Do you not get time off for Easter? Over here the schools have 2 weeks off and uni has three (though then it's straight into revision week then exams :( )
Nope. Our colleges have about a month off for the Christmas holidays and then about a week somewhere in March. The schools usually have their spring break the week before Easter--my brother's off.
I don't know why, exactly, that the colleges just choose a random week to have their spring break...maybe they give you easter monday off for travel time (though mine's a commuter school, so it's not needed)
In her defense, it may be annoying, but it was true: women were in fact viewed as the weaker sex during that time period. It's annoying but it's still there. Just so's ya know. Also: misogyny is a major theme in the story, along with madness and incest. It'd be silly of her not to mention the role of women when it's kind of important to the plot.
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April 9 2009, 13:47:45 UTC
Yeeeeah alright I see your point. Hamlet's opinion of women is (perhaps understandably, given his situation) rather low, "Frailty thy name is woman" and all that.
It's just that it's -everything- we read! I mean, I get that she prescribes to feminist criticism, but there are other forms of criticism I'd really like to see. (Like Archetypal/Mythology, and all that other stuff I learned in my LitCrit class last semester)
yes. sounds to me more like it's the critiquer's feminism and critiquing that's bad, rather than feminist critique in general. (iz she mentioning race/religion/nationality, too? I guess no) my women's college was steeped in fair to great critique (with some bad thrown in, cuz, hey, no one is perfect)
i'd suggest some better ones as an antidote, but sounds like you need a break from it all first.
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I don't know why, exactly, that the colleges just choose a random week to have their spring break...maybe they give you easter monday off for travel time (though mine's a commuter school, so it's not needed)
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It's just that it's -everything- we read! I mean, I get that she prescribes to feminist criticism, but there are other forms of criticism I'd really like to see. (Like Archetypal/Mythology, and all that other stuff I learned in my LitCrit class last semester)
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i'd suggest some better ones as an antidote, but sounds like you need a break from it all first.
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