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Social and Familial Status for Women in 3 Plays

and culture separate the 1888 play of Swedish playwright August Strindberg, Miss Julie, from those of twentieth century Canadians ...

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 ...

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...

Anne in Persuasion by Jane Austen

Admiral and Sophia Croft share the steering of a carriage and save them all from disaster (Austen 114). Sophia says of her sea li...

Women's Social Status and Menstrual Blood

In eight pages this paper discusses menstrual blood, also known as 'the curse,' and how it influences female social status. Five ...

Emma by Jane Austen, Maturation and Marriage

In 6 pages this paper examines the last novel by Jane Austen and how themes of marriage and maturation are represented in the expe...

Literary Analysis of Emma by Jane Austen

In eleven pages this paper analyzes this novel by Jane Austen in terms of symbolism, theme, setting, and characterization. There ...

Self Discovery and Courtship in Emma by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper examines the themes of self discovery and courtship as they are presented in this novel by Jane Austen. ...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Redefining Marriage in Persuasion by Jane Austen

of the aristocracy-represented by her family-and Anne develops relationships with the middle class. The middle class characters h...

Persuasion by Jane Austen and Its Persuasion Theme

In five pages this paper examines how the persuasion theme is presented in the final novel written by Jane Austen. There are no o...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

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

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

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, ...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

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...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

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

Persuasion by Jane Austen and Overhearing

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Portrayal of Aristocracy in Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Deronda

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

Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

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

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Women's Social Status

In eleven pages this paper discusses these plays by William Shakespeare in terms of the social status of women as depicted by the ...

Persuasion in Print and Film

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

Social Status of Women in the Ancient Societies of Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia

Emperor Valentinian issued a written order to Pope Damasus I requiring the Christian missionaries to cease calling at the homes of...