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marriage was a way to survive as an individual and in society. Men and women in society who were not married were seen as eccentri...
contrary, "there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks" (Austen 227). Austen does not say that Mrs. Gardiner is a m...
not a trifle that will support a family nowadays" (Austen NA). As we can see, money is an incredibly important issue in this co...
difference in the narrative techniques the authors have used. For Austen there is an immediate theme set up, a perspective that of...
which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
about her. She immediately sees him as rude, arrogant, and prideful. The entire story is essentially based around this attitude as...
are taking place far away, or even in another room. On the other hand, a first-person narrator like Jane can speak directly to us...
to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...
natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...
This essay pertains to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and discusses its themes from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in l...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
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...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Joyce’s “The Dead”. Themes between the two works are co...
impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...
this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...
also important to note something of Joyces take on the stories, comments he had made about them. In 1904 he is quoted as saying, o...
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...
yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...
In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...
his growth toward a greater measure of understanding of the world around him. For example, his school experiences in Clongowes pre...
story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...
All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...
is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...