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and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...
sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...
In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of thresholds in the decision making processes featured in Mary Shelley's Frank...
This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...
are locked out of the creative heart of society is addressed quite literally by Woolf in her first chapter. The narrator is medita...
In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...
who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...
to use looks as an anchor. The other thing that Jane is not is greedy. When Edward offers her all kinds of clothes and jewels, she...
been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
that she is a woman, and the narrator states, "it may have been observed that Orlando hid her manuscripts when interrupted. Next, ...
of feminism: "Feminism articulates political opposition to the subordination of women as women, whether that subordination is ascr...
Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...
man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...
reader is not really sure about the couple until at one point the reader learns that the woman died "hundreds of years ago" and th...
as much more fluid and changeable than most people can accept or are comfortable with. The passage under consideration begins wit...
is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...
narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...
to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...
"what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab . . . Did it matter that she must inevitably cease c...
critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...
The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...
In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...
In nine pages plus an outline of one page this paper examines Emily Bronte's life and analyzes her poetic style as reflected in 'T...
In five pages this research paper analyzes Emily Bronte's tortured Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in a consideration of perspecti...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...
increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost....
be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...