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the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...
appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...
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...
Addams received a college education and used her inheritance to travel abroad. The sights she witnessed would change her life. W...
to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...
field workers" (Bettis, 2006). When her husband was away she took control of the mills and assisted the neighbors, perhaps laying ...
of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...
lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...
relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...
journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...
which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...
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...
in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...
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...
the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...
however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...
The character of Jane is sent to live with a relative when she is young, and then sent off to a school. She finds herself applying...
the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...
Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...
things differently as they relate to descriptive presentations. The words of a poet are often very different than a novelist and s...
her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...
In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...
A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...
main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...
different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...
he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
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...