...The ideal “Bush-Woman“ in Henry Lawson‘s The Drover‘s Wife Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Australia - a Land for Men 2 3. Women in Australia 2 3.1 The “Bush-Woman“ in “The Drover‘s Wife“ 2 3.2 The role of Australian Women 2 3.3 Australian Feminism 2 4.Conclusion 2 5.Bibliography 3 6. Declaration of Authenticity 1. Introduction “[...] she fought a bad bullock that besieged the house for a day“ (Lawson 6). This would probably be a challenge for a man not for a woman. But in Henry Lawson‘s point of view this and fighting snakes and diseases are things women in the Australian bush are capable of doing as presented in The Drover‘s Wife. Henry Lawson (1867-1922) is the finest author and poet in Australia's colonial period and had a big focus on the Australian bush and life. He is famous for his works such as The Drover‘s Wife which got first published 1892 in The Bulletin - an Australian magazine of great importance. In his short story The Drover‘s Wife Lawson presents a mother with her children in a dangerous living situation in the Australian bush, “Lawson‘s story created the archetype of the pioneer bush-woman, a heroic mother left on her own by the drover husband, resigned to her fate, battling against the elements and winning“ (Carrera-Suarez...
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...“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen begins in the early 40’s Kensington area in London, where the main character Mrs. Drover is introduced while returning to retrieve the articles for herself. She returned to her house she saw the WWII cracks and trouble times, the piano, the struck clock and the letter K. (on the letter by her demon lover which becomes dear to the reader and represent how the life can bring the past to revenge and haunt the mind). Bowen ultimately uses different literary elements within her story to develop the theme of revenge , war and peace, identity , doubt and ambiguity and victim and victimization to her main character “Mrs. Drover” past events. In the short story “The Demon Lover,” by Elizabeth Bowen symbolism,...
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...The Drover’s Wife, by Henry Lawson, describes a woman who lived in the old house which was built of round timber, slabs, and bark, and she married to man who is drover. This couple had four children. The story mainly tells readers about problems that the drover’s wife met and she tried to deal with without husband’s assistance. One day, there was a snake in the house. To protect her children, she stayed awake all night to guard her children while her children were sleeping on the table in the kitchen. At the end, she and her snake-dog killed snake and burnt it in the next morning. Among all characters represented in the story, I am interested in Drover’s wife the most for three main reasons. First, she was a clever and patient woman, for the fact that she had fought all difficult tasks without husband’s help. For example, she was used to being left alone because after she married to drover, they met drought of eighteen months that made her husband leave home. Therefore, she did all tasks in family such as looking after cows, taking care children and so on. She is also bright because during snake in her house it was sunset and thunderstorm was coming. She could not stand outside her house, and then she quickly decided to pick up several armfuls of firewood into kitchen and took her children there. Finally she made table in kitchen as bed for children sleep. Second, she was not only a protective wife but also a good wife because one day after there was snake in her house, all...
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...reality of life in the Australian bush through his short stories published by Penguin Classics 1986; 'The Drover's Wife' and 'In a Dry Season'. The experience of the character's hardships are brought to life through key themes throughout Lawson's stories. these concepts are further clarified in the poem 'Women of the West' by Essex Evans which explores the hardships of the women living in the Australian Bush, and 'Down on his luck' by Frederick McCubbin 1889, which emphasises the hardships and isolation of an unsuccessful swagman. Henry Lawson's 'The Drovers Wife' explores the commitment of the Wife/Mother who spends all her time on taking on the father's role of protecting her family, due to the absence of her Husband. The purpose of the narrator in this story is to evoke sympathy for the drover's wife through the events that happen throughout the story. Lawson establishes the negatively of their environment in the first paragraph by using visual imagery; "The stunted, rotten apple trees and the...almost waterless creek". He then reflects this harshness with the characterisation of "the gaunt sun-brown woman" and her "Four ragged, dried-up looking children". This also creates a sense of imagery towards the responder which shapes their understanding of the unique Australian traits of hardships and courage towards a hostile environment like the bush. The Drover's Wife also has no human connection which has an effect on her loneliness. This is evident through the use of timeframes...
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...The Gospel According to Mark These events took place at La Colorada ranch, in the southern part of the township of Junin, during the last days of March 1928. The protagonist was a medical student named Baltasar Espinosa. We may describe him, for now, as one of the common run of young men from Buenos Aires, with nothing more noteworthy about him than an almost unlimited kindness and a capacity for public speaking that had earned him several prizes at the English school in Ramos Mejia. He did not like arguing, and preferred having his listener rather than himself in the right. Although he was fascinated by the probabilities of chance in any game he played, he was a bad player because it gave him no pleasure to win. His wide intelligence was undirected; at the age of thirty-three, he still had not qualified for graduation in the subject to which he was most drawn. His father, who was a freethinker (like all the gentlemen of his day), had introduced him to the lessons of Herbert Spencer, but his mother, before leaving on a trip for Montevideo, once asked him to say the Lord's Prayer and make the sign of the cross every night. Through the years, he had never gone back on that promise. Espinosa was not lacking in spirit; one day, with more indifference than anger, he had exchanged two or three punches with a group of fellow-students who were trying to force him to take part in a university demonstration. Owing to an acquiescent nature, he was full of opinions, or habits of mind...
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...Women in the Australian colonies: Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Women in Australia colonies Port Philip grew at an amazing rate in the 1830s when free settlers and female convicts were sent to Victoria to respond to the labor shortage. Women were outnumbered by men with a ration 1 to seven respectively. Women were the small population and were the most vulnerable proportion of the whole population. Initially, the majority of women were unmarried free settlers. There was a great demand for single women to serve as house servants, and the government covered the travel expenses to Victoria with families or married couples. . However, the free female settlers were still vulnerable as they were not lucky enough to get employment and they had to meet their financial needs. If they lost their job or get pregnant, they were forced to depend on charitable organizations or move to the streets. . For the convicts that were sent to Port Philip, the place was worse, with prostitution being their unspoken sentence. Life was difficult on arrival as convict women were taken to settlers households to serve as domestic servants. Some were lucky to marry and start new lives, but the majority of them were victims of prostitution and crime. For the most women, de facto relationships or marriage ensured they were protected and provided for from the rough elements of the society, and security was given at a price. Alcohol was too common in the settlements...
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...Because Macbeth by this definition is a tragic hero, it can already be presumed that he is responsible for his own tragedy because of Peripeteia (the reversal of fate brought about by the hero’s tragic flaw). While this presumption can be made, it is still important to examine the source of Macbeth’s downfall. His hubris was his tragic flaw, and it defeated him in more ways than one. The fate of his wife, kingdom, and death all were direct consequences to his prior actions, and all these actions were made out of pure hubris. Macbeth was a man of great pride, and full disrespect for fate as long as it did not benefit him in the way he saw fit. This belief was his hubris, his hubris was his Hamartia, and his Hamartia was his ultimate...
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...Contents GCSE History Exemplars for Controlled Assessment 2015-2016 Topic Area 1: Political, social and economic developments in Wales and England in the nineteenth century and the twentieth centuries This document contains the WJEC set controlled assessment exemplars for topic area 1 that are available for award up to 2016. This should be used alongside the general guide to controlled assessment available on the WJEC website. Topic Area 1: Political, social and economic developments in Wales and England in the nineteenth century and the twentieth centuries Exemplar Tasks 1. The Rebecca Riots 2. Jack the Ripper’s London 3. The Depression of the 1930s 4. Quarrying in North Wales 5. Life in the 1960s Introduction Controlled Assessment is a compulsory unit for GCSE History. Please note the following advice: These exemplars are written in a consistent style to ensure comparability of demand. These exemplars can be used for entry in any year of the current specification. Centres must change their controlled assessment tasks each year Centres must submit a proposal form for each two year cycle demonstrating to WJEC that they are using different tasks in consecutive years. Centres who are not studying any British history in their examined units must select controlled assessment tasks that focus on British history. Centres cannot mix and match parts (a) and (b) from different tasks. The controlled assessment unit can only be entered at the end of the course....
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th...
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...Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë An Electronic Classics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 - 2012 The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë PREFA PREFACE A PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage...
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...BRITISH SHORT FICTION IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY This page intentionally left blank British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century The Rise of the Tale TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK © Tim Killick 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Tim Killick has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English – History and criticism 2. English fiction – 19th century – History and criticism 3. Short story 4. Literary form – History – 19th century I. Title 823’.0109 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Killick, Tim. British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale / by Tim Killick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6413-0 (alk. paper) 1. Short stories, English—History and criticism. 2. English fiction—19th...
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...[pic] Каушанская. Сборник упражнений по грамматике английского языка Part I. ACCIDENCE THE NOUN Exercise 1. State the morphological composition of the following nouns. Snow, sandstone, impossibility, widower, opinion, exclamation, passer-by, misunderstanding, inactivity, snowball, kingdom, anticyclone, mother-of-pearl, immobility, might, warmth, succession, ex-president, nurse, misdeed, wisdom, blackbird, attention, policeman, merry-go-round, girlhood, usefulness, fortune, friendship, statesman, brother-in-law, population, fellow-boarder, smelling-salt. Exercise 2. Point out the nouns and define the class each belongs to. 1. Don't forget, Pettinger, Europe is still the heart of the world, and Germany the heart of Europe. (Heym) 2. Pursuing his inquiries, Clennam found that the Gowan family were a very distant ramification of the Barnacles... (Dickens) 3. His face was sick with pain and rage. (Maltz) 4. He drank coffee, letting the warmth go through his cold, tired body. (This is America) 5. But there is only one place I met with the brotherhood of man, and it was in the Communist Party. (This is America) 6. The mysteries of storm and the rain and tide were revealed. (Galsworthy) 7. Having set the tea, she stood by the table and said slowly: "Tea's ready, Father. I'm going to London." (Galsworthy) 8. By this time, quite a small crowd had collected, and people were asking each other what was the matter. (Jerome i(. Jerome) 9. There were several...
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...Essays Essays Part II. 2, 2.] Part II. 2, 2.] Essays The Project Gutenberg EBook of Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Essays Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16643] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSAYS *** 1 Essays Produced by Curtis A. Weyant , Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ESSAYS BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON Merrill's English Texts SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "FAMOUS PAINTERS," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 1907 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE OF EMERSON CRITICAL OPINIONS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR COMPENSATION SELF RELIANCE FRIENDSHIP HEROISM MANNERS GIFTS NATURE SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET PRUDENCE CIRCLES NOTES PUBLISHERS' NOTE Merrill's English Texts 2 Essays 3 This series of books will include in complete editions those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the several volumes will...
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