Jane Austen 's The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf And Pride And Prejudice

When living with his grandmother, Suina describes his memories during the frigid winter. During those cold months, “a warm fire crackled and danced brightly in the fireplace, and the aroma of delicious stew filled our one room house.” Suina’s description illustrates his grandmother’s house as a nurturing environment. It is a setting in which his grandmother clearly cares for him. He remembers enduring the long freezing winter nights when “the thick adobe walls wrapped around the two of us protectingly.” The characteristics of the house showcase a sense of connectedness between Suina and his grandmother. Living with his grandmother clearly give Suina several reasons to be happy. It is not only a place that cares for and protects him, but it is also a place that “was just right.” Suina’s grandmother’s house provides him with a tremendous amount of self-confidence. Unfortunately, all of that self confidence is lose when he goes to school. School leaves Suina utterly bewildered. He begins to realize how different the two settings are. He starts to lose sight of the essential aspects of life with his grandmother that once made him so

In David Mamet's essay "The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood" he reminisces to a time in his childhood filled with abuse, neglect, and altogether toxic behavior. This essay is not only based on the author’s childhood memories, but also Mamet’s sister. The story beings with Mamet describing their kitchen, specifically, the family’s dinner table. The kitchen or “the nook” seems to be not only the essence but also the undoing of the family. Throughout the entire story, neither the boy nor his sister feels safe in the midst of their home. Constantly being blamed for whatever goes wrong within their household (around dinner time especially), they reluctantly endure living with their mother and stepfather. The suffering within their home is evident

The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each family member to illustrate who these people were and how they lived. The picture he paints is a bleak one and reflects the impoverished life which the residents lived within this now lonely and desolate building.

She tells of the feeling of shame which emerge from not even having a bed throughout her entire childhood (3). She does reassure that she has the security of her family being the only constant in her life, “Close and sweet and loving. Lucky me on my small pallet on the floor” (4). Travelling every summer “We never knew from one day to the next, from one year to the next, where we would go or live or what we would do” (127), her security of her family seemed always there “Having lived in other people’s houses, barns, and in migrant housing in various stages of decay and repair, it felt as though we could make a home out of anything” (99).

The concept of the malign nature of the tenement is developed throughout the first stanza with Crichton Smith exploring his own role in his mother 's confinement. He tells the reader that whilst he drove away, his mother would 'wave from the window. ' Again the poet successfully employs alliterative words to draw our attention - this time to the image of his frail mother still lovingly 'waving ' from her prison 'window '. This notion is supported by Crichton Smith comparing himself to

Mrs. Dashwood is noticeably conflicted about leaving the family home, Norland. On one hand, “she was impatient to be gone,” even though “to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible” (Ch. 3 pg. 12). Clearly it is a struggle to relive the grief of losing her husband in the house where they spent their life together, but at the same time it is very difficult to leave the only house that her and her daughters have ever called home. This inner turmoil reveals that the sense of home can be both loved and hated. When it comes time for them to finally leave the house, “Many tears were shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.” (Ch. 5 pg. 25) The middle daughter, Marianne, says, “When shall I cease to regret you! —When learn to feel a home elsewhere!”

Robert Frost’s poem “Home Burial,” written in 1914, centers around the conversation of a married couple whose relationship is struggling after the death of their young child. A duality in meaning exists in the poem’s title, “Home Burial,” which references not only the death of their child but also the death of their marriage. Is the child’s death the sole cause of their marital distress? Robert Frost opens the poem in the couple’s home with the husband watching as his wife, Amy, begins to descend the staircase (1-2). After a few verses, the audience has become witnesses to the marriage’s descent into nothingness. The child’s grave lies forever in the background, framed by a small window at the top of the stairs (Frost 24-31). In Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”, the marriage of Amy and her husband is irreparable due to differences in expression, acceptance, and perception.

When Jane enters where her family waits, “Memories from [her] childhood jarred against the little living room” (Greer 1). Then, the author lists the few items present in their home such as a small light bulb and radio juxtaposing the many decorations and luxuries she experienced growing up. Describing Jane’s recollection as jarring, shows the pain and regret she feels towards her wasteful and materialistic upbringing. Also, when Jane reminisced about the weather “Tears welled up. But they were tears of anger” and thought, Why goddammit?...Why did you have to waste so much and leave so little” (Greer, 3). Greer’s use of Jane’s tears, in conjunction with rhetorical questions emphasizes her regret and dissatisfaction in regards to previously over consuming. The author’s manifestation of frustration through Jane’s emotional expressions elucidate the repentance the couple endures with remembrance of their past. In this case, the text punishes Joe and Jane for their previous wasteful lifestyle as they constantly remember the children and friends they lost. Furthermore, Even though, Joe and Jane live with few possessions and “both [have] good jobs”, their lives reflect the effect of materialism and live simply in

Pride and prejudice is a novel that was written by Jane Austen concerning manners, pride and intolerance. Austen is a writer of distinction that manages to catch the attention of the audience in issues such as marriage, class, love and deceit. The novel is a love story; however, its author was also aimed at explaining the unfairness and discrimination that presides over the relationships that exists between people as well as how it impacts the choices of men and women. She was also concerned about how women make decisions concerning marriage. Austen depicts a society where different choices for people are rather limited, on the basis of almost entirely on a family 's connections and social ranking (Austen, 13). Austen 's novel “Pride and Prejudice” brings into spotlight various critical moral concerns in relation to the subject of the institution of marriage as well as other significant issues related to it.

Throughout the entirety of Marilynn Robinson’s “Housekeeping”, the idea of darkness, loss, and despair is of no new idea for any of the Stone family, this story surrounds the idea of change. The Granddaughters of Sylvie Stone, Ruth and Lucille, continue to be orphaned by the deaths. Exposed to changes such as being uprooted from their lives in Seattle only to be dropped off just prior to their mother’s own suicide, to the loss of their grandmother. These girls have been exposed to two drastically different parenting styles. Up until the introduction of their aunt Sylvie, their aunt has been elusive herself. In chapters one and two, you see this narrated description of the differences they have been exposed to because of deaths they have suffered.

Each moment the Ramsey’s spent in the house becomes infinite in its memory as the house has absorbed every second they existed there from all perspective imaginable (Hunter 2004, 32). The House asks “will you fade? Will you perish?” (Woolf 1927, 339) as it deteriorates, questing the memories that resonate and pulsate through its corridors as well as its mortality. Animals and plants brought life to the stagnant house once again,

William Shakespeare once wrote, “the course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare 1.1.134). This theme can be seen in both The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, where both protagonists find a forbidden “new love.” The Sealed Letter is based on a true story about a married woman who is taken to court by her husband after he discovers her affair with another man in his navy fleet. Pride and Prejudice is about a mother trying to marry off her daughters to wealthy men meanwhile the eldest daughter is unknowingly, to her family and herself, falling in love with a man with an unlikeable past. New love is often challenging because it betrays old love, it is sometimes unsupported by family and friends, and it often lies in unexpected people.

Though Atwood portrays these feelings and emotions through the child, it is possible that is could be connected to her personal past. At a young age, Atwood’s father had passed away in 1993 due to long term illness, it is believed that “Morning in the Burned House” brings back the memories of her reality at the time of coping with her father’s illness and death. This is seen through the use of setting in her poem, as her father had done research on forest entomology

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte explore social class in a number of different ways throughout their novels Pride and the Prejudice and Jane Eyre. They do this through the use of stylistic devices which in turn appeals to their different audiences. Both Jane and Charlotte are notable writers for their remarkable texts. Jane Austen is known for playing a revolutionary role in the generation of English female literature, which was counteracted by this piece- and Charlotte Bronte also developed her feminist thoughts, which have been displayed throughout her novels. By analysing social class in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre this essay will compare these two women writers’ texts and display how social class is presented

Prue Ramsay also died, because of “some illness connected with childbirth” (Woolf 108). During the war “twenty or thirty young men were blown up in France, among them Andrew Ramsay, whose death, mercifully, was instantaneous.” (Woolf 109) This was all followed by the third part of the novel “The Lighthouse”. (Woolf 119) Lily picks up the painting that she had been working on through the course of the novel. She did not finish the painting but wanted to finish it after the death of Mrs. Ramsay. Because she is now free of the dispiriting influence from Mrs. Ramsay, and the harsh influences that she had experienced from Charles Tansley. These all demonstrate the struggles against gender norms.