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Social Standing as a Barrier to True Love

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

An Effective Closing Argument in a Death Penalty Case

one chosen for consumption. Bill was only 14 years old. Mike dies after rescue and Mark seems to have had a psychotic break. Mark ...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

How Close Are Identical Twins?

Griffiths and Gray, 2001). And so, this theory maintains that there does not need to be a debate over nature versus nurture, but ...

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...

Literature of the Victorian Age

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

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...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

Feminism as Seen in Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

Short Story on Everyday Decisions

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

The life and work of Charlotte Gilman

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

A World Literature Philosophy Symposium

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

Marriage in the 19th Century According to Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

Works of Mary Shelley and the Bronte Sisters and the Importance of Thresholds

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of thresholds in the decision making processes featured in Mary Shelley's Frank...

Literature and Social Conflict

In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...

Raymond Carver's 'So Much Water So Close to Home'

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....

Gender Stratification According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In two pages this essay analyzes an individual's social role and the gender stratification theories of author Charlotte Perkins Gi...

Important Social Theorist Harriet Martineau

in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the femin...

Conflicting Marital Perspectives in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar befo...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

The use of symbolism in the novel Jane Eyre

This paper analyses color symbolism in Charlotte Bronte's novel with particular reference to the relationship between red and fire...

Jane Eyre as a reflection of changing society

This paper looks at the perspective of English society in the nineteenth century which is presented in Charlotte Bronte's novel. I...

Helen Burns' Fictional Journal Entry about Jane Eyre

In five pages Charlotte Bronte's book is considered in terms of a fictional entry made by Jane's school chum Helen Burns in her jo...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

Public Welfare and the Roles of Women According to Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and John Stuart Mill

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

Villette by Charlotte Bronte and the Significance of Anti Catholic Sentiment

In five pages this paper examines why the anti Catholic sentiment that appears throughout this 1853 novel by Charlotte Bronte is i...

Works by Sinclair Lewis, Horatio Alger, Susanna Rowson and the American Dream

In 7 pages this paper examines the portrayal of the American Dream in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger,...

Madness and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Fairytale

any fairy tale. Yet, despite it all, she ends up living "happily ever after." She gives the plain, abused, disregarded young girls...