...Victorian era. The “New Woman” was educated, intelligent, and independent (Melani). One novel that represents these two types of women is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The two female characters in the novel are Mina Murray Harker and Lucy Westenra. Both Mina and Lucy represent the typical woman in the Victorian era. For example, the Victorian women were portrayed as an innocent person. Lucy appears in...
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...Change in the Midst of a Standstill In the novel The Small Room, the protagonist Lucy Winter undergoes a series of events that helped her to understand her life’s purpose. After a broken engagement, she tried to piece together what her life was supposed to look like. At first, Lucy questioned whether Appleton was the place she belonged. Even though on paper she was more than qualified, in life she was living with internal chaos. “Would she find she had a true vocation? Did she belong in this peculiar order” (13)? Throughout her journey of self-discovery, Lucy forms key relationships at Appleton which prove to be significant components that aid in the reshaping of her life. Before delving into the relationships which Lucy forms at Appleton, it is important to take a look at what kind of relationship she had with herself. The way a person interacts with individuals on a daily basis, is oftentimes a reflection of how he or she may feel about themselves. For instance, it is fitting that Lucy’s last name happened to be winter because her demeanor at the beginning of the novel reminded me of the winter season. When snow falls, it looks like a protective element that has been draped across the land. Then, when the snow melts, it washes away what is not needed and leaves behind what is supposed to be left to grow and blossom. Just like snow becomes a protective covering, so does Lucy’s disposition in order to protect her heart. Accepting the position at Appleton not...
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...women played a secondary role. It was not until much later that women prevailed and made their mark on the world. One of the periods in history in which men’s role in society was at its height was during the Victorian Era. This era was a time in English history in which the British empire flourished and prospered. There was a revival in the arts, especially, gothic literature. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mina Murray symbolizes the modern woman through her relationships with the other characters, her strong will to participate and learn, and her perseverance. Wilhelmina Murray’s closest friend in the novel was Lucy Westenra. Mina and Lucy were childhood friends, but were not of the same social standing. This was so because Mina’s mother worked for the Westenra household. Therefore, Mina was the child of a servant, which did not entitle her to the same privileges that Lucy had. As the two girls grew up, they each encountered different obstacles which shaped them into unique women. Jonathan Harker, as Mina’s husband, was utterly enchanted to have a woman like Mina as a wife. Not only knowledgeable and resourceful, she offered advice and opinions about how to deal with the dilemma of Count Dracula. Arthur Holmwood, Lucy’s fiancee, took a unique liking to Mina. Surprisingly reaching out to her about his grief over...
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...modernized woman. Mina’s character is a depiction of the idealized feminine figure, which is subordinate to all men and maintains the identity of a housewife. Simultaneously, she is a figure that foreshadows the women of the twentieth century, when women are independent and active members of the society. These are supported through the actions she takes and the decisions she makes throughout her journey across multiple stories. Mina Murray’s character contains significant attributes that allow her to be contrasted with other characters in her stories and to stand between the definitions of the idealized Victorian women and women of the modern era. Mina’s character qualities in Dracula are highlighted by those around her. Mina and Lucy are placed under similar circumstances early in the novel and their actions are displayed and contrasted. Taking Mina’s letter to Lucy to comparison with that of Lucy to Mina, the basic insights to their personalities are revealed. While both in love with their respective fiancés, Mina and Lucy display their affections in manners that differ from each other. Lucy shows a traditional and contrived form of excitement in...
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...examines Lucy Snowe’s journey towards maturity and fulfillment through the streets of Britain. The novel portrays Lucy as a complicated character who searches for independence in exchange for social acceptance. Lucy’s search for identity that is independent of society is very difficult to establish and express due to its existence in the sphere of ‘expected female social conduct.’ In the novel one of the characters, Ginevra, curiously inquires “Who are you, Miss Snowe”...”Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise.” Since most women during that era were conditioned at an early age about social standing and gender roles, Ginevra has a very difficult time labeling Lucy as a traditional female. Bronte craftily created Lucy as this untraditional female protagonist in order to challenge Victorian ethics through her silence over her narrative. Throughout the novel, Lucy reveals her dissatisfaction with the Victorian values, however at the same time she represses information and keeps her identity concealed. This personality trait gives her great power over the reader, who longs to get more information about this mysterious character. The novel begins with Lucy saying, “When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit.” This line from the first chapter is clearly vague and does not give any incite to why Lucy Snowe is staying at Bretton. Instead, she then jumps right into introducing her God-mother to the readers. “I was staying...
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...Literature Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee In Disgrace, race plays a predominant role in the novel. Disgrace is set in post-apartheid South Africa and, although apartheid has ended, traces of racial conflicts still haunt the land and its people. In the novel Coetzee emphasizes the racial tensions and the interaction between whites and blacks when Davis Luries arrived in Salem. Disgrace can be interpreted in many ways regarding racial perception, but there is no doubt that Coetzee’s purpose is to raise the question about the new South Africa and the white people within it. The book portrays a brutal picture of life in post-apartheid South Africa, the fate of the two white characters (David and Lucy) on the land, lost with dignity and freedom. Disgrace depicts a white father and daughter’s journey though life while losing everything under the racist black rule. Disgrace is written in a direct, unique style using clever word choices. An example of the racial nature of this book is when David Luries stated, “English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa,” (Coetzee, P.117). It is as if David was referring that English is not the type of language for Africans. David Luries lives in a dark world with dark desires. His frequent demand of sex leads him to his downfall. Melanie is a prefect example of David’s desire. “She is wearing black tights and a black sweater. Her hips are as slim as a twelve-year-old’s”(Coetzee P.19). Melanie has become a black and white image in...
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...Module 1 Score Card: The theme of Across the Universe is love and hate. We watch Max and Jude create a loving relationship as friends and also Jude and Lucy create a loving relationship as romantic partners. The plot of this movie is a kid named Jude moves to the United States and ends up making friends with this kid named Max. Max decides to quit school so they end up moving to New York. This Film follows there journey in New York, which include living with a girl named Sadie who wants to become a singer, Jude becoming an artist, and Lucy becoming an advocate in stopping the war. The emotional effect is this movie is love, because you see these people falling in love and that makes you want to fall in love, but you also see the war going on and that makes you sad. This movie has a lot of truth in human nature. It shows that war is really going to happen no matter how hard you try and stop it, and that can be sad, but it also shows that you should not give up. This movie shows an amazing example of complexity in human relationships. No matter how much Jude and Lucy love each other they cannot get their relationship to work out even if they want to, it is a complex situation. It shows the social problems that were happening back during that time. The war was happening and people were dying to save their country. Max was a prime example of loss of innocence. Since he dropped out of college so he was picked to go to war, so he went from being a carefree kid to and an adult in possible...
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...ruin" by Sune Espersen. The main character in the short story is Gerard, he is living in Manhattan and has an eight-year-old daughter named Lucy. He must have been growing up in England as it is mentioned that his prep school was English. Gerard is a handsome man, probably between 30 and 40 years. Gerard is a single father, Lucy's mother Issy left them when Lucy was very young and she went to Los Angeles to become an actor. Lucy´s mother Issy died 4 years ago, she was found floating in a pool, Gerard went to her funeral in Los Angeles. In the beginning of the text we find out that it seems to be important to Gerard that he makes his life extraordinary and he want to be a person who stands out from the crowd. Gerard's reflections creates a very glorious, overwhelming atmosphere, because he thinks of his own life compared with the many other people who lived before him. The atmosphere in this part of the text also tells us that something is going to happen in Gerard's life. In the beginning he also talks about the past, he talks about his old, English prep teacher Hetherington who won a medal at the Olympics while Adolf Hitler watched, and he talks about the second World War: "Millions were about to be killed as teenage Hetherington crossed the finish line. A few years later, children walked into gas ovens after a long journey from home." - P.1/l.15-17. Just things from the past, which probably is an introduction to when he meets a woman from his past, Laurel. When he...
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...Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch Scientist, and the only Catholic among the group, combines science and ancient beliefs to bring an end to Dracula. Van Helsing first introduces the Host in the tomb of Lucy, where he describes how the Host will keep her coffin sealed. “I am closing the tomb, so that the Un-Dead may not enter” (225). By doing this he is protecting her body and warding off any evils that may want to harm her. In her article “Crucifix, Communion, and Convent: The Real Presence of Anglican Ritualism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, Noelle Bowles argues that, “The other men's belief is irrelevant to the power of the Host and, as with Harker and his crucifix, they, too, come to embrace the Real Presence of the divine in what had seemed at first mere Symbolism.” (Bowles 18) At first, the team was hesitant when Van Helsing introduces the Host, but once they see how it works, their beliefs of Catholicism is revived. Once they trust its abilities, they use the Holy Host in...
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...The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Release Date: May 25, 2008 [EBook #161] [This file last updated September 6, 2010] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SENSE AND SENSIBILITY *** SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER VI CHAPTER XI CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXVI XXVII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXI XXXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXVI XXXVII CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER CHAPTER XLVI XLVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER L CHAPTER 1 The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to...
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...Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk. However, Stoker, Rossetti and Carter all at times break with this convention by characterising some of their females as strong, independent and liberated. As writers, they experiment with the characteristic features of the gothic genre, particularly Carter and Rossetti who challenge the traditional conceptions by presenting many of their female characters in dominant, authoritative roles which break convention. There are occasions in all three texts when the passivity traditionally associated with femininity in the gothic genre can be perceived to be a direct result of oppression from patriarchal figures. In Dracula, Stoker uses a quintessentially gothic scene to portray Lucy being preyed upon by the Count: “The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great gaunt grey wolf.” The imagery used here is very typically gothic through its wild portrayal of the weather, followed by the terrifying...
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...knowledge of those who made them. Table of Contents 1 Jonathan Harker’s Journal .................................................... 1 2 Jonathan Harker’s Journal .................................................. 17 3 Jonathan Harker’s Journal .................................................. 33 4 Jonathan Harker’s Journal .................................................. 49 5 Letter From Miss Mina Murray To Miss Lucy Westenra ... 65 6 Mina Murray’s Journal ....................................................... 75 7 Cutting From “The Dailygraph”, August 8......................... 91 8 Mina Murray’s Journal ..................................................... 107 9 Letter, Mina Harker To Lucy Westenra .......................... 125 10 Letter, Dr. Seward To Hon. Arthur Holmwood .............. 141 11 Lucy Westenra’s Diary ........................................................
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...The studio techniques of the Beatles: how four lads from Liverpool and a radio producer from the BBC changed sound recording forever. The Beatle’s music has been recognized as influential and innovative in many ways, none more so than their innovations and experiments in the studio and with sound recording with help of George Martin. This essay will discuss the studio techniques of the Beatles and how they changed the course of sound recording forever. The Beatles started to experiment in their recording techniques as early as 1964, having achieved incredible commercial, financial and critical success by this stage they were then essentially given free range in the recording studio, this gave them the unique opportunity for experimentation. With the help of George Martin that’s exactly what they did. Prior to the nineteen sixties and the Beatle’s experiments in the studio, sound recording was not a fully refined art that is there were none of the widely used seemingly natural conventions we are familiar with today. A good example of this is the 1966 song Taxman where drums are all panned to left; this might seem like nothing out of the ordinary now but in that time were defining the nature of sound recording. Much of the Beatle’s enthusiasm and desire to create new sound-scapes stemmed from their recreational drug use in particular trying to re-create sonically and lyrically their experiences of the drug LSD. This of course had to do with changing social order, the emergence...
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...Lucy Miles Student ENG 102 23 February 2014 Outline THESIS: “The Road Not Taken” discusses the choices humans make in life and how these choices may or may not affect the entirety of one’s life. I. Introduction A. The impact and influence decisions make one one’s life II. Body A. Relationships 1. Life altering decisions 2. Real Life situations B. Metaphors 1. Used to provide insight about the writer 2. Used to make the reader compare the decisions made C. Punctuation 1. Used to emphasize the decision making process 2. Used as a form of symbolism D. Title Significance 1. Reinforced the fact that there is always more than one decision 2. Reinforced the fact that there will always be doubt about those decisions III. Conclusion A. Lyrical Elements 1. Writer starts in the past tense 2. Finally writer shows contentment with the decision to take the road less traveled B. Title supports the Overall Meaning of the Poem “The Road Not Taken” Decisions are tasks we inquire in all that we do. From the time that we are conceived to the time that we leave this world, decisions are either made for us or by us which impacts our lives. “The Road Not Taken” discusses the choices humans make in life and how these choices may or may not affect the entirety of one’s life. In this poem, Robert Frost, brings to life the challenges humans face when making decisions. The person in...
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...attentive. My decision to take an evolution class as an elective was one that I had to truly take some thought and time to finally enroll. While my religious ties are very deep, I needed to open my mind to the possibility of different explanations into the creation of the creatures that inhabit the earth. My fears and tension were calmed when I read the preface to the book Mr. Coyne stated it so well and to the point: Accepting evolution needn’t turn you into a despairing nihilist or rob your life of purpose and meaning. It won’t make you immoral or give you the sentiments of a Stalin or Hitler. Nor need it promote atheism, for enlightened religion has always found a way to accommodate the advances of science. In fact, understanding evolution should surely deepen and enrich our appreciation of the living world and our place in it. (Coyne, 2009, p. xx) With this introduction to the text and Mr. Coyne’s calming of my fears that I would not burn in hell or be betraying my religion by opening my mind and heart to the information that is being provided. Why not open my mind to the possibility that the Theory of Evolution has some truth that is proven by scientific facts, I believe in medicine and that is based on scientific facts and research. The journey through each of the chapters covered in, Is Evolution True? Your Inner Fish; has been one of revelations, confusion and understanding. Come with me on my journey through, Is Evolution True. Chapter 1 – What is Evolution? This...
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