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Essays 241 - 270
lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
The character of Jane is sent to live with a relative when she is young, and then sent off to a school. She finds herself applying...
the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...
Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...
field workers" (Bettis, 2006). When her husband was away she took control of the mills and assisted the neighbors, perhaps laying ...
the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...
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. ...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...
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...
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...
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...
attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
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...
In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...
different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
This paper contrasts and compares various female characters throughout the history of literature which includes Lysistrata, Jane E...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In seven pages this paper discusses Jane Eyre's psychological longing for a father figure and how Rochester satisfied this criteri...
In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...
In five pages this paper considers how Hawks portrayed women in his films with a discussion of Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Ba...