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The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

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...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

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...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Relationships

Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...

Common Themes in Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, and Wuthering Heights

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

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...

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...

Contemporary Issues and Roe v. Wade

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...

The Role of Letters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice

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 ...

Persuasion by Jane Austen and Overhearing

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...

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...

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...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

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...

Misogyny in Jane Austen

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

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

"Size Six" by Mernissi/An Analysis

those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...

Reaction to Philbert's "Good" Plus a Brief Autobiography of the Student

I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...

Opinions and Biases in Research

and the critique of knowledge. These may be framed as different forms of critique, but are often interdependent, as Gold (et al, 2...

Firoozeh Dumas' "Sweet, Sour, and Resentful"

example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...

The Flemish School and Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen - Response to Criticisms

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...

Film Version of Charlotte Bronte's Novel Jane Eyre

In five pages Julian Aymes' film adaptation of this famous novel is reviewed in terms of faithfulness to Bronte's dialogue with th...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

Works of Mary Shelley and the Bronte Sisters and the Importance of Thresholds

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of thresholds in the decision making processes featured in Mary Shelley's Frank...

Literary Analysis of Emma by Jane Austen

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