Alli Beery Warming Her Pearls ENGL 3790 3/31/14 Warming Her Pearls Carol Anne Duffy has always had a strong feminist theme running throughout all of her poems. Warming Her Pearls is a combination of both feminism and Marxism. There is a class conflict when it comes to the maid and her mistress. The maid is constantly thinking of her mistress‚ and it is likely that the mistress never thinks twice about her maid. While there is no relationship between a man and a woman‚ there are strong
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Mary Shelley creates such an amazing sense of fear and horror in her writing‚ but how? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein there are many subtle techniques she uses to make this story so powerful. In this piece of writing I am going to show you some examples of these techniques and how she uses them so well to make Frankenstein a great piece of writing. The author uses lots of descriptive words to describe Dr. Frankenstein’s state of mind. She describes him as being fearful with ‘breathless horror’
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Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost
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“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The short story is about a modest and shy young woman who is pressured‚ by her cousin‚ to cut her hair in order to gain popularity. During this time‚ it was a wild thing for women to cut their hair so Bernice was guaranteed to get a lot of attention but it all backfires. The short story was turned into a film in 1976. The film perfectly captures the wild lifestyle of the Jazz age that Fitzgerald had created. Although the film
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre - Literature What are the main moral messages of Jane Eyre? How does Charlotte Bronte convey these moral messages to her readers? To what extent is she reflecting Victorian morality in her writing? The novel ‘Jane Eyre’ was published in 1847‚ which was in the Victorian era; this is a significant fact to remember while reading the novel as the storyline portrays many different moral issues in the point of view of Victorian morality‚ which of course is different to
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"The Author to Her Book" A writer has to have a certain amount of passion about their work. In the case of Anne Bradstreet in her poem "The Author to Her Book‚" compares a writer and their work to a mother and her child. As you read the poem you can see how she compares the growth of her work to the growth of a child. The first two lines of the poem show a motherly comparison by the words offspring and birth. The first line‚ however‚ has a negative allusion as well‚ from the words ill-formed and
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a mystery. Write a well-organized essay in which you identify the mystery and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot. 2. Morally ambiguous characters - characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying with them as purely good or purely evil - are at the heart of many works of literature. Great Expectations has a morally ambiguous character play a pivotal role. Write a well-organized essay in which
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The headline of the text is “Her first ball”. The author is the Katherine Mansfield. The subject matter is one of the most important events in woman`s life. The theme is naivety‚ old generation opposite innocence and first feeling which has the young girl. Leila is so excited and terrified‚ but later‚ in the ball‚ excitement is not the only feelings she has‚ but also some other feelings. She considers that it is the beginning of everything. It seemed to her that she had never known what the night
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Summary on “The ‘F-Word’” It is not uncommon to sometimes hear or see what here in America is considered to be a strange or different name and decide to make fun of it or the holder of that name. This is a major obstacle that an Iranian immigrant named Firoozeh Dumas‚ author of “The ‘F-Word’” had to face. She illustrates a picture using words about the hardships that her name has brought upon her during her entire life. Throughout the story‚ she uses humor to describe what would have been a rather
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley endured many hardships during her life. Some of these included her mother dieing during childbirth‚ her loathing stepmother‚ and later in life‚ the death of her beloved husband. Although she maintained a strong relationship with her father‚ it did not cover-up the absence of a strong maternal figure. Mary Shelley ’s novel Frankenstein‚ was influenced by the pain she encountered in her life. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on August 30‚ 1797 to the couple of Mary Wollstonecraft
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