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1	Edith Wharton's View of Women: Lily Bart in The House of Mirth Johansson, Monique January 2011 (has links) In this essay I plan to show how Wharton, through Lily, criticised society, and more specifically its expectations of women. My thesis is that Wharton and her character Lily exposed the upper class society of New York, and its ruthlessness, by voicing a woman’s point of view. Therefore, the main purpose here is to reveal the complexity of the lives women led in order to fulfil society’s expectations and I thereby plan to explore what it was like living in a world governed by strict rules of conduct. Edith Wharton The House of Mirth Lily Bart Literary Text Analysis Feminism New Historicism Languages and linguistics Språkvetenskap Literature Litteraturvetenskap
2	The Colonizer and the Colonized in Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels, An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day Johansson, Monique January 2012 (has links) This essay investigates the colonized self in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, by analyzing the novels from a postcolonial perspective. Furthermore, it discusses how and why Masuji Ono and Mr. Stevens are affected by Japanese imperialism and British colonialism. Through a close reading of the novels, this essay argues that the protagonists are ‘colonized’ by their own countries, and eventually also ‘imperialized,’ or influenced, by America following the Second World War. Ono is ‘colonized’ by his colleague Matsuda, while Mr. Stevens is ‘colonized’ by his employer, Mr. Darlington. Later on, they are both ‘imperialized’ through the American occupation and influence. Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World The Remains of the Day Masuji Ono Mr. Stevens Literary Text Analysis Postcolonialism English language Engelska språket

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Edith Wharton's View of Women: Lily Bart in The House of Mirth

The Colonizer and the Colonized in Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels, An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day