English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ashley Contreras | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ac55/activity/ Activity feed for Ashley Contreras. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 953a56f2f4ab94b07ef7d157ebaf35c6 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned about Victorian literature this semester? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14195/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 22:43:52 -0500 When first entering this course, I had no clue what Victorian Literature was nor the history behind the Victorian era and its common theme romance. Little to my knowledge was I aware that I had read a couple of […]

]]> 0 ad3cebb5eff3fd9b4a09dad18768c2eb Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Incestuous love: The case of the forbidden love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14141/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:58:30 -0500 In Wuthering Heights, we are introduced to Heathcliff who is adopted into the Earnshaw family. Although Catherine Earnshaw was not fond of his presence in the beginning, she did begin to have a hold on Heathcliff […]

]]> 0 3a0c7df1117bfc069f219f263abb86ee Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Jailbird Blues in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14055/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:05:24 -0500 From what I’ve gathered in both the texts, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, is that the speaker is being kept inside of jail cell. However, I believe that this ‘jail cell’ is a […]

]]> 0 5a880aff59876f51ede39264e421e08c Ashley Contreras commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14033/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:46:47 -0500 [Many pleasant pictures of the life that I would lead there, and of the change for the better that would come over my character when I had a guiding spirit at my side whose simple faith and clear home wisdom I had […]

]]> 0 d136bd8a76ce5be2385f3b3cb24ecae0 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Love is an orphan in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13982/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:04:02 -0500 We gain insight from orphans throughout a series of texts such as; “Great Expectations”, “Wuthering Heights”, and “The Chimney Sweeper”. What each orphan has in common is the lack of love they receive from […]

]]> 0 f0569bf7ef9c3f80243f906357d2f237 Ashley Contreras commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13944/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:19:01 -0500 As they grow apart from their childhood memories and grow into the adolescent stages of life, they begin to grow out of childhood personas and create new ones through experiences. Does Estella remind Pip of […]

]]> 0 fb23c12576b34d3ba1f87c0ddd7a15f4 Ashley Contreras edited the blog post A series of unfortunate events in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13878/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 01:48:27 -0500 In “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, as Pip grows up, we start to see a change in his personality. We also start to see how social class is significant during this era and a popular topic in Victorian […]

]]> 0 21de03f1f2f6c0431c4e4b6c9758f092 Ashley Contreras edited the blog post An Orphanage of compassion in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13820/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:28:58 -0500 Looking at Chapters 1-3 of Great Expectations, we can see some similar alignments with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and P[hil]ip, the main character in Great Expectations, Pip, as he calls himself due to […]

]]> 0 b768812c627e8f9075e4ee8dd7c45842 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The World is Our Kingdom, but Do We Know the Players? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13645/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 03:04:59 -0500 In Darwin’s, “On the Origin of Species”, it says, “all organisms start from a common origin. If we look even to the two main divisions—namely, to the animal and vegetable kingdoms—certain low forms are so far […]

]]> 0 e517a37e128e12419043164a957e6a28 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The Inheritance of Love and Revenge in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13587/ Sat, 28 Sep 2019 02:00:24 -0500 We see how these star-crossed lovers (Heathcliff and late Catherine)have marked their love history and how it seems to repeat now with the Young Catherine (heir to the late Catherine) and Linton (heir to […]

]]> 0 e8bd09d25e7ce902d5d6cd1d9074cc68 Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Confinement within their oppression in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13533/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 02:07:42 -0500 In Wuthering Heights, we can see the abuse that Heathcliff projects onto Hareton and Linton when he uses his revenge from all the other people around him treated him poorly. For example, Hareton, Hindley’s son, […]

]]> 0 5eb2e333943ea0110e4005063fdeaefe Ashley Contreras commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13532/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 01:49:54 -0500 This reminds me of the phrase, “history is meant to repeat itself” because we have young Catherine finding a liking to her cousin, Hareton, who despite not being the biological son of Heathcliff, is raised by him. […]

]]> 0 1a0f685e45071db39160328b798740e0 Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Wuthering Heights (Chap. 1-9) -- Make A Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13446/ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:29:52 -0500 To begin, enter Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant of Mr. Heathcliff. Their relationship is not at all the best and you can feel the tension between the two. Mr. Lockwood, upon his arrival, meets Nelly, one of the […]

]]> 0 b6529af43a4c9d0e021e0fdd4e251909 Ashley Contreras commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13306/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:48:04 -0500 In the Victorian era, children were known to become chimney sweepers. I believe the speaker is displaying a picture of a child covered in soot amongst the ice-cold snow. The speaker cries out that due to the […]

]]> 0 376bb3eff79b83cb78462d2319eebbe1 Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Make a connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13300/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 23:24:52 -0500 In SOCIETY IN AMERICA, Harriet Martineau brought some issues that dealt with women’s rights and lack of freedom in government laws, policies, and their own freedom. This passage mostly referred to the government […]

]]> 0 1680f5cffa063836782ecebad2c9bf15 Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post What do you hope to learn about Victorian literature this semester? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13213/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:30:59 -0500 When adding this course, I had no clue what Victorian Literature was. What I hope to learn by the end of this semester is the [historical] context behind what makes these different pieces, victorian […]

]]> 0 77ee7c3ac9c0c4c2514a9176e3180250 Ashley Contreras replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/page/2/#post-1440 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:11:32 -0500 I don’t have a favorite work of Victorian Literature. Does Jane Eyre fall under that category?

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