Mr. Villars 's Letter For Evelina

From the very first part of the novel readers are presented with the general atmosphere in England during the late eighteenth century. Women are discriminated and men come to inherit property belonging to their tutors. Men were typically provided with inheritances coming from their mothers and fathers alike. Conditions involving Elinor and Marianne were even more critical, as even though their brother inherited a significant fortune from his mother and his wife was expecting an inheritance from her mother, the two sisters depended on Norland Park. The moment when their father died was particularly problematic for them, as they became unwanted guests in the place that they previously considered home. The two sisters are practically influenced in taking

some of the hatred he had been holding onto. While it was wonderful for Beah to find such a connection, one has to wonder what Ester’s motivation was. Beah clearly needed someone to help with the loneliness

In portraying the dichotomy of virtue between Boyer and Sanford, Foster means to convey the moral sense in courting a chaste man like Boyer, and the great error in pursuing a libertine like Sanford. It is Foster’s intent to show Eliza’s carefree indecision as a hindrance to her true happiness and ultimately as the reason for losing Boyer. Conversely, Peter Sanford acts as a moral foil to the virtue of Reverend Boyer; he is charming, but manipulative, deceptive, and rakish. It is the author’s intent to portray Major Sanford as the type of man to which women of inconsistent virtue were likely to be drawn. Eliza is shown as not caring about Sanford’s past indiscretions (and ultimately suffering for it), saying “a reformed rake makes the best husband” (Foster, p.49). The social convention of the day was for women to marry quickly and smartly; it is Foster’s intent to illustrate how a woman active in society life and frivolous in her affairs will ultimately end up being a woman with no

Her whole life the Marquesa “lived alone and she thought alone” (Wilder 14). The Marquesa grew up without love and happiness in her childhood. When she married “a supercilious and ruined nobleman” (Wilder 14) she bore a daughter who she “fastened upon her idolatrous love” (Wilder 14). She chose to bestow upon her daughter all of the love that she didn’t receive. Her daughter Clara was like her father in many ways and regarded her mother “with astonishment and repulsion” (Wilder 14). When time of marriage came she “deliberately chose the one that required her removal to Spain” (Wilder 14). The Marquesa’s whole existence “lay in the burning center of her mind”(Wilder 15) and revolved around writing her daughter letters after she moved to Spain. She chose to become more secluded and to devote her time trying to connect to her daughter who would never return her

In Gloria Anzaldua’s letter “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” she delivers her message of being a third world woman writer and how there is a constant struggle between conforming to gain a voice in the world of writing and staying true to your culture. She pulls pieces from her own life experiences and works from other looked over women writers of color to make her point and connect to her audience letting them know she is part of their plight to be heard. In my rewrite of the essay “A Letter in “tongues”” I changed the delivery from a letter to a free verse poem condense Anzaldua 's message from Writing Women of color to just discriminated women writers just in general. They both focused use of pathos and ethos but mine leans more towards ethos pointing out that the dominant ideology of english writing being the only way to be heard as a writer that it is denying the voice of writing women of color and that is ethically wrong not what has happened to herself to invoke feeling.

We can find in this piece of literature work that Marianne Dashwood is guided by too much passion and acts inappropriately, while her sister, Elinor reacts with too much prudence. Eventually, both sisters are rewarded with marriage once they learn how to regulate the appropriate amount of emotional response and gain knowledge through experience. Moreover, we can observer that both concepts are necessary in order to act in a correct way. The author tries to show the readers how important sense is in our lives. Not only can we act through our reason but also we need to take into account our

In the play “Gem of the Ocean” Aunt Ester is the one character that is comfortable with how much freedom she has. Even though she has had an upsetting and hard past, at this point in her life she has

Aunt Ester takes on many roles in Wilson’s paly, but her role as a mother figure to the entire town is one of the biggest. Everyone in town knows to go to Aunt Ester when they are in trouble or need advice. In “Gem of the Ocean” Citizen Barlow is told to “Go see Aunt Ester” with the

Trapped in a world where mental anguish imprisons her, Eveline is another of James Joyce's paralyzed souls. Her life is full of ups and downs. Every day she struggles with burdens that she should not have to bear and when the opportunity comes for her to get away from this retched life, she denies herself the chance. The reasons why I feel Eveline did not leave for Buenos Aires with Frank is because she was obligated to her family, she was afraid of the unknown and she did not know how to receive love.

Elizabeth’s father is more sensible than her mother and is described as ‘so odd a mixture of quick arts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice’ . Her mother however is not so difficult to work out, she is ‘a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper’ , and the business of her life is to get her daughters married3. Charlotte’s mother, Lady Lucas, is not much different from Mrs. Bennet. She described as being ‘a very good kind of woman4’, and like Mrs. Bennet she was also set on getting her daughters married . Charlotte’s father is Sir William Lucas, and he is a very pleasant man known for his civil manners .

He does not want a worldly man such as Frank having any influence on his daughter. He believes that if Eveline did become serious with Frank he, as her father, would become a lower priority in Eveline's life. She would most certainly leave the house and quite possibly move far away, which would be yet another change the old man would have to endure.

Eveline’s idea of escaping the potential abuse from her father and starting a new life is the driving force of running away with Frank. Eveline cannot end up like her mother, who was rejected by the town people, she feels her only option is to escape with Frank. In the story, Eveline’s sudden impulse drives her to admit that Frank would save her if she goes with him east across seas. Her life would be so much better and complete, but what would her father think? Her father would reject her for trying to find her own happiness the same way her father has rejected Frank and forbidden her from seeing him.

Eveline was a female that was brought up in a poor area of Dublin, Ireland. As with all underprivileged areas around the world things were harder. There was a higher importance placed on morals and values. Eveline’s job was to care for her father and the house after her mother passed. A promise she made to her mother on her deathbed, and promises are to be kept. She also had two children that she oversaw caring for. Her responsibilities were routine, comfortable, and safe. There is nothing that the human race likes more than routine. There is a comfort that comes with knowing how things are going to go and

Charlotte is a neighbour and friend of Elizabeth, who is older and unmarried at the beginning of the story. She is simple in her values and does not question a women's role in society. Charlotte's main achievement in the story occurred when she was able to secure a proposal of marriage from Mr. Collins after he had been rejected by Elizabeth, who asked why she accepted. Charlotte explained "I am not a romantic you know. I never was. I only ask for a comfortable home; considering Mr Collins's character, connections, situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is fair, as most people can boast on entering a marriage state" By this Charlotte is questioning Elizabeth's values, believing she is over her head in her ideas. She is simply happy with what she has been dealt

Elizabeth’s snobbish pride hinders her from understanding her friend Charlotte Lucas’s best interests in regard to her desire to marry Mr. Collins. Elizabeth “prides herself on being a perceptive “studier of character,” as Mr. Bingley calls her, but how well does she really know her very good friend Charlotte…” when she “responds with amazement and horror” upon hearing that Charlotte wants to marry a man who is “dull”, “pompous” and “physically unattractive”. Elizabeth’s excessive pride blinds her from recognizing that Charlotte is “not much interested in men and very much interested in marriage” (Moler, 26). Elizabeth could have ruined the prospects of Charlotte’s marriage because of her self-importance in the way she