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Edward Rochester: A New Byronic Hero, Marybeth Forina
Edward Rochester: A New Byronic Hero, Marybeth Forina
Undergraduate Review
In her novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë established several elements that are still components of many modern novels, including a working, plain female hero, a depiction of the hero’s childhood, and a new awareness of sexuality. Alongside these new elements, Brontë also engineered a new type of male hero in Edward Rochester. As Jane is written as a plain female hero with average looks, Rochester is her plain male hero counterpart. Although Brontë depicts Rochester as a severe, yet appealing hero, embodying the characteristics associated with Byron’s heroes, she nevertheless slightly alters those characteristics. Brontë characterizes Rochester as a …
Wounded Women, Varied Voice, Kathryn Johnston
Wounded Women, Varied Voice, Kathryn Johnston
Undergraduate Review
Daphne du Maurier and Sylvia Plath both use voice as a tool in their respective pieces, “La Sainte-Vierge” and “Lesbos.” Through the implementation of varied voices, these women convey female interiors. Du Maurier’s use of a third-person narrative voice in her short story “La Sainte-Vierge” allows her to comment on the lives of the main characters through the eyes of an outsider. Du Maurier’s outsider reveals a naïve and delusional housewife, unhealthy in her denial within a failing relationship. Contrasting with du Maurier’s Marie is Plath’s first-person voice of a scorned, dissatisfied housewife in her poem, “Lesbos.” Plath’s use of …
Carlyle, Arnold, And Wilde: Art And The Departure From Humanism To Aestheticism In The Victorian Era, Caitlin Larracey
Carlyle, Arnold, And Wilde: Art And The Departure From Humanism To Aestheticism In The Victorian Era, Caitlin Larracey
Undergraduate Review
The Victorian era of British literature spanned almost an entire century and saw writers from Carlyle to Rossetti, Kipling to Barrett Browning, and Dickens to Tennyson. The fabric of London changed as industry and invention flourished, along with poverty and social decay. Significant changes in politics, science, and religious thinking emerged as well. As British society moved further away from its roots in agriculture and devout religion, British literature also moved further away from its roots in Renaissance humanism towards the decadence and aestheticism that characterize late nineteenth-century works. By tracing the shift of styles and use of rhetorical devices …
The Power Of Pain Gender, Sadism, And Masochism In The Works Of Wilkie Collins, Helen Doyle
The Power Of Pain Gender, Sadism, And Masochism In The Works Of Wilkie Collins, Helen Doyle
Undergraduate Review
In his novels No Name (1862) and Armadale (1866), Wilkie Collins explores the social role of women in Victorian England, a patriarchal society that forced women either to submit to the control of a man or rebel at the expense of their own health and sanity. Even though some of his characters eventually marry, thus conforming to social expectations for women, I argue that his portrayal of female characters was subversive. In quests for control over their own lives, Magdalen Vanstone and Lydia Gwilt turn to masochism and sadism, practices which eventually lead to identity loss and self-destruction. Collins suggests …
The Fidelity Of The Fruit: A Psychology Of Adam’S Fall In Milton’S Paradise Lost, Bradford Vezina
The Fidelity Of The Fruit: A Psychology Of Adam’S Fall In Milton’S Paradise Lost, Bradford Vezina
Undergraduate Review
The passage above provides an apt image, with all its symbolic overtones, of Adam’s reaction to Eve’s mortal transgression—that is, her eating from the Forbidden Tree. The circular nature of the garland signifies perfection and permanence; the roses convey the delicacy, vitality, and bloom of life. The garland not only represents the perfection of a paradisal world, but the union between Adam and Eve. But Eve’s careless and wanton act shatters such a union. This leaves Adam with a choice: to eat the fruit thereby upholding his bond with and love for Eve (an act in defiance of God), or …
Rasselas: A Realist’S Narrative On The Quest For Ideal Happiness, Lauren Le
Rasselas: A Realist’S Narrative On The Quest For Ideal Happiness, Lauren Le
Undergraduate Review
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Religious Heresy And Radical Republicanism In John Milton’S Paradise Lost, Lisa Riva
Religious Heresy And Radical Republicanism In John Milton’S Paradise Lost, Lisa Riva
Undergraduate Review
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The Initial Formation Of Independent Cultural Consciousness In British Colonials In The Caribbean During The Eighteenth Century Through Poetry Written By Colonials In The Caribbean, Adam Stilgoe
Undergraduate Review
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Pieces Of Virginia: Post-Impressionaism And Cubism In The Works Of Virginia Woolf, Corie Dias
Pieces Of Virginia: Post-Impressionaism And Cubism In The Works Of Virginia Woolf, Corie Dias
Undergraduate Review
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Letters Within Jane Austen's Novels: A Bridge Towards Romantic Communication, Mary Butler
Letters Within Jane Austen's Novels: A Bridge Towards Romantic Communication, Mary Butler
Undergraduate Review
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We Don't Need No Water: Joyce And O'Brien Burning The Roof Of High Art, Robert J. Cannata
We Don't Need No Water: Joyce And O'Brien Burning The Roof Of High Art, Robert J. Cannata
Undergraduate Review
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