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Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...
This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...
points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...
In twelve pages this report discusses how morality and stateliness are represented in this 1814 novel by Jane Austen. Four source...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the status of single women with their married counterparts in a consideration of Em...
Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...
in hopes that Jane will be forced to stay over at the estate and therefore seal the deal that she has been looking for her daughte...
large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...
the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...
Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...
In five pages cultural expectations and social norms in the novel Emma by Jane Austen and the film Clueless are compared. Five so...
In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...
Further, the social context supports its own institutions in a cyclical manner and personal expectations are clearly based on the ...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...
him to be when she first met him at the ball: a rude egocentric boor. And yet, one of the Bingley sisters illuminates what society...
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...
All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...
the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...
Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...
impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...
She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...
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...
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, ...
to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...
main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...
by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...
is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...
her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...
because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...