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Essays 241 - 270
good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...
such as "U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack" (12C). In fact, Bin Laden jokes are beginning to crop up and while peo...
this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...
my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
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...
Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...
it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...
in manner that applies to Western ideals. In fact, it seems as though most of the pictures and stories only inform us about how th...
specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...
All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...
the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...
sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...
There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...
as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...
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, ...
For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
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...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...
the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...
fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...
not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...