The satire of the infamous Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is nothing short of offensive trash seen in such works as Malleus Maleifcarum, and Mein Kampf. Such works as these instill hate to other human beings, not on the content of the character, but on their religion, race, and sex. Huck Finn encourages intolerance towards the African American population, just because they are “scientifically” deemed inferior. Huck Finn like other malicious pieces of literature must be bowdlerized, or taken out of the school curriculum in its entirety, instead another book in its place, that is less offensive of course, could be used as a substitute. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through its diction is racist.
Rachel A. Pg. 22- horribly disgusted of the Congo and the conditions she's being forced to live in. B. Pg. 44- confused about the clothing of the people of Kilanga. C. Pg.
The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane as she claims that it is confusing and contradicting. Jane was a writer and was not permitted to express herself through the means of writing. She is not only affected by the physical restraints of being inside the room alone, but the yellow wallpaper is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. Jane's negative thoughts are first displayed through "It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions." This is displaying the beginning of her negative thoughts which is the contribution to her spiralling into insanity since her disease confuses her mind and contradicts her logic, the paper parallels her mental state at this point.
These conditions all show the grotesque affliction that the girls endure. To a modern individual, these concerns seem unfathomable and otherworldly because most people in the world live in environments and conditions that would previously be available solely to nobles. However, to Jane and thus Bronte, these conditions are unacceptable for the fostering of young girls or women in general. Bronte uses such phrases as “scanty supply of food” to illuminate her belief of the limitation of women and to expose to the reader that women are not necessarily weak but they are simply human. In order to further emphasize the cruel treatment of minors and women in the Victorian era, Bronte has Jane note the time passed.
Because Pearl is a product of the passion of the adultery that the Puritan community does not accept, she does not follow by its rules and when she is born into the Puritan community she has to make her own laws to follow. This is shown more clearly in the contrast between the solemn, grave Puritan children who reflect the stern countenance of their parents and ostracize Pearl. She is dressed in bright, festive colors that show off her beauty and “fire” (90) while in comparison the other Puritan children are portrayed as drab and “somber” (91). While the children practice the lives
Forster’s use of a pastoral setting, poetical language and characterisation of Lucy seem to restrict her as a feminist just as criminally as Cecil’s idealised portrayal of ‘Lucy as a piece of art’, leaving the reader with an unfulfilled and disappointing protagonist. Therefore one would agree with Freida Lawrence’s opinion: ‘your women I don’t understand. You seem to dislike them much’, as well as Rae H. Stoll’s, who finds Forster’s fiction misogynous, as Forster lack of sympathy towards feminism is only too obvious to the 20th century critiques (Lawrence) and to today’s modern critiques (Stoll). ‘A room with a View’ is a novel in which the contextual influence of the emerging feminist movement, such as the Women's Social and Political Union, during the early 20th century is obviously present, revealing Foresters acute awareness of the social change in which he was writing. However despite these feminist influences, Forster is recorded to have been critical of his close friend, Virginia Woolf’s writing, arguing that ‘there are spots of it all over her work, and it was constantly on her mind’.
The term ‘tart’ has connotations of someone who is unfaithful, and this would cause the reader to distrust Curley’s wife as a character. Steinbeck gives the reader the impression that she is portrayed as a villain as the workers did not have nice things to say about her. We are encouraged to dislike her without actually her being present or doing anything in the story. Steinbeck also uses light and darkness to portray attitudes towards Curley’s wife. An example of this is when Curley’s wife first appears in the bunkhouse; both Lennie and George notice that the rectangle of sunshine is cut off.
These images of identity and self free radical not from inherent feelings of worthlessness in Lucy. Instead, they are the merchandise of the reactions of others whose cruelty makes her believe she is "undesirable" as a person because of the undesirability of her body. Even Lucy's father fails to visit her often in the infirmary because he cannot bear to witness his daughter's physical condition. Lucy initially internalizes these reactions of others, as did the narrator in Bone Black, until she learns to define herself irrespective of outside(a) reaction, attitudes, and
Turpin and the grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The grandmother was a very snobby woman. She considered herself to be a “lady” and superior to common people. The grandmother is also very judgmental as seen in her assumptions that black people did not have the things that she had and that Europe was the cause of the things being the way they were at the time. Mrs. Turpin is also judgmental and snobby. She too thinks that she is above some people because she has a little bit of everything.
Aunty Jean is significant in communicating to the reader how negative Martyn’s view of authority figures is, because using his interaction with her as source material the reader can see his mistrust and hatred of Aunty Jean, therefore it is clear that Martyn views Aunty Jean in a very negative way: ‘Thought of Aunty Jean made my stomach turn.’ The verb ‘turn’ describes Martyn’s uneasiness and the fact that he feels physically unwell at the thought of having to live with Aunty Jean. We the reader are able to deduce from this, just how much Martyn’s opinion of her has been negatively impacted by his father’s views. Martyn has no reason to suspect that Aunty Jean would be cruel to him or that she would be worse to live with, all of his hatred and wariness about her stems directly from his father’s own opinion and what he has heard his father say about her. Therefore Aunty Jean is central to the reader’s understanding of Martyn’s immature outlook on adult figures, and how much living with an alcoholic father has shaped his view of authority figures. Brooks also presents her through Martyn’s perspective as evil and sub-humanly disgusted, the thought of her makes him feel physically ill, in order to show how much Martyn needs her to prove his assumptions wrong so that he can grow up and mature.