English @ SUNY Geneseo | Emma Sens | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/emmasens/activity/ Activity feed for Emma Sens. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b7a4ed12643c910056aeaa8bebc4d021 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post Group 4: Refelction in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14575/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:27:36 -0500 Group 4: Places That Show The Development Of Pip

By: Kathryn Capone, Emma Sens, Clare Corbett, Cameron Luquer, Kristopher Bangsil, and Isa Higgins

Our goal with this project was to delve deeper into the […]

]]> 0 4c4004fa158462b8fd6b19d379f2e482 Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14569/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:02:46 -0500 At the Three Jolly Bargemen Pip thinks he meets the convict again and is overcome by guilt.

]]> 0 8a3904aa079619b93fdab22cb0029399 Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14568/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:54:39 -0500 The marshes are a major setting in the novel. They are discussed in chapter 1 where Pip lives, in chapter 53 where Pip is attacked, and when he crosses through them to his new life. The marshes show Pip’s […]

]]> 0 0df5c12b1eda0b15a879d86f189088e9 Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14567/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:39:17 -0500 Washing his hands of his clients and opening Pip’s eyes.

]]> 0 fd18f00cc9b119ed6365224b68eb281d Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14566/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:28:16 -0500 Pips love for Estella is shown here when he arrives early in anticipation for her coach.

]]> 0 ba7a8555074fbe9d15f064321a1288df Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14565/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:57:28 -0500 Paragraphs 2 and 4 discusses Pips apprenticeship at the Forge with Joe and how his expectations and dreams for his life have changed, adn he believes he is destined for more.

]]> 0 2092624c4d09342069120055083003c7 Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14564/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:50:21 -0500 Chapter 32 gives a description of Pips impression of the prioson in paragrph 15 and paragraph 16 shows how he is stunned by the way Wemmick is interacting with the prioners.

]]> 0 b59f4246b530e5316cc2c831768ac1e7 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post powerful women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14227/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 03:41:10 -0500 At the beginning of the year, I wondered about the roles women had women in Victorian literature, over the course I have learned a lot about this topic, and I think the most interesting thing I learned was how to […]

]]> 0 f2ad4b60c261bce7b58c1effe765952d Emma Sens edited the blog post Death by love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14086/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:38:16 -0500 A connection I made was between “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, by Oscar Wilde and Wuthering Heights. The lines “Some kill their love when they are young,

And some when they are old;

Some strangle with the h […]

]]> 0 f24abbe4812673d9c84737236fb12a66 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13985/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:54:41 -0500 One connection I made is how Pip and the child factory workers in “The Cry of the Children” can be viewed as similar. Throughout the poem, images of a factory Hell are contrasted with the Heaven of the Eng […]

]]> 0 1a145201e2cf60c46c3cdae67ae91240 Emma Sens edited the blog post identity in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13912/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:29:16 -0500 A common theme I see in both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations is identity. In Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is an orphan with no identity and seeks it out in Catherine, and in Great Expectations Pip is […]

]]> 0 01c5b093dafe99a030d93c8550c5b6ef Emma Sens edited the blog post status in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13842/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 04:51:53 -0500 In the beginning chapters of Great Expectations,
Dickens explores the class system of Victorian England. He discusses the
criminals, peasants, the middle class, rich, and more. When Estella lays Pip’s
food on the […]

]]> 0 1bed84b079ecd53c4a479584537633eb Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13841/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 04:37:14 -0500 There is a very vivid mention of the color white here. The color white can be portrayaed as innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection, and can represent a successful […]

]]> 0 134ba1e51bc25e0b8e5ae09812b54b65 Emma Sens edited the blog post Survival of the fit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13680/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:32:38 -0500 In The Origins of Species by Natural Selection, Darwin
argues that the growing population is kept in check by features such as geography
and natural resources. Together, the two will never allow for an infinite […]

]]> 0 0fcb0058ce804c1d3770beef388392aa Emma Sens edited the blog post Heathcliff and the chimney sweeper in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13621/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:38:11 -0500 One connection I made was between Wuthering Heights
and The Chimney Sweeper was the parallel between Heathcliff and the chimney
boy. Heathcliff and the young boy have many similarities. The boy in The […]

]]> 0 1d7afde3a14c16ccbf1c0c2f6130bf1f Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13580/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:19:20 -0500 The “kidnapping” of Catherine surprised me, because it is one of the first times Heathcliff completely disregards the law in a desperate act to protect himself. Linton needs to marry Cathy before Edgar’s death to […]

]]> 0 c938c3f81dceb511f97821bfad451517 Emma Sens wrote a new blog post outspoken women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13566/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:52:28 -0500 A connection I made was the powerful stance that both Emily Bronte and Harriet Martineau take on. Both women are writing during times when society was male dominated, yet don’t hesitate to voice their opinions a […]

]]> 0 90a34a2597c1da82288c227c41ab1c43 Emma Sens edited the blog post connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13469/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:15:06 -0500 With all the pieces we have read so far, I consistently see a theme of mistreatment of the lower class. In Wuthering Heights, it is demonstrated by the poor child who is referred to as “it” and banished to the […]

]]> 0 ca233e20da2355e3efa30475caa75d37 Emma Sens edited the blog post connection to Carlyle in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13349/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:10:19 -0500 One thing I noticed was a parallel between Martineau and
Carlyle’s writing. Both are trying to be the voice for the unrepresented, Martineau
for the women and Carlyle for the working class. Both go on to d […]

]]> 0 f098738b786ba7f1780d6d4aade28eaf Emma Sens commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13309/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:12:51 -0500 Harriet Martineau was a woman ahead of her time fighting to be a voice that was heard, regardless of what the consequences may be. This paragraph stuck out to me, because of the power behind the words and the […]

]]> 0 c71986b8f80b4f9a8299bb745b4eef15 Emma Sens commented on the post, What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13262/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:58:55 -0500 I hope to learn about more of the female writers that were important during this time. I would also like to learn more about the style of poetry and what people were interested in reading. I want to gain a deeper […]

]]> 0 6ffee4514166baf2c10c912dbf268b7b Emma Sens joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13144/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:39:46 -0500 0 00f5ae24d2eaf6bdb3b46433b06cfd9f Emma Sens 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/#post-1427 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:10:05 -0500 Not yet!

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