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Theme of Sisterhood in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares the relationships between the March sisters in Little Women and the Dashwood siste...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Transcendentalism of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

Lack of a Father Figure in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

her daughters involves a good man and marriage, she is also clearly indicating that there is more to life than simple marriage. Sh...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

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...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Little Women Examined with a Critical Eye

mother, "Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young womans life-that which she places on herself, and th...

Little Women from the Critic's Perspective

Women, which constitutes the turning point in her career as a writer. According to Morrow, Little Women came about specifically ...

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and the Character Jo

the following excerpt when Jo and her sisters are talking about how hard they each work and how they want to spend the money they ...

The Dynamic Presence in Little Women, Jo March

This essay pertains to the way in which Jo March is portrayed in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. The argument is presented th...

British Society, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and Single Women

In five pages this paper examines British society of Jane Austen's time and what her novel reveals about single women and how they...

Marriage in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In five pages this paper examines the importance of marriage to the female characters in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Th...

Comic Writing of Jane Austen

good art and literature. One of philosopher Aristotles most pronounced contentions was that art holds a mirror up to life; with t...

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...

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...

The Modern Novel: Austen, Eliot, Joyce

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Themes of Love, Marriage, and Money

of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...

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...

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Love Relationships

and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...

Mothers and Daughters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In 5 pages this paper discusses how in this Jane Austen novel the mothers' relationships with their children and how their selfish...

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 ...

Unconventional Women in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma by Jane Austen

pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...

Transcendentalism, Domesticity and Louisa May Alcott

womans place was perceived to be located securely in the private sphere, which she ruled as a domestic goddess, creating a haven o...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

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

Family as a Theme in Alcott's Novel, Little Women

Little Women centers on the four March sisters; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy; all of whom are proper young ladies with a proper...

Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen on Romantic Love

In twenty pages this paper examines how female authors portrayed romantic love in the late 18th century in a consideration of Robi...

Jane Austen's Works and Character Development

an ideal society of the time. The primary focus of the novel is on romance as it involves two sisters. There is Marianne and El...