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Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

Money in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey

entire romance between Catherine and Henry is based on finances as far as the powers that be are concerned. "Catherine is invited ...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

History and Ecology of the Chimpanzee

hominids" (Anonymous, 2002). Chimpanzee hunting ecology is intermingled with their history as a species, in that their inherent a...

Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte Articles Reviewed

this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...

Perceptions of Jane Eyre

bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest ...

Western Cultural Visions and National Geographic Magazine

in manner that applies to Western ideals. In fact, it seems as though most of the pictures and stories only inform us about how th...

Comic Writing of Jane Austen

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

Love Theme Compared as Reflected in Literature of Emily and Charlotte Bronte

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

Relationships Between Men and Women in Literature and Throughout History

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Religion

it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Pride and Prejudice Themes

ClassicNote on Pride and Prejudice a.php?a=n001001182). In this we are given a subtle, yet very powerful, foundation for the unfol...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Portrayal of Aristocracy in Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Deronda

Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...

Frances Burney and Jane Austen on Realism and Women

not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...

Postcolonial Fiction and Time

Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...

Freedom from Oppression and the Power of Love in Bronte's Jane Eyre

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...

An Article on Jane Eyre and Feminism Theories Evaluated

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

Literature and Society's Veils or Illusions

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film Compared

Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

'Pride and Prejudice' of Mr. Darcy in the Novel by Jane Austen

is better. We note some of his pride when we see him at the party where he quickly dismisses Elizabeth, stating "She is tolerable;...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Female Coming of Age as Seen in West Indian Literature

family life. Annie John can be seen as a typical; adolescent, not only of Antigua or of West India, but of adolescents as a whol...

The Piano by Jane Campion

In five pages the piano as symbolic and its thematic significance to the novel by Jane Campion are analyzed. There are no other s...