CL Robinson
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I love history and literature. My posts will contain notes on entertainment. Since 2014 I've been writing online content, , and stories about women. I am also a family care-giver.
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The Significance of Theme in Fleur
Louise Erdrich has several important themes that are wound together through this story very well. It deals with Indian culture and spiritualism, man's view of women's place in the world, and women's growing resentment at being locked into a particular place.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
Struggles To Be Free Of the Patriarchal Household
Both James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield offer us stories about women who want to be free of patriarchal rule, and who seem to be given a choice to do exactly that. Ultimately though, neither of the women in these stories can make the choice to be free. Why not?
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
Mrs. Dalloway: A Glimpse of The Great Mother
In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf may be criticizing a male society that has been placed over top of what could have been an originally female-centered egalitarian society. In this story of matriarchy hidden behind patriarchy we see paganism versus civilization, cyclical time versus linear time, and true reality versus the appearances of reality. In each of these opposites, we see the female aspects hidden behind or even beneath the male aspects of life.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
Dinosaur Extinction
Dinosaurs fascinate the human mind. They loom large and menacing through our childhood nightmares. We spend our youth speculating about them. And some of us go on to spend our adulthood trying to sort out the legacy of the Dinosaur: the great mystery of their extinction.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Earth
Literary Style: Stream of Consciousness
Stream- Of-Consciousness, a phrase used by Alexander Bain in 1855 had its earliest beginnings in Psychology, typically dealing with aspects of the mind. It was considered a mixture of all levels of awareness: unending flow of sensation, thought, memory, associations, and reflections on various subjects.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
Barbara Smith
Focusing on lesbianism and women of color is Barbara Smith's piece "The Truth that Never Hurts Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980's." Smith gives us a run-down of what has and has not changed between her 1977 commentary on black criticism and her 1985 article here.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
A and P
John Updike's "A&P" is a multi-layered story about a young man's first foray into the working world as a cashier at the local A & P. Underneath that main text is a subtext that explores this young man's first realization of a 1950's American class system, and his place within that system.
By CL Robinson3 years ago in Education
