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chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

In 8 pages this paper discusses how the socially conservative attitudes of the 19th century manifest themselves in Jane Austen's P...

the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...

Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

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

Prejudice perfectly illustrates the main characteristics of Elizabeth Bennett, the main protagonist of the novel, as well as those...

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...

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

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Emma, by Jane Austen. The text is compared to the naturalistic techniques employed ...

journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

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

are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us...

In seven pages this paper examines the domestic and social views associated with the estates in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and ...

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...