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Essays 121 - 150

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Women's Rights in America

This paper examines women's rights in America during the antebellum and progressive eras in a contrasting and comparison of Declar...

Chapters Thirty Four through Thirty Seven of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In six pages this paper discusses what human nature lesson heroine Elizabeth Bennet learns in these important chapters of Pride an...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

Conflicting Marital Perspectives in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar befo...

Persuasion by Jane Austen and Its Persuasion Theme

In five pages this paper examines how the persuasion theme is presented in the final novel written by Jane Austen. There are no o...

English Social Class Hierarchy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses the English social class system as it is portrayed in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen in con...

Literary Analysis of Emma by Jane Austen

In eleven pages this paper analyzes this novel by Jane Austen in terms of symbolism, theme, setting, and characterization. There ...

Self Discovery and Courtship in Emma by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper examines the themes of self discovery and courtship as they are presented in this novel by Jane Austen. ...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Chance in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In eight pages this paper analyzes how chance contributes to the characterization and plot of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. ...

Jane Austen and Adam Smith

In a paper of seven pages a comparison between social constructs and moral convictions as illustrated in the novels of Jane Austen...

Anne in Persuasion by Jane Austen

Admiral and Sophia Croft share the steering of a carriage and save them all from disaster (Austen 114). Sophia says of her sea li...

Emma by Jane Austen, Maturation and Marriage

In 6 pages this paper examines the last novel by Jane Austen and how themes of marriage and maturation are represented in the expe...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and Nineteenth Century Marriage

put before us, is a father who "trusts" everything will be fine, because at least there may be some land acquisition in the final ...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...

Values, Stateliness, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

In twelve pages this report discusses how morality and stateliness are represented in this 1814 novel by Jane Austen. Four source...

Chen Yuan-tsung's 'The Dragon's Village'

promising land reform has achieved a broad political peasant base. The Red Army is being recruited from Jiangxi. Chiang Kai-shek...

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

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

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

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...

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, ...