JANE AUSTEN
BACKGROUND INFO: Jane Austen is one of the greatest
English writers, some say the greatest after Shakespeare. She is also the greatest English novelist and
one of the famous English women who has ever lived. Some of her novels which she wrote when she
was in a young age were perfectly formed.
ANALYSIS: Her works last and are still
widely read until now. She writes stories or novels which one would settle down
with which have you a lot of hours of pleasure and chuckling. Her novels are
also full of tension and mystery which
where we are kept waiting and when everything falls out of place. Why? You may
ask. Well it’s because she writes her novels in semi – secrecy and she prods
away from the social conventions of her time. She reveals the little
preoccupations and concerns of the ladies and the gentlemen and the young women
in those circles, and she leads us to laugh at them and her characteristics are
highly memorable. Her works always have a young woman as a centre. This is
because she represents the young woman with romantic dreams and marrying her
perfect man. Sense and Sensible is full of romance and humor. It includes a sad story about two women who became pregnant out of wedlock. Pride and Prejudice is Jane's most popular novel. It is about Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, morality, education and marriage. She wrote this two stories because of her world and this included her social class, the gentry. The manners and life forms of the gentry is present in both stories. She took some typical situation of a gentleman's daughter's life.
REFLECTION: Jane Austen’s story somehow inspired me to
also write my owns stories because I think she writes these kind of stories to
express how she feels or what she wants. Writing stories can be a hobby, a
passion or even just a thing to spend our free time. It doesn’t mean that the
stories we write needs to be published, sometimes it can just be a story that
your family, friends, classmates and schoolmates will read when they have time
and if possible be inspired or set it as an example for them to also write
their stories like how Jane Austen inspired me. As what Jane Austen quoted in
her book “Sense & Sensibility” – Know your own happiness. And just like
Jane one of my happiness is writing stories.
WORKS: Some of her greatest works are “Sense &
Sensibility”, “Emma”,
“Persuasion”, “Mansfield Park”, “Lady Susan”, “Northanger Abbey”, “The
Watsons”, “Sanditon” and “Pride &
Prejudice”.
ANALYSIS: Her works last and are still
widely read until now. She writes stories or novels which one would settle down
with which have you a lot of hours of pleasure and chuckling. Her novels are
also full of tension and mystery which
where we are kept waiting and when everything falls out of place. Why? You may
ask. Well it’s because she writes her novels in semi – secrecy and she prods
away from the social conventions of her time. She reveals the little
preoccupations and concerns of the ladies and the gentlemen and the young women
in those circles, and she leads us to laugh at them and her characteristics are
highly memorable. Her works always have a young woman as a centre. This is
because she represents the young woman with romantic dreams and marrying her
perfect man. Sense and Sensible is full of romance and humor. It includes a sad story about two women who became pregnant out of wedlock. Pride and Prejudice is Jane's most popular novel. It is about Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, morality, education and marriage. She wrote this two stories because of her world and this included her social class, the gentry. The manners and life forms of the gentry is present in both stories. She took some typical situation of a gentleman's daughter's life.
REFLECTION: Jane Austen’s story somehow inspired me to
also write my owns stories because I think she writes these kind of stories to
express how she feels or what she wants. Writing stories can be a hobby, a
passion or even just a thing to spend our free time. It doesn’t mean that the
stories we write needs to be published, sometimes it can just be a story that
your family, friends, classmates and schoolmates will read when they have time
and if possible be inspired or set it as an example for them to also write
their stories like how Jane Austen inspired me. As what Jane Austen quoted in
her book “Sense & Sensibility” – Know your own happiness. And just like
Jane one of my happiness is writing stories.
WILLIAM BLAKE
BACKGROUND
INFO: William
Blake was an English poet,
painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now
considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts
of the Romantic Age. His prophetic
poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the
least read body of poetry in the English language". he produced a diverse
and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the
imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence
itself". The singularity of
Blake's work makes him difficult to classify.
WORKS: “The Complete”, "The Angels Hovering Over the body of Christ in the Sepulchre", "The Ancient of Days", "Chimney Sweeper", "Adam naming the beasts", "Satan", “Jerusalem: The emanation of the Giant Albion”, and “The Marriage of
Heaven & Hell”.
ANALYSIS: His prophetic poetry has been said to
form "what is in proportion
to its merits the
least read body of poetry in the English
language". His
works is all about god and evil. These books can help enlighten our mind
specifically all Christians. He writes these kind of stories because the bible
had an early profound influence in his life. Blake’s stories were inspired form
his life when he saw God’s head appear in a window when he was four and he
allegedly saw the private Ezekiel under a tree and had a vision of a tree
filled with angels. The Chimney Sweeper is about a dark background of a child labour in the late XVIII and XIX century. A small boy was sold into chimney - sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts a story of a fellow chimney sweeper who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. He wrote this story because he was very interested in social condition on his day. He witnessed the deplorable conditions in which a child chimney sweeps were forced to work. It was Blake's empathy for them that inspired this story.
REFLECTION: William Blake stories inspired me to
strengthen my faith in god. In his stories you can learn more about our Lord
God. In this generation we could recommend these kind of stories to the young
ones or teenagers instead of reading fan fiction. His works also inspired me to
never stop believing in God. He is always with us anywhere and anytime even
though we commit a lot sins and even though we cannot see Him. In his
experience in life I conclude that if we believe nothing is impossible with God.
HAROLD PINTER
BACKGROUND INFO: Harold Pinter had a
career of more
than half a century as a playwright, director, actor and writer of screenplays
for television and film. HE was the most influential English playwright of the
20th
century without a doubt. He was not only an actor but also a campaigner, mostly
political . But he, Harold Pinter was first and foremost a writer.
WORKS: Some of his works are: “The Birthday Party”, "The Room", "Night School", "Old Times", "Family Voices" “The
Dumb Waiter”, "Homecoming", and “Remembrance of the Past”.
ANALYSIS: His works express a strange and mysterious situations. His
dialogues are often funny and menacing at the same time. His plays are
particularly famous for their use of understatement to convey characters'
thoughts and feelings. His
works describe about fear, pain, boos, and, the pauses in his life. What he
wrote has no obligation to anything other than to itself. His first poems were greatly influenced by his inspirational English teacher Joseph Brearley.
REFLECTION: William Blake stories inspired me to
strengthen my faith in god. In his stories you can learn more about our Lord
God. In this generation we could recommend these kind of stories to the young
ones or teenagers instead of reading fan fiction. His works also inspired me to
never stop believing in God. He is always with us anywhere and anytime even
though we commit a lot sins and even though we cannot see Him. In his
experience in life I conclude that if we believe nothing is impossible with God.
