Charlotte Temple is considered to be the second American novel and the first popular novel. It was written in an ornate style and considered to be “heavily didactic, claimed to be based on truth, and followed what was to become a standard seduction plot. But these characteristics did not account for the book's enormous popularity”. Ornate style is considered to be “made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex pattern”. A simple style of writing will make the audience understand easily what the author is trying to teach. The style of writing can complicate the pedagogy for some people while others might find it that it facilitate the pedagogy. But in Charlotte Temple’s case, the form of the novel complicates the pedagogical import due to the ornate style of writing. The form complicates what the author is trying to teach the audience, but that did not affect the novel to still become extremely popular in all American novels.
In Charlotte Temple we can see how the characters express anxiety and its capacity to instill virtue. Charlotte Temple is a drama intended to teach young women how to be honorable and to avoid falling in love with disreputable people. The concept of virtue in colonial America has many aspects of values. Society’s most virtuous women were seen as sensitive, pure and innocent. In Charlotte Temple we see an innocent girl’s being destroyed by a man. Charlotte is a young British girl who falls in love with a British officer and follows him to America. Basically, she becomes pregnant with his child, they don't marry, and she dies. The narrator voices her opinion constantly, although this is written in the third person, and this intrusion is actually entertaining. Charlotte falls into the seduction of Montrav...
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...tly felt different kind of emotions. At times I was angry to see how easy Charlotte was tempted and seduced by Montreville. She probably might have not had enough experience which made her make bad choices, at the end of the book I felt bad for her. The lesson from this book is that young women shouldn't be so easily convinced by men until they are sure that he is right one for them. Both the main characters were acting on their impulses and look where both of them ended up. Charlotte was left all alone to take care of herself, with no family and friends, she was ill and to society’s eyes she has lost her virtue. I found Charlotte Temple to be a very engaging story despite the difficulty of the way it was written. The character of Charlotte Temple was quickly developed, giving me a real sense of empathy to her fate. With every downfall, I felt her pain and remorse.
In conclusion, the brilliant novel “How To Read Literature Like A Professor” by Thomas C. Foster is a fantastic novel that helps grasp the basic ideas and structure that makes up a work of literature. Foster’s laid-back attitude made a major contribution to the great tone of the novel, and made it easier to understand. Many connections were included in the novel, along with some great quotes. After reading this novel, I have a better idea of what to look for when reading a novel.
When looking into works of literature, some stories seem to be similar to others. They can have a similar setting, point of view, theme, or sense of language and style. However, all of these points could be very different as well and could cover different theme or style. Flannery O’Conner’s “Good Country People” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” have some contrasting elements, such as their points of view and use of symbolism, but their similarities in the underlying theme, language, and the setting of these stories reveal how these two stories are impacted by education on both the individual and their family.
William Faulkner and Charlotte Gilman are two well known writers for intriguing novels of the 1800’s. Their two eccentric pieces, "A Rose for Emily" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are equally alluring. These authors and their works have been well recognized, but also critized. The criticism focuses on the society that is portrayed in these novels. The modern readers of today’s society are resentful to this dramatic society. These two novels are full of tradition, rebellion and the oppression over women’s rights. Both of these novels share the misery of the culture, but there is some distinction between the two. "A Rose for Emily" is a social commentary while "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an informative novel about the writer herself. The authors outlook focus on the gloomy structure in society during that time frame and therefore, create down hearted, reckless characters that offer stimulation for women of all generations.
Francine Prose is a mother, a writer, a book reviewer, and most importantly, a massive critic of the type of literature that is demanded of children to read in American high schools. In a very defensive essay, Prose discusses a variety of books that she believes are a wast of actual literature. She uses a variety of rhetoric to attract the reader’s attention, and uses it to also persuade her readers to see things the way she does. Throughout the essay it becomes more apparent that the author makes multiple inferences of what she believes will happen to the generations that will entire a corrupt educational system. In the essay that Prose writes, she explains that the lack of eloquent literature is causing a demise to the education of teenagers
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It is safe to say that the box next to the “boring, monotone, never-ending lecture” has been checked off more than once. Without the use of rhetorical strategies, the world would be left with nothing but boring, uniform literature. This would leave readers feeling the same way one does after a bad lecture. Rhetorical devices not only open one’s imagination but also allows a reader to dig deep into a piece and come out with a better understanding of the author’s intentions. Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Wife’s Story” is about a family that is going through a tough spot. However, though diction, imagery, pathos, and foreshadowing Guin reveals a deep truth about this family that the reader does not see coming.
...d Rochester. All of whom who showed some sort of established power and control over her. One way or the other, they tried to overpower and take complete dominance over her, however, she never allowed such an act to take place. She followed her heart and the faith she had in God. She strived to maintain a position in life, regards the debts of others. Jane followed her own path and stood up for justice and women equality. Therefore, the struggles in Charlotte's life, foreshadowed strengths in her novel to depict the moral values and principles of all women during the Victorian Era and after. As Charlotte's novel served as a model and opened up the eyes of many. The novel had become a turning point, as her true and genuine piece of literature, created a legacy for the women and their right to be independent and fairly equal to the men of society.
In the story Charlotte Temple, sentimentality is practiced amongst those characters that are benevolent; benevolent meaning a person that expresses good will, generosity, and that has the desire to help others in other words charitable. So how could this possibly be something negative or an act of weakness? The answer lies in that it’s not a bad thing and in the story the reader comes across many examples of both males and females being sentimental towards others. For instance, Mr. Temple, who is Charlotte’s father, is indeed a person that has a good heart and he is described as a sentimental or benevolent person because of the way he treats others in the sense that: “he had a heart open to every generous feeling of humanity, and a hand ready to dispense to those who wanted part of the blessings he enjoyed himself” [6]. What this means is that, not only is Mr. Temple a man, but he is also capable of feeling others pain like if it were his own and because of him being this way, he is indeed a moral person because he cares about others and does not think only about himself. A perfect example of him being benevolent or sentimental is when he helps Mr. Eldridge (who ends up being Charlotte’s grandfather); pay his debt without expecting anything in return.
Delia is at first introduced as a woman that has it all; a beautiful, rich, well established mother of two. She goes about her life accepting her place in the society of old New York. To me she was just another housewife that missed out on love. Because of this in my first reading I was drawn into the story of Charlotte Lovell. Charlotte Lovell's is a sad story. Wharton could not ...
Many women who were part of the middle classes were often not sent to school and so didn’t usually learn a skill that they could use to make a living. Consequently, as they were women and so were often not left much, if any, inheritance when their parents died, women found that they must. marry in order to have money and to keep their place in society. Charlotte takes advantage of her situation to marry purely for money. and not for love, this is what many women do and what society.
Charlotte chose a woman to flaunt feminism but in a grotesque demeanor. She has the woman turning away from the light of the day and living in the dark. The woman would rather sleep through the meaningless day because nothing shifts in the wallpaper till it night arrives. The narrator’s imagination darkens as what lies in between the patterns manifests. The horrible faces a frozen death is what it seems like she sees. It represents the many women who have tried to break out of their own cages but giving up when becoming stuck. Thus died from the suffocation the oppression brought but read as strangulation from trying to get out. From the begging she suspects the house to have a gruesome background. She is surprised until she becomes sectioned off to that room. She is kept from the beautiful aspects of the house and only given the distasteful aspects. She is drawn by what she feels she hates the most. It is old, smelly, and nasty looking but irresistible to her subconscious. Morbid side of it seem to make more since to her and she focuses on
William Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” is considered a great story not only for its dark, almost morbid plotline, but also for its unique and interesting point of view. Faulkner’s distinct use of the first person point of view, through the eyes of one narrator illustrating generations of townspeople’s thoughts, provides an insight into Emily’s life that can not be replicated by any other perspective. The story spans three generations and includes the opinions and outlooks of both male and female townspeople, as well as people young and old, making Faulkner’s successful use of a single narrator to express the collective beliefs of all of the townspeople impressive. Had Faulkner set up the story around any other narration, the character composed of the conglomerated thoughts of all the townspeople wouldn’t exist and the confessional tone created through the narrator’s gossip would not be portrayed. The narrator conveys the eternal view of Emily’s life by what her acquaintances see and think, providing a stance that is necessary to the central idea that it is a part of human nature to assume the worst about someone who lives a withdrawn life.
This novel was one of the most radical books of the Victorian Era. It portrayed women as equals to men. It showed that it was possible that men could even be worse than women, through John and Jane. It taught the Victorians never to judge a book by its cover. The novel would not be as successful were it not for Charlotte Brontë’s talent in writing, and were it not for the literary devices employed.
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As a complete foil to Elizabeth, Charlotte proves to be a strong character who chooses an unattractive but safe option for her future. Austen uses Charlotte to show how fortunate Elizabeth is to have the power of choice when she is looking for a husband. She shows that Elizabeth also has the privilege to seek out love and not just security in marriage. The language that Austen used to describe Charlotte and her situation reinforces the perspective that marriage is a business transaction rather than a romantic pursuit. Austen uses Charlotte to hold a mirror up to society and show the dark reality for