Studland Essays

The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew. The poet presents the cruel society through the structure of the ballad. This is depicted in the end stopped lines like ‘the shut of a winter’s day.’ The lack of enjambment crystallises the trapped situation the woman faces in this oppressive society. The verb ‘shut’ and noun ‘winter’ connotes unwelcoming and a gloomy change in the young woman’s behavior. This is farther reinforced in ‘one night, in the fall, she runned away.’ This denotes her longing to run away

Jane Eyre is a strong and individualist character. As well as Rochester, Jane carries some traits of a Byronic hero. Apart from Fanny who bears her unhappy childhood with suppleness and suffers silently, Jane rebels and defies and is ‘excluded from the Reed family group in the drawing room, because she is not a ‘contented, happy little child’ – excluded, that is, from ‘normal’ society […]’ While growing up in Lowood, Jane opposes to the injustice and authority and also doubts Christian faith and

Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery, translated by Dick Ringler, utilized the dark and the ominous to foreshadow or to portray the impending savagery of mankind. Darkness could be defined either by the absence of light or by the lack of intellectual enlightenment. The monstrous creatures are shrouded within the darkness or associate with the ominous. Throughout Beowulf the theme of violence and darkness are intertwined, which is manifest by correlating the darkness with the unknown through

Sometimes not taking a stand can be considered taking a stand. For instance Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who appeased Adolf Hitler by giving into all of Hitler’s demands. Hitler felt the treaty of Versailles was too harsh and began demanding more land and doing what he could to trifle over the restrictions given to Germany at the end of World War. this enabled Hitler to start World War ll. At the end of World War 1 Germany was stripped of their military. Germany was not aloud