Adrienne Marsh
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Doctoral student and expert educator. English Instructor. Writing Center Tutor. Specializations: Thomas Hardy, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Answered a Question in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Through her three marriages, Janie learns that equality in marriage is not possible, especially for a woman dually limited by race and gender. However, when she is in her youth, Janie fails to... -
Answered a Question in Letter from Birmingham City Jail
In his essay, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. argues that injustice affects all. Dr. King combined his background in Christian ministry with the peaceful teachings of... -
Answered a Question in Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston describes a social hierarchy where the white male reigns and the black female exists metaphorically as the lowly mule. Victimized at the bottom... -
Answered a Question in Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses the image of the horizon to symbolically represent Janie’s aspirations for equality within marriage. Early in the novel, Hurston employs the... -
Answered a Question in John Donne
John Donne’s “Break of Day” is a love poem. The title implies the dawning of morning or the first appearance of the sun. The poem, broken into three 6-line stanzas, follows the rhyme scheme AABBCC... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems embedded into the plays themselves. According to tradition, Shakespeare wrote his... -
Answered a Question in A Psalm of Life
In his poem, “A Psalm of Life,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow argues that individuals should live active, full lives rather than passively allowing life to slip away. In the first two lines of the... -
Answered a Question in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Knight disrupts a feast in King Arthur’s court. The knights are enjoying a New Year’s feast and engaging in merriment when the Green Knight enters. The Green Knight proposes his game: the... -
Answered a Question in Alfred, Lord Tennyson
While Victorian interest in medievalism does depart from Romantic poetry, it cannot be overlooked that Romantics, such as Keats and Coleridge, did use medieval themes in their poetry. For examples... -
Answered a Question in Lev Vygotsky
Jean Piaget shaped a new way of thinking and looking at the stages of development. Piaget’s research proved that the way children think is qualitatively different from the thinking patterns of... -
Answered a Question in Dracula
Mysterious castles, isolated landscapes, stormy skies, dark interiors. All tropes of Gothic literature, which, as author Joyce Carol Oates states, is “the most imaginative of all literatures,... -
Answered a Question in John Steinbeck
Theme Statements for Of Mice and Men Friendship: In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows that friendship is important in preventing loneliness by providing a purpose in life and a sense of... -
Answered a Question in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rumor has it that, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Abraham Lincoln said, “So this is the little lady who started this great big war.” Although this rumor has lately been proven false,... -
Answered a Question in The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath opens her tale by telling of one of King Arthur’s knights, whom the Wife of Bath describes as a “lusty bacheler,” rapes a young girl: “By verray force, he rafte hire... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Prose connotes spoken or written discourse that is not patterned into metric or free verse. To put it simply, prose is writing or speech that is not poetry. Prose exists on a variety of different... -
Answered a Question in Walden
Chapter one of Thoreau’s Walden is titled “Economy.” This title might lead readers to believe that Thoreau considers systems of... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In chapter 11, Jem’s physical description is that of a naïve, young boy. Jem’s age is not entirely clear in chapter 11; however, it is certain that Jem is either nearly 12 years old or almost 12... -
Answered a Question in The Wife of Bath's Tale
The narrative action of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” begins when one of King Arthur’s knights, who the Wife of Bath describes as a “lusty bacheler,” or a pleasure-loving knight of lower order, “rafte... -
Answered a Question in Feed
Anderson’s dystopic world embraces the attractive nature of virtual reality. Titus falls victim to this allure as he refuses the discomfort and distress of actual reality. He submits to the culture... -
Answered a Question in Goblin Market
“Goblin Market” can be traditionally read as a cautionary tale that warns young women against the dangers of unchecked desire. When viewing Rossetti’s poem from this angle, it is helpful to... -
Answered a Question in Mahmoud Darwish
In his poem “The Prison Cell” Mahmoud Darwish contrasts two men: the inmate and the prison guard. These men are differentiated by the roles they assume in the poem. The first character introduced... -
Answered a Question in Pamela
The epistolary form is characterized by letter writing, or sometimes journal / diary entries, which provides insight into the character’s motivations and advances the plot. The epistolary novel... -
Answered a Question in Ode to a Nightingale
“Ode to a Nightingale” (1819) is a Horatian Ode written primarily in iambic pentameter. The poem, composed after John Keats heard a nightingale outside his window, is a consideration of death, the... -
Answered a Question in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In the second chapter of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot describes life in the mid twentieth century. She gives a detailed account of the difference of working conditions in the... -
Answered a Question in The Scholar-Gipsy
Pastoral is a literary term that idealizes rural life, the countryside, and the natural world. As a literary mode, the pastoral depicts the everyday moments of rustic and common life. Often, the... -
Answered a Question in General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
There are two primary women introduced in the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The first woman to be introduced is the Prioress. Her given name is Madame Eglentyne and... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The knight is undoubtedly the most virtuous character introduced in the General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The knight, a courtly lover, holds the highest social rank of... -
Answered a Question in Sula
Sula, published in 1973, is Toni Morrison’s second novel. Morrison’s novel explores the life-long relationship between Sula and Nel, two African American women living in the small Ohio town of... -
Answered a Question in Night
In his memoir Night (1958, 1960) Elie Wiesel narrates his experience in the network of Auschwitz concentration camps. Wiesel details father-son relationships to show how natural, loving bonds... -
Answered a Question in Night
Night, published in 1958 and translated to English in 1960, marked the end of Elie Wiesel’s ten year, self-imposed vow of silence where the Holocaust survivor wrote nothing about his experience in... -
Answered a Question in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published in 1861 and was widely thought to be the work of white abolitionist Lydia Marie Child, who edited the work. Recently, scholars agreed that... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
Act I, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will reveals Duke Orsino’s deep love and infatuation with the Countess Olivia. The scene opens with Duke Orsino reflecting on his love for... -
Answered a Question in To the Ladies
Lady Mary Chudleigh's poem "To the Ladies" (1703) details the restrictions placed on women in the early eighteenth-century. More specifically, Lady Mary Chudleigh explores women's limitations... -
Answered a Question in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Poets of the Romantic period performed a fundamental role in shaping the way individuals conceived the changing world. Often thought of as “nature” poets, these artists affected relationships... -
Answered a Question in Goblin Market
“Goblin Market” can be traditionally read as a cautionary tale that warns young women against the dangers of unchecked desire. Located in consumer discourse, the objective of female desire is to... -
Answered a Question in Mary Rowlandson
A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) upholds its cultural relevance by revealing what it means to be a female subject within a hegemonic, patriarchal...