Rose Tremain

An Ideal Renaissance Woman From 1330-1550, the Renaissance was a period emphasising a revival in the interest of art, music, and literature. As a result, being culturally advanced was the goal for many individuals. Machiavelli, Dante, and Chaucer are a few of the men who exhibited these values and defined literature of the time. Although advancement was a goal of the era, women were seen as subservient to men, excluding them from education and politics. Christine de Pizan; however, brought awareness

Outside of sex, learned women could manipulate powerful men via their intellectual abilities, reflecting the increased amount of knowledge they could potentially gain. Shahrazad takes on this role in A Thousand and One Nights, a frame narrative translated from Arabic into a Syrian manuscript in the fourteenth century centering on King Shahrayar’s disillusionment with women. After seeing his wife, his brother’s wife, and a demon’s wife all have affairs, he decides to take a bride every night and kill

instead they repeatedly drew inspiration from perpetuated stereotypes that further discredited the morality of women. These stereotypes were not only found in paintings but in literature as well. In Jean de Meun’s popular tale, Romance of the Rose, an older woman speaks on her advice for younger women. In this advice, we can see the

“Restoration”: A Film Critique Restoration is a film directed by Michael Hoffman and adapted from the Rose Tremain novel of the same title. The peculiar English tale takes place in the seventeenth century, when King Charles II took control of the country, replacing Oliver Cromwell. Along with King Charles’s reign came the period of Restoration known for its return to man and hedonists lifestyles, which replaced Cromwell’s strict Puritan rule. The film beings with a fictional aspiring doctor,

”John Jin” by Rose Tremain Essay People always intend to avoid thinking about mortality. Immortality is impossible. We know that. But we always dream about that there is a tiny possibility that something will last forever. It could be a relationship, or a family. The truth is that everything has an end. The things that we care about have to end at some point. Something we know but always seem to come as a surprise. This is true in the case of Susan in the short story “John Jin”. In the short

updated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions: