... intelligent of her five sisters. Elizabeth possesses a very sharp tongue, which often proves to sharp for her own good. She is an intelligent young woman who posses a keen wit and is very observant of other people characters. When meeting Mr. Darcy she instantly dislikes him. She doesn't hesitate to judge ... decides to go to the estate herself to look after her oldest sister, her other sisters stay in Longbourn because they are smitten with a group of soldiers that are in town. Elizabeth stays at Netherfield for a while. She ends up having a lot of discussions with Mr. Darcy about righ...

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... , captivating the feeling of the world after its loss of hope in World War I. This loss is pointed with special focus towards the feeling of the soldiers in the trenches. Leo Tolstoy's novel, The Death of Ivan Illyich, is a novel which creates both a modern and traditional atmosphere. Tolstoy's character, ... and in search for true love. In contrast, Austen depicts Elizabeth's best friend, Charlotte Lucas, as being the "girl next door". She is a simple, prepared housewife who will settle for a good home over love. Charlotte emphasizes the importance of marriage by saying, "I am not a ro...

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... much that when she makes mistakes we laugh at her instead of feel sorry for her. Mr. George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). ... blindness ."" because she is regretful of her actions following her finding out of the engagement. The reader likes this because it shows Emma as a real person, who holds themselves accountable for their actions instead of just pretending they are always right. This is perhaps when the reader begins to ...

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... and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote women, comparing and contrasting their writing to their actual lives. In Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own, Woolf, who was an early twentieth century writer, looks back at the history of women's literature coming to a thesis statement saying, "a woman must have money and a ... crazy and had several mental breakdowns in her life when things were rough. What was even more interesting was the fact that she committed suicide herself years after writing the line above in her essay. She does contradict herself by saying any woman born with a gift in ......

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... school. The sisters later moved to Southampton in 1782. At the school in Southampton, both girls fell ill of a high fever. While still sick, they were sent to Madame Latourelle, who conducted The Abbey School of Reading. The sisters were not learning as much as they should have been so their parents took them out of the program, and decided to ... ...

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... care for each other. IT is basically a good, sound and considerate marriage, where neither of them will ever be hurt. The girls have similar characters, both are good, kind people who want to help others and respect their family. The difference is in their personalities, Jane is looks for pure good and therefore is not as good a judge of people as ... ...

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... face of injustice. However, as the novel progresses, the reader finds that Jane's emotions and intuition often guide her to make the right decisions. Besides, Jane is definitely not a person who can settle for a life of staunch piety, such as the one St. John offers her. Therefore, although she admires Helen Burns, she cannot adopt her attitude. The other important phase ... ...

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... nineteenth century England, while Cher Horowitz lives in rich, upscale Beverly Hills, U.S.A. In both Clueless and Emma, both of the main characters, Cher and Emma, are spoiled, high class snobs who are looked upon with esteem and popularity by most. Cher and Emma are among the artistic privileged and because of their wealth and class they are spoiled and tend to ... ...

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... broke apart their loyalty, a pain that had been an ultimate necessity for Catherine's growth in maturity. Catherine was not the only one who was betrayed. Later we learn that Captain Tilney discards of the "?vain coquette'", (Austen, 142) Isabella, who writes to our heroine in hope of rekindling their once intimate relationship. Catherine has already learned that her "picture perfect" fellowship with ... ...

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... the upper class people that are lacking of the basic virtue. Her prejudice in favorite the upper class or rich people exemplify her negative view on the group of people who are inferior to her by classes. The reason she dislikes Elizabeth result from her jealousy of Darcy paying more attention to Elizabeth rather than herself. It bothers her because she ... . She showed us that the upper class people such as Lady Catherine always think their life style is better and superior than others. Therefore, when Lady Catherine meets with Elizabeth who comes from middle class the conflicts between...

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... but the reader realizes the real meaning behind the comment. "Pride is a very common failing, I believe . . .human nature is particularly prone to it and, there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other. . ."". (Pg.19) This observation by Mary is an accurate account of a characteristic found in most ... reading of Fordyce), indicates vulgarity and selfishness. Lydia's "wild volatility- is attributable to her parents. Her father has not taken the "trouble of checking her exuberant spirits- and her mother--who became a member...

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... mother is most excited when she hears that an eligible young gentleman has rented a nearby house. This young man falls in love with the oldest Bennet girl, but has a friend who looks down on all the Bennets, and tries his best to separate the couple. The opening words of this novel, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession ... and vexed" Elizabeth, as he was polite but distant. They are invited to return for dinner one night, and again Lizzie is "enraged against herself for being so silly! A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enoug...

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... fact that a woman did not have to wed in order to have financial security and respect. This can be seen through the wealth and popularity of the main character Cher, who has the respect of all of her peers and is financially stable although she is unmarried and, initially, unattached. Although the contexts of the different times that Emma and Clueless ... again- "I can't believe I failed. I failed something I could not talk my way out of- and when Tai insults her- "Why am I even listening to you to begin with- you're a virgin who can't drive-. As a result of these experiences, both Emma...

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... opening chapter as the novel, "The business of her life was to get her daughters married". (P5) But Mrs. Bennet's intentions for who her daughters may marry where to be someone of a higher social class, "A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. ... Prejudice I believe Austen pushes the boundaries of that time, showing in my opinion a slightly feminist view, by projecting Elizabeth as a strong independent women who values love over money, showing that love may over power money which in that period of time would not have been seen acceptable. The relationships in ... ....

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... female characters within the novel use money to control the men in their lives. Although readers often think of John Willoughby as a master manipulator, his love of extravagance allows women who can feed that extravagance to manipulate him. According to Willoughby, Mrs. Smith, his aunt, had felt slighted by his negligence. As the source of his income, he could little afford ... : since only extravagance can feed his vanity, and only money can feed his extravagance, he will always be at the mercy of the person holding the purse strings. Another character who attempts the financial manipul...

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... only on how an "ideal woman" should behave but also look; had Jane been "handsome", more faults would be forgiven. For example her beautiful cousin Georgiana, who is described as a quite awful and selfish girl, but because "her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all ... who looked at her" (Brontë, 642), she is forgiven any mistake. A similar situation also occurs with Anne who is described as "regular" while her prettier self-absorbed sister Elizabeth is their fathers pride and joy. Even if ... she begins to take control over the situation and advance herself, not...

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... that the Regency is characterized by rules that make love non-existent. To perpetuate this feeling even more, one can look to the author herself, who was never married. Sense and Sensibility, is the story of two sisters searching for love and all the happiness that accompanies it. The difference between the ... to be open with their emotions when it comes to men. A woman is supposed to keep her emotions on the inside. Elinor, being the one who knows society's rules does not let her emotions control her. She is able to remain calm and well mannered when her gentleman callers come around. ...

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... carry on the Tudor Dynasty, and though his first two wives could not provide that to him his third wife Jane Seymour did. Jane Seymour, who was the one wife he loved very deeply, died shortly after the birth of Edward VI from puerperal sepsis (the infections one is subject to when ... son's health. He had the castle sanitized and kept Edward VI in close seclusion. This ended when Henry VIII married his last wife, Katharine Parr, who became a beloved mother to Edward and he adopted the Protestantism which she championed (englishhistory.net). He grew very close to his half-sister Elizabeth...

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... feels left out but is also cruelly treated. Jane's cousin, John discovers Jane's hiding place and begins to threaten her for being a lowly orphan who is only permitted to live with Reeds because of his mother's charity. John then hurls a book at the young girl pushing her to the end ... starting a fight with John and is being dragged into the Red Room by Mrs Reed. This is obviously a terrible penalty to inflict upon a little girl who is clearly desperate and very afraid, however, Mrs Reed has no sympathy for her. " I resisted all the way", Jane Eyre states at the beginning of ... , and ...

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... sits himself in an armchair and gestures for Jane to come and stand before him. He starts chiding Jane for being a lowly orphan who is only permitted to live with the Reeds because of his mother's charity. After asking Jane what she was doing and reminding her ... to live on the charity of others, Jane is a kind of second-class citizen. In some ways she is below even the servants, who certainly have no obligation to treat her respectfully. The tensions of this contradiction emerge in the very first chapter of the novel, when Jane ... Jane struggles continually to achieve equality and to ...

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... of their home and inheritance on the death of the girls' father. The law decrees that Norland estate must pass to his son by a previous marriage, the girls' stepbrother John, who is partnered in life by Fanny, Edward Ferrar's sister. Though John vowed to provide for his stepmother and stepsisters, his selfish wife easily persuades him that they should use the ... other. When Edward has to leave, Elinor says nothing. Edward does promise he will come down and give Margaret an atlas. When the atlas comes and not Edward, the one who ends up crying is Margaret and not Elinor. We do learn, ho...

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... remarks at the Ball held at Netherfield, "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men" (Austen 9) Elizabeth becomes upset, Darcy has injured her pride (Austen 9). Her judgments of Mr. Darcy from this point are unjustified because he injures her feelings ... relationship forming between the two women. This sudden change in Mr. Darcy shocks Elizabeth (Austen 172). "Darcy adopts a mask when away for the harmony of Pemberley... Only those, like Elizabeth, who have seen the face witho...

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... a moral lesson. Constant suffering of the female protagonist till her love is realized adds to the pathos. Selfish schemes devised by elder females highlight the prevailing situation. However certain figures who are just a medium of information throughout the novel add some comic element. Austen makes fun of snobbery, hypocrisy and meddling imprudence of the ladies of title. Sense of expectation coupled ... . Although the plots differ but the common resounding theme and setting makes the reader draw certain similarities. Maintaining a socially acceptable behavior dominates her writings. ...

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... correlation to Catherine's naiveté. Catherine's chief aspiration throughout the novel, then, is to develop practically as an adult; an adult who is able to distinguish between the likes of the truly virtuous Tilneys, and the Thorpes and the General who can only ever proclaim their virtues. Isabella's polite performance enraptures Catherine, but the reader soon recognises her egotistical nature. Her conversations ... a source of self-glorification. One such instance is manifest in the following quotation where Isabella is supposed to be defending Miss Andrews: There is nothing I would n...

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... Elizabeth. Elizabeth's view is that of marriage for love & reason, this is positioned positively for the reader by the fact that this view goes against marrying the obsequious Mr. Collins who is the most "disagreeable" man presented in the entire novel. Elizabeth is also presented with another proposal for marriage later in text. This proposal is made by the prideful Mr ... is Good Breeding & behavior. The dominant response to this theme is that Austen isn't trying to criticize the upper class's way of life but only those of the upper class who are too prideful and haughty. The first ex...

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