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All That Heaven Allows

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

Joseph Conrad's and Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques

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

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

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

Persuasion by Jane Austen and Overhearing

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

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

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

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Relationships

Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...

The Role of Letters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice

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 ...

Common Themes in Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, and Wuthering Heights

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

Contemporary Issues and Roe v. Wade

potential is a dangerous word" (Whole Lot of Quotes, 2004). He states that a flower of a particular color is a "sort" of flower an...

Jane Eyre's Character

feelings for her, and she knows that she feels the same. However, she knows that, though she loves him, he will never leave his wi...

The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

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

Literature By and About Women

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

1847 Reader Appeal of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

Comparative Analysis of Bridget Jones' Diary and Pride and Prejudice

about her. She immediately sees him as rude, arrogant, and prideful. The entire story is essentially based around this attitude as...

Dickens, Bronte, and Social Impact of Their Works

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

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

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, ...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

The Modern Novel: Austen, Eliot, Joyce

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Feminist Analysis

This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...

Elizabeth Bennett, Characterization in Pride and Prejudice

This essay pertains to the way in which Elizabeth Bennett is characterized in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The writer partic...

Archetypes, Pride and Prejudice

This essay presents a discussion of the characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the standpoint of viewing them as ar...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

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

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...

"Pride And Prejudice" - Erodes Sexist Stereotypes Of Women

relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...

The Stone Carvers

lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...