How effectively does Possession by A.S Byatt reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the time in which it was composed? ... The remarks mad by the Duke, "At the end should someone die?" ... Although Maud later quotes "We never say the word love-we know it's a suspect ideological construct." ... Chapter by chapter we uncover more of the mystery; characters evolve in a structured and progressive frame. ... Director Wes Craven has imitated Byatt by also incorporating parody in stereo typed characters. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the narrator first describes the area he sys how beautiful it is and then says, "Heathcliff the solitary neighbour." ... In the first chapter the very first description of Heathcliff is portrayed before anything really happens. ... The snow in the start of Chapter Two reflects the atmosphere inside Wuthering Heights and the mood of Heathcliff. ... When Mr Earnshaw died it was the son whom took control in that era. This was Hindley, we have known from the start that Hindley hated Heathcliff. ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the poem "Goblin Market" we find Laura being tempted by the fruits of Goblins. ... Also in the poem "A Triad" one of the three girls who was referred to as famished and who eventually died can be implied to the harsh realities of the society as against her expectations from it or from a relation. ... It reflects the same image how women were deprived of their rights and how they fall prey to the desires of men. ... We can see that in his art the male artist objectifies her and limits her in this one meaning. The poem becomes more sinister as we see that- "He feeds u...

• Word Count: 2109
• Approx Pages: 8

Reclusive after Albert died in 1861, she eventually took on the austere role of the black-satined Empress of India, projecting a world-weary glumness that lent gravity to the imperial heyday of the 1870s. ... When Victoria died in 1901, after the longest reign in English history, a newspaper wrote: "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp of the nation's progress." ... "We have come to regard the Crown as the head of our morality" wrote the historian Walter Bagehot. ...

• Word Count: 6746
• Approx Pages: 27