Margaret Mary Bell of "Galatea" Essay

She is cute, fresh, perky, and flirtatious while she is also steady, attentive, sharp, and patient. These are the characteristics of Mary Anne Bell, the girlfriend of Mark Fossie in The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. This book is a collection of short stories about the experience of United States soldiers in the Vietnam War. One thing that the men carry into Vietnam is innocence, but for the ones who survive, this is not something that they carry home. The ninth chapter of the book, titled “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,” embodies this loss of innocence through the story of Mary Anne Bell told by Rat Kiley, a medic in Tim O’Brien’s company. While at first it seems that this chapter serves as an amusing relief to the darkness and death of the war stories, this chapter about Mary Anne actually reveals her as a symbol of the arrogance the Americans feel, but quickly forget, during their service in Vietnam.

Throughout The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath explores a number of themes, particularly regarding the gender roles, and subsequently, the mental health care system for women. Her 19-year-old protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is the vessel through which Plath poses many probing questions about these topics to the reader. In the 1950s when the novel was set, women were held to a high standard: to be attractive but pure, intelligent but submissive, and to generally accept the notion of bettering oneself only in order to make life more comfortable for the significant male in her life. Esther not only deals with the typical problems faced by women in her time, but she has to experience those things through the lens of mental illness though it is up for

In this story, Margaret is angry with the fact that Viola Cullinan calls her by ‘Mary’ just for her convenience because Margaret is too long.

makes her feel so “silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a whim” while she is

When Margaret first encounters the airmen she became a bit suspicious so moved closer. It was then she saw the reality of war.

Although the people of a single nation share the same homeland, contradictory these people live in separate worlds. In the lives of the privileged and the unfortunate they are separated between their positions in the social ladder, which is defined by their financial stability. In Elizabeth Gaskell's, Mary Barton the different worlds of the wealthy is contrasted to those of the poor. Gaskell's attention to detail emphasizes the division among the two social classes, demonstrating the lavish and luxurious lives of the upper class as it is contrasted to those of the impoverish and disheartening lives of the lower class, while also developing characterization, illustrating the character's reactions to the

Shirley Ardell Mason also known as (Sybil) was quietly living in Lexington Kentucky, and had ran a art business out of her home in the 1970s. She later died on Feb 26, 1998 from breast cancer due to declining treatment. There was a movie based on Shirley Ardell Mason Life called “Sybil” which came out in 1976, her real name wasn’t used in the book or movie because she wanted to protect her identity. The movie depicted on what Shirley had gone through as child, which included physical, emotional, and severe sexual abuse of the hands of her mother who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Due to Shirley’s trauma as a child she was diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder also called dissociative personality disorder, which consisted of 16 distinctive personalities in 1973 diagnosed by her therapist Dr. Cornelia Wilbur. Shirley Ardell Mason was born on January 25, 1923 in Dodge Center, Minnesota. Her parents Walter Mason and Martha Alice Hageman raised Shirley in Dodge center where they were well liked by others.

When the first colonists landed in the territories of the new world, they encountered a people and a culture that no European before them had ever seen. As the first of the settlers attempted to survive in a truly foreign part of the world, their written accounts would soon become popular with those curious of this “new” world, and those who already lived and survived in this seemingly inhospitable environment, Native American Indian. Through these personal accounts, the Native Indian soon became cemented in the American narrative, playing an important role in much of the literature of the era. As one would expect though, the representation of the Native Americans and their relationship with European Americans varies in the written works of the people of the time, with the defining difference in these works being the motives behind the writing. These differences and similarities can be seen in two similar works from two rather different authors, John Smith, and Mary Rowlandson.

Everybody needs somebody even if they feel like they don’t. When people are going through rough times is when the people they said they didn’t need come in handy. A mother’s love is the best kind of love and growing up without it can damage a person’s view on life. The character Bell in The Twelve Tribes of Hattie serves as a lost, lonely, damaged soul who craves her mother’s love and is trying to find her way in life. Ayana Mathis shows this through the relationship Bell has with her mother, Lawrence, and Walter.

In, A Severe and Proud Dame She Was, Mary Rowlandson recounts the treatment she received as prisoner of war from Natives in the Wampanoags and Nipmuck tribes written in her perspective. In 1675, Mary Rowlandson found herself and children held captive in the hands of Massachusetts Native Americans. Mary writes with a bias that seems to paint the Native Americans as a species different than her own, but her tone suggests she tried her best to understand their tribe. The purpose of this article appears to be written with the intent of persuading the masses on account of personal experience; that is the interaction among Natives and their customs to be seen in a light of hypocritical behavior. Through the lens of the captured author, she details the experience of her captivity with merciful gestures on the Native’s behalf, despite them keeping her for ransom. Rowlandson suggests traditional Native warfare surrounds a central recurring theme of manipulating mind-games; psychological warfare.

The Book of the City of Ladies During the renaissance many different views of leadership surfaced. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, and William Shakespeare’s Richard III each present distinct views of what would make a good leader during the renaissance period. Shakespeare and Christine de Pizan’s views align most closely with Plato’s.

Feminism offers the same things to a man as it does to a woman. After reading this article I have found out that feminism effects every aspect of our lives whether it be how we learn to the pay we get for the same work. It is just not a woman thing it is a social and human issue. According to Bell, feminism is aimed to end sexist oppression of all human regardless of what their race, gender and social status are.

Gilbert and Margaret share a unique relationship throughout the novel. Margaret serves as Gilbert's most fond hallucination despite having great doubt and confusion towards Margaret as he is never able to interact with her face to face. It is not until Gilbert is presented with an opportunity to take her virginity that he shows any interested in her. It is now that Gilbert can truly feel like a man that he shows any signs of dominance. After receiving an invitation into Gilbert's cabin Margaret refuses resulting in Gilbert saying, “Oh, don’t be such a little ass. I’ve been sitting here for goodness knows how long. Come in if you’re coming. If you’re not, I want to go back to bed.”(143). Gilbert believes that for Margaret it is an honour to sleep with him and Gilbert feels that he should not have to spend any extra energy than required. This is for multiple reasons such as age. Gilbert is many years older than Margaret and with that comes a status and power. Gilbert feels as if he is higher than Margaret and too good to wait even another minute for her to enter the room. He would rather go back to bed then to spend anymore time waiting for Margaret to come and sleep with him. Another reason is the simple fact that Margaret is a female. With Margaret being a female Gilbert is given an excuse to be a jerk throughout the whole situation. This is not the first time Gilbert has demonstrated a lack of respect towards females. In a prior interaction with Margaret's mother, Gilbert is caught up in the

Kate Grenville's episodic novel Joan Makes History (1988) is also "good to think with" in term of national identity. Grenville deviates from exploring Amanda Lohrey's suggestion of a "suitable past" (1996). Instead of celebrating what Lohrey describes as "mindless nationalism" (1996, p 150), in the invented traditions of Australian society, national identity, political progression and territory, Grenville explores the key periods of Australian history through the first-person narration, presenting subjective perspectives on the cultural ‘turning points' of the past century. The episodic structure of the story allows Grenville to fully explore the diverse cultural perspectives of these events, as thus communication the message of how

"Your orgasm turned me on immensely" she said, and I asked her if she intended to masturbate again, and she replied that's although she's extremely sexually aroused, she just desires to expose her pussy. The gaze from her husband's friends was obviously arousing her