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

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

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

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

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

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

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...

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, ...

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...

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

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

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

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

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

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

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

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

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

be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...