteem. He also falls in love with Jane, the oldest of the Bennet sisters. Bingley’s friend, Darcy doesn’t like them together because he doesn’t think too highly of Jane. Darcy is the main male character in the story. He is also rich and handsome but very cocky. He plans with the Bingley’s sisters to break up Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennet. Meanwhile, Darcy has a “crush” on Jane’s sister Elizabeth. She is the main female character, the second on the Bennet sisters and despises Darcy at first, but later falls for him. Elizabeth ...
- 150: An Analysis of “Roses, Rhododendron”
- ... of “Roses, Rhododendron” “Roses, Rhododendron” by Alice Adams is a story about the life of a little girl who moves down South, to North Carolina from Boston with her mother to pursue a new life. Jane is being raised in a single parent home in a beautiful small town where she finds some friends and has a fairly descent life. The central idea behind the story that the author is subliminally ... begins with John Kilgore leaves his wife and daughter behind and moves to New Orleans. Life becomes tough for Ms. Kilgore and she decides to move to another state to continue her antique business there. Jane loves this new place very much. Some how I sense a dynamic character in Jane, because of a sudden from a pretty young girl, she talked of foul language by saying “ God damn,” which was not very popular in south at the time. Even though she has been away ...
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