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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...
For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...
sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...
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...
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...
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 ...
She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...
treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...
Captain and time as an instructor and dean of faculty at West Point Military Academy. "Founding Brothers" is just one of seven hi...
that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...
Jane and Charles apart. Jane and Charles listen to the gossip of others, to the opinions of others and this keeps them from follow...
operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...
are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
years later, software for personal computers became available. This software heralded the entrance of Bill Gates to the technologi...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...
"We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, Fr...
this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...
Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...
Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...
their social philosophies interact with Austens novel. Sense and Sensibility "In an age which extolled the virtues of expressi...
is better. We note some of his pride when we see him at the party where he quickly dismisses Elizabeth, stating "She is tolerable;...
impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...
attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...