Literary Blog

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.

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.