Radcliffe Line

of the Radcliffe Line. The Radcliffe Line was a border drawn by Sir Cyril Radcliffe of Great Britain that separated India into two dominions based on religious majority, natural boundaries, communications, watercourses, irrigation systems, and other undefined factors. Historians generally describe the horrendous acts done throughout Partition as in the interest of political indifferences and neglect the various factors that attributed to the chaos throughout Partition. The Radcliffe line is one of

the unveiling of a ‘corpse’. In this close analysis I will focus on the ways in which Radcliffe uses literary devices in order to mislead the reader and build suspense. Firstly, I will look at the narrative before moving on to the language and, finally, addressing structure. The first line of the passage instantly places Emily in the role of innocent victim as she is described as being “surprised and

regarded as a model of Female Gothic literature. Furthermore, four Northanger novels are compared to this model analysis to show whether it is possible to label them as copies of Radcliffe. The analysis focuses on several elements: setting, nature, supernatural, suspense and characters. 2.1 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe published The Mysteries of Udolpho in 1794. Emily St. Aubert, a young girl from formerly wealthy family, loses her mother and accompanies her father on a trip around France.

Northanger Abbey is one of Austen’s move famous books. The novel is known for its unusual heroine, Catherine Morland, and her infatuation with the novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, and while Jane Austen’s version does contain many of the important features that a gothic novel should contain, it does seem to take a few jabs by mocking the genre in general. Austen uses certain elements present in Gothic novels and satirizes them. In this particular novel she mocks the notion that people

I was able to formulate a time line using the textbook and had Helen been born fifty years earlier then she was, she wouldn't have benefited from the revolutionary techniques that taught her reading (several languages), writing, and eventually to speak. The Braille Literary code, the

of the entire type of the novel. In opposition to Neoclassicism which adulated realism, Gothicism did not trail the principles of etiquette, did not matter instructive highlights but rather put highlight on secret, ponder and sublimity. Along these lines, Gothic fiction increased tremendous prevalence among the users. In any case, after numerous books of the kind being distributed, they ended up being regular too - every one of the stories connected a similar arrangement of highlights for the setting

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” - Helen Keller On June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama a baby was born Helen Keller. Helen was born with her senses and could see and started speaking when she was just six months old. Then, her life started going downhill, 19 months into Helen’s life she became blind and deaf from an illness called scarlet fever. Most of her childhood was very rough for her because she couldn’t play with the other kids and couldn’t

Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy little girl, but she became very ill when she was just eighteen months old and was struck blind and deaf. When she about six Helen got a teacher, Annie Sullivan, who taught her how to read, write and communicate with people. She was able to have many works published and worked as a lecturer to educate people about others with disabilities. Helen Keller despite her condition was able to do great things in her life and to help benefit herself and the lives of other

Anti-Bullying as a Social Movement In 1999, two teenage boys entered their high school and methodically shot fellow students and a teacher. Then the pair committed suicide in the school library. They had killed 13 people and injured 23 others. (CNN Library) The country was shaken by this violence and horrible demonstration of hatred. This traumatic event was spurred by bullying, and this act the nation to react to the bullying crisis in America. Bullying has been present through time. It results

Below is a passage from I.2 of Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho concerning the concept of "precepts" in relation to the characters of St. Aubert and his daughter Emily: I have attempted to teach you from your earliest youth, the duty of self- command […] not only as it preserves us from the various and dangerous temptations that call us from rectitude and virtue, but as it limits the indulgences which are termed virtuous, yet which, extended beyond a certain boundary are vicious…All excess