My Fair Lady Analysis

‘Marrying Ameera’ is a novel written by Rosanne Hawke and it features a teenage girl called Ameera who is facing difficulties because of her father Hassan and his Pakistani cultural beliefs. Her father being greatly influenced by the Pakistani culture and beliefs wants his daughter to follow it too without any disagreeance. This makes him the creator of Ameera’s difficulties. Whilst Ameera lives in the Australian culture, she is making Hassan worried and Hassan is making decisions for Ameera, based on his beliefs and culture. Culture is also to blame for creating Ameera’s difficulties because honour is accomplished by the following culture.

During life, birth, and death, a family is one of the few natures of life that are present throughout. Often times, the value of family is taken for granted, and people tend to disregard the importance it carries. Due to the power present in the nature of a man, often times it is challenging for women to establish a firm independence, in distinction of the common norms inaugurated in society and in family. In both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Pride and Prejudice, men are the dominant figures in all households, as they have control over their financial status, who their children marry, where they live, and create means in which the females of the family must follow. The inferiority that women face leads to an inquiry of an immense pride

In remembering her seventh-grade class in 1965, Charlotte recalls how much she and her friends loved Miss Hancock. They were "backward" because they "had not yet embraced sophistication, boredom, cruelty, drugs, alcohol, or sex." Because of their innocence and their sheltered environments, Miss Hancock "was able to survive, even flourish" as their teacher. Charlotte recalls when Miss Hancock read poetry aloud, the class "sat bewitched, transformed," and they were "drugged by some words as some children are by electronic games." This description juxtaposes the end of the short story. Miss Hancock's teaching career no longer inspired the children because they were no longer the broad-minded, influenceable children they once were. Nostalgia eats away at Miss Hancock, especially in the case of Charlotte. Once so inspired by the composure of a metaphor, “grown up” Charlotte, when asked if she still wrote metaphors responded, “oh, I dunno.” Miss Hancock once knew the mesmerizing and transformative power of words; however, as she and her students aged the words lost their power, in turn she too lost power.

Her job and dialect optimize the way she grew up, and how the expectations of her upbringing limit her future, as being a working class woman she is expected to get married, have children and then become a housewife, ‘I should've had a baby by now. Everyone expects it.’ There were no further expectations for women and certainly no need for them to have an education, ‘Denny gets dead narked if I work at home’. Rita doesn’t like the housewife stereotype and decides to rebel against it by taking the pill and starting a formal education, ‘But I mean, I don't want a baby yet. No. I wanna discover meself first.’ Rita’s family refuse to see the benefits that this could give her and this leads her father to feel sorry for Denny and to feel annoyed at Rita’s lack of commitment to her family, ‘Denny, I'm sorry for you, lad. If she was a wife of mine I'd drown her.’ When Rita thinks about quitting the course to please her family, it’s her mother’s unintentional comment at the pub, ‘There must be better songs than this,’ which drives her forward in the course, ‘And I thought, ‘All I'm doing is getting an education. Just trying to learn. And I love it. It's not easy, I get it wrong half the time, I'm laughed at half the time but I love it because it makes me feel as

1. Early in the essay, Carl T. Rowan describes Miss Bessie as five feet tall and no more than 110 pounds. While explaining how she doesn’t seem physically threatening, Rowan notes she had a “towering presence in the classroom. She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf” (411). Rowan’s resistance towards reading Beowulf led to him learning about Miss Bessie’s large brown eyes, that resembled “daggerish slits” (411). Rowan describes his former teacher in a way that resembles someone who is looking up to an authoritative figure. Whenever he comments on her appearance or personality, it he does in a very respectful context. Just by the way Rowan often talks about Miss Bessie, it’s obvious the amount of respect and admiration he has

Me Earl and the Dying Girl, a novel written by Jesse Andrews, introduces Greg Gaines, a 17 year old loner, has miraculously passed through high school under the radar and without a scratch. Greg is clumsy, awkward and he sticks to his method of not being included in any social group at school, but knowing at least one person from each group. The only person Greg spends most of his time with is Earl whom he makes “really bad” films with. Earl, who comes from a wild and broken family speaks more wisdom throughout the novel than Greg who remains cynical. Greg refuses to call Earl his friend but rather his “co-worker” in respect that Greg stands by the fact that he doesn’t have any friends because he isn’t worthy of them. In a way, Greg seems very self concerned and doesn’t really pay attention to the issues of others.

This knowledge was not only necessary for Matilda’s identity development but to the other children’s as well. “We wanted our cousins and our mothers and grandmothers to tell us stuff.” (Jones p.53) Mr Watts had also introduced the children to the book Great Expectations, which is allowing Matilda to explore new elements that will contribute to the formation of her identity. “We needed a teacher, Mr Watts became that teacher. We needed a magician to conjure up other worlds, and Mr Watts had become that magician. When we needed a saviour, Mr Watts had filled that role.” (Jones p.185) Whether from a teacher or others, education is an essential ingredient to creating an identity and is found in the relationships we have with others.

Significant experiences in the lives of individuals often form opportunities for intellectual, emotional, social and Philosophical growth. Such can be achieved when an individual is forced to transition into a new environment and adopt new ideas and values, which they are unused to. These experiences may not be foreseen by an individual and as such, an unanticipated experience may make the individual react with freedom of thought whilst moving into a upper-class in society due to varying factors such as education and self discovery. Such may be observed in The play Educating Rita, by Willy Russel where the individual Rita and The forgiveness project's interview with John Carter where, in contrast the individuals move into the world, through various forms of personal growth. Perhaps most successful in showing the ways in which a character may respond to a forced, unforeseen transition into a new world of freedom is through education.

“Willa Cather really didn't want me to read her letters. And she was hoping you would mind your own business”. This comment stuck out to me so much because it was able to open many different points of view on My Antonia . We have been briefly discussing what this letter from which this story was pulled from meant to us. With much of the newly found knowledge this book just got more interesting. In the upcoming paragraphs I will explain more of what I interpreted.

In this paper, I will explain how the article “The Lady and the Tramp (II): Feminist Welfare Politics, Poor Single Mothers, and the Challenge of Welfare Justice” by Gwendolyn Mink relates to the thematic focus of working women and the Marxist and socialist branch of feminism. In Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Tong explains that Marxist and socialist feminists understand women’s oppression as a labor issue. Women’s work is not viewed as a productive contribution to society. One of the ways Marxist and socialist feminists sought to improve women’s oppression was through the wages-for-housework campaign of the 1970s, which fought for work done in the domestic sphere to be paid and respected by society. In this same vein, Mink’s article can be viewed as a continuation of sorts of the wages-for-housework campaign. Mink suggests that poor single mothers have the right for their work to be recognized by society and supported economically like the Marxist and socialist feminist in the 1970s.

The Lady of Shallot Talks about a woman who is trapped in by four grey walls and four grey pillars. No one has seen the lady on the reaper who hears who singing echo. The Lady of Shallot weaves a beautiful web. She is unable to look down upon Camelot she has heard that a curse we befall her she is unknowing to what the curse may be. Thus, she only focuses on her web. However, as she sits there weaving a mirror hangs before her. In this mirror shows her “the shadows of the world” where she can see life out from her solitude. Nonetheless, she enjoys weaving alone, although becomes frustrated when she sees a funeral or newlyweds. An armored knight gallops on his fancy horse in the land of Shallot. As Shallot notices the knight she abandons her

This concept is expanded later when Erin requests that Margaret give the children in her class proper books and resources. Her request is met with an apathetic response that due to the nature of the children in her class, the students would have to use the inexpensive booklets they were accustomed to. In reaction to this, Erin takes on two more occupations in order to finance the expenses of correct books herself. This action shows us the high regard Erin has for proper pedagogical material and for education in general. Margaret, on the other hand, does not consider that the children may benefit from utilising proper books if given the chance and that giving them booklets can be interpreted as a degrading act.

The term epiphany is pretty common in literary terms, and most often means a moment of realization or self discovery. In a story, it’s when a character discovers an awareness or knowledge that really changes their views on life. They start to “see a new light” as some would say. In the story of “The Lady with the Dog,” there are four parts, and each of the four parts of the story involves an epiphany of some sort, one way or another.

Educating Rita is the tale of one working class women 's struggle to find an escape to a boring, repetitive life and to find new things to conquer. To acheive this she begins university on a literature course despite the discouragement from family and baby-obsessed husband Denny. The play features only two characters, Rita and Frank. Frank- a middle class, well-educated, eloquent professor and Rita, an abrupt, crude excuse for a lady with no regard for or more precise, no knowing of social nouce. Throughout the play Rita 's character must reach two social extremities before she can learn to be true to herself. Arriving in Frank 's office loud and sarcastic

With Rita studying Blake at summer school, this shows us how Frank is losing his control over Rita. She is now determined to study elsewhere not