Samantha Kelly Lit and Media

              I have been a huge fan of the Keira Knightly, 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice for a long time now, but I never had the opportunity to read the original book. It was an interesting experience. It’s not often you watch the movie and then read the book. The movie seems to really honor the book, quoting the text sometimes word for word and having the same skeleton of scene structure. While the two mediums seem to be very similar, there was one thing that stood out to me as being outwardly different. You know was Darcy is thinking throughout the story.               In the 2005 movie, everything is solely from Elizabeth’s point of view; you never knowing for sure what Darcy is thinking. While I relate very much to the movie version of Elizabeth and enjoyed seeing the story through her filter, I felt like knowing what Darcy is thinking and seeing things from his side thro...

Hello Readers, When reading a work, it is very helpful and insightful to know the writer, their background, worldview, etc. Knowing just a little about the author can reveal underlying themes and story points in the work which you might not have realized otherwise. In this spirit, I will give you, the reader, a little insight into me as the writer of this blog.               I grew up in Maryland, north of Baltimore, with my parents and my two sisters. Like many of us, I drew a lot and always had my eyes on an artistic career, but I also was very involved in sports. I played soccer for most of my life and still play on the plaza with the soccer club now. When I got to high school I stopped playing soccer, mostly, and picked up rugby. Rugby was really my athletic focus in high school and when it came time to look at colleges, I was torn between a college with a rugby team and a bad art program or a school without rugby...

In  The Wife of Bath's Prologue  and  The Wife of Bath's Tale,  there is the underlying message that women want power over their men. During Chaucer’s time, the 1300’s, women were generally held in low esteem. This mindset even occurred in the church. The church, at this time in history, was very corrupt. They misinterpreted a multitude of scriptures to conform to their worldview, rather than having the scriptures form their worldview, like it is intended to do. This erroneous worldview is the fault of the readers, not the text. This was the truth that the Wife of Bath was after why she felt the pilgrimage was necessary; she longed for the truth.                 This oppressive worldview that was held by the majority molded the Wife of Bath into the sexually manipulative women that we read about. Having told she has little power being a woman, she ironically uses her feminine wiles to yield...