Sunday, March 27, 2011
The big day
So I started this blog to help motivate me to meet all the new goals I set for myself. Well, I ahve to say that the only thing the blog has accomplished is to give me an outlet when I am feeling creative or needing to vent. I am turning 30 in a week from today and although I have some momentary panic attacks, I think I am taking it pretty well. Grandma Jan told me every decade gets better and I am thinking she was probably right. And how can things be that bad? I am graduating this year with my bachelor's degree, I am making plans for my future and planning on executing them, and I even found out that someone like me who has PCOS (polycystic ovaries syndrome) can still have kids. It IS possible. The PA I go to at school also has it and she didn't get married until she was 30 and she waited a bit for kids and she has a little girl and is now working on her second. There is hope! Since as I get older, this is the one thing that I stress about I am happy to hear that all is not lost! :) 30 is going to be great!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Northanger Abbey...finally
So I actually got to spend a ton of time on this novel this term. Dr. Rand didn't mind if I used it for more than one of my papers and since I love it oh so much, I did use it. I am going to post the opening paragraph to my paper, but the rest of it I don't want anyone to steal it! lol...like they would; haha
The Significance of Northanger Abbey
Ralph Waldo Emerson asserted that Jane Austen’s writing is “vulgar in style, sterile in invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. Her main subject is marriageableness…and suicide is more respectable,” (handout winter term 2011). The work of Jane Austen is anything but trivial and meaningless. The time period in which she lived was a time when women’s main chance of survival was based on whether or not one was married to a man who could support her. Northanger Abbey is so much more than what Emerson declares it to be. It is not a novel written about silly unimportant items of life. Northanger Abbey was an intelligent novel written in response to the conventions placed upon women in a gentleman controlled society during Austen’s lifetime that is also responsible for shaping the characters of the women who lived in that male dominated society; this is demonstrated in two of Austen’s female characters, Eleanor and Isabella. Northanger Abbey is Austen’s clever way of exposing how the male dominated society she lived in not only made them casualties of society’s ideals, but also created them.
Can I just say that Emerson's comment got me soooo riled up! In class Dr. Rand read it and my hand was up to display my objection to Emerson's unjustified comment. I didn't know then, but my argument would end up being the whole way I generated my thesis for this paper. I go on in the paper to discuss the importance of marriage in the regency era. Marriage was something of importance to women, not because they were desperate to fall in love and live happily ever after, but because it was such an important part of a woman’s survival. It was the most fun I have ever had writing a paper!
If you want to read the whole thing ( and I have to admit that it is a pretty interesting read) message me and I will email it to you :)
The Significance of Northanger Abbey
Ralph Waldo Emerson asserted that Jane Austen’s writing is “vulgar in style, sterile in invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. Her main subject is marriageableness…and suicide is more respectable,” (handout winter term 2011). The work of Jane Austen is anything but trivial and meaningless. The time period in which she lived was a time when women’s main chance of survival was based on whether or not one was married to a man who could support her. Northanger Abbey is so much more than what Emerson declares it to be. It is not a novel written about silly unimportant items of life. Northanger Abbey was an intelligent novel written in response to the conventions placed upon women in a gentleman controlled society during Austen’s lifetime that is also responsible for shaping the characters of the women who lived in that male dominated society; this is demonstrated in two of Austen’s female characters, Eleanor and Isabella. Northanger Abbey is Austen’s clever way of exposing how the male dominated society she lived in not only made them casualties of society’s ideals, but also created them.
Can I just say that Emerson's comment got me soooo riled up! In class Dr. Rand read it and my hand was up to display my objection to Emerson's unjustified comment. I didn't know then, but my argument would end up being the whole way I generated my thesis for this paper. I go on in the paper to discuss the importance of marriage in the regency era. Marriage was something of importance to women, not because they were desperate to fall in love and live happily ever after, but because it was such an important part of a woman’s survival. It was the most fun I have ever had writing a paper!
If you want to read the whole thing ( and I have to admit that it is a pretty interesting read) message me and I will email it to you :)
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