Louisa May Alcott

1a. In the excerpt, “Death of a Soldier” from Louisa May Alcott’s 1863 novel, “Hospital Sketches” she chronicles the tragic death of a soldier, John. Throughout the piece, she describes her close relationship with John and his relationship to his family and fellow soldiers. Alcott explains how John passes and the effect his death had on not just her, but everyone around him, and in doing so, Alcott demonstrates the profound effects of war on soldiers and those around them. 1b. Hitchens pays respect

childhood and eventually her writing. Every follower defined transcendentalism in their own way, such as idealism, individualism, a movement, a philosophy, or even a religion at times. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was a founder of the movement that was transcendentalism. “Bronson Alcott was a follower of Transcendentalism, a philosophical movement popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Transcendentalism proposed that everyone had access to the divine spirit, but this access was easily corrupted

were the societal norm and where the expectation of a group. In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, gender stereotypes are represented by both male and females characters alike. The women in the novels care for their children and families children, the men receive higher educations, the girls learn their future domestic tasks and are given husbands The novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott takes place in the march’s home in New England with their four

for an hour, None lost, one only gone..." (365-366). Jo wrote these lines in a poem, after Beth died. This is the most significant struggle for Jo. Jo and Beth are the two middle sisters in the classic novel, Little Women (1869) written by Louisa May Alcott. This is a classic novel about an American family of four daughters, a father who is off at war and a mother who works for the food. Jo and Beth are best friends and Jo sets the example for Beth. Beth first gets sick when Mother goes off

Little Women by Louisa Alcott Little Women can be viewed as a classic book or girl’s book. It was written after the Civil War after the author received endless demand from the young female readers. Initially they were published as two books where Chapters 1 to 23 where issues back in 1868 under Little Women title, however, after becoming a highly sensational success, Chapters 24 to 47 were published in 1869 under the title Good Wives Louisa (1869). Louisa May Alcott’s personal life is demonstrated

Little Women and the Civil War. The Civil War served as much more than the fight for civil economies and a struggle to end slavery. What lied in the foreground of the civil war are images of unions and confederate soldiers rummaging through forest of the American South and thoughts of slaves gaining their long sought freedom. However most people do not consider the lingering backdrop of the war. That would be the effects the war would have on the changing gender roles. The new gender roles formed

Not only do her thoughts betray her independent spirit, but so too do her actions and words. Her relationship with Mr. Rochester is heavily defined by her brash actions and opinionated answers. Mr. Rochester, a typical Victorian male, exudes superiority even when he professes his love to Jane, sending out subtle hints about how she should act and live while planning the wedding. In many of the conversations between Mr. Rochester and Jane, Jane opens up more than is socially acceptable, proving herself

March is a valuable novel written by Geraldine Brooks in 2005, which won the Pulitzer in 2006. The author retells the story of the absent father, Mr. March, in the novel Little Women, written by Louisa May Alcott. March is described like a sensitive man who leaves his family to join to the war as a chaplain, facing atrocities which he must survive. Geraldine Brooks also introduces a new character fiction created from her own imagination, not found in Little Women, who Mr. March haves some love encounters

nor a follower. Dickinson never tied herself to a specific school of thought or philosophy, she was simply herself” (American Transcendentalism Web, 2011). Without realizing it, Dickinson too was a large part of the transcendental movement. Louisa May Alcott, was a transcendentalist as well, but unapologetically. Her father was a leading voice and teacher of the movement; therefore, the principles were engrained in her very makeup. The idea that, "reality exists only in the spirit world, and that

A FEMINIST STUDY OF LOUSIA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Little Women and the Feminist Imagination 3 Chapter 2 Jo March: A Woman Ahead of her Times 10 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 19 Introduction "If the first woman God ever made was strong