“There is no sinner like a young saint” – Aphra Behn. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is forced to wear the letter “A” as punishment because she committed adultery‚ when her husband was away. In the beginning of the story‚ Hester Prynne does not reveal the name of the other sinner‚ but later it is revealed to be the minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. A theme Hawthorne uses in the story is public sin versus private sin and is given throughout the Hester and Dimmesdale have to
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Janet Todd argues that the “[s]eventeenth-century England patriarchal society” has turned Behn “into a distinctly unique and ‘freethinking writer’” (qtd. in Temmerman 3). In fact‚ she starts her poetic revolution as early as the Twentieth century. She even “rebels against these conventions and openly writes about topics such as desire and sex”
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Alexander Pope William Blake Unit 5 : William Wordsworth: “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”* Prelude (1805 edition)‚ Book I S.T. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* “Kubla Khan” Paper II : Fiction I Unit 1 : Aphra Behn Henry Fielding Jane Austen : Oroonoko : Joseph Andrews : Emma Mansfield Park : Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities : Middlemarch : Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Woodlanders Unit 2 : Unit 3 : Charles Dickens Unit 4 Unit 5 : : George Eliot
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The Restoration period begins when King Charles II returns to his throne in 1660. The Restoration Period has brought back aspiration to a separated nation‚ however no political resolution has been bothered to be put in place until religious problems have been dealt with. King Charles II reinforced the Anglican Book of Common Prayer‚ and anyone who opposed this was sent straight to jail. King Charles is forced to break up the Parliament and divide England into two political parties‚ the Tories and
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------------------------------------------------- Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689)‚ which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ and Ireland. In general‚ the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature
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The Position of Women in The Rover The end of the English Civil War gave a crushing defeat to feudalism and effected a permanent change in the existing social relations in England‚ with the establishment of the Puritan Commonwealth by Oliver Cromwell. There is no second though about how much Republicanism appealed to the multitude. Still‚ there were certain others who swore by tradition and the accepted codes of behaviour. In a period marked by swings between orthodoxy and modern attitude‚ the sacred
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novel also owes a debt to Elizabethan drama‚ which was the leading form of popular entertainment in the age of Shakespeare. The first professional novelist—that is‚ the first person to earn a living from publishing novels—was probably the dramatist Aphra Behn. Her 1688 Oronooko‚ or The Royal Slave typified the early English novel: it features a sensationalistic plot that borrowed freely from continental literature‚ especially from the imported French romance. Concurrent with Behn’s career was that of
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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN was printed in 1929. It was written by Virginia Woolf – whose life was a tragedy in itself and finally ended in her suicide in 1941.The highly experimental characters of her novels established her as an important figure of British modernism. In 1928‚ Woolf was invited to deliver lecture at the women’s colleges of Cambridge - Newhem and Girton. The theme of her lecture was WOMEN AND FICTION.These lectures were expanded and complied into A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. In her lectures‚ Woolf
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The origins of comedy are in the 5th Century BC. So this was in the Greek era- these plays were performed in Classical Athens as parts of festivals called Dionysia. These were performed on different days to tragedies. Greek comedies would be zany and would mock both political and philosophical ideas. Aristophanes a prolific writer of comedy during the 4th and 5th century BC he is first and foremost a political writer; a satirist most commonly known for mocking the politicians of the time. Aristophanes
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VIRGINIA WOOLF’S A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN (1929): A FEMENIST READING -Aparna Mhetre Abstract Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a landmark of the twentieth-century feminist thought. It explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and thorough investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature
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