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The Representation of Women in Angela Carter’s "The Magic Toyshop"
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: In 1967 Angela Carter published a novel about an adolescent female protagonist growing up in a patriarchal system. Published at a moment in history when significant change, not only for women, but all of the western world was about to take place, The Magic Toyshop illuminates the metamorphosing social dynamics. Angela Carter sensed this moment but did not know where it was going to lead and what it would offer women. Guiding the reader through these pending seismic changes is Melanie, the novel's protagonist...
Women in the 1960s: Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop
In 1967, Angela Carter published a novel about an adolescent female protagonist growing up in a patriarchal system. Published at a moment in history when significant change, not only for women, but all of the western world was about to take place, The Magic Toyshop illuminates the metamorphosing social dynamics. Angela Carter sensed this moment but did not know where it was going to lead and what it would offer women. Guiding the reader through these pending seismic changes is Melanie, the novel's protagonist. As opposed to the other female characters of the novel who occupy only a fixed role suiting patriarchal hierarchy, Melanie is constantly shifting roles. She can be read as representative of the rebelling female, challenging patriarchal order. Melanie realises that none of the potential roles society offers women will satisfy her. In the end, she has the chance to enter a new world and a relationship defined by equality.
The Cultural Dependency of Prototypes or How Bad Birds Are Able to Survive
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, 5, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: The use of language in our everyday life is an automatic process we usually do not reflect on. Nevertheless - or perhaps for exactly this reason- it is influenced by the speech community we live in. Our own culture provides us with a world view that is different from all other cultures and influences our language in that it determines which concepts are salient and worth being articulated. (Saeed 1997: 42) Prototype theory as founded by the US-American linguist Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s is an area of research situated ...
The Representation of Women in Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop"
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: In 1967 Angela Carter published a novel about an adolescent female protagonist growing up in a patriarchal system. Published at a moment in history when significant change, not only for women, but all of the western world was about to take place, The Magic Toyshop illuminates the metamorphosing social dynamics. Angela Carter sensed this moment but did not know where it was going to lead and what it would offer women. Guiding the reader through these pending seismic changes is Melanie, the novel's protagonist...
The role of mothers / mother figures in Carter's novel "The Magic Toyshop"
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: “The social order, our culture, want it this way: the mother must remain forbidden, excluded. The father forbids the bodily encounter with the mother,” claims Luce Irigaray at a conference in 1981 (536). The patriarchal order kept women silent and granted them no identity, being dominated by the law of the father who wants to be the sole creator. Women were confined to the function of reproduction and forbidden to create. (533-37) Angela Carter wrote her novel The Magic Toyshop in 1967. This is a time when many riots were about to take place, for instance concerning politics, class, race or gender issues. Women questioned the chains stopping them from experimenting with their reality and pushing them into stereotypical images such as mother or housewife.
Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia". Critical on postcolonial Orientalism?
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: In the following essay I am going to discuss Kureishi's approach on Said's criticism on Orientalism in his novel The Buddha of Suburbia. I will start by establishing Said's argument in detail and engage with some of the paradoxes revealed within it. This will be followed by what Kureishi opines which is not completely in favour of nor against Said and thus problematises some of Said's premises. Orientalism is a system of images, attitudes and ways of seeing the Orient. It is the academic study of political and literary discourse about Arabs, Islam and the Middle East, especially by France, Britain and the USA. Many stereotypes within Orient writing in the West make its presentation contradictory in that it is both attractive and repulsive at the same time.
The Democratic Deficit and the „No Demos“-Thesis
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, University of Hamburg (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Scholars have vigorously argued that a democratic deficit exists within the European Union (EU). This paper analyses the concept democratic deficit, firstly in general, defining democracy and the term democratic deficit, and providing general reasons for this perception. This paper supports the thesis of a democratic deficit for multiple reasons, including a dominating executive in the EU, a lack of accountability of EU institutions, technocratic untransparent decision-making and a European Parliament with to...
The Scottish National Party
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Political systems in general and in comparison, grade: 1,0, Charles University in Prague, language: English, abstract: “Scotland is on a journey and the path ahead is a bright one. Now is a time for Scotland to keep moving forward.”1 The Scottish National Party (SNP), the regionalist party of Scotland in the United Kingdom, is a centre-left, social-democratic party. This paper firstly provides short paragraph on the history and character of the party, followed by an analysis of the party’s program. It then comments on how the party approaches new challenges and tries to find answers to current problems, such as climate change, the economic crisis and Scottish home rule. Finally, the relationship of the SNP and the European Union (EU) is examined.
The Blair Government 1997-2007. An overall failure or success with respect to European integration?
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: “Fog in the Channel, Continent Cut off”, goes the famous headline that appeared in The Times around 1900. It perfectly captures the image of Great Britain being an island nation separate from Europe whose foreign policy is characterised by the feeling of holding a special position and distance to Europe. European integration is a very emotive issue in modern British politics concerning Britain’s reluctance to be involved and to forgo its parliamentary sovereignty. This ‘traditional...
