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Essays 241 - 270
the only problem with Emmas disposition is that she has gotten her own way far too frequently (1). With this extensive backgroun...
In a paper consisting of five pages the love between Darcy and Elizabeth is examined within the context of Austen's romantic comed...
basically limited them to either living off the largess of relatives, living on a subsistence wage as a governess looking after ot...
of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...
contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...
This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...
the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...
the home, with the same percentage of non-married women also working (Dex, Joshi and Macran, 1996). When married women first beg...
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...
Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...
This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...
in and around Coyote Valley were mixed about the new campus (nicknamed "Cisco City"). The San Jose Chamber of Commerce, an organiz...
finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...
in many different ways, invading privacy and pushing their way into our lives. While many people accept it today, the pressures in...
to the new challenges." Freud addresses this conflict with his Oedipus complex as a way of explaining certain personality traits ...
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...
"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...
to social cause, as it relates to industrial cities and the location of Hull House which, although it existed within the city, see...
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...
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...
The needs of the society come before the needs of the individual, and Rand even suggests that this collective identity would suppo...
Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...
the natural world held many different dangers for communities or societies. With warfare men naturally went off to fight and women...
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 paper looks in detail at Jane's interaction with Rochester. The writer's argument is based on the premise that the two charac...
In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...
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...
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 at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...