This painting by Kahlo’s was created in the late 1900-1954. Her painting inspired me.

The painting was included In the first major exhibition of her work, held at Julien

Levy Gallery in New York in 1938. In the essay that accompanied the show, the Surrealist leader Andre Breton describe Kahlo’s work as “a ribbon around a bomb” and hailed her as a self-created Surrealist painter. Although she appreciated his enthusiasm.

The novel Wide Sargasso Sea isn’t just a prequel to Jane Eyre, but rather a significant re-writing of the classic Victorian age writings. This time around Antoinette (Bertha) Mason, a young Creole girl living in the British Colony of Jamaica, and Rochester’s marriage is no longer a harsh sub-story. It is actually the main story in which the genders battle over emotional, resistance and economical control. However, race and racial difference are complicated categories in this novel, just after the emancipation of slavery in the British Colonies. Antoinette Cosway, others wise known as Bertha Mason, is called at one point a “Black nigger.” Similarly, the servant Mannie is called a “black Englishman.” Held up as opposites, pairing the categories of “White” with “nigger” and “black” with “Englishman” seems to be contradictory.

However, Antoinette’s story tells how and why she had come to feel alienated and insecure at her home. Her story is different from Jane Eyre story. After her father’s death. She did not identify with the white people In Jamaica who were mostly British colonials. The Jamaicans did not accept her family either, and without her father, Antoinette and her mother had no financial security and few if any friend. I think Antoinette’s main desire in this novel is to belong whether with her mother, with her friend Tia, or with her husband Edward Rochester. She is, in turn, rejected by each one. Time and again this rejection is coded as a rejection based on racial difference.

Festus Commute to Baruch

Is Monday morning again, the second day of the week, my alarm woke me up at 7am at a normal time. But Subconsciously I hate waking up early Monday morning because I always stay late studying every Sunday night. First thing Festus always do when he wakes up is to check his school and work email for any relevant information. Is a rainy and windy day, Festus always make his breakfast and drink his espresso before leaving the house.

However, on his way to school, Festus forgot his wallet and umbrella. Simultaneously, Festus had to run back to his apartment to bring his umbrella and his wallet. After carefully looked at the time, Festus just realize he is running out of time for his first English class. He lives in W155^th Street in the Bronx; it takes him approximately 45m to commute from the Bronx to Manhattan. Festus finally got in to the “4 express train” on his way to school, Festus had a train delayed due to a sick passenger on the train. He was very upset and worried because he is running late to class. Initially the train was running normal, but due to the sick passenger it was mediocre. Upon reaching to Grand central 42^nd Street he transferred to the 6^th train without any delay and finally made his way to the campus. Upon entering the campus, the security guard ask Festus for his student ID with rude manner and he showed him his ID card as requested. After facing the security guard with his unacceptable behavior, I thought about the horrible elevator, because the elevator seldom takes a decade to come. I still exhibited a good composure and realize finally I made it to class today.

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 After watching the video “To walk Invisible” I can summarize by pointing out how Bronte Sisters are continually troubled by their drunken, irresponsible brother Branwell, who wastes every opportunity given him to become an artist. Moreover, Charlotte fear for her own sight. She also impressed by Emily’s work and encourage her to write a novel. To Walk Invisible, though takes a more ideal, and approach. In the opening scene, the four surviving Bronte siblings are literally seen as children with bright crown of light over their heads to represent their creative potential. However, to walk in invisible is a remarkable television, and story whether you are Jane Eyre enthusiast or completely unware of the history.

To walk in invisible was truly a good story and featuring fantastic performances, it recognizes the strengths and human failings of the Bronte sisters while still treating them with the respect they deserve. Watching it was an emotional experience for one for whom the books and women behind it have been so personally developing.

According to the article entitle “Family Romance”. Freud attempted to explained the common phenomenon when children first become independent of their parent’s authority. Freud states that “one of the most necessary though one of the most painful result brought about by the course of a child development. “In the first couple of years of life the parents are at first the only authority and the source of all belief and it is only after multiple experiences that child gets to know other parents and compares them with his own and so acquires the right to doubt the incomparable and unique quality he had attributed to them”. However, at some point in childhood, some child feels ignored and humiliate by their parents and later seeks revenge through some imaginary means.

Ultimately, Freud focuses on the development of basic romantic attachment and fantasies between children and family members, especially parents. As Freud says, the progress of civilization, history is the process of one generation superseding another. Similarly, the process of growth of children in the family involves the desire of the children to supersede and overcome their parents.

 Walt Whitman begins his poem by naming its subject himself. He says that he celebrates himself and that all parts of him are also parts of the reader. I notice in this poem Whitman calls his poems “songs” this implies that Whitman feels there is an audible quality to his work; moreover, that the true meanings of his poems will not be understood if they are not heard by a listener. In addition, he feels as though he will not be understood as an individual if he is not heard by the world. He emphases so many idea, characters, images and symbols all at once that reading this poem is “untranslatable”.

However, Whitman tell us what he believes and what he opposed to. he believes “everyone is equal, including slaves; Truth is everywhere, but unspeakable; people who think they preach the truth, like the clergy”.  In chapter IV Whiteman describe a child coming to him and asking him what is the grass. He has no answer, meaning that he cannot fully describe the “individual self” in people and human. At the end the poem, he says that he is going to give out his body back to nature and to continue his great journey. I think Whitman break up “Song of Myself” with a parable that offers a moral or instructive lesson for its readers.

 I found the first poem relevant, “I dwell in Possibility” it reminded me about the tranquility Jean Eyre face in Thornfield. This poem can be seen as about Dickinson’s personal life. For most of her life, she was as a shut-in. the poem is about possibility of visitors, more windows, more doors. In this poem, Emily contrast her rich dream life with a very dull quality of her real life. I think in this poem she is describing “Doors” in the house provide security from the outside world, they provide privacy. Have you ever felt like you live your life in a cage, every day you wake up, go to school, go to work and then you repeat the same thing over and over again?

Throughout the book Jane Eyre was maltreated, lock in a room by itself, tormented. She is punished by being locked in the red room. At the tender age of ten, Jane rises up against this treatment and tell them exactly what she thinks of them. After reading the poem by Emily, I leaned that for the most of her life she has this very moment of self-empowering speech. The live of Dickinson and Jane are typically similar. “I dwell in Possibility” is a poem that shows us how any life cage can be broken.  

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In the 3^rd chapter of Jane Eyre, the chapter shows basically the oppression that Jane faced when she lived at Gateshead with her aunt. She was locked away in rooms and malnourished while there. She also oppressed when she arrives at the school at Lowood. Mr. Brocklehurst makes an example of her and shuns her in front of the whole class. Also what she can and can’t do is limited to what he wants. This is because throughout the agony she faced she was silence and not speaking up her right. However, she expresses her feelings on the struggle there is between males and females. She also expresses her frustration at the fact that woman is pushed into a position where they predominately only worry about knitting and pudding. She believes that women have as much right to express their emotions and have as meaningful positions as men.

According to the article “The Transformation of Silence into Action” Lorde argues that “we must share and speak about what we believe in, even if we are afraid to”. She wrote this essay while reflecting upon her mortality (after being diagnosed with cancer), and questioning why she feared speaking out. I believe that by speaking up, we are able to connect with others who have a similar vision for the world, and work with them, despite differences we may have. She also states that when we remain silent on our truths and yearnings for justice, we still live in fear and these silences only damage us. Speaking out also creates visibility for our stories, lives, and experiences without other seeing who we truly are.

 After reading the first 12 chapters of Jane Eyre, I will infer that Jane Eyre lives unhappily with her wealthy relatives, at Gateshead. Jane relatives used every opportunity to abuse and neglects her just because of her subordinate and poor background. The evil treatment she received from Mrs. Reed family as a child was cruel and ungodly. Mrs. Reed used every power she and her family has to punish her by imprisoning her in the “red room” the room in which her uncle died. She believes that she sees her uncle’s ghost and begs to be set free. Her Aunt refuses, insisting that she will remain in the room which she called a prison until she learn a lesson.

However, at the age of 10 years old, Jane was treated as an outsider, her female cousins, Eliza and Georgiana tolerate her but don’t love her, their brother John who is rude and harsh to Jane, reminding her that she is from a poor family, that she shouldn’t even be associate with the children of a gentlemen.  According to the novel, before Mrs. Reed husband dead, got her to promised before he died, that she would always keep and protect her, which she didn’t. rather than abuse and humiliate her. Thus, from the beginning Mrs. Reed is very happy to get rid of her by sending her to the Lowood school. During her time in school, Jane faces a lot of challenges and also humiliated by her teachers. Despite the circumstances she encountered, she was strong, hardworking, self-motivated and brilliant. While at Lowood, Jane became a star student and became an effective teacher. Moreover, with all this affliction going on around and her time in Lowood school, her relatives, including Mrs. Reed never care to visit Jane for one day in school.

In the article “The Romantic Period” In order to understand Burke’s argument and theory, first it is important to understand the meaning of “Sublime and Beautiful” to their individual meanings. English dictionary defined Beautiful as impressing with charm, the intellectual or moral sense, through inherent fitness or grace. And it defined Sublime as something that affecting the mind with the sense of overwhelming grandeur or irresistible power; that inspired awe and deep reverence.

In Burke’s study, he stated that “Astonishment is that state of soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror”. Unlike Burke’s Astonishment could simply mean the highest form of sublimity in nature, in which we regard an object with horror and can only focuses on that single subject. It is impossible to overlook astonishment because our mind cannot control it. This is what he is trying to articulate in “Clearness and Obscurity” where he first discusses the ability of words and further on the importance knowledge in arousing passion. I emphases that clarity is achieved only through word which can paint anything and the painting which is supposed to fear the viewer can be said to provide sublime in term of Burke.

however, Burke’s also mentioned that power “where the chances for equal degrees of suffering or enjoyment are in any sort equal the idea of the suffering must always be prevalent.” An idea of power is very great and infinity which are considered source of sublime. One can strictly answer that pleasure or pain some particular people may find from the taste of some particular thing. From what I have experience, this could be because of the difference in knowledge. Thus, Pleasure arises when we recognize things we are familiar with.