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Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Marriage in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

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...

Jane Addams as a Successful Twenty-First Century Political Leader

Addams received a college education and used her inheritance to travel abroad. The sights she witnessed would change her life. W...

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...

Jane Addams' Early Life

field workers" (Bettis, 2006). When her husband was away she took control of the mills and assisted the neighbors, perhaps laying ...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

The Stone Carvers

lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...

"Pride And Prejudice" - Erodes Sexist Stereotypes Of Women

relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

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...

The Modern Novel: Austen, Eliot, Joyce

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

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...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

The Female Influence on British Literature

however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...

Women in Frankenstein and Jane Eyre

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...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

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...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Charlotte Bronte: Poetic Novelist

things differently as they relate to descriptive presentations. The words of a poet are often very different than a novelist and s...

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 ...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

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...

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...

Sex Roles and the Factors that Affect Them

different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...

Protagonists

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

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...