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impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

Further, the social context supports its own institutions in a cyclical manner and personal expectations are clearly based on the ...

Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...

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

In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...

in hopes that Jane will be forced to stay over at the estate and therefore seal the deal that she has been looking for her daughte...

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

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, ...

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...

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...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

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...

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...

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

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

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

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

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

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

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

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...

things differently as they relate to descriptive presentations. The words of a poet are often very different than a novelist and s...

be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...

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

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...

Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...