American Research Journal of English and Literature

Partha Sarathi Mandal

 The assessment of colonialism which Jane Eyre promises to make through its correspondence between forms of oppression finally collapses into a mere restlessness about the effects of empire on domestic social relations in England. That disquietude is the only leftover of Bronte’s potentially deep-seated revision of the analogy between white women and colonized races, and it is the only unfinished constituent in the ideological closure of the novel. The unsavoury mist which suggests British colonial contact with the racial “other,” diffused throughout the ending of the novel, betrays Bronte’s persistent anxiety about British colonialism and about her own literary handling of the racial “other,” about the technique in which, through repressive metaphorical strategy, she has tried to formulate the world of Jane Eyre clean.

Sharmila K

Introduction: Harper Lee’s ‘To kill a mocking bird’ is an exceedingly influential novel highlighting the repulsion of racial discrimination and racial issues concerning a staunch, typically a white town in the deep south of the United States of America. Racial injustice is the backbone of the novel. The entire plot spins around the case of a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a white woman. Atticus Finch is the man who tries to defend Tom. The differences between white and black has been explored throughout the novel. Tom is found guilty because of the color of his skin. The race stands against him as strong evidence and everything has proceeded from the perception of prejudice, racism has become a critical thematic string. The novel throws light on several social injustice issues which affect number black people and the chief victim is Tom Robinson.

Fatima Aref Msheik

This paper is an analysis of a poem by Felicia Hemans, a 19th century Romantic woman writer. Focusing on “The Bride of the Greek isle”, the study argues that Hemans death poems explore death as a means of freedom from the patriarchal society. It is not as some critics said that Hemans had morbid passion with death, or that her domesticity in her poems is unbearable. The paper, therefore, explores the journey of the bride, in the poem, as a journey towards freedom not death, using Freud’s psychoanalytical division of human’s mind into Id, Ego and Superego. Meanwhile, the study analyzes the images that Hemans used, and their significance to the study of women’s freedom through death. This paper shows that the three divisions of the narrative poem parallel in the structure the division of Freud’s human mind into Id, Ego, and Superego.