ANTONIETTE IN WIDE SARGASSO SEA

The character of Antoinette derives from Charlotte Brontë's poignant and powerful depiction of a deranged Creole outcast in her gothic novel Jane Eyre. Rhys creates a prehistory for Bronte's character, tracing her development from a young solitary girl in Jamaica to a love-depraved lunatic in an English garret. By fleshing out Brontë's one-dimensional madwoman, Rhys enables us to sympathize with the mental and emotional decline of a human being. Antoinette is a far cry from the conventional female heroines of nineteenth- and even twentieth-century novels, who are often more rational and self-restrained (as is Jane Eyre herself). In Antoinette, by contrast, we see the potential dangers of a wild imagination and an acute sensitivity. Her restlessness and instability seem to stem, in some part, from her inability to belong to any particular community. As a white Creole, she straddles the European world of her ancestors and the Caribbean culture into which she is born.

Left mainly to her own devices as a child, Antoinette turns inward, finding there a world that can be both peaceful and terrifying. In the first part of the novel we witness the development of a delicate child—one who finds refuge in the closed, isolated life of the convent. Her arranged marriage distresses her, and she tries to call it off, feeling instinctively that she will be hurt. Indeed, the marriage is a mismatch of culture and custom. She and her English husband, Mr. Rochester, fail to relate to one another; and her past deeds, specifically her childhood relationship with a half-caste brother, sullies her husband's view of her. An exile within her own family, a "white cockroach" to her disdainful servants, and an oddity in the eyes of her own husband, Antoinette cannot find a peaceful place for herself. Going far beyond the pitying stance taken by Bronte, Rhys humanizes "Bertha's" tragic condition, inviting the reader to explore Antoinette's terror and anguish.

MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was born in London, England on 23 September 1861. Her great-great uncle was the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), and her great aunt was Sara Coleridge (1802-1852), author of Phantasmion (1837). Mary's father, Arthur Duke Coleridge was one of the prime movers behind the formation of the London Bach Choir in 1875. Arthur was a talented tenor, and had considered a career as an opera singer. However, he rejected it as a full-time profession on moral grounds and instead became a Clerk to the Assizes, working on the Midlands Circuit for fifty-four years. Nevertheless, there was much of the performer in Arthur Coleridge, and in her collection of Mary Coleridge's poems (1954), Theresa Whistler paints a vivid picture of the head of the Coleridge household. Arthur was, 'a genial, magnificent figure with a face that would look well on a Roman coin, his shock of wavy grey hair poked forward over his open brow 

The Coleridge family was impressively well connected and several evenings a week the door would be opened perhaps to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, or the artists, Holman Hunt and Sir John Everett. Likewise, it may have been the actress, Fanny Kemble paying a visit, or the singer Jenny Lind, with her husband, the conductor, Otto Goldschmidt. In Mary's collection of essays, Non Sequitur (1900), she describes her feelings when she first saw Robert Browning step through her front door: 'I should like to think of another girl — as gay, as full of bold ambition and not so shy . I hope she will see the greatest man in the world come in, as I saw Robert Browning come through the door one evening, his hat under his arm' (201).

Mary was a shy child, scared of the dark and its shadows, but she had a naturally enquiring mind. At the age of twelve she became fascinated with the shape of Hebrew lettering and asked her father to teach her the language. She quickly became fluent in Hebrew as well as in French, German and Italian. In her mid twenties, she would read Greek nude the tutelage of William Cory, who had been Master at Eton when her father was a student there.

The publication of Mary's poems came about when a friend plotted to have them read by a wider audience. Violet Hodgkin's cousin was married to the poet Robert Bridges. Violet arranged for the small white book of poems that Mary had copied out for her to be left where Bridges would see them, knowing that he would be unable to resist giving an opinion. He did so and insisted upon meeting Mary to give her advice prior to publishing the small collection

 Mary contracted blood poisoning and died on 25th August 1907. Unusually for the time, she was cremated and her ashes buried in the cemetery just around the corner from where she died. Her grave is still there, inscribed with her dates and a short quotation from St. Paul, which reads simply, 'Pure love'.

BERTHA IN JANE EYRE

Bertha mason is a fictional character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre she is the violently insane first wife of Edward Rochester, moved to Thornfield Hall and locked in the attic.

A beautiful young woman plagued with mental illness, including violent outbursts, Bertha Mason was the scorn of her family. To get rid of her, her father and brother conspired to marry her off to Mr. Rochester, a wealthy land owner.

To do this, they did not allow Rochester to see much of Bertha before the wedding, which customs allowed at the time. After the wedding, the Masons refused to help Rochester, abandoning Bertha to his mercy. Being a decent man, Rochester found Grace Poole to look after his wife and locked her in the attic of his great estate.

Bertha would escape from time to time, often after Poole would have too much to drink, and would interrupt life in her husband's home, leading to reports that the mansion was haunted. Bertha's existence was kept quiet to the point that only Poole and Rochester knew.

 Little is known about Bertha before the insanity set in. While she does have periods of calm, Bertha does not ever seem to reach anything resembling lucidity, especially after her marriage to Rochester. Bertha's outbursts, when agitated, often result in violence.

 Bertha's main characteristic is that she is Insane, meaning that her actions have no basis in reality. Bertha is also a Plot Device, as she has few character traits and her existence in the narrative is meant to move the plot along. Bertha could also be considered the character Lurking in the Shadows, a character is constantly following, just out of sight, the main character.

ROOM OF ONES OWN.....VIRGINIA WOOLF

The essay starts and the setting of of this partly fictionalized narrative  Woolf  was invited to make a lecture on women and fiction.she start the thesis that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." . She dramatizes that mental process in the character of an imaginary narrator Mary Beton.who is in the same position of Virgina  Woolf struggling to deal with the same topic.

The narrator begins her investigation at Oxbridge College, where she reflects on the different educational experiences available to men and women as well as on more material differences in their lives. She then spends a day in the British Library Searching the scholarship on women, all of which has written by men and all of which has been written in anger. when she look into  history, she finds so little data about the everyday lives of women that she decides to reconstruct their existence . The figure of Judith Shakespeare is produced as an example of the tragic fate a highly intelligent woman would have met with worse circumstances. In light of this background, she considers the achievements of the major women novelists of the nineteenth century and reflects on the importance of tradition to an aspiring writer. A survey of the current state of literature follows, conducted through a reading the first novel of one of the narrator's contemporaries. Woolf closes the essay with an warningto her audience of women to take up the tradition that has been so hardly hand on to them, and to increase the personal talent for their own daughters.

ASHTAMI DAY

what happened on the day of Ashtami ... the day ,the young girls are considered and honoured as goddesses of the house.

The incidents are reported by the narrators aunt ,Hari s mother ... lets see what she has to say about the day and the Lalitha s middle daughter.....from the short story GIRLS..by Mirnal Pande.


"On the day of ashtami  when sasuma called all girls with a tray of crimson powder in her hands ,and another tray filled with halwas and puris...a mat has been spread  for their sitting and all.at that time Lalithas middle daughter started make every one mad without obeying Marima or anyone...when she is called for pooja and offering,i always think how Lalitha suffer all this ..how can she tolerate her, she is brat ,never hears any ones order and never always have a bomerang type of replay that hit elders mouth shut.

a stubborn girl ,I dont what Lalitha do with her in this critical condition , when her grandmother called her she refused to come and playing train in courtyard, what will we do with these...types ,
she is not even thinking that one day she have to get married to one and go away...if she grow with this sort of behaviour...she never gonna survive there... poor Lalitha always get in trouble with this girl, when will Lalitha get peace of mind:" ......

nanotales....

SELFIES

She took hundreds of selfies everywhere she went .she didn t  have a choice .she had nobody who could click her pictures....

TRICOLOR

You picked me off the street , smeared me across your cheeks , pinned me on your shirt.

a day later , I was torn and forgotten...

DAUGHTER

She slapped the elderly man as he had been staring at her in the bus .

the man got down at next stop , humiliated . He could nt tell her that she looked just like his dead daughter...

DARK

He worshipped Kali and Shyam , two Gods always depicted with dark skin , but refused to marry a dark skin girl.

the gods laughed at the irony....

BEGGAR

The beggar kept shivering in the cold but nobody offered him a blanket.

but when he died , workers from the municipality covered  him with a shroud.

death was kinder....

one child ,one teacher, one book , one pen.......

"I come from a country which was created midnight . when I almost  died it was just midday" this is the opening sentence of the book I AM  MALALA  .I always gets goosebumps when i listen this speech  ,that a sixteen year old teenage girl fought  and raised against the furious and terrible people....so called Taliban. The reason to post this video as  inspiration for those struggle in the battlefield to  catch their dream and  raise to zenith.... we know education is everyone s right so  we never and ever gonna give up to those who deny our basic right.........On  October 9   Malala was shot  as  renaissance from her half dead condition to a strong girl of thought and determination to struggle for education....she made her speech awesome.....in UN assembly.... she is really a lesson  for girls who put their dreams behind and  move  as  a sting attached  puppet......


never lose hope always chase your dreams and pursue your goals....if u have sharp determination and confidence no one can hold back......