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This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...

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

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...

narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...

In a paper consisting of 7 pages social class as it is represented in the intellectualism of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the femini...

on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...

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

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

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

In 8 pages this paper discusses how the socially conservative attitudes of the 19th century manifest themselves in Jane Austen's P...

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

silent trout are all lit up hanging, trembling. So she saw them; she heard them; but whatever they said had also this quality, as ...

In five pages this paper examines how male and female relationships are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these two literary ...

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the worth of Sigmund Freud's theories can be measured in these works by Virginia Woolf. ...

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...

chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...

and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...

uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much...

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...