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Essays 121 - 150

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, ...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Foils and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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...

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...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

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

Postcolonial Fiction and Time

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

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 ...

Portrayal of Aristocracy in Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Deronda

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

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

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

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

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

Love, Compromise, and Conflict in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

Social Worlds: Austen and Dickens

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...

The Female Influence on British Literature

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

Charlotte Bronte: Poetic Novelist

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

"Pride And Prejudice" - Erodes Sexist Stereotypes Of Women

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

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

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

Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Feminist Analysis

This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...

The Flemish School and Jane Austen

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Emma, by Jane Austen. The text is compared to the naturalistic techniques employed ...

Jane Austen - Response to Criticisms

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Jane Austen. Quotes from the novel are used to respond to criticisms of her writing...

Misogyny in Jane Austen

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

Gothic in Literature

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

Meeting the Protagonists

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

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

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

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Redefining Marriage in Persuasion by Jane Austen

of the aristocracy-represented by her family-and Anne develops relationships with the middle class. The middle class characters h...