Acadameia On Beauty

First English Professor surfaced in 1833. History first came around in 1600. London had the first English professor. London University completed the circle with the first Digital Humanities department. English could be abolished for an area of study in the near future with the addition of Digital Humanities departments to the world of academia. Studying Literature will never fade in Academia world. English Literature study needs to evolve to make the area of study more valuable. Literature study requires at least three different fields. An example for modern day scholars is studying Shakespeare. Shakespeare's plays require at least three areas of study to make a complete examination of the author's works. These three disciplines in studying are Literature, Classics and History. Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus requires all three disciplines. One must understand Roman history to realize the setting of the play along with the study of Classics and Mythology. Shakespeare incorporates Ovid's Metamorphosis in his play.

Picasso a Close Reading

Picasso is known for ever in art lore as the famous painter and sculptor from Spain. Winterson takes the name Picasso and does a one-eighty by making her character the opposite sex of Picasso. Winterson's Picasso reminds one of Picasso’s famous painting that contains women wearing African tribal masks. The African tribal mask painting is connected to Winterson's character. The women in this picture are not painters but objects being painted: is it hard for Picasso to imagine herself a painter instead of an object? By naming her character Picasso, Winterson imagines a non-patriarchal society in which women can be artists as famous as Picasso is in our society now. By creating Picasso as a female character and a lesbian, Winterson challenges our faces of greatness, calling into question the great artist's identity.
Famous painters are mostly men: Picasso, Rapheal, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and, Anthony van Dyck.

Wrongs of Woman

The Wrongs of Woman captures one by having the narrator starting in the middle of the story, in medias res. Wollstonecraft alludes different views on women. Maria’s unjustifiable imprisonment by her husband was fascinating especially the connection one makes with the three monotheistic religions' biased view on women.
Wrongs of Woman has a strong connection to the sins of Eve in the Bible.
The title’s allusion towards Eve in the bible is from the deep rooted idea that
Eve was the reason why man had fallen from God’s grace, because she succumbed to the
serpent’s temptation and ate the apple from the Forbidden Fruit Tree. Patriarchal
society dominates the idea that women are not equal to men but in reality they are ever bit as equal as men. Maria’s imprisonment in the insane asylum alludes to women being prisoners in a patriarchal society.