The Term ' Illness ' By Elizabeth Gaskell

Throughout our lives, many of us crave and strive to be loved and cherished. Many find purpose and happiness when they share reciprocated affection with another person. Heartbreak often occurs when what we wished for in a relationship is not returned in the same manner. Miranda in “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri felt this at the end of her relationship with a married man named Dev. He had treated her unlike anyone else before. This caused her to believe their relationship meant the same to him as it did to her, despite him being married to another women. Mr. Kapasi in “Interpreter of Maladies” found affection towards a woman who was cold towards her family, but was warm and showed great interest in him. He had started to believe she was different

Interpreter of Maladies focuses on communication as one of the universal themes throughout the book. The stories demonstrate how communication is the key to the success or failure of relationships. While there are instances when communication is effectively employed and therefore enabled the characters to build strong and intimate connections, there are examples of where communication was superficial or ineffectual, leading to unstable, limited relationships. Jhumpa Lahiri illustrates the importance of communication within relationships by allowing readers to experience the consequences and advantages that have developed as a result throughout the short

The novel subtly describes the changes in the hierarchy of society throughout the duration of the plague, symbolising ideas that are later built upon. Brook’s use of symbolism in ‘leaf fall,’ 1666, leaves large gaps which are filled through a combination of reader reception theory and a careful articulation of events in the leading up to the final conclusion. These gaps are key in inspiring the audience to be active readers, drawing on individual and personal experience for clarification. However, the result of Brooks telling the story she thinks the audience wants to hear, only achieves the opposite, making the novel an unrealistic and biased representation of women in 17th century England.

There has been a lack of interest in female convicts as a subject of historical discussion. The history of female convicts has traditionally been incorporated into the framework of male convicts with grave reference to the male convict experience. The convict women who were transported to Australia on ships Elizabeth 5th and Henry Wellesley in 1836 faced extreme difficulty in achieving freedom and reputability. It is the view of many historians that “women were incorporated into a pattern initially designed to accommodate men”. This essay will investigate the origins and characteristics of a sample of 10 female convicts arriving to Sydney in1836. The essay aims to establish an alternative impression of the female convicts that were deemed damned whores, skill-less and prostitutes. In agreement with the 4 of the 5 studied historians, I hold the view that the women were the victims of a “repressive patriarchal society” and the appellation of female convicts as ‘damned whores’ is totally inadequate. I believe they were not members of a professional criminal class; they were humans with basic human needs, doing anything they could to survive.

The novel in which Jane Eyre stars in can be seen criticizing many aspects of those times such as the role and nature of women, child negligence and social hardships for those in a lesser class. Jane Eyre’s alienation from society allows for a greater reveal of the story’s culture, values, and assumptions. It’s presented through the use of gender, class and character conflicts throughout the story. On multiple occasions, Jane is judged for the presented factors reflecting the type of society Jane lives in and what the times were like at that time.

With the authors of this journal being registered nurses and having seen the first-hand accounts of these disparities, how these cries continued to be ignored. With these female inmates coming from low-income backgrounds, being often undereducated, and having few work skills (Hatton and Fisher, 1305), many of the stresses of life added on to the societal expectations of women can easily manifest into a valid psychological defect that can hinder them for the rest of their lives. Reports also show extensive histories of “childhood and adult violence, including both physical and sexual assault” (Hatton and Fisher, 1305), adding to the stressors, and causing an even worse decline in mental health. Yet, the lack of awareness and/or contributions to a fixable solution is as prevalent as mental illness amongst these imprisoned women. The goal of these institutions should be rehabilitation of these individuals, giving them a second chance, though it has fallen from its original purpose and now has become about control and power.

I strongly feel that my previous write up was unfair and my health conditions were overlooked. One is not able to perform a task if sick and must take care of themselves first and foremost. According to the employee handbook "if you are ill take the days you need to get well. However, Hudson Partnership CMO reserves the right to request proof of illness after any declared sick absence." On Wednesday, 7/20/2016 in the evening, I began feeling numbness and tingling on my left arm as well as breaking into hives and some inflammation onto the joints. I assumed it was an allergic reaction to gluten and took Benadryl that evening. When I awoke the following morning, the hives and inflammation still remained and I was still drowsy from Benadryl. I

The seventeenth-century era forms the perfect setting that encaptivates the audience along a survival journey of a woman who is forced to face the life threatening plague of the 1600’s head on. Protagonist, Anna Frith watches the transformation of the town as they turn from religion to murderous witch-hunting and natural medicines for alternative answers. Geraldine Brooks has combined the use of ideas, representations, values and beliefs to foreground the theme of religion vs. science within the 2001 novel. The elaboration on a true events embraces (what are the ideas, representations etc) that creates a novel of drama, romance and adventure.

Sunglasses, not only worn for protection from the sun, are also used for other reasons. Some are unrecognizable in sunshades and can even hide their true selves. Ultimately, sunglasses can even hide one’s shame. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, Interpreter of Maladies, Mrs. Das, a major character, is portrayed as a distant woman that searches for romance in all the wrong places. Throughout the story, Mrs. Das rarely removes her sunglasses. The symbol of Mrs. Das’s sunglasses represents the detachment from her own family, the potential bond breaking secrets she hides from them, and the inevitable guilt she feels.

Symbolism is an important factor in many stories. In “Interpreter of Maladies”, the author, Jhumpa Lahiri, uses the symbol to represent her idea. In the story, the main character, Mr. Kapasi, is an Indian tour guide who accompanies the Das family on their way to see the Sun Temple at Konarak. Mr. Kapasi is an intelligent and knowledgeable man. He was once fluent in many languages but now speaks only English. He wanted to be a diplomat once but now he works as an interpreter in a doctor’s office. Mr. and Mrs. Das are young couple with three kids. Mr. Kapasi feels that they are more likely to be brother and sister to the kids than parents. The story’s central conflict focuses on the marriage situation because both the protagonist, Mr.

The seen environment present when reading The Death of Ivan Ilych story is the way Ivan’s family lived and the way Ivan treated everyone with coldness. The unseen was depicted by the atmosphere present in Ivan’s’ room, making friends and family members uncomfortable to be there. The storied environment is when Ivan realizes that his life has been a mistake and he converts religiously, he finds God and Ivan repents from all his sins, it is not until then that he found peace in his mind.

Illness is extremely common in literature there will be at least one character that is sick in almost every single novel and Foster sets out to say that there is always a deeper meaning than just being sick. He also mentions that whenever an author creates an ill character the disease is carefully chosen so that it is appropriate for a character’s life. Overall Foster’s central idea in this chapter is that when a character is suffering from an illness or a disease there is always a specific reason, possibly symbolic, that the character is suffering from that disease and not another and the understanding of this concept is important in understanding literary works.

“Susan Sontag has described the heyday of a “nihilistic and sentimental” nineteenth-​century logic that found appeal in female suffering: “Sadness made one ‘interesting.’ It was a mark of refinement, of sensibility, to be sad. That is, to be powerless.” This appeal mapped largely onto illness: “Sadness and tuberculosis became synonymous,” she writes, and both were coveted. Sadness was interesting and sickness was its handmaiden, providing not only cause but also symptoms. “The melancholy character was a superior one: sensitive, creative, a being apart,” she writes. Sickness was “a becoming frailty … symbolized an appealing vulnerability, a superior sensitivity, [and] became more and more the ideal look for women.”” (Jamison,

In Graham’s Magazine, another anonymous reviewer suggested that Rochester’s character was dangerous and immoral, saying, “No woman who had ever truly loved could have mistaken so completely the Rochester type, or could have made her heroine love a man of proud, selfish, ungovernable appetites, which no sophistry can lift out of lust.” Thus, he intimated that any author who would contrive to have her heroine fall in love with such a total rake would be immoral herself and unknowing of what true love is. He went one step further to say, “We accordingly think that if the innocent young ladies of our land lay a premium on profligacy, by marrying dissolute rakes for the honor of reforming them, à la Jane Eyre, their benevolence will be of questionable utility to the world.” In this, he suggested that the depiction of Jane and Rochester’s relationship would cause young women of the time to emulate Jane’s “romantic wickedness.”

“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don 't understand me.” It is precisely this which Gaskell, as a social reform writer, wishes to change about Society in Victorian England. The very purpose of Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is to gauge an understanding between classes and equally to heighten the sympathy felt among those composing the middle and upper classes for those who fell within the realms of a lower social status. Gaskell was a strong believer in the idea that social issues such as class division were a result of misunderstanding and lack of communication, and so she nobly attempts to go about bridging this gap and providing the platform to resolve this with her fiction. This close reading of a passage in which John Barton, having experienced the loss of a wife and son, and since had multiple failings in his attempt to improve workers’ rights, turns to opium to lessen his suffering, will look to focus on Gaskell’s methods and means, and what she is able to convey about the working class struggle through her writing.