To both women in The Necklace and The Story of The Hour their perception in their life is their reality Both Mathilde and Mrs Mallard want something more than what they have in their life But many times this causes one to lose something in their life they have already been blessed with and arent aware of the blessing until it is already gone The characters symbolic settings and resolutions of the plots used by the authors portray the unhappiness that each woman carries in her heart and in their
Contentment and Materialism in The Overcoat and The Necklace Two well written short stories that have remarkable similarities in moral and theme are Nikolai Gogols The Overcoat and Guy de Maupassants The Necklace Both of these stories revolve around material items that drastically affect their lives and they are both aptly named after those items While The Overcoat takes place in Russia and The Necklace takes place in France both capture the essence of each country during a historically unique
These are heady days for Indian writing and theyre only getting headier Its fortunate for American readers then that the bulk of Indian literature is written in English In his introduction to Mirrorwork 50 Years of Indian Writing published in 1997 to coincide with the anniversary of Indias independence Salman Rushdie argued that Indo Anglian writing is stronger and more important than the literature being written in Indias 16 official languages Rushdies defense of English language Indian litera
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 although it portrayed certain behaviors of people in the 1930s According to To Kill a Mocking Bird The novel replays three key years in the life of scout finch the young daughter of an Alabama towns principled lawyer Scouts narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding humane dignity through the example of her father 1960 The novel begins with Scout as a grown women and she is reflecting on her childh
Amy Tans Joy Luck Club provides a realistic depiction of Chinese mothers and their Chinese American daughters struggling in relationships strained by tragedy lack of communication and unreasonable expectations Tan criticizes mothers who intend to instill Chinese values while supplying American opportunities The result is daughters becoming too Americanized and materialistic Living in America demands a particular way of life that dictates the rules of success socially and professionally These co
The short story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield is about a middle aged lonely spinster that is an English teacher in a seaside vacation town Overall I felt a feeling of loneliness and possible regret throughout this story Miss Brill goes to the park every Sunday by herself and likes to see the people in the park as actors in a play arranged for her amusement She has a special seat she always sits in where she listens to the conversations of those around her Readers begin to understand that th
In the short story Janus by Ann Beattie the central character is not a real character at all but in fact is an inanimate object The cream colored ceramic bowl serves as the main character throughout the story and is correlated to the Roman God Janus that is identified primarily with doors or other places of passage and is also represented as being two faced Janus is one of two characters with names which is also evident of her importance throughout the story The author uses the character of And
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad tells the story of Marlow a Brit of a Belgian company which is imperializing the African Congo area and in search of the successful infamous Kurtz The excerpt Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong from Things They Carried by Tim OBrian is about a young woman Mary Anne who comes to stay with a troop in Vietnam during the war Although these stories manifest on separate continents the structures and themes are strikingly similar Both Heart of Darkness and Sweetheart of
1 Both The Yellow Wallpaper and The Bloody Chamber deal with the perennial feminist theme of the confinement of women in particular rooms chambers houses and roles Discuss This is essay attempt to discuss the role of the women in literature both about the protagonists and the authors of the stories As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories The short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860193
A Writers View Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams was born on March 11 1911 in Columbus Tennessee His childhood life consists of his mother who was a woman who was characterized as someone who has a strong desire for a southern way of living His father was a travelling shoe salesman who is always on business trip and was abusive towards his family Tennessee had a sister name Rose who was institutionalized for being emotionally disturbed and fragile Upon learning about Tennessees life the characte