Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was from Randolph, Massachusetts, born on October 31, 1852. As an American writer, she was best known for her stories and writings depicting characters who endured frustrated lives in New England. In 1867, Mary Wilkins relocated with her family to Brattleboro,Vermont. After studying for a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which now is Mount Holyoke College, Freeman lived at home where she spent most of her time reading, and writing stories for children. In 1883, soon after the death of her parents, she decided to live with friends, returning back to her hometown of Randolph, Massachusetts. Also, during that same year, she published her first adult story in a Boston newspaper. The best of her work was done while …show more content…
For example, both Louisa and the Inquisitor both felt “chained” to something. Louisa felt chained to her engagement in a similar the way the Inquisitor felt chained to the rules and regulations of the church. Also, the Inquisitor is suddenly disturbed by the presence of Christ just as Louisa is disturbed by the presence of her fiance, Joe Dagget. Both characters are happily living their lives when they are abruptly interrupted. Furthermore, in the story, The Grand Inquisitor, the church was viewed as the enemy of freedom and free will just as Louisa saw Joe and her engagement as the enemy to her freedom and free will. Likewise, perhaps the most pivotal similarity, was the offering of forgiveness by a kiss. Although Louisa never admits her knowledge of Joe’s affair with Lily, symbolically she forgives him “That night she and Joe parted more tenderly than they had done for a long time.” “Then he kissed her, and went down the path.” (476) In the same way Christ shows forgiveness to the Inquisitor, he kisses him as a way to say I forgive you. At the same time, both stories, A New England Nun and The Grand Inquisitor, have religious elements. Consequently, the story is titled “A New England Nun” because of the way Louisa lives her daily life, very routine and with concentration, with no time for socializing, she is living her life just as a nun would.
Lastly, as we discussed in class the meaning behind last line of this story “Louisa sat, prayerfully numbering her days, like an uncloistered nun.” (477) I believe it is a representation of Louisa praying the rosary and her devotion to her life. The statement of “numbering her days” is like a rosary, which are like “numbered
Both stories feature a father figure who creates the action and attempts to play God.
Mary Boykin Chesnut was born on her grandparents' estate at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina on March 31, 1823. She learned early about the workings of a plantation by observing her grandmother. Grandmother Miller rose early to assign the cleaning and cooking duties for her servants. Besides keeping the mansion clean and prepared for the frequent guests, Mary's grandmother also took charge of making and mending clothing for the slaves on the plantation. She spent whole days cutting out clothing for the children and assigning sewing to her nine seamstresses. Her grandmother worked with the servants and sewing crew so easily and effectively that Mary was nearly nine years old before she became aware that her grandmother's coworkers were slaves. Having learned to respect these workers, she thought of them as near equals.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a unique and vital character in American history. She played an imperative role in the equality and advancement of not just African-American women, but women in general. Although she was born a free women in Maryland she had an unparalleled knack for describing and capturing the evils and horrors of slavery. She wrote a plethora of novels, short stories and poems. In her early years she taught in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, after leaving teaching she left teaching to lecture for the Maine Anti-slavery society along with other anti-slavery organizations. She also worked to help fugitive slaves escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Frances E. W. Harper was an impeccable writer and human being, she made unmatched contributions to history through her works as an equal rights activist and beautifully captures the identity of
... Diana both authors illustrate that one cannot control his or her fate. In both plays the authors use these characters as a medium for their own beliefs, to express their tone and overall message to the audience.
“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.” (www.doonething.org). Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts on August 13, 1818. Her parents, Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews, were abolitionists and Congregationalists. Stone retained their anti-slavery opinions but rejected the Congregationalist Church after it criticized abolitionists. Along with her anti-slavery attitude, Lucy Stone also pursued a higher education. She completed local schools at the age of sixteen and saved money until she could attend a term at Mount Holyoke Seminary five years later. In 1843, Stone enrolled at the Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later Oberlin College). With her graduation in 1847, she became the first Massachusetts woman to earn a bachelor’s degree. However, Lucy Stone was not done expressing her abolitionist and feminist beliefs to the public (anb.org).
Her choices of metaphors are simplistic explanations providing the backdrop for the emotional and spiritual connection we seek in following Christ. The symbolic comparisons of Mary Magdalene, her relationship to Jesus, mirrors some of Julian of Norwich’s personal spiritual journey of prayerful contemplation while seeking intimacy in her relationship to God.
...n their stories at first, but by the end they both praise them for their ability to act with the virtues that every Roman woman should strive to act with.
Throughout literature, relationships can often be found between the author of a story and the story that he writes. In Geoffrey Chaucer's frame story, Canterbury Tales, many of the characters make this idea evident with the tales that they tell. A distinct relationship can be made between the character of the Pardoner and the tale that he tells.
In both texts, the power struggle between the characters is switched from the father and mother to the son and daughter, signalling a growth in independent thought and the courage to stand up to tradition. Works Cited Like Water for Chocolate, Antigone.
King, in introducing the little convent girl to the reader, goes to great lengths to present her as a dreary and uninteresting creature. She wore dark clothing, sat rigidly upright, secluded herself in her room, and displayed little zest for life. Therefor, when King uses the work "blac...
Mary Whiton Calkins was born on March 30, 1863 in Buffalo, New York. Her father was Wolcott Calkins and a Presbyterian minister. She was from a close knit family, especially to her mother, and the eldest of five children. In 1880, when she was seventeen, she moved to Newton, Massachusetts where her family built a home that she lived in the rest of her life. Her father, knowing the education that women received, decided to design and supervise Mary's education. This enabled her to enter Smith College in 1882 with advanced standing as a sophomore. However, in 1893, an experience that permanently influenced her thinking and character, was the death of her sister, Maude. The following academic year she stayed home and took private lessons. She reentered Smith College in the fall of 1884 as a senior and graduated with a concentration in classics and philosophy (7).
The collection of stories comprised in both The Decameron By Giovanni Boccaccio and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer illustrate a frame story where both parties are going on an adventure. In particular the characters in The Decameron are fleeing the city of Florence and the Black Plague, while in The Canterbury Tales the characters are making a pilgrimage. Each collection has one notable story that could be seen to have a common theme. In The Decameron the tale of “Federigo’s Falcon” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales both have similar themes of sacrifice. Whether this theme necessarily means the same thing to both tales is questionable. Despite this, it is clear that both do share a theme involving sacrifice, as well as having some subtle differences in what that sacrifice means to the character.
The use of Bishops words at the beginning of the poem refers to her earlier years when she lost her father when she was eight months old, which was not so hard to cope with the loss of her since she was just a baby to know about pain. On the contrary, the conclusion of her poem refers to the last recent loss of her lover Lota de Macedo Soares, which was painful and she has not yet mastered the loss.
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London on April 27th of 1759 to a poor family of 7 children where she was the second. She did not receive any formal education; only her brother, Edward, was to have that advantage. Her father was a tyrannical man who abused and bullied her mother. When Mary reached the age of 19, she decided to leave home and find her own way in life. She could not tolerate seeing a woman mistreated by her man, and so she helped her sister, Eliza, by hiding her from her husband until she got separated.
The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale are both told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. Although the two stories are set in the same time period and have a similar theme, they each have a distinctive tone. The Knight tells a romantic story that reflects his higher social class during the era in which he lives. The Miller tells a story in which lust, not love, is the guiding motive for the characters. The Miller is in fact drunk when he tells his story, so the Miller’s Tale contains lots of dirty jokes and complicated tricks. The Miller’s tale mirrors the Knight’s tale in a lot of ways. Both of the stories contain a love triangle.