An Unmarried Woman

After finishing An Unmarried Woman, Mazursky had begun to delve deeper into the love connections that people make on a day to day basis, in particular, with Moscow on the Hudson, he wanted to explore the viewpoint of an immigrant and explore love to a certain degree. This became one of his later films that was “ill-conceived” and seemingly “unfinished, not yet thought through”, Mazursky had made this film surprisingly well, but not to the degree that it could have been made. The main plot of the

narrative in search of their answers. Ozment asked: “What exactly had [Anna] done to cause her father, the Burgermeister, to denounce her as an “evil serpent” and the government of Hall to declare her a renegade?” and “Why did the behaviour of one woman rivet the attention and disrupt the lives of so many important people for so long a time?”. According to Ozment, answers to these questions can be found “in the internal workings of a distant society and in the inner lives of people who were both like

The characterization of Angela Vicario is a reflection of the expectations of a woman in this Columbian town, as Angela’s upbringing consisted of domestic chores. Angela’s mother, Purisma “reared” her girls “to get married”(31) by teaching them how to sew, washes, and iron. Purisma describes her daughters as “perfect”, proving that the highly regarded traits in a woman are those that involve housework. The value of a woman from this sea-port town also includes beauty as well as her ability “to suffer”

Oscar Wilde demonstrated the complex social structure of the Victorian era of society through comedy and satire in his play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Despite the play's title, neither male leading characters, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are entirely earnest. In order to secure their engagements and protect their social standings, both create long exaggerated stories and lie about their true identities. Wilde continues to display the faults of the Victorian upper class through characters

Dai Sijie, author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, recognizes the importance of foreshadowing and uses this technique in his novel. The color red is used to foreshadow through different motifs such as the “red beaked-raven,” (Sijie 135) wardrobe, and politics. Through the perspective of the book's narrator, whose name is not disclosed, the audience sees connections between red and approaching danger or troubles. The usage of the color red contributes to Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

journey. When she marries Léonce, he fails to give to her the male figure to look up to and altogether wounds her sense of self from the lack of someone to follow. This leads into the need to break away from the patriarchy to pursuit the needs of a woman. Murdock explains this lack of self approval as how women always put others first, never putting themselves first

times didn’t have the right to vote, nor the right to hold public office. As a married women, whatever belongs to you now belongs your husband. Also, as a married woman your identity was all in your husband,so you were basically owned by him. On the other hand, as an unmarried woman or a widow you gained more rights. Though, if you are unmarried you have to make a living for yourself and you can’t lean on your husband for support. You were allowed to own your own land, which was a big step up from being

5.Analyse how the writer(s) use(s) language techniques for a particular purpose in a written text or texts you have studied.    Katherine Mansfield uses an extensive range of language techniques to portray the lonely and slightly delusional spinster; Miss Brill. The story of "Miss Brill" is an extremely good example of how a writer can use different language techniques to reveal a variety of aspects of the character. The author uses characterisation through the language techniques to reveal a

townspeople who are highly interested in the goings-on in her life. Miss Emily Grierson is a round yet static protagonist who is lonely, unyielding to change, and overcome by her unfortunate life circumstances, and as such she should not be considered a mad woman as many readers might accuse her of being. Miss Emily lived her life almost throughout on display before the town of Jefferson and ultimately this resulted in her lack of socialization and human interaction. The fault in this matter lies with her

Chronicle of a Death Foretold recounts the story of Santiago Nasar, but more importantly the story of his murder. Throughout the story we learn the motive for the murder, mainly to avenge the honour that was allegedly taken from the Vicario family. While we do not get to know Santiago Nasar on a personal level, we do receive enough information to draw our own conclusions of whether or not he was innocent or guilty of taking Angela Vicario’s virginity. With the information given and enough reading