The Bostonians by Henry James illustrates the Boston reformers throughout the women's suffrage movement. James portrays the mercurial nature of the through his political satire. This is especially seen in Olive Chancellor, an obsessive women who has dedicated her life to the women's suffrage movement and her sister Ms Luna, a pretty, yet shallow and manipulative woman. Their desire to control the unattainable is similar while the tactics the use to control are different. James shows the relationship between the sisters as one filled with distaste and jealousy. Although Ms Luna and Olive Chancellor differ on physical attributes and personalities, they both share a common emotion: jealousy, which is a reaction from their desire to control others. .
Ms Luna and Olive Chancellor differ on many counts including physical appearance. Ms Luna, "was sufficiently pretty; her hair was in clusters of curls, like bunches of grapes; her tight bodice seemed to crack her with vivacity little of she might partake in the nature of her sister. (3-4)" James describes Luna as notably pretty, yet in his mocking nature, makes her appear as if she tries to hard, because she has no real quality to capture a man. While Luna concerns herself with fashions, and physical appearance, her sister Olive Chancellor is quite different. One of the first times that Olive appears in the book, she is portrayed as a very plain women, whose looks differed from her sisters greatly. James describes Olive as, "habited in a plain dark dress, without any ornaments, and her smooth, colorless hair was confined as carefully as that of her sister was encouraged to stray.(7)" James uses the imagery of Olive and Luna's looks to give the audience an idea of their char!.
acter, and perhaps a foreshadow on their personalities later to come. Later on in the novel, James shows Luna as frivolous, and self-involved, she is much concerned with own benefits, not others happiness.
After the Boston Tea Party, the British government tried to punish the Bostonians economically by closing their ports. This should have ruined Boston's economy and sent many people into poverty, but the American's got together and donated food and monetary donations to help the Bostonians. By uniting to help the Bostonians, the Americans were able to backfire the plans of the British government and set a stage for rebellion. ...
"On the evening of December 16 1773, Bostonians disguised as Indians raided British ships docked in Boston Harbor and dumped their cargoes of tea overboard. ... They wanted the Bostonians punished as a warning to all the colonists" ("Revolutionary" 277). ...
Glory captures the heroism of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the first black regiment in the Civil War, the Massachusetts "Fighting" Fifty-fourth. An extremely talented cast and crew earned three Academy Awards (cinematography, sound and supporting actor) and five nominations for their work in G...
When these men are not marching drumming and playing their loud music, they are in competition with the Bostonian workforce. ... With the Tea Act implemented, one hundred too one hundred and fifty Bostonian's, raged and distressed participated in the infamous Boston Tea Party. ...
The Tea Agents would not resign and a few months later angered Bostonians dressed as Indians boarded three tea ships and dumped it all into Boston Harbor(Blum 106). ... They were passed as a way to reprimand the Bostonians for the Boston Tea Party. ...
These portraits of a wealthy Bostonian and his wife and daughter (the youngest of their eight children) are among the most important of the relatively small number that survive from the late seventeenth century in New England. ... A group of about four portraits of Bostonians painted between 1675 and 1690 can be attributed to Smith on the basis of style. ...
Americans have always been outspoken and strong-willed. There may be no better example of this then the Boston Tea Party. The events in Boston on December 16, 1773, were a major part of the build up that led to the American Revolution. The colonists were disapproving of how the British government...
There were many events that led to the American Revolution and the independence of our country. The establishment of many taxes upon the colonists such as the Stamp Tax, the Townsend Act (which taxed lead, paint, paper, glass and tea) caused great resentment to the colonists. The term "taxation w...
