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Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

In five pages the ways in which Bronte reflects patriarchal opposition through Bertha's obvious struggles and Jane's more subtle r...

This paper looks in detail at Jane's interaction with Rochester. The writer's argument is based on the premise that the two charac...

In five pages Jyoti/Jasmine/Jane's letter to her daughter who is now an adult is presented in terms of explanation as to why she l...

This paper looks at the factors which the author considers particularly valuable in male-female relationships, as illustrated by J...

This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...

This paper considers the similarities and differences between Jane in Jane Eyre, and Antonia in My Antonia by Cather. This eight p...

and a novel, serve as a near-perfect example of the conflict faced by a Victorian woman in her obligations between her sense of Ch...

In 6 pages the child's worldly perspective is illustrated through Rochester's interest in one of Jane's paintings, her distant fut...

to the new challenges." Freud addresses this conflict with his Oedipus complex as a way of explaining certain personality traits ...

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...

combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...

to study ideas. His greatest shortcoming in this respect is that he is rather obtuse and it is quite difficult for him to have an...

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

and proper nineteenth-century Victorian lady; Zora Neale Hurston was a plain-speaking twentieth century African-American woman wit...

"extracts" on scholarly subjects, is encouraged to be outgoing; the fretful Kitty is encouraged to stop coughing, because people f...

This paper contrasts and compares how the author's narrative voices are used in each of these novels in 7 pages. Two sources are ...

This 5 page essay compares and contrasts A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman and Give Her a Pattern classic, works by Mary Woll...

This paper examines the writings and life of Wollstonecraft. The author discusses her philosophical treatise, A Vindication of th...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

damned by critics as a "cowardly, furtive attack on divine truths and simple faith" (Craddock 60). Gibbons ostensible purpose in ...

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...