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In five pages this paper examines the importance of marriage to the female characters in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Th...

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

In five pages this paper compares Beloved by Toni Morrison with Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in a consideration ...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

In 5 pages this paper discusses how in this Jane Austen novel the mothers' relationships with their children and how their selfish...

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

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

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

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

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

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

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

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

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

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

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...