YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Asphalt Nation by Jane Kay
Essays 211 - 240
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...
more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...
beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...
in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...
which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...
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...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...
where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...
treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...
Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...
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 ...
are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...
For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...
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, ...
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. ...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...