Essays on Voice

Abstract Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus is discussed here as a dialogic novel, with a focus on multiple consciousness and the multi-voiced perspective of the characters, and the interpretation of the characters and the novel based on the ensuing consciousnesses. Bakhtin’s idea of dialogism and...

Child labor is a major problem in the modern world. People have tried to resolve it for generations, but despite their efforts, children are still being taken into slavery and servitude against the law. We can’t put an official end to it, but if everyone...

It’s hard to find your voice in a society that suppresses you while convincing you that you’re free to say what you want. The Stonewall riots of 1969, led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both transgender women of colour, marked a turning point...

Introduction The human voice is remarkable instrument as voice is work as the unique identification for each individual. A speaker can evoke a wide range of emotion and mental images by slight changes of vocal timbre, loudness, or subtle nuances in inflections. A person’s voice...

Above the vocal cords is a set of membranes and cartilage that make the shape of a funnel. When you bring that cartilage in and wrap the shape of the funnel to be even more horn-like, you get twang. The sound is less breathy, more...

A faithful civil rights activist, singer, musician, pianist, and author was born on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. She was a musical icon that inspired so many in a time of struggle. She made the world respect and see her as a strong...

When I first heard we were going to watching a New Zealand film as part of our film study, I can honestly say that I was not in the least interested. It’s nothing personal, but when I compare New Zealand movies to American movies I...

Amazon.com reviews for Ama Adhe’s The Voice That Remembers only include four and five star ratings, with comments ranging from “Her story is one all should read because her message helps one gain perspective and perseverance through adversity” to simply “I think (Adhe’s) book made...

Many people loves to sing whether they have those angelic-lovely voice or unexplainable, extraordinary, out this world, unpleasant voice. Some used to sing in karaoke then even the lyrics are on the screen still the way they sing that song is horrible. While some people...

It is a good thing that women religious writers, especially Marguerite Porete, did not listen to this scripture and spoke up in church. While all women mystics are quite different from each other, they all share the common idea of the conviction, that there was...

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is in many ways a ‘la piéce bien faite’ (translated as ‘well-made play’), which consists of a four point structure: an exposition; a complication and a climax followed by a denouement. Certainly, the exposition can be identified as...

Throughout The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Cartwright presents the character of Mari Hoff as irresponsible and vulgar, especially through his use of colloquial language. Scene Seven certainly supports this view, but also introduces her vulnerability: a trait that the audience must understand before...

In Narrow Road to the Deep North, Japanese poet Basho expresses himself masterfully through the traditional forms of haibun, covering themes of nature, folklore, faith, and journeys both physical and spiritual. All these stories and sentiments are contained within a haibun—a short piece of prose...

Roddy Doyle’s novel ‘Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha’, set in 1960’s Dublin, in the fictional suburb of Barrytown, is narrated in first person by Paddy, a 10 year old boy. Doyle effectively crafts the text to reassemble Paddy’s thoughts by manipulating the novel’s non-linear structure...

In Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton, class inequality becomes a major theme from the beginning of the book, especially in light of the possibility of a marriage between Mary Barton and Harry Carson. While Mary saw Mr. Carson as an escape from her lower class...

Through his work in poetry, literature, and other media, Walt Whitman is often considered one of the most significant American writers and theorists. He arguably popularized all-American literature with his work, injecting American writing into an era where only genteel and European-traditionist literature was taught...

Jane Austen’s Lady Susan novel is one of her most decadent Victorian novels which challenges mainstream morality through its protagonist Lady Susan herself. As the epistolary novel proceeds, the written exchanges among the character demonstrate indignation at Lady Susan’s contrariness: her flirtation, extramarital affair, machinations,...

The Wife of Bath’s tale is appropriate to her character, and perfectly complements the description of the Wife in the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer’s late 1300s literary masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath creates a heroine through whom it is possible to...

In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer uses three different narrative voices to bring life to his story. The first and most prominent, as well as the one used to narrate the ongoings of the present day, is that of Oskar Schell. The other two,...