Men and women occupy very different roles women are not only considered the weaker sex but are fundamentally defined by their relationship to men In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Janie encounters three different men named Logan Killicks Joe Starks and Tea Cake Each of Janies three relationships helps her to grow into the self actualized woman whom walked back into the town of Eatonville in Chapter 1 and endures the questions and gossips from the townsfolks on the
The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare is a comedy that satirizes sill or unfair social customs often through farce The play engages the audience in a world of humour and sometimes humiliation The plays enthralling storyline and plot are extremely effective and interesting The play is set in the 16th century The action in the 5 act play takes place in various locations in Padua Italy Padua is in northern Italy about 30 miles west of Venice As the title of play suggests the play
Context The most influential writer in all of English literature William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle class glove maker in Stratford upon Avon England Shakespeare attended grammar school but his formal education proceeded no further In 1582 he married an older woman Anne Hathaway and had three children with her Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright Public and critical acclaim quickly followed and Shakespeare eventu
The Scarlet Letter Committing adultery in the novel The Scarlet Letter was frowned upon by all puritan community In the novel a young women named Hester Prynne is being publicly humiliated and punished by the Puritan community for committing adultery in mid 17th century Boston In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne provides his readers with three scaffold scenes which hold a great importance to the novel The scaffold serves as a place of public punishment and shame there lies the center of a
The Raven is a long narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1845 Poe wrote an essay Philosophy of Composition in 1850 explaining how he wrote this famous poem The Raven is about a distraught lovers descent into madness The atmosphere in the poem is of tension and supernatural elements with constantly changing moods It is a carefully crafted poem written by a master craftsman which was worked out backwards from the determination of the effect to the plot The poem is set in dre
Women in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare were treated unequally to men and were often shown a lack of respect in their daily lives Through the stories of the different women in the play such as Portia and Jessica we can see how women were so poorly treated Portia is a daughter of a very rich dead man who has left in his will rules for her to follow and people to enforce those rules in his absence With this he has created a test for anyone wishing to marry her This test does not ta
Chekhov author of the short story The Lady with the Pet Dog presents an accurate rationale of the protagonist Dimitri Gurhovs adulterous affair The story lacks an proper evidence for the character of Anna Joyce Carol Oates version of the story contributes insight into Annas viewpoint The point of view of the characters in these stories reveals much about their personalities and actions Chekhovs Gurhov was no stranger to adultery insert pg 205 1 It seems ironic that he considered women the infer
Though the similarities and differences of characterizations in Chekhov and Oatess different versions of The lady with the pet dog are evident the purpose only becomes clear for the reader when the two versions are read and compared The stories have different settings but the characters in the story remain the same There is Anna Dmitry and their respective families Both Anton Chekhov and Joyce Oates chose to tell the story using a third person narrator This is one of the most important aspects
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tenysson is a poem about an isolated artist trapped in her own pieces of work She can not escape the life she lives because of a curse set upon her when she was born Tennysons theme is that no one understands the world in the same way as the artist does because the artist is too distracted by desire to participate in the world this is shown greatly through tone imagery and symbolism in The Lady of Shalott Tone is the authors attitude towards the subject In the begi
Love Versus the Idea of Love In many instances infatuation with an idea of something or someone can mislead many into believing in a false interpretation of love In F Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby the main character Jay Gatsby is a victim of such deceit A charming affluent girl named Daisy Buchanan attracts him at a young age and his desire for her grows as they take separate paths in life Although Gatsby proclaims his love for Daisy what he fails to mention is why he has these feeli