Friday, July 19, 2019
A Womens Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of Ones Own, and Northanger Abb
A Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abbey     A quest is a tale that celebrates how one can cleverly and resolutely rise superior to all opposition. Yet as fresh prospectives on history now suggest, in this search for freedom and order, the masculine craving for adventure, demanded restrictions upon women, forcing her into deeper confinement, even within her limited province. Thus the rights of a man are separated by the expectancies of a woman.  Each subsequent story deals with a search for truth that is hidden by the facades of social convention.  This search is often hampered by the conventions that are part of the outside and inside domain. For a female's quest is best displayed in the sphere of domestic life, which drastically diminishes her diversity of action, compared to men who are expected to live public, successful lives.      The Homeric journey for males is a physical adventure in the external world. Odysseus is a man who pursues his objective against all opposition. He absolutely refuses to give in, whatever happens to him en route for home.  Constantly, he reinforces the principle that will guide him throughout his struggles:                  "For if some god batters me far                  out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it,                  keeping a stubborn spirit inside of me,                  for already I have suffered much and                  done much hard work..." (The Odyssey 9. 12-16) So the hero of The Odyssey displays the manifold ability to overcome beings of all kinds, one after the other. Always he comes to fore as the master, and by his extraordinary greatness,... ...t intensive of adventures, is to tear the guise of alien. Thus we may learn a fresh respect for courage and why so much is necessary. Only then can we appreciate how gallant, how witty and yet how compassionate that quest was. Works Cited and Consulted Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey, Oxford World's Classics, 1998. Benstock, Shari, ed. Feminist Zssues in Literary Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. Crane, Gregory , Calypso: Backgrounds and Conventions of the Odyssey, Frankfurt, Athenaeum 1988 Delany, Sheila. Writing Women: Women Writers and Women in Literature: Medieval to Modern. New York: Schocken, 1983. Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles. Preface by Bernard Knox). The Odyssey. New York: Viking Penguin, div. of Penguin Books, Ltd. 1996. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929. New York: Harvest-Harcourt, 1989. A Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abb A Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abbey     A quest is a tale that celebrates how one can cleverly and resolutely rise superior to all opposition. Yet as fresh prospectives on history now suggest, in this search for freedom and order, the masculine craving for adventure, demanded restrictions upon women, forcing her into deeper confinement, even within her limited province. Thus the rights of a man are separated by the expectancies of a woman.  Each subsequent story deals with a search for truth that is hidden by the facades of social convention.  This search is often hampered by the conventions that are part of the outside and inside domain. For a female's quest is best displayed in the sphere of domestic life, which drastically diminishes her diversity of action, compared to men who are expected to live public, successful lives.      The Homeric journey for males is a physical adventure in the external world. Odysseus is a man who pursues his objective against all opposition. He absolutely refuses to give in, whatever happens to him en route for home.  Constantly, he reinforces the principle that will guide him throughout his struggles:                  "For if some god batters me far                  out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it,                  keeping a stubborn spirit inside of me,                  for already I have suffered much and                  done much hard work..." (The Odyssey 9. 12-16) So the hero of The Odyssey displays the manifold ability to overcome beings of all kinds, one after the other. Always he comes to fore as the master, and by his extraordinary greatness,... ...t intensive of adventures, is to tear the guise of alien. Thus we may learn a fresh respect for courage and why so much is necessary. Only then can we appreciate how gallant, how witty and yet how compassionate that quest was. Works Cited and Consulted Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey, Oxford World's Classics, 1998. Benstock, Shari, ed. Feminist Zssues in Literary Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. Crane, Gregory , Calypso: Backgrounds and Conventions of the Odyssey, Frankfurt, Athenaeum 1988 Delany, Sheila. Writing Women: Women Writers and Women in Literature: Medieval to Modern. New York: Schocken, 1983. Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles. Preface by Bernard Knox). The Odyssey. New York: Viking Penguin, div. of Penguin Books, Ltd. 1996. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. 1929. New York: Harvest-Harcourt, 1989.
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