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The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

Theme of Sisterhood in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares the relationships between the March sisters in Little Women and the Dashwood siste...

Family as a Theme in Alcott's Novel, Little Women

Little Women centers on the four March sisters; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy; all of whom are proper young ladies with a proper...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

Lack of a Father Figure in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

her daughters involves a good man and marriage, she is also clearly indicating that there is more to life than simple marriage. Sh...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Transcendentalism of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

Little Women from the Critic's Perspective

Women, which constitutes the turning point in her career as a writer. According to Morrow, Little Women came about specifically ...

Little Women Examined with a Critical Eye

mother, "Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young womans life-that which she places on herself, and th...

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and the Character Jo

the following excerpt when Jo and her sisters are talking about how hard they each work and how they want to spend the money they ...

The Dynamic Presence in Little Women, Jo March

This essay pertains to the way in which Jo March is portrayed in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. The argument is presented th...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Comparing Film Versions of Twelfth Night

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

Compare and Contrast Two Versions of Romeo and Juliet

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

The Bad News Bears: Comparing Old And New Versions

stereotypically comprised of virtually every ethnic minority plus an added physically handicapped wheelchair player in the latter ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Raymond Carver/"Little Things" and "Mine"

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Exegis in 2 Kings Chapter 4 Verses 8 through 17

in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Dont mislead your servant, O man of God!" 17 But the woman became pregnant, and t...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

"The Stepford Wives" Then And Now: Opposites

movie is how one family uprooted from the rat race to resettle in a slower paced community. Shortly thereafter it becomes clear t...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Feminist Critique/Disney Films

also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

An Analysis of Two Film Versions of Richard III

In a paper consisting of seen pages the 1955 film version of Richard III by Laurence Olivier is compared with Ian McKellan's versi...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Life After Apartheid South African Women

that abounds in natural beauty and natural resources, such as fertile soil and gold, diamond and platinum deposits (Downing 10). T...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...