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Emma by Jane Austen and the Film Clueless

In five pages cultural expectations and social norms in the novel Emma by Jane Austen and the film Clueless are compared. Five so...

Gustave Flaubert's Realism in The Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary

expand from merely entertaining to entertaining while instructing (Realism). At the time of the movements launch, much of art and ...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Marriage

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...

Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

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

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Society

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

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

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...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

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

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

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, ...

Love, Compromise, and Conflict in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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

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...

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...

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...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

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...

The Female Influence on British Literature

however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

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

Charlotte Bronte: Poetic Novelist

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

Jane Eyre's Relationship with Rochester: Freud's Unconscious

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

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

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

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...

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...

Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Feminist Analysis

This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...

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...

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 ...

"Jane Eyre" and the Repression of Societal Roles

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

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...