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In five pages this paper discusses what these authors think constitutes a virtuous person as presented in their texts. Three sour...

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent" (Sense and Sensibility). Maria...

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

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

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

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...

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...

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, ...

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

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

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

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

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

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...

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

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...

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...

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

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

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

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

by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

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

relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...

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