In nineteenth century literature, women writers were essentially not permitted to achieve true authorship. Authors such as Jane Austen had to conform to patriarchal standards set not only in literature, but society as well. ... Doing so would only further enhance the oddity of a woman's literature work that already exists according to Gubar and Gilbert. ... Austen parodies the patriarchal view that women should not have influence over literature when showing the freedom acquired by Frank Churchill and Mr. ... Churchill, independent of his wife, was feared by nobody; an easy, guidable...

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• Grade Level: High School

Without a doubt, the novel is one of the bloodiest in American literature and the tragic bloodshed stems from the fact that in general historic background and dramatic fictional foreground, human beings are involved in the concept of progress that inevitability pushes the frontier westward. ... Part III: Overall Critique Guided by the displaced Huron warrior Magua, four people--Major Duncan Heyward, Psalmodist David Gamut, and Alice and Cora Munro--strike through the wilderness forest for Fort William Henry, which is tormented by the French near Lake George. ...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Character is the aspect of structure the reader is most focused upon for a guide through the novel. ... According to The Norton Introduction to Literature character is a fictional person, or "a combination of a person's qualities, especially moral qualities, so that terms such as "good' and "bad,' "strong' and "weak,' often apply" (139). ...

• Word Count: 1673
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• Grade Level: High School

The moral imagination then is not only a storehouse but also an intellectual guide " (Bohlin, 2008). ... Social class is one of the major themes that E.M Forster shows in many of his works of literature, "Howard's End" is no exception. ...

• Word Count: 2048
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• Grade Level: High School