Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist. Her main media was oil painting and she expressed abstraction and modernism in her artwork. Georgia used the environment all around her for inspiration. Her most profound works were painted between the years 1929 and 1972, when she lived in New Mexico. Many of her pieces featured desert landscapes, animal bones, and flowers. She was her own person and her talent and ambition helped create a new place for women in the world of art.…
In Amber Bierce’s harrowing short story “Chickamauga,” the author portrays that war is not all honor and glory, but momentous and deathly through imagery. In a make-believe game of battle, a little boy ventured further than his normal grounds and “went forward toward the dark inclosing wood.” The writer uses the words “dark” and “inclosing” to make the reader feel more on edge, and assemble an ominous atmosphere. It hints that this boy is no longer playing a recreation for children. Later on, the child runs into damaged soldiers who’s “creeping figures” had been lit up by a “strange red light,” giving them “monstrous” shadows.…
1. Margot, the protagonist, is a very passive and introverted girl, who is also very frail, delicate, and pale. (William and) the children, the antagonists, are a rambunctious bunch of nine-year-olds, who tease on Margot for being slightly different.…
Aid from the community was imperative in insuring the continuation of piracy, but there were other factors that enabled piracy to prosper. One indication was that Elizabeth I was the Pirate Queen of a pirate nation. It is essential to look beyond the myths and look at the maritime climate of the era. It was evident that there were questions as to Elizabeth’s involvement in the sponsoring of pirate ventures, the significance of her pardoning who were viewed to be her favourite pirates was causing her kingdom to become a societal pariah. There was a general tradition of maritime lawlessness, these conditions produced confusion and uncertainty at…
In Jean Rhye’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Rochester works to colonize and “other” Antoinette by using the power he has over her. The power he has because of his gender, his race, and his knowledge is what he uses to colonize Antoinette.…
“What is the conqueror’s wife if not a conquest herself?” This quote sums up Orleanna’s feeling of guilt she has towards her daughter’s death and towards the crimes of the US against the Congo. By identifying herself as the conqueror’s wife, Orleanna places herself in a position where she is not the chief criminal but connected enough to feel responsibility. In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, she uses diction, imagery, and selection of detail to develop and convey Orleanna Price’s guilt and uneasiness throughout the journey that she was against from the start.…
Pirates, knights, sword fighting, damsels in distressed, one person getting washed up on an island…
In Julia Alvarez's Yo!, Yolanda Garcia's family and friends get their chance to tell the truth about Yo. They express their feelings and their stories about Yo, including how she's always told lies, how she stole the plot for a story from a student, and how her college professor kept trying to prevent her from ruining her life and her talents. Alvarez tells Yolanda's story through other characters, while Yo is denied the privilege of defending herself. It is ironic because initially, the novel is based on Yolanda and how angry her loved ones are after she publishes a book that exposes personal things about each of them. In this novel, these very people are working to set the story straight and portray the true Yolanda Garcia that they know, a liar, a plagiarist, and a dropout.…
I have heard the saying from my mother on many occasions, “never trust a woman, all they will do is get you in trouble, or make you stumble, only love your grandma and momma”. It is a quite humorous thought to only trust two women in life, but sometimes it might be wise to apply these thoughts to some woman with tendencies of wildness or rebellion. A seductress would be included in this, and with being a seductress; Lady Bertilak is able to get under Sir Gawain’s skin with many methods of seduction. We see that she is already different than medieval woman, she is much more modern. She is very good at being able to read people and has an impeccable talent of being argumentative. She gets under Sir Gawain’s skin by questioning his reputation…
As life and time goes on, people’s view start to shift and change. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the movie Chicago by Rob Marshal, in the 1920’s women are portrayed as money hungry and they go after men so they can upgrade themselves and feel like they have control in something. When manipulating men, women are trying to take advantage of their vulnerability and all allow women to advance much faster in life.…
With a wide spread of characters of both genders, we experience life as both male and female on Worldshaker. Disrespect of females is a prominent theme throughout the book as such characters like Gillabeth, are treated at a much lower supremacy then males. Gillabeth being quite the dramatic character, can hardly contain herself when it comes to the topic of gender treatment, believing she should be eligible for Supreme Commander, she often rants at Col providing entertainment for the reader, “Only boys can be Supreme Commanders!... but I’m the true Porpentine!”. Even going to school is “To have someone at school to keep a watch on him” and is “Only for the sake of the family”. Gender discrimination is a very real subject and still occurs in the world today, even with these brief outbursts and other female roles, we are educated on the treatment of women in the olden days. Gillabeth is a character who helps make the theme of disrespect of females entertaining and informing.…
Sir Gawain blamed Lady Bercilak for his failure after he gave in to temptation and told, “And convey my wishes to your gracious wife, and that other honored lady, who's cleverly tricked their knight. No wonder: there’s nothing remarkable in their making a man foolish, in women winning men… The best, the very best, who walked the world in those days—,” (biblical time), “and women tied them in knots, whirled them in circles. I’ve been beguiled, as they were: this excuse should be heard.” (2411-2428). At the beginning of the poem, Queen Guenevere was described as, “watching with shining grey eyes, seemed as beautiful a lady as a man could ever have seen” (81-85). Later on in the poem, Sir Gawain notices Lady Bercilak and an old lady and described them, “her face the fairest white, and in all things the softest women on earth— lovelier than Queen Guenevere, in Sir Gawain’s eyes… Another lady led her by the left hand, older than her, ancient and old and honored by a host of good knights. And how unlike they were, that pair, the round one faded yellow; rich red cheeks on the one, rough and wrinkled jowls on the other, loose and dangling; coverings hung with pearls on the young one’s throat and breast, showing skin whiter than snow on the hillsides, while the old one wrapped a kerchief on her neck and hid her black chin in white…
John Updike’s “A&P” is almost a return voyage to James Joyce’s famous “Araby’ with its many similarities it is almost as if it were its reflection, except his quest for Queenie revolves around a mythological symbol. The story opens when three barefoot girls in bathing suits enter the store and catch the eye of Sammy, a worker at the store, who is particularly interested in the leader of the group who he calls “Queenie” (Updike, n.p.). Literature Critic Harriet Blodgett claims that the girls acted “as temptresses who lead Sammy astray” and in a way convey a feeling of the legendary sirens, who lead males unknowingly to their destruction (Blodgett ,n.p.). The girls bathing suits,…
The 1920’s were an time of extreme excitement in the US as we had just won the Great War, or WWI. This time was filled with celebration and dancing, partying and a greater sense of nationalism as well as the prohibition. Society itself has changed majorly throughout this time as well, as we have more women living semi-independent lives where they can express themselves.…
“Mansfield sheds a vivid light onto ordinary lives” In what way and how effectively do you think Mansfield achieves this? Refer to two stories.…