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living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...

Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...

humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...

a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...

or Adams Rib, or the many films in the screwball genre. Such movies were invariably satirical, using the manners and foibles of me...

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

her plainness (women were suppose to be ornamental), Janes independence of will and obvious intellect win her not only the love of...

the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in thei...

Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...

social and political patriarchy of the time dictated that estates automatically reverted to the control of the male heir, which in...

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...

This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...

and among Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price and Henry & Mary Crawford that characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concep...

Fresco in Washington DC says it all. This large monument to history, which was funded by taxpayers dollars, portrays no people of ...

contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...

is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

raises this pig in a somewhat happy atmosphere until he is too big and he must go live on a nearby farm. On that farm Wilbur lea...

In twelve pages this research paper compares and contrasts Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Haywood's Fantomina in their presentat...

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

Jane Austen described in one of her letters as a heroine [who] is almost too good for me) had been persuaded by an older friend of...

than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...

of love that was ever or should ever be intended to last a lifetime. Romantic love should eventually give way to a deeper type of ...