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Finding Peace In Hamlet And Mama Day, Aubri M. Devashrayee
Finding Peace In Hamlet And Mama Day, Aubri M. Devashrayee
BYU English Symposium
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Patriarchy & Feminism In The Early 20th Century: Finding Middle Ground Through Kate Chopin, Tanner Call
Patriarchy & Feminism In The Early 20th Century: Finding Middle Ground Through Kate Chopin, Tanner Call
BYU English Symposium
In the decades leading up to women’s suffrage in the United States, feminism began to surge across the nation. While many feminist writers overtly called for an abandon of female gender roles, not all were as polarizing. One of those more covert authors was Kate Chopin.By crafting female characters that are shaped and influenced by their society’s standards (instead of wholly rejecting them), Chopin is able to create a more poignant and effective commentary on gender roles at the time. This paper will analyze three of her short stories and their focus on how the patriarchal society limits independence, creates …
"For They Were No Gods"-- Lawrence's Defiant Magdalene, Madeline N. Hipol
"For They Were No Gods"-- Lawrence's Defiant Magdalene, Madeline N. Hipol
BYU English Symposium
After the social, cultural and national crisis left in the wake of the first World War there was a loss of faith in Reason and in the traditional Christian God. The resulting literature was of disillusionment, doubt and loss. This essay discusses how D. H. Lawrence sought to cope with the darkness of a “godless” reality, critique a disillusioned society, and respond to the rise of feminism through the creation and development of a failed Christ figure and a defiant Mary Magdalene in his short story “Tickets, Please.” As he develops his Magdalene, Annie Stone Lawrence is able to use …
Deformed, Demented, And Deranged: Limited Categorizations Of Old Women In Fairy Tale Adaptations, Amanda Smith
Deformed, Demented, And Deranged: Limited Categorizations Of Old Women In Fairy Tale Adaptations, Amanda Smith
BYU English Symposium
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Radical Words Then And Now: The Historical And Contemporary Impact Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’S The Woman’S Bible, Erika L. Larsen
Radical Words Then And Now: The Historical And Contemporary Impact Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’S The Woman’S Bible, Erika L. Larsen
BYU English Symposium
First published in 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible was a reaction to Stanton’s dissatisfaction with the way women were oppressed in society; she blamed religion—particularly the Bible—for this inequality. Stanton was a prominent suffragist in the early fight for women’s rights, and although her views were often seen as quite radical in her time, her behavior was warranted given the environment of the 19th century world in which she lived. At the time of its publication, The Woman’s Bible was rejected and ridiculed by Stanton’s contemporaries, however, this paper will demonstrate how Stanton’s contribution to early feminist …
The Beauty, The Beast, And The Subverted Fairy Godmother Figure, Sarah A. Brown
The Beauty, The Beast, And The Subverted Fairy Godmother Figure, Sarah A. Brown
BYU English Symposium
There are several adaptations of The Beauty and the Beast, but three in particular are intriguing because of their use of a dark female force. The goddess Diana in the film La Belle et la Bête (Cocteau), Bertha Mason in the novel Jane Eyre (Brontë), and Mrs. Bates in the film Psycho (Hitchcock) all qualify as subverted fairy godmothers in their respective tales because of their role as “other,” their exertion of the female gaze, and their ability to undermine the Belle and Beast figures’ ability to love. Though traditional fairy godmothers utilize magic to aid the protagonists, these …
Mary Magdalene’S Key, The Witch, And The Parted Wardrobe Female Sexuality And The Occult In Joyce’S “Clay” And Lawrence’S “Tickets, Please”, Nicholas N. Montes
Mary Magdalene’S Key, The Witch, And The Parted Wardrobe Female Sexuality And The Occult In Joyce’S “Clay” And Lawrence’S “Tickets, Please”, Nicholas N. Montes
BYU English Symposium
Because both James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence found themselves caught in the trap of a war torn world, new sexuality, the Nietzschean death of God and Religion, and a mass reading public audience being fed the stuff of consumerism, their short stories “Tickets, Please” and “Clay” deal with these shifts occultly in carefully selected symbols, and for Joyce, in puns. Ironically, they discovered this coping mechanism embedded symbolically in the Occult itself and in a Christianity reborn of the blood of sexuality—and for Joyce, drunken Christ figures. In this vein of discovery “Mary Magdalene’s Key, The Witch, and the …
A Phantasmagoric Fairy Tale: “Zerinda” And The Doubling Of Wonder, Conor Hilton
A Phantasmagoric Fairy Tale: “Zerinda” And The Doubling Of Wonder, Conor Hilton
BYU English Symposium
“Zerinda—A Fairy Tale,” a largely forgotten British fairy tale found in Maria Jane Jewsbury’s Phantasmagoria: Sketches of Life and Literature (1825), a Romantic miscellany, serves as the basis of my analysis exploring how hegemony and wonder work together and against one another in the tale. This embodiment of heteroglossia serves as a doubling of the audience in its work to appeal to children and adults. The heteroglossia of audience in the text seems to be tightly linked with how wonder is portrayed. Zohar Shavit and Marina Warner’s insights into the child/adult divide of fairy tales and how they seek different …
The Sexual Spectrum Of The Androgynous Mind In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Sylvia Cutler-Laboulaye
The Sexual Spectrum Of The Androgynous Mind In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Sylvia Cutler-Laboulaye
BYU English Symposium
Examining what Woolf calls the “androgynous mind” in her fictional narrative A Room of One’s Own, I will analyze the function of bisexuality in portraying androgyny in Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway. I will address how Woolf’s exploration of sexual orientation in the characters of Septimus Smith and Clarissa Dalloway illustrates the value of the androgynous mind and its capacity to overcome patriarchal, masculine modes of writing. Furthermore, I will discuss the work of French feminist Hélène Cixous and the theory of écriture féminine in relation to Woolf’s own writing. Drawing on Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa,” I will …
Power Of Fate Through Light And Sound In Rupert Goold’S Macbeth, Hannah Eckhardt
Power Of Fate Through Light And Sound In Rupert Goold’S Macbeth, Hannah Eckhardt
BYU English Symposium
Rupert Goold’s 2010 film adaptation of Macbeth features a modern warlike setting in depiction the scene of Shakespeare’s play. Act 4 Scene 1 features the famous “Double, double, toil and trouble” scene in which Goold displays the three witches in nun-like headgear, displayed in a hospital like setting. In this scene, he uses light, sound, and transposition in order to illuminate the idea that the witches have power over Macbeth’s fate, and he also uses it to transmit the idea of how the witches allot Macbeth a temporary control over his own fate which results in his own downfall. This …
Like A “Caged Bird”: Jane Eyre’S Flight To Freedom Through Imagery In Jane Eyre, Rachel Rackham
Like A “Caged Bird”: Jane Eyre’S Flight To Freedom Through Imagery In Jane Eyre, Rachel Rackham
BYU English Symposium
Many scholars have debated over the allusions to birds throughout the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, questioning their purpose. Left to the care of relatives who did not care for her, Jane Eyre grew up like a “caged bird,” unable to truly make her own decisions. Her interest in knowledge freed her from her feelings of entrapment, enabling her growth of freedom to begin. Traditionally, birds are characterized as symbols of flight and freedom, and the references in the novel symbolize Eyre’s desires for freedom from the cage-like institutions to which she has been subjected. This story is one …
Here There Be Dragons: Monsters And Gender In Possession, Dan Fisher
Here There Be Dragons: Monsters And Gender In Possession, Dan Fisher
BYU English Symposium
The novel Possession by A.S. Byatt tells of scholars researching the lives of two fictional poets, Randolph Ash and Christabel LaMotte. The story focuses heavily on the ideas of gender, especially the the differences and conflict between men and women. Curiously, the poetry of these fictional characters reference numerous monsters from various mythologies. In Possession, A.S. Byatt uses Norse legends to reflect how men are proactive, destructive, and possessive; through Greek creatures she emphasizes how women are unaggressive, stationary, and vulnerable; and lastly, she uses Eastern beasts like the phoenix to show that both men and women can change …
Accessing The Supernatural In Shakespeare’S Richard Iii, Miriam Jones
Accessing The Supernatural In Shakespeare’S Richard Iii, Miriam Jones
BYU English Symposium
This paper argues that the power to curse in Shakespeare’s play King Richard III has less to do with gender than it has to do with where one puts one’s trust. The play presents two opposing sources of power: political power versus that of the supernatural. While on the surface these two sources of power appear to be separated along gender lines, certain scenes within the play show that women are not actually the only ones to have access to supernatural powers. The men have access to this power as well, although they tend to ignore this potential power in …
Modernist Men And A Not So Modernist Look At Women, Natali Jensen
Modernist Men And A Not So Modernist Look At Women, Natali Jensen
BYU English Symposium
I explore the complex relationship Joyce and Lawrence present in their short stories "The Boarding House" and "Tickets Please" as situated before and after WWI. I highlight the importance of understanding male perspectives of women before and during WWI in order to understand what women civil rights movements were up against.