Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a Bildungsroman, a coming of age story that focuses on the psychological development of the protagonist, Catherine Morland. This essay will analyse the language and narrative techniques of the extract, and discuss how this excerpt suggests vicissitudes in Catherine’s personal perspectives and relationships. In addition, it will discuss the ‘domestic gothic’ and abuse ubiquitous in ordinary situations. Furthermore, it will argue how Austen’s rhetorical techniques
This found in the totalitarian and regimes in Haiti, as well as, the lives in America. The betrayal of women by men could be part of Danticta’s own personal life experience bleeding into her novel. Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to America at age twelve, to settle in New York. The author being a female from Haiti is important to understand why she uses female protagonists in her novel that suffer
weeks readings are related to The Southern Renaissance, Ethnic Writings, The Native American Renaissance, Protest and Counterculture Poetry, Confessional Poets, Latina/Latino Poetry, and Asian American Poetry. Upon reflecting ten questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s
helps people to remember the events and to relate the relationships and lessons within the story to real life (Carter-Black, 2007:33). In this essay I uses Yael Farber’s play, Molora, as a reference example to explain three common elements found