Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent nineteenth century American woman 's rights advocate, suffragette, and abolitionist who frequently gave public lectures, wrote articles, and edited publications to support such causes. Throughout her career she conservatively campaigned for women 's equality and civil rights arguing that individuals must define themselves, their work, and influence on their own accounts rather than being prejudged on the basis of race or gender. A respected orator, Stone…
from Christian allegory to Greek gods. Some argue that the novel is too heavily based on Christian beliefs, but on the other hand some believe the novel to be a simple fantasy tale. Lewis introduces the four protagonist, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy as the “Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve” (Lewis 29). The four characters are human and Lewis blatantly relates them back to Adam and Eve, God’s first human beings. Another core reason to the heavy Christian undertone is the character, Aslan.…
examining Lucy due to her illness. Quickly, he concludes that she needs a blood transfusion and Dr. John Seward voluntarily chooses himself to be the blood donor because he is much younger than Van Helsing. Out of nowhere, Lucy’s fiancé, whose name is Arthur Holmwood, shows up ending with fulfilling the blood transfusion. Shortly after the blood transfusion, Lucy looks better, but Dr. Van Helsing discovers the two, red marks at her throat, which he finds disturbing. Dr. John Seward stays with…
The film, Suffragette looks at the struggles the women who fought for the right to vote went through. The film takes place in London 1912, prior to women having the right to vote. As a result, women's rights were not valued as much. Caffi states that "Every social institution should have as its sole reason for being that of assuring the happiness of the man conscious of his own individuality" (Caffi 1970). A man's happiness, needs, and desires at this time were much more valuable than a woman's.…
Wardrobe is set during World War II. It takes place around four children decided to play hide and seek in a house, and one day and the youngest girl Lucy found a wardrobe to hide in. When Lucy entered the wardrobe she found herself able to go further and further into it and ended up in a strange place. The wardrobe had led her to a land covered of snow. When Lucy started walking around she met a fawn, Tumnus, who took her to his house. She became friends with him until he broke down and…
wealthy count in Transylvania, real estate in London. After strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray’s, Johnathon’s fiancé, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. It is mostly just gossip, but there are several references to Johnathon. Through there gossip they introduce most of the main characters. Next, it shifts to Dr. John Seward, or Jack’s diary with a…
heart had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as might be.”(173) Because Lucy gained supernatural powers from Dracula’s bite she regained consciousness after her death. A character who we can presume was Lucy was seen sucking the blood of young children; the children called Lucy the “bloofer lady”. Lucy fell from being a socialite to a disgraceful creature who preys on children at nightfall. Lucy appearance is continuously depicted throughout Dracula yet characters like Reinfield…
In Narnia, as in the Bible, grace is linked to faith. One cannot acquire forgiveness on their own. His own sin is too great and the divine sovereign is too honest for self-justification. One cannot change themselves either. Sinfulness is to grand to overcome on ones’ own. There are some things only Aslan can do, and the only proper human response to these things is faith. As the Beavers in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tell Peter, it is no good trying to save Mr. Tumnus from the White…
Susan Brownell Anthony (Feb. 20, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and a feminist who played an important role in the woman’s suffrage movement. She began to collect anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and herself founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society after Anthony was not allowed to speak at a temperance conference because she was a woman. She began the movement to equality in women, although we are still looked at as minorities,…
But then he risks his life to save Lucy so then he becomes a protagonist! Lucy and her siblings were exploring the old professor's house. Lucy wanted to look inside of the wardrobe when she opened the door she stepped inside and got along the coast and started to feel all the coats she kept walking to the next row of coats. She started to get further and further until she reached the end of the wardrobe “This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!” Thought Lucy. Once she reaches the end she gets…