Critics often criticize Tolkien for the lack of women in his novels. While, admittedly, there are not very many prominent women in his works, Tolkien does create his women in powerful and influential roles.
The writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien have often been studied and compared, quite possibly because of the friendship the authors shared. The friendship between Lewis and Tolkien began when they were both Oxford dons. Tolkien began a club among the literary faculty to read and study Icelandic and Norse literature. After about three…
The role of women in literature, as in life, is continually shifting. Many women of the nineteenth century, tired to “embrace the dominant middle-class Cult of True Womanhood by constructing a poetic voice that is pious, pure, submissive, and concerned with the domestic sphere” (Cane, 151). However, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a…
The Chaucer Pilgrim uses the General Prologue to set the scene for his reader, starting by telling the reader of the season and setting. He begins by telling his readers of Zephirus blowing in the spring, new life growing in the fields and the birds singing in the trees. He continues on telling how the…