Short poem by Adrienne Rich called Aunt Jennifer's Tigers consists only of three stanzas but it tells the entire story of aunt Jennifer's life. Hard life of women in male-oriented society is the main theme of the poem. The author does not express her ideas directly but makes the readers to understand her through allusions and symbols. Bright images and deep symbolism help readers to get the author's message. The author creates a picture of life of aunt Jennifer. There are several places in th...
Everything happened because of and during the storm. Without the storm Alcee wouldn't be out to need any shelter, Calixta's son and husband wouldn't stay at the store, leaving her wife alone with Alcee. It was a literal storm & a storm of passion. It was the storm that provokes them to have a love affair. In fact the thunder storm outside is in parallel with the beating of heart & the passion which leads to that love affair. Their passion climaxes & diminishes with the storm. The point of vie...
Have you ever had a craving and didnt know which restaurant to go to. And at that moment, it was the most difficult decision you had make. Well, in the 1960s, blacks were put in a situation where they had to worry about which place would accept them. In Greensboro, North Carolina, college students were motivated by anger and frustration to "challenge the practice of denying the service to blacks" ("Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"). As black students occupied a lunch counter at Woolworth, they were...
Money plays a crucial role in the outcome of both characters' lives in Notes from the Underground and Pere Goriot. Eugene and the narrator both exemplify the need for money, the lack of it, and the desperate desire for it. The Narrator uses money as a tool to exert power. Although in the beginning, both characters use money as a negative force, Eugene uses it in a healthy way to gain acceptance into Parisian society. However, the Narrator's use of money is self-destructive, and he is left to ...
Mustafas point of view is introduced in Chapter two, where Salih uses the prolepsis and analepsis devices to allow Mustafas first person narration of his story to be told to the unnamed narrator. Salih's control of time is shown through Mustafa flashing forward, "'Thirty years. The willow trees …" (2003, p.36) and backward in time "'I remember that in the train …" (2003, p.24), which allows the reader to access Mustafa's experiences as unravelling much like a mystery. This constant moveme...
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 19th century. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment is about a doctor who claims to have water from the fountain of youth. He then he invites his friends over and conducts an experiment on them. He uses the water from the fountain of youth and makes them young again, but they break the vase holding the water and it wears off. Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American novelist and writer. He is known for his allegorical tales and ...
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri portray the journey of self-identity through the protagonists of each novel. The central characters of both novels lose themselves by putting on fake personalities while running away from their Indian identities. However, both characters mature through the constant struggles they face between retaining their Indian heritage while assimilating in America, the tragic events that take place in their lives, along with expl...
The period which characterises the society in that moment was the Elizabethan which started just after a revolution that Henry VIII carried out. The aim of Henry's revolution was that the crown obtain all the possessions the church had, economic power, the huge territories that the church own and the political control that the head of the church hold. Elizabethans were born in the darkness and depression so this age was an economic and social revolution consequential from the rising inhabitan...
In Susan Glaspells trifles the women in the play are considered the trifles by the men. The men treat the women as if they are worth nothing, of no value. Susan writes about a woman who has hung her husband in spite for the murder of her beloved canary. On a cold day three men and two women enter a house where a murderer scene has occurred. Of the two men one is a sheriff and one is a county attorney, the third man is the one who discovered the dead body of Mr. Wright. Of the two women that e...
In the essay "My Mother Never Worked,"Â Bonnie Smith-Yackel recollects the time when she called Social Security to claim her mother's death benefits. Social Security places Smith-Yackel on hold so they can check their records on her mother, Martha Jerabek Smith. While waiting, she remembers the many things her mother did, and the compassion her mother felt towards her husband and children. When Social Security returns to the phone, they tell Smith-Yackel that she could not receive her mother...
