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pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...
to use looks as an anchor. The other thing that Jane is not is greedy. When Edward offers her all kinds of clothes and jewels, she...
focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...
"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...
claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicate...
of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...
is a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she wou...
defining social standing, the also create expectations that sometimes go against the very willful nature of both Jane Eyre and Hel...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...
Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...
their childhood. All their class held these principles" (p. 190). Introspection Jane questions her own behavior in her acceptanc...
noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...
The Bronte and Gilman writings are discussed. The significance of haunting in each is the focus of attention. This eight page pa...
In 5 pages, this paper considers a complex love triangle that addresses issues of social patriarchy, priorities, acceptance, and s...
In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...
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...
heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...
of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...
of point of view in the development of these respective works will be illustrated. Exposition is an exploration of the backgroun...
and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...
in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...
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...
and among Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price and Henry & Mary Crawford that characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concep...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...