The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall: The Search For Closure Continues
Fact: I had no doubts or apprehensions about Gilbert being a suitable husband until I discovered how much critics hate him, and I can find nothing upon re-perusals since that would make me dislike him...
View ArticlePride and Prejudice vs. Mansfield Park
Whenever I try to take up the impossible task of personally putting Austen's novels in order from my favorite to least favorite, I can never get past my top 2: Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park....
View Article5 Austen Novels and the Fantasies They Attack
Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion - which of these is not like the others?This theory first occurred to me the day before yesterday as I...
View ArticleMy Lesson From God Today
I just wrote the following e-mail to my mother describing a particularly personally meaningful experience I had today and decided to post it here. The meaningfulness of an experience is in no way...
View ArticleThe Irony of Norilana's Current Jane Austen Mash Ups
What do Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey have in common?
View ArticleMy Master's Thesis on Mansfield Park (Part 1)
I shifted a heavy burden off my shoulders yesterday: I turned in the extended paper necessary to earn my Master's Degree in English. I chose to write about Mansfield Park for 2 reasons:1) It's my...
View ArticleMy Master's Thesis on Mansfield Park (Part 2)
(Part 1) Fanny’s Disempowerment In the context of Mansfield Park, it takes a dysfunctional home and a lifetime of emotional abuse to make a girl passive, obedient, silent, and still; were such traits...
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(Part 1)(Part 2)References Auerbach, Nina. “Jane Austen’s Dangerous Charm: Feeling as One Ought about Fanny Price.” Mansfield Park. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. New York: Norton, 1998. 445-57. Austen, Jane....
View ArticleWriter's Block: Born to do it
Book author. I'll get it if 2 general impressions the past and present have given me are wrong:1) That the best writers are British.2) That people don't read anymore.
View ArticleWhat Is Not the Moral of Persuasion
I still haven't found a way to justify Anne Elliot's defense of her decision 8 years ago to my satisfaction, but at least I know one way NOT to justify it.
View ArticleWriter's Block: Once upon a time…
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.~ Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
View ArticlePersuasion Does The Impossible... But How?
Paradise Lost, Mansfield Park, Little Women, Lady Audley's Secret, A Little Princess, every fairy tale, every Shakespeare tragedy, every Gothic novel from The Castle of Otranto to Wuthering Heights to...
View ArticleMost Obvious Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Abridged Joke
RiffTrax or whatever snarky abridged versions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 come out on the Internet are obligated to say the following:Bellatrix!Hermione: I wish to enter my...
View Article"Goodness Made Interesting": Persuasion Poll
Back when my friend convinced me to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles (the most depressing piece of literature in the history of civilization!), the edition I checked out from the library included a quote...
View ArticleAvatar TLoK fic: Big Brother Is Watching You
They had made it home safely, too exhausted to question why they weren’t followed. All doors and windows were locked, all injuries bandaged and doctored as best as possible, all of the brothers’...
View ArticleAvatar TLA Fic: A Name To Share (Toph/Ohev)
She wanted him to be the one to ask.She had considered doing it herself, of course (to whom could traditional roles matter less or feminine timidity be more of a stranger?), but no matter how many...
View ArticleYou're Invited (Avatar: TLoK Fic)
The Avatar had come after all.Amon was pleasantly surprised.He had worried several times that his clue was too obvious, but the puzzle map had apparently served its purpose well – providing a blatant,...
View ArticleBreaking News (Avatar: TLoK Post-"Revelation" Fan Fic)
The sudden banging on their attic-apartment’s trap door entrance was the second shock the brothers received in as many minutes that morning. They barely had time to shift instinctively to the guard...
View ArticleThe Element of Freedom (Avatar: TLoK Fan Fic)
Dear Mother,I’m enclosing a gift in this letter that I’m sure you will enjoy: the right to say, “I told you so” to the other Masters of the Order of the White Lotus. I know how they have all waved...
View ArticleRevenge (Avatar: TLoK Fan Fic)
“This is not fair! It was our title first! I HATE this job!” Michael DiMartino slammed the door hard behind him and slammed his briefcase even harder onto the table.Bryan Konietzko, completely...
View ArticleUnafraid (Avatar: TLoK Mako/Asami Fan Fic)
He naturally assumed she was a Bender. She recognized him as a pro-Firebender but didn’t run away in fright or turn her back on him with a scowl of disdain. Just his golden eyes alone were often enough...
View ArticleTraitor (Avatar: TLoK Mako/Asami Fan Fic)
Traitors were nothing new to the Equalists.It was disgraceful but common to hear objections to the cause from non-Benders. Most were family members of Benders. Some believed they owed a Waterbending...
View ArticleFreedom Is Slavery: American Liberals' Road to the Dystopian Novel
“There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what… 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a...
View ArticleThat Perfect Girl Is Gone: Mai-centric A:TLA Song Fic
Disclaimer: Italicized lyrics from the song “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen.She knew by the way Zuko looked at her that she had broken the rules. For the first time in her life, she had neglected her...
View ArticleClinton at the Bat
The following poem is a parody of "Casey at the bat" by Ernest Thayers (1888). It is not the first of this type to appear in the past month.The outlook wasn't brilliant for Republicans that year.The...
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