The short story Girl written by Jamaica Kincaid is a mother’s compilation of advice, skills, and life experience to her daughter. The mother believes that her offer of practical and helpful guidance will assist her daughter in becoming a proper woman, and gaining a fulfilling life and respectable status in the community. Posed against the mother’s sincere concern for her daughter’s future is Sir Walter’s superficial affection to his daughters in the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. Due to his detailed attention for appearance and social rank, Sir Walter has been negligent to his daughters’ interests and fails to fulfill his responsibility as a father. Throughout both literary works, the use of language and tone towards persuasive endeavors reveals the difference in family dynamics and the success of persuasion on the character’s transformation. The mother’s genuine care for her daughter in girl is displayed through her imperative instructions. The mother decides to transfer her domestic knowledge and life experience to her daughter in order to shape her daughter’s behavior from a young age. She gives out detailed instruction on how to “sew a button, how to hem a dress when the hem coming down to how to iron a khaki shirt so that it does not have a crease” (Kincaid). Although heming a dress is not a difficult chore, the mother emphasizes the its importance since she understands that the appearance of clothing reflects a woman’s character. Because domestic skills serve as a measurement for women’s competence and self-worth, the daughter’s inability to take care of her clothes will indicate her lack of interest in household affair and organizational skills. Through these advice, the mother highlights the importance of house... ... middle of paper ... ...an only find true happiness in marriage with someone who shares similar manners and treasure people’s qualities over their look and status. This is when Anne’s sensibility allows her to disregard her family’s persuasion and become determined to fulfill her love with Wentworth. The persuasive attempts in both literary works produce different results. The effectiveness of the mother’s guidance to her daughter is questioned since the girl cannot recognize the essence of her mother’s lesson. Despite that, the mother’s beneficial instruction serves as a standard for the daughter to reflect her future behaviors in order to live up to the community’s expectations. On the other hand, Anne’s value of candid expression and lasting relationship dissuades her from obliging to her family’s meaningless duty to place her love and interest above to experience fulfillment in life.
In the beginning, the author introduces Connie, a 15-year-old teenager, who is a self-centered girl that believes beauty is everything. Her mother however, does not see her for her beauty, but for her lack of ambition. She constantly compares her to her olde...
Child had some arguments against the education system for girls. As the class learned, girls would go to school and dip their toes into many of the sciences rather than focus their education on the classics to prepare for college entrance exams like their male counterparts. Child also argued that once young women graduated, they got caught up in going to balls and parties to live out their youth while they still could. The author thought that young people should be taught about frugality and industry in case they became impoverished at some point in their lives, like the struggles that she faced with David’s debts. Within the text, Child visited with the mother of an impoverished family. The mother hired a seamstress to sew and patch their clothing because the sixteen year old daughter did not have enough sewing skill. Child was taken aback by the statement because she thought that the young woman would have been able to sew to bring in money for her family. But, the mother replied that school, music, and dance took up too much of the daughter’s time during the school year and during winter break she would be spending time with her friends. “Now is her time to enjoy herself, you know. Let her take all the comfort she can, while she is single!,” stated the mother. Since young women did not learn domestic tasks in school, they did not enjoy them later in life. The arts
Chapter One of Persuasion by Jane Austen Chapter one of Persuasion makes use of a highly economic narrative style, which celebrates Austen’s success as a novelist. Austen’s narrative style is so successful in chapter one of Persuasion as many of the characters are introduced to the reader along with the majority of the main themes which concern them in the novel. Austen clearly underlines that she is writing with a novelist’s voice, using traditional conventions of third person with past tense. This first hint of Austen’s narration style is shown in chapter one and reappears again in chapter eleven where it is evident that Austen has become an omniscient narrator. This highlights to the reader that everything we are told in chapter one will lead to a conclusion which will shape the novel and its outcome.
“Girl” is a short story with only two characters, which reads like a narrative of a mother giving life lessons to her daughter. It is in this story that we see Kincaid begin to explore the tenuous relationship she had with her mother. In the story, the mother in a very authoritative tone is giving her daughter instructions on how to live her life. She begins by telling her how to do the laundry, “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them in the stone heap” (qtd. in Mays 171) and continues with how to cook traditional island food and how to mend clothes (171). Several times in the story the mother says, “like the slut you are so bent on becoming,” (qtd. in Mays 171) which comes across very condescending with a tone of sexual promiscuity (171). The first time the daughter speaks, “But I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school,” (qtd. in Mays 171) it sounds as if she is trying to stand up for herself (171). The only other time the daughter speaks, “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?” (qtd. in Mays 171) seems like she is asking her mother to clarify something for her (171). “Girl” depicts how Kincaid sees her own mother. The mother is portrayed as being bitter and upset with how her own life turned out. She very abrasively is trying to tell her daughter not to make the same mistakes that she did. The
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice In 1796 Jane Austin wrote a classic novel named Pride and Prejudice. She wrote many novels but they were not published. In 1813 the novel was published.
“Girl,”written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a prose poem about the relationship between a mother and daughter. In reality, it reflects the actual living background in Kincaid's time by listing a series of important sentences; as read, it shows that her mother disciplined her for a certain lifestyle; moreover, now she wants the same living for her daughter. In this poem, the setting, tone, and characters engage and work together to create an acute description of a day-to-day conversation between mother and daughter.
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In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet’s journey to love and marriage is the focal point of the narrative. But, the lesser known source of richness in Austen’s writing comes from her complex themes the well-developed minor characters. A closer examination of Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth’s dear friend in Pride and Prejudice, shows that while she did not take up a large amount of space in the narrative, her impact was great. Charlotte’s unfortunate circumstances in the marriage market make her a foil to Elizabeth, who has the power of choice and refusal when it comes to deciding who will be her husband. By focusing on Charlotte’s age and lack of beauty, Austen emphasizes how ridiculous and cruel marriage can be in this time.
“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.” Heart. Feelings. Trust. All of these concepts said by Carl W. Buechner are philosophies that are spoken of freely in the twenty-first century, where love is limitless and marriage is bound by no restraints. A rich man can easily fall in love with his maid. A poor couple can just as effortlessly run off and get married. However, during the turn of the nineteenth century, this was regarded as foolish, even outrageous. Marriage was for stability, for financial reliability. Love or the “heart” was not at all a necessity, nor even a component to the formula. Happiness in marriage was simply a rare bonus. But Jane Austen proves this contrary in her novel Pride and Prejudice. Her protagonist, Elizabeth, defies the social norm of acquiring a husband for the mere sake of security and instead looks for love. But Elizabeth is no weak, romanticized girl. Her “modern” outlook leads her ultimately to success. Other characters like Charlotte or Lydia will have lukewarm or cold marriages because there were no true feelings of love or even affection; thus, though financial stability is present in Charlotte’s case, there is no intrinsic relationship stability. With this in mind, Austen’s characters’ wide-ranging attributes indicate a wide spectrum of possible relationship developments, but the “happiest” marriage is exemplified in Elizabeth’s because hers is illuminated by full knowledge and mutual love, equating to a secure relationship.
Persuasion, by Jane Austen is a story of a maturing heroine and her second chance at love. Eight years before Persuasion picked up the story, Anne Elliot let herself be persuaded to refuse the man she loved because her family and friends told her she was above him. He left, his heart broken, and resented her for the next eight years. She never loved anyone else, and at the start of this romance novel, she was twenty seven years old, and unmarried. In Persuasion, Austen provides a character study of Anne Elliot who transforms from an easily persuaded young girl to a strong, independent woman; and in doing so changes the lense through which her family, friends and the man she loves view her.
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice immerses one into the life of England's eighteenth century; a land of propriety, manners, and modesty. The adaptation of the film inevitably filters the novel through the social and cultural outlook of the eighteenth century. “Film adaptations have always acknowledged such synecdochical translation as highly effective in the visual medium and have rendered it by using its primary cinematic equivalent: the close-up of the heroine's face.” (Grandi ,46) The 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice works with Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice by providing similarities that reiterates the primary theme of the novel; but also, contributes difference that enhances the understanding of the characters and setting of Austen's novel. The differences between the film and the novel suggest that the film signals more of Darcy's interest toward Elizabeth in which the novel does not.
“Advice to Little Girls” has series of recommendation for girls. Mark Twain mocks statutes and precepts that society established and “good” women ought to pursue. Satirically, Twain showed extreme cases of bulling, but he also provides humorous revenges options. This short story is about stereotypical norms that people taught to girls form early ages. The society dictates rules of behavior which shape the lives of women to make them acceptable individuals. The drawing is separate in three sections. The first section
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As we read on, we see a change in Darcy, and feel that his heart of