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Monologue of Bell Hook's daughter (Sub-altern Fiction)

It was a windy June Sunday. For Bell would have named the day a wuthering day but she has seen worse living in Brighton. Hence, not just yet. When Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights , Bell believed that Emily Bronte or erstwhile Currer Bell was most certainly trying to draw parallels between the internal and external torrents; there is something tragic to reflect and soothing to feel when there is an external calamity in form of thunderstorm or lightning etc., that ostensibly emulates one's internal clamour. Although far from home, yet Bell holds home nearly but it may not be possible to always hold it dearly. Though things are settling down inside Bell now, this phase is always past the phase of great upheaval and torment. Women are said to be prone to hysteria; Bell's father always defined her behaviour as hysterical too. While, she understood over time, men find it impossible to justify women's behaviour, she could never bring herself to question her behaviour; there w...

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Cliff hangers are something that make you anxious, at the same time these are the very thing that one won't deny has a potential of giving you the most pleasure. It is how people are imbued with hysteria, they get extremely happy and extremely sad, especially when a thing is about to begin. This is where 'stoicism' comes into play, stoicism is a practice that has got a certain definition but to be precise you can say, it is a practice in which you ensure that nothing can hurt you but everything comes with a price, here if you ensure nothing hurts you, you pay the price of your happiness, I remember when I had heard someone quoting," I have seized their power of making me happy, hence I have taken their rights of saddening me." Boarding the train in the middle of the afternoon, the clock showed 13:39. The sun was empowered only during the days since it was during winter. It shone in the open fields and its golden hue was flowing across and through. At times...

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