... 's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. Furthermore, Austen's use of the romance genre and her incorporation of irony to express her views demonstrates the possibility of an atypical heroine and emphasises its importance. With both Elizabeth Bennet and Emma's protagonist, Emma Woodhouse, we are presented with unconventional protagonists ... which Austen's heroines and heroes must endure to reach the point of mutual agreement stresses the seriousness of social boundaries, and demonstrates how difficult th...

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... as it gives a comparison between how each is affected by their social conditions. In Heartbreak House there is misogyny throughout. It seems the women are in control which adds further irony. It is important to see how women are treated in each text and to evaluate the mistreatment of women. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are brought up under the ... ! Even the hair that ensnared him false! Everything false!" (P. 110.) Women are also presented as adulterous and seducers: "Why do women always want other women's husbands?" (P. 125.) There is heavy irony throughout of men's "sl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... as it gives a comparison between how each is affected by their social conditions. In Heartbreak House there is misogyny throughout. It seems the women are in control which adds further irony. It is important to see how women are treated in each text and to evaluate the mistreatment of women. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are brought up under the ... ! Even the hair that ensnared him false! Everything false!" (P. 110.) Women are also presented as adulterous and seducers: "Why do women always want other women's husbands?" (P. 125.) There is heavy irony throughout of men's "sl...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

... this story, finishes her cake and, licking her fingers, walks off down the beach. Alone with her husband, she had always surrounded her nakedness with "an air of complicity--of irony, part embarrassed and part feline," as if she were wearing an outrageous costume. Now, though, she had been alone and naked in the water for a very long time. Finally, she ... exaggerated by him as an amusing and colorful anecdote--assuming it ever even happened at all. ("Art is the discovery of hidden truths"; meaning, perhaps, the wholesale fabrication thereof? Ah, irony.) Tibor's precise level of loyalty...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to better behavior, nor does she accuse anyone else of sinning, and so we can't accuse her of hypocrisy. In contrast, the Monk and Friar are clearly the targets of irony, as they do not seem to be aware of the contradictions in their arguments. The Wife of Bath is the character most like her author, "Of the pilgrims she is ... creator, she criticizes through comedy, she weighs experience against authority, she is aware of the sexuality within textuality and she jokingly subverts the conventions of male authorship" (Martin 217). Chaucer's irony is complex through use of mimicry in the WB...

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... ideal Victorian woman. Tennyson does not provide options for the lady for her liberation. She faces entrapment in the tower, and any attempt to escape will have grave consequences. The irony is that she will exchange one entrapment for another if the she tries to avoid; that is her death. In this regard, Tennyson divulges his personal opinions on women. This ... ...

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... feelings in the minds of most women, however the speaker cleverly lures them back within his grasp through the vivid descriptions of his intensely romantic fantasies in lines 3-20. The irony extends itelf in these lines, for although he just finished admonishing his lady for her squandering of valuable time, the ensuing 18 lines of rhyme ! give virtually no heed to ... ...

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... 's love- (V.i.98) that guided his actions. Unlike many of the other characters in The Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio is simple and is only controlled by desires of the heart. Irony has its turn at the end of the play when Lucentio realizes that Katherine was the true prize when he says "'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed ... ...

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... woman, particularly the monetary depedency, is indicative of a degree of role reversal in Rob's relationship with Laura. This shift in economic power gives Laura a certain preeminence in their relationship. The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within the relationship. Instead, Rob used her wealth as a means of abusing her. It seemed at times that ... ...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School