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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...

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

who is equal to them or perhaps wealthier than their families. Elizabeth is a woman who is not concerned with these things and fee...

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

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

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

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

status. However, her best friend Charlotte Lucas was considerably less romantic and much more practical. In Chapter VI of Pride ...

women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplussed by what he considers to...

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

In five pages this paper discusses Pride and Prejudice in a consideration of how Jane Austen portrays relationship and marriages. ...

In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...