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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 sep1861-25Aug 1907

Mary Coleridge was the great grand niece of S.T Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge. She was a essayist, novelist and a poet. She wrote under the pseudonym 'Adonos'. She published five novels and a number of poems. Her best known novel among those is 'The King with Two Faces'. Many of her poems set to songs by her family friend and composer 'Hubert Parry'. She died from complications arising from appendicitis. Other published works include- Fancy's Following, Sever Sleepers of Ephesus, Non Sequitur, The Fiery Dawn, The Shadow on the Wall, Holman Hunt etc

Antoinette Cosway

Antoinette is portrayed as a solitary girl who doesn't get any affection, care and love from anyone. Throughout her life she feels restlessness and instability. She is a far cry from conventional females of 19th Ce. She had to face terrible conditions in her childhood which turns her inward. Nobody cares her and had to face criticisms even from her mother also. She was sent to content where she has to face isolation. Her arranged marriage distressed her. Her husband marry her only for her wealth and he show no affection towards her. He claims a illegal relation  on her with her cousin. Later she had to witness such a illegal relation between her husband and her childhood friend Amelia. She also forced to live with him even after that. All these terrible incidents made her silent and expressionless.  Also, she was sealed as insane and locked her in an attic by her own husband. At last, death made her free from all those restrictions. She was a victim of male dominated society.

Mad Woman in the Attic - Bertha Mason

In the novel Jane Eyre, character Bertha Mason appears from the beginning itself, but visible in fullest from only in the second half. She is characterized as an insane woman. She is the first wife of protagonist Rochester, but that marriage was  a failure. Bertha is the great tragedy of Rochester's life. She never loved her husband. She is the obstacle that Jane's and Rochester's love must overcome. She suffers from congenital insanity. She is also seen as a drunken. As a result of her insanity she spends most of her adult life locked in an attic. That's why she is known as 'Mad Woman in the Attic'. She crawled around in attic making animalistic noises and laughing in a creepy way. She destroyed Jane's wedding veil, when she figures out that Rochester and Jane were going to get married. She has fearful and ghastly look, with a discovered face. Her lips were swelled and dark, brow furrowed black eyebrows widely raised over the blood shot eyes. She is ultimately portrayed as a Vampire. In her peak of madness, she burnt Thorn field mansion, and committed suicide.

BOOK REVIEW
Book name: A Room of One's Own
Author: Virginia Woolf

                A Room of One's Own is a series of collected lectures of Virginia Woolf taken from the lectures she conducted at Newnham College and Girton college, two women's colleges at Cambridge University. It was first published on 24 October 1929. The essay is generally seen as a Feminist text and it discusses about the women writers of literary tradition dominated by men. The title itself shows  the message that a woman needs a room for herown and have some financial support if she wants to become a writer. Otherwise no women can became a writer in tThus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special forcehis male dominated society. Woolf argues that women left writing because of their relative poverty and financial crisis.  By addressing some past women writers and their limitations, woolf examines whether women are capable of producing good works equal to or similar to William Shakespear. Woolf encourages the education of  girls and make them aware of their position in the society they lived in. Woolf recalls her father during her lecturing that her father sir Leslie Stephen encourages only boys education and did not believe in investing for girls education. So she doesn't have the experience of formal education.

              In the essay Woolf introduced a imaginary character Judith, a sister to Shakespear, who born with same qualities as Shakespear. Due to her identity as a girl, she was denied to study and trapped in home while her brother Shakespear went to school. In the first parts of Woolf's essay there was a hope that she will raise against her brothers hope, but sooner her fate was another one. Judith was not allowed to take a book and was sent to do household chores by her parents. while Shakespear enjoys the tastes of books and words along with literature, Judith was denied to have such happiness. Her father forcefully conducted her marriage and she hates it. At last Judith committed suicide without have anything by herown in the field of literature, while Shakespear estabishes himself.

               Thus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special force.

            

Girl's view about the incidents happened on Ashtami day in the story 'Girls'

Why always people consider girls has a problem. I don't understand why they avoid us from their life. Yesterday also, when Naani completed her story telling in the evening I asked her permission to lie beside her. But she didn't allow me and those seat is only reserved for male children. She is such a patriarchical woman. I hates her. That's the reason why I doesn't allow to apply tikka on my forehead in this Ashtami pooja day. They came to worship girls only that day and left them with curses on other days. If they didn't like us, then why do they worship us. I didn't allow this anyway. I don't want to be stepped down by others...

Film Review

Film name: English Vinglish
Director    : Gouri Shinde

     English Vinglish is an Indian comedy- drama film released on 2012. Its direction, screen play and story were written by Gauri Shinde herself. The entire story revolving around Marathi home maker 'Shashi Godbole' (Sridevi). Usually our Indian ladies are unaware about their education and our social systems gave importance to their family role. Society makes them to feel that they are meant to run the family. So they are also unaware about their education and development. Shashi was such a lady who represent the whole Indian homemakers.
     The initial part of the film shows what a woman suffers in herown family. She finds her joy in the well being of her family. She is excellent in her cooking, but nobody encouraged her talent but criticize it. Her executive husband (Adil Hussain) mocks at her saying she is born to make Laddoo. Like all other Indian husbands, he wants her to satisfy his needs. He was unaware about her happy, feelings and tastes. He mocks her because of her illitaracy in English language. Even her daughter treats her as a foolish one.
     In the later stage of the film, she herself made a change to know what was happening around her. It was happened after she went to USA for attending in a marriage function, where she was helped by her niece Radha. She joined in a tuition class to learn English. She felt happy when she was in her class with diverse people who gave respect and love towards her. She regained a freedom which she lost after her marriage. Later she showed her family that she was no more inferior than others and her family accepts her talent.
     This film has some similarities with the other faminist film 'Queen'. Both show how a woman treats in various sections of society and the stages of their development. One film focus on how a woman is treated by young modern man and the other stress the issues inside her family and how important is education to a woman. Both won its aim. Eventhough, 'English Vinglish' is different in some aspects. when it comes to a woman oriented issue, sexuality is highlighted. Discussions were done for strenghthening of sexulity. Women of our society is connected with other problems also. It won't be discussed either. Here, protagonist understood her weak point herself and she develps it and became the centre point in her family. She hasn't overthrown her identity and culture for achieving her goal. Woman empowerment doesn't mean to accept other culture and identity but to improve herself within her identity and strengthening it.Reverse case  was happened in the film 'Queen'. Protagonist accepts another cultue which was entirely different from herown one and accepts new identity. She did it due to her fiancie's passion towards that culture. She could have to develop within her identity like shashi does in 'English Vinglish'.
  " Feminism isn't about making woman stronger. Women are already stronger. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength." - G.D Anderson