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Essays 151 - 180

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Nineteenth Century Woman as Defined by Jane Austen

This paper consists of four pages and examines the social, domestic, perceived, and realistic definitions of women's roles as repr...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...

Values, Stateliness, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

In twelve pages this report discusses how morality and stateliness are represented in this 1814 novel by Jane Austen. Four source...

Early 19th Century Single and Married Females

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the status of single women with their married counterparts in a consideration of Em...

Portrayal of Aristocracy in Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Deronda

Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Marriage

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...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Emma by Jane Austen and the Film Clueless

In five pages cultural expectations and social norms in the novel Emma by Jane Austen and the film Clueless are compared. Five so...

Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Society

Further, the social context supports its own institutions in a cyclical manner and personal expectations are clearly based on the ...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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...

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

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...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

Postcolonial Fiction and Time

Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

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...

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...

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, ...

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

Meeting the Protagonists

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

Misogyny in Jane Austen

by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

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...