Essays on My Antonia

Willa Cather’s historical fiction novel, My Ántonia, takes place in Black Hawk, Nebraska, at the end of the 19th century. My Ántonia shares the story of James ‘Jim’ Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy from Virginia, and Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of immigrants from Bohemia who recently moved as neighbors. Most of the novel is written...

In Literature, all its components and aspects connect individuals with broader ideas and truths of society. According to French author and critic, Charles Nodier, “literature is the expression of society.” This quotation underscores the fact that through literary works such as novels, societal issues can be explored. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Willa Cather’s...

With regards to gender, ideology ‘reflects two aspects of research on this topic: (a) its roots in the feminist position that women are conceptualized as inferior to men to justify and sustain social and cultural systems dominated by men; and (b) the culturally constructed (as opposed to ‘natural’) nature of gender’ as per the words...