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A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

Comparative Analysis of Bridget Jones' Diary and Pride and Prejudice

about her. She immediately sees him as rude, arrogant, and prideful. The entire story is essentially based around this attitude as...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

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...

Literature By and About Women

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

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, ...

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Its Literary Deconstruction

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

2 Articles' Evaluated

the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

Analysis of the Protagonist in Lady Susan by Jane Austen

mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film Compared

Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...

Social Philosophies of Hegel and Schelling in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

their social philosophies interact with Austens novel. Sense and Sensibility "In an age which extolled the virtues of expressi...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

"Pride And Prejudice" - Erodes Sexist Stereotypes Of Women

relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

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

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

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

The Stone Carvers

lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...

Marriage in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

marriage was a way to survive as an individual and in society. Men and women in society who were not married were seen as eccentri...

Jane Addams as a Successful Twenty-First Century Political Leader

Addams received a college education and used her inheritance to travel abroad. The sights she witnessed would change her life. W...

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

Meeting the Protagonists

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

Sex Roles and the Factors that Affect Them

different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...

Protagonists

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

Chapter XXXIV of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dialogue and Narrative Voice

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

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

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...