Essays 61 - 90
things differently as they relate to descriptive presentations. The words of a poet are often very different than a novelist and s...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Emma, by Jane Austen. The text is compared to the naturalistic techniques employed ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Jane Austen. Quotes from the novel are used to respond to criticisms of her writing...
This essay pertains to the way in which Elizabeth Bennett is characterized in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The writer partic...
This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...
field workers" (Bettis, 2006). When her husband was away she took control of the mills and assisted the neighbors, perhaps laying ...
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...
are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...
She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...
treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
his letter: "He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out.--There is something very pompous in his style.--And ...
For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...
Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...
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, ...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
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...
attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...
about her. She immediately sees him as rude, arrogant, and prideful. The entire story is essentially based around this attitude as...
sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...
potential is a dangerous word" (Whole Lot of Quotes, 2004). He states that a flower of a particular color is a "sort" of flower an...
feelings for her, and she knows that she feels the same. However, she knows that, though she loves him, he will never leave his wi...
to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...
not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...
fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...
this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...
women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...