Tiffany James- English 145

I am excited about analyzing the character of Hedda Gabler. In my planning, I am re-reading important elements of the Hedda’s background to get a better insight to her character. I want to see if she was always manipulative or if it’s because of her upbringing. I will be looking into the author’s attitude towards her and how the other characters see her in contrast or comparison to my view of her.  Upfront, we know that Hedda Gabler is a daughter of a general.   She comes from an upper-middle-class family. Therefore, I will be using the literary device of characterization, using the author’s description of Hedda to reveal why I’ve concluded my view of her.   I will also be utilizing the dialogue between other characters and Hedda to show how they viewed her.   For example, Miss Tesman perceives Hedda as shallow and vain individual. She purchases an elegant hat so that Hedda won’t be embarrassed when she walks in public with her.   – “Yes, so Hedda won’t ...

Africa is a beautiful country, but there has been a dark perception hovering over the continent of Africa and it’s cultural. It is said that Africa is a dark country full of naked savages. It was once considered uncivilized and need of European so-called sophisticated life style. Equally important, they were considered a people with no history and no culture. Leopold Sedar Senghor wanted to rehabilitate the true history of Africa by embracing the beauty of its people and culture, which he so eloquently does in the poem Black Woman. In the first stanza the author addresses Africa as a “naked/black woman dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty” (680). The author speaks of Africa being bare and unashamed of its race of people and culture. He speaks of the glory of a single day in his country. He sees and experiences beauty all around him in the land and juxtaposes the same feeling with the beauty of the African Woman. Perhaps he is speaking of the women ancest...

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian modernist, she entered law school and became the first women reporter at the major newspaper A Noite. She is known for her fictional short stories. In the story of "The Daydreams of a Drunken Woman" the character, Maria, seems to be in and out of a conscience state or a drunken state. The story opens with her staring/self-consumed with herself, despite the trolley shaking the room and something heavy and hollow fell to the ground: "Her eyes did not take themselves off her image….” (809). She is struggling with her identity, …. And her open dressing gown revealed in the mirror the intersected breasts of several women” (809). She is also irritated, angry, and full of self-pity. She is also depressed, sleeping throughout the day and “she did not want to eat any dinner nor to abandon her dreams, and “she went back to sleep: let him content himself with the leftover for lunch” (810). Instead of seeing herself as a mother and a wife w...

J ames Baldwin was an African American novelist who felt considerably alienated both from black culture and from white liberal society (735). Baldwin describes his foundation by sharing the woes of a cruel, miserable, and ill stepfather. Yet, after moving away from home he was made aware of what caused his stepfather’s embittered disposition. “… I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rig carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world.” Baldwin seems to be struggling with his identity. He wanted to be a writer, yet his dad wanted him to be a preacher: “My father asked ne abruptly, you’d rather write than preach, wouldn’t you?” His answer was yes. It seems that he only preached because of his father’s influence. His father also did not want him to have any association with whites, yet he did not agree with his father and continued to easily befriend whites. After mo...