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of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

things differently as they relate to descriptive presentations. The words of a poet are often very different than a novelist and s...

however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...

The character of Jane is sent to live with a relative when she is young, and then sent off to a school. She finds herself applying...

up to be a strong, intelligent, and fearless young woman who is more than a match for Rochester. Jane is passionate, yes, but not ...

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

marriage was a way to survive as an individual and in society. Men and women in society who were not married were seen as eccentri...

Addams received a college education and used her inheritance to travel abroad. The sights she witnessed would change her life. W...

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...

his letter: "He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out.--There is something very pompous in his style.--And ...

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...

field workers" (Bettis, 2006). When her husband was away she took control of the mills and assisted the neighbors, perhaps laying ...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...