... The inability to feel for the three main characters: Miss Havisham, Estella and Pip, is an ongoing theme throughout the novel Great Expectations. All of these people , at some point, have their hearts opened up to love after living their lives without showing any ... she had been betrayed by her lover. Miss Havisham's father disinherited her brother from the families fortune because he was a bad and undutiful son. This in turn, deemed Miss Havisham her father's heir. Her brother became extremely jealous and swore to take revenge on his sister to get back what was rightfully ... have h...

• Word Count: 1955
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• Grade Level: High School

... . She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. Torvald, as the male presence ... to learn to support themselves, to struggle along' without a husband to take care of them is shown through the comparison between Nora and Mrs. Linde. Nora's pampered lifestyle is at great odds with Mrs. Linde's difficult working life, described by Mrs. Linde as feeli...

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... when Nora stands firm and refuses to bow down to what society demands of her, we see her as the hero. The social expectations of men in the late nineteenth century was of a more patriarchal thought-line then it is today. The man of the house was expected to ... )" Helmer is a certainly a man that lives up to what is expected of him, inside and outside the home. Nora, as a woman, also has many expectations she must try to live up to. By natural design, women are not good with money, with planning, or with complicated thinking. They are certainly the underclass ... talents and abilities. Y...

• Word Count: 1947
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every short story read this semester, not one character ... way he thought marriage should be. Pozdnyshev was as impure as any prostitute, but his wife had to be pure. He had too high of expectations of a woman. He wanted his wife to fit his image perfectly, if she did not, then she was not good enough. His egoism ... good than many of those who marr...

• Word Count: 1555
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• Grade Level: High School

... that she has become Torvald's "doll- which plays around his "doll- house. She points out to him: You have never understood me. I have had great injustice done me, Torvald; first by father, and then by you He used to tell me all his opinions, and I held the same opinions He used ... the tragic circumstances. She sees that she was never truly happy in the house, just content. Her father kept her as a child would a doll, and Torvald continued this when they were married. They formed her opinions for her, set expectations to which she was supposed to adhere, and wrote a vague script ... Whi...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Though we profess abhorrence of divorce, I suspect that the divorce rate reflects our national values with great exactness, and that conventional modern marriage-an external commitment with loopholes galore-expresses precisely the degree of loss of autonomy that we are able to tolerate"(Rottenberg 288). Divorce is rampant in today's society. I suggest that because of the values taught to me by my parents ... together, it has now become more common for marriage relationships to be portrayed as suffocating, troubled or "falling apart". Many characters in the soap operas, for example, are depic...

• Word Count: 1529
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... disability C personality: fragile, sensitive Her father's abandonment, her mother's pressing her brother's indifference and the most the most terrible, her physical disability, all in all, make her suffer physically and psychologically a lot. She's sad, extremely self-conscious and as fragile as her own collection of glass. She has what ... recall her " good old days". However, because of her mother's unreasonable expectations on her, Laura's a little afraid of her. Once Amanda said to Tom that she heard Laura's crying because Laura felt Tom's unhappy in this family. Maybe the cry is not...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School