Elaine Showalter Essays

Introduction Many characteristics have been mentioned to clearly view the Romantic ideology, not to mention, the Romantic poets as well. Even though many critics have failed to precisely define “Romanticism,” they all came to a conclusion from all the Romantic poets’ themes in their poems which is that they all celebrate nature, whether by using their sense of nostalgia; or using vision of dreams. Even their opposition against political movements and monarchies was linked to nature from their way

Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” is the tragic tale of a man "who, against the advice of an old timer, ventures out into the harsh environment if the Yukon with only the company of a wolf-like dog. Due to his failure to heed the Old Timer's advice, the man is unprepared for the below freezing temperatures and becomes a victim of the harsh terrain. Towards the beginning of his journey, the man gets his feet wet as he falls through the ice into the water of a spring. The extremely low

react differently to the situation. When dealing with difficult situations a person can lose control or zone out or into parts of their lives. Elaine, the protagonist 's wife, in the beginning, after he had come home lost all control and cleaned the floor as if her life depended on it distracting her from the real plague on her house, her husband 's cancer. Elaine had always had the “cleanest floors in the neighborhood for the past twenty-two years. Now there [were] black spots scattered in pairs all

My participation in a community event included cocktails and canvas at the Red Room Crested Butte from 6-8pm. Becky is a professional artist who enjoys teaching techniques of painting on canvas. She hosts approximately five classes during a season and charges roughly $35 per session. The cost per session includes one cocktail of choice, different sized brushes, medium canvas, paint, and an easel. There were roughly twelve adults consisting of three men and nine women. First, we began by sketching

“I got a good deal, but something went terribly wrong afterwards”. This real-world negotiation started on 3/16/2017. I was searching for a short-term housing and was planning to move in on 4/1/2017. I got a good offer from a GWU student, Iris, and hoped for a better offer from someone else. At the same day, I received a request from another GWU student, Yue, that may provide me a better housing solution. Therefore, I prepared a pre-negotiation planning document for this negotiation. I noticed that

Have you ever been to a beach in Mexico?I have and the one that I went to was big and beautiful.It was a bright sunny morning and I was just waking up in our hotel.I realized today was our first day in Mexico.The rest of us were waking up and getting ready to eat our breakfast and start the day. When we were done eating our breakfast and we went to go walk on the sandy beach.When my family and I were down on the beach we started to collect sea shells.My grandpa and grandma were helping

In the short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of a Parrot” written by Robert Butler, the narrator a parrot, tells of his two life stories. He informs us of his life before and after reincarnation. Robert Butler was born in Granite City, Illinois. Throughout his life he has served a tour in Vietnam and has also obtained degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. With these degrees he has become a successful writer and won awards for his work. The freedom and the restrictions

Snowboarding, like any other sport, one must be thinking at all times, analyzing situations, making split decisions, and making quick calculations. Before my trip, I had only flown on an airplane once, never by myself, I have never seen a mountain so big, and I had zero experience snowboarding. If I only knew then what I know now, I would have entered this new experience with more confidence in myself. Before my trip to Utah, I had only flown on an airplane once before, and now I was going to fly

In Sophocles’ Antigone, Antigone had disobeyed specific laws given by King Creon, in order to defend the honor of her late brother, Polynices. However, Antigone is in no way considered to be lawless. Antigone believes that violence is not the answer, and therefore instead non-violent direct action should take place. However, Antigone’s approach of civil disobedience happened to be an anarchic and dramatic form of civil disobedience. Antigone decided to act on her beliefs by giving Polynices a proper

We all know what it feels like walking through campus with the feeling of being stalked by people silently watching, judging and analyzing. People judge based on the clothes one wears, the shoes he or she wears and even the way one walks and talks. Humans have a natural instinct to place others in a group based on superficial characteristics without knowing them. The film scene from the movie Babe in which I have chosen to analyze suggests that stereotypes or predetermined notions about other individuals

reasoning, forming Ophelia into much more well-rounded character than that of which we see in the text. As Showalter states in her essay, Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism, “there is no ‘true’ Ophelia […] but perhaps only a Cubist Ophelia of multiple perspectives, more than the sum of all her parts,” (Showalter 297). If you agree with Showalter, you’ll believe that in order for one to fully understand Ophelia’s

There is more to Zora Neale Hurston than just her greatness such as how she got to be where she was. Though there are claims she wasn’t as great as others but she is still was one of a kind. Zora Neale Hurston’s life from beginning to end was a die hard experience. During the early stages of Zora Neale Hurston’s life she lived as a daughter without a caring mom. Since the age of nine her and her mom had a special connection but after her mom died, “Zora wasn’t interested in life at home and at the

It is often thought that the most accurate reference for the ideology of a time period lies in the literature produced at the time, rather than the factual history. However, Elaine Showalter argues that the most significant tell of an era’s views on mental illness and women is the time’s most famous adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, or, more specifically, the representation of the character Ophelia in the performance. The play itself revolves around Hamlet, who in his own internal struggle

females in Hamlet are condemned by many shakespearian critics for failing to be strong characters. However, in Elaine Showalter’s article, “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism”, she describes Ophelia, Hamlet’s love interest, as a character who is more than what modern culture depicts her as. She argues that Ophelia is symbolistic

by domineering male figures. Part of Hamlet revolved around a frail, timid, feminine figure named Ophelia and their relationship together. Elaine Showalter notes that Ophelia only appears in five out of the twenty scenes in the play, in which that itself reflects male dominance of the Elizabethan era; in other scenes she is merely added as a flashback (Showalter 221). Despite her relative absence in the majority of the play, however, Ophelia still gets attention from readers and play goers. But why

phase is the phase of self discovery. “Woman turns to the experience of females as a source autonomous art, extending the feminist analysis of culture to the forms and techniques of literature.”(139) Showalter supports feminist criticism in the female phase. In Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness, Showalter asserts that the, “gynocritic model constructs the framework to analyze the female experiences in the literature by woman rather by male authors.” (131) Gynocriticism helps to learn “something solid

Stowe seems to only want to focus on the maternal sensibility a woman can possess, which makes women seem as if their nurturing instincts cause them to lack logic and rationality. In Marth L Henning’s Beyond Understanding: Appeals to the Imagination, Passions, and Will in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Woman's Fiction, she claims that Stowe too often appeals to “the imagination and passion through the vehicle of sympathy,” which in turn makes the female characters seem almost one-dimensional (Henning

In reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it seems unfathomable in today’s world of science and logical reasoning, that such mass hysteria could break out. While we don’t blame supernatural witches any longer for strange behaviors, there are still many cases in recent history that can be paralleled to the Salem witch trials. One example is a 2012 case of over a dozen high schoolers in Le Roy, New York who developed uncontrollable tics with no obvious cause. When I chose to read The New York Times

Focusing on Female Gothic tradition, this work intends to explore the reasons for its revival in the closing decades of the twentieth-century. The Female Gothic’s continuous steam and its ebullient effervescence are assigned to the persistent and consistent act of revising and rewriting, ensuring thus its mutability and adaptability. I will argue that the Gothic is “an instrumental genre, reemerging cyclically, at periods of cultural stress, to negotiate the anxieties that accompany social and epistemological

Wikipedia, for example, this book is described as Non-Fiction book, although it contains more fiction than anything else. Catherine Lavender, a professor at university of Staten Island in New York, described AROO as an extended essay. Others, as Elaine Showalter, believed that this book has totally different form from fiction, she admitted "In her fiction, but especially in A Room of One 's Own,