English @ SUNY Geneseo | Hannah Bentivegna | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/hannahbentivegna/activity/ Activity feed for Hannah Bentivegna. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0b831d2f4ec5cf0618f5ecf4014882dc Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post What I enjoyed and learned about Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14229/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:35:44 -0500 Since I am fairly new to the English major, before taking this class I had only ever taken one other English class; New Zealand Literature. Initially I was a little nervous that I would feel out of place in a 300 […]

]]> 0 283f14cd1456dbecddee58e1f4dfe224 Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Victorian Expectations for Women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14145/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 03:02:07 -0500 While reading Reuben Sachs I came across one quote in particular that stuck out to me, “This woman, with her beauty, her intelligence, her power of feeling, saw herself merely as one of a vast crowd of girls awa […]

]]> 0 99b226d9de8c398802547f7e4933aa16 Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Prison Life Comparrison in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14072/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:46:54 -0500 In The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde, the horrible prison conditions described really reminded me of how Newgate Prison was depicted in Great Expectations. In chapter 32 of the novel the prison is d […]

]]> 0 e3f74988f9a92f536e810417af47d222 Hannah Bentivegna commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14015/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:53:47 -0500 Estella admits to thinking about Pip even though they haven’t seen each other in years. It seems as though Estella regrets her treatment of Pip when they were younger. Is this Estella finally telling Pip he holds […]

]]> 0 6713680a1ab31d95573424fc913c911a Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post Pip vs Heathcliff: Love or Obsession? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13994/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:08:04 -0500 I feel as though the more I read of Great Expectations the more similarities I see between the main character Pip and the main character of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff. While reading chapter 44 from this w […]

]]> 0 0c7e93f046cf929c88b745a4b5c9cae1 Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Pip and Heathcliff: Men Who Will Do Anything for the Woman They Love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13918/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 03:33:35 -0500 In chapter 22 of Great Expectations, Pip asks Herbert teach him how to be a proper gentlemen. Pip is desperate to impress Estella, even though the two had always played together and enjoy each other’s company, Es […]

]]> 0 3d6f50484c3c023cbe2fd2d137fd00ea Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Boys To Men in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13831/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:10:49 -0500 While reading the beginning of Great Expectations I couldn’t help but see the similarities between main character Pip and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. Both men were orphaned at a young age and due to thi […]

]]> 0 d50540b8bcb828ccfa0920ee9f26d2a6 Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post The Withering Characters in Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13654/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:37:34 -0500 In Charles Darwin’s, On the Origin of Species By Natural Selection, it states; “…a plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be depe […]

]]> 0 e47e16140cf2d8dc47c74c42c17bee79 Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Cycle of Abuse in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13622/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:42:51 -0500 I really enjoyed reading the novel Wuthering Heights as I’ve never read something quite like it. While reading the last few chapters I couldn’t help but question a lot of the characters motives throughout the […]

]]> 0 ff5169287756f6b0ea7558884530eab1 Hannah Bentivegna commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13603/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:46:35 -0500 This was a big moment for Cathy as she took a stand against Heathcliff’s attempts to control her and his son Linton. It’s Cathy’s love for Linton that gives her strength in this moment. Love made Cathy strong […]

]]> 0 f9fbf791f39958d19b25dd1f8858523a Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Carefree, No Moor in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13557/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 01:14:50 -0500             After reading these next few chapters In Wuthering Heights I was intrigued thinking about the relationships between the different characters. As we read earlier on in the novel, when Catherine an […]

]]> 0 831fd560e31daca69fc05d0797b908d4 Hannah Bentivegna commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13526/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:39:25 -0500 Will Isabella embrace and use this new found power in the future or continue to hide beneath the shadow of Heathcliff and Edgar’s influence?

 

]]> 0 8976b24d791c36b2dfb88bba0cad8da8 Hannah Bentivegna commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13519/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 01:10:17 -0500 I found this part of the chapter very compelling because when Isabella gains control of the knife, she feels this sense of overwhelming power. It’s in this instense that she feels secure and in a way, independent. […]

]]> 0 b4253fdf5e6a341976032f57bc40dd0c Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Social Status and Poverty in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13488/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:41:54 -0500 After reading the first chapters of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte, I couldn’t help but notice the obvious underlying racial tension that arise due to social status. It’s obvious that Lockwood feels superio […]

]]> 0 1d0492f17112a79e1f9ae58fd9b6d92c Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post In Text Reading Connections in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13319/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:26:18 -0500 This week’s reading of Harriet Martineau’s Society in America really fascinated me as I was interested to hear about the roles of women or lack there of in society. I really like how Martineau started out by re […]

]]> 0 5bf985b66d1b69cbd66cf32beb5b5668 Hannah Bentivegna wrote a new blog post What I hope to learn about Victorian Literature this semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13227/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:57:52 -0500 My past experiences with Victorian Literature are almost non existent although I am happy to say that after this semester that will all change. When first reading the description of this course I was most […]

]]> 0 05ec2108a8b4738253d270d4ed99ecd0 Hannah Bentivegna joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13146/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:39:55 -0500 0 00c2340a3d4d6e26e32bdb5817ca5c14 Hannah Bentivegna 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-1454 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:14:58 -0500 I’m not sure if I have a favorite work of Victorian Literature but as a child I always enjoyed reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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