Essays Tagged: "Margaret"
Tribulation and Comedy in Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim"
ourable relations with other characters who make his existence quite trying. Jim's involvement with Margaret is marked by his desire to see it end. His association with Professor Welch incessantly lan ... ity of his predicament and makes living with his problems much easier.Jim Dixon's relationship with Margaret is the source of considerable anxiety and distress; yet, he dodges the need to remedy this. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Flaming Feminist: Margaret Sanger's Battle for Birth Control.
Flaming Feminist: Margaret Sanger's Battle for Birth Control.Margaret Sanger devoted her life to educating women and m ... d longevity of many women and children's lives can be attributed to the dedication and hard work of Margaret Sanger. Sanger did more than inform people of their choices concerning their lives and thos ... gazine articles, to lobbying Congress. Despite the restrictive laws of the early twentieth century, Margaret Sanger was able to convey her message across to women all over the world, regardless of the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
North and South, irony, "pride and prejudice" and the class system.
does this through travelling to each of these different places in her book, using the key character Margaret. Not only do we see their ways of life through Margaret but she also interprets it and who ... novel because the exploration is as much about the condition of women as the condition of workers. Margaret comes across all these and from her opinions, behavior and interaction we get a very strong ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Discourse on chapter 19 of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Discuss Chapter nineteen of North and South demonstrates how Margaret brings together the worlds of both masters and men and comment on how the passage illustrat ... passage the two worlds of masters and men have their differences vividly portrayed, as the advocate Margaret brings them together. The passage examines the strike or battle between masters and men as ... ge examines the strike or battle between masters and men as a question of individual conscience for Margaret who has the opportunity to live in and between both these worlds.The dinner to which Margar ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
In chapters 15-17, Elizabeth Gaskell uses "North and South" to voice various opinions of relations between the factory workers and owners. Discuss this theme in the light of the novel as a whole.
Chapter 15 is to inform the reader about Thornton's view from the perspective of a master, and also Margaret's Southern view and certain ignorance regarding the "battle" between the workers and factor ... s mere "hands" when he declares them in the same level as the "servants" in the South (in order for Margaret to understand his view). This being the reason why he and the rest of the masters in the No ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Third Journal written as if you were a serf or farmer back in Medieval Times
70 percent of what I harvest.I have now married, and I was married to a very fair lady by the name Margaret. She is a lovely, fair, and respectful wife and I love her dearly. We plan to have at least ... ler Charlemagne's son, Charles and if it turns out to be a girl I shall name her after my dear wife Margaret.I shall now be off because I have work to attend to. My work shall lead me to a great life ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
"A Man for All Seasons", by Robert Bolt 1500 word essay on the position/role of women in Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons"
be treated as only a wife, mother or lover, and they were never expected to be much more. Alice and Margaret More, the two main female characters, are both set up as being typical Tudor women, and are ... thy and respect for these two women, demonstrating Bolts attitude towards their treatment.Alice and Margaret More are the two main female characters in the play, and are both created as being strong, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Play I Wrote for my "Modern Femininity" Class. Some people might find it offensive. It was in response to the assignment "Write a Creative Response to Changing Role of Males in Modern Parenting"
other seats of the table sit two stuffed animals that the couple believe are their children.Ronald: Margaret, I must say, tonight the peas have quite a bit of spunk. What prey tell is your secret, to ... uite a bit of spunk. What prey tell is your secret, to such delightful green morsels of green peas?.Margaret: (Sips from her cocktail) Pepper, I love pepper, it turns an everyday meal, into culinary d ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
The play "cat on a hot tin roof" and the relationship between maggie, chip and brick
pper. One of the main indications of this is his treatment of his wife. Brick seems uninterested in Margaret, his wife, who is described as "beautiful" (915) and the lust of "other men"(930). He is co ... before the natural time for it to" (930), leads to the questioning of the basis of his marriage to Margaret. Like many homosexuals in his time, Brick is "marrying [and] masquerading as a heterosexual ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Why Maya Angelou picks the title "Finishing School."
by Maya Angelou, has a different meaning, I would say the title is ironic. Angelou's main character Margaret went through her own "Finishing School" that happened to be inside a white woman's kitchen. ... rences and how to defend her dignity, both that reflect the author's purpose in choosing this title.Margaret is a ten-year-old black girl who lives in the south in 1930's at the time when slavery has ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How do the protagonists' relationships with minor characters in "Hard Times" and "North & South" dramatize the issues confronting the individual in society?
elationships between the characters to dramatize the issues that confront an individual in society. Margaret Hale and Louisa Gradgrind, the female protagonists in the two novels, although they have ve ... king classes highlights the conflicting views of society, both across different classes and within. Margaret and Louisa's interaction with the other characters represent the issues experienced by peop ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Rhythm and Dictions in Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"
word choice, and alliteration to fully integrate the readers, as if the readers were right next to Margaret as she undergoes these changes."Spring and Fall" is a short poem in one stanza; however, Ho ... econd section portrays the grown-up perspective. In the first eight lines, the speaker addresses to Margaret, a young girl weeping over falling leaves. These eight lines contain a lyrical rhythm in co ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Poetry Explication of "Spring & Fall", by Gerard Manley Hopkins
d sadness that can never be fully explained by man.The poet is seemingly speaking to a young child, Margaret, who in her naivety and youth is only beginning to learn about aging and death. The poem op ... and youth is only beginning to learn about aging and death. The poem opens with a question to young Margaret, "Margaret are you grieving, over Goldengrove unleaving?" "Goldengrove" seems to be represe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Bishop Orders His Tomb" and "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning
eve the freedom.In North and South, the gender paradigms are explored in depth through the voice of Margaret Hale who challenges the structure of women in society. She is depicted as an unique individ ... g the specialised jargon that the traders and workers used like 'clem' and 'knobstick'. After that, Margaret was able participate in the jargon-filled discussions regarding the matter of trade "She kn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Howard's End
and the lower classes contrasted with the higher classes to illustrate and explain his theme; using Margaret as a vessel to exemplify why and how only an individual that has these ideas already balanc ... ligentsia, Forster placed (respectively) England and Germany at opposite ends of the spectrum; only Margaret's blend of the two cultures is able to pull them together in a stable balance. Forster pain ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Spring And Fall
m the first line, the entire mea ng would have suffered. With the extra stress placed on the words "Margaret" and "grieving," the poem adopts a paternal tone. The speaker is gently surprised by the di ... is imporant connection, the poet also stresses the word "will" in line 9. This indicates that while Margaret may, at present, weep for dying leaves she will one day come to realize the brevity of her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Life and Career of Margerat Mead
Margaret Mead was one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century. Before she and ot ... cember 16, 1901 and died in New York City on November 15, 1978, at the age of 77, of cancer. Margaret's childhood had a lot to do with her career. As a child her parents encouraged intellectual ... ouraged intellectual growth and put a great value on education. Her parents were always encouraging Margaret to participate in activities that would help in a future career. Ways that they did this we ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
E.M. Forster's Howards End
ee different social classes encounter each other under odd circumstances and their fate intertwine. Margaret and Henry is a good example of how different the upper class and upper-middle class are: "M ... s are materialistic and practical. There is little common between these two families, but only with Margaret's determination to connect that the families become in-laws. Margaret doesn't display the f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Howards End by E.M. Forster How far do you agree that the Wilcoxes are hypocritical and emotionally dishonest?
ersonified. He is materialistic, aggressive and self centred. In chapter 21, he sees his father and Margaret’s engagement as a financial threat and takes it out on his poor wife, blaming her for ... at and takes it out on his poor wife, blaming her for it in an obscure and unfair way, when in fact Margaret has no intention of interrupting their inheritance. Charles of course would never be able t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
No Regrets: An Examination of Static Morality and the Disruption of Normal Order in the History Plays of William Shakespeare
s actions are carried out in a spirit of manipulation, more specifically, the manipulation of Queen Margaret and King Henry VI. Eventually, the scheming of Suffolk escalates into the murder of the Duk ... or his actions, not even before his own death, thus his tainted moral standards remain true to form.Margaret, the Queen of England, is another key figure in the second part of Henry the Sixth that dem ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare