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- 1791: Jane Erye - Feminism
- ... to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style". In 1809 Jane Austen, her mother, sister Cassandra, and Martha Lloyd moved to Chawton, near Alton and Winchester, where her brother Edward provided a small house on one of his estates. This was in Hampshire, not far from her childhood home of Steventon. Before leaving Southampton, she corresponded with the dilatory publisher to whom she had sold Susan (i.e. Northanger ... and Mary), visit the Mansfield neighbourhood, the moral sense of each marriageable member of the Mansfield family is tested in various ways, but Fanny emerges more or less unscathed. The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of ... story of the unsophisticated and sincere Catherine Morland on her first trip away from home, for a stay in Bath. There she meets the entertaining Henry Tilney; later, on a visit to his family's house (the "Northanger Abbey" of the title) she learns to distinguish between the highly charged calamities of Gothic fiction and the realities of ordinary life (which can also be distressing in their way). Like Jane ...
- 1792: The Ice Storm Book Vs. Movie C
- ... m so wasted and then passes out on Paul lap. Though the movie is vague about why Paul gets the drugs. Paul gets them to try and drug out his friend who is at Libbets house with him so he can have sex with Libbets. The movie also didn t include the scene where Paul starts fondling Libbets while she is passed out. His erection began to rub against Libbet s ... flashback. Though during the trail Paul interjects certain deep sayings. He makes analogies by using the Fantastic Four comic book, his favorite comic book. For instance he says while the train is going to Libbets house, All every day assumptions are inverted invisible girl is now visible Every person on a partially negative zone. They dip in and out of where things shouldn t work out they way they should, but ... lot of sense especially when it is played. The quote is played before all the cataclysmic events happen, this is the afternoon before the key party where Paul is heading to New York to Libbets house. The flashback ends with Paul coming back from the train ride, the same scene from the beginning is played over and Paul arrives in the station to see his puzzled family. The movie ends ...
- 1793: Jane Eyre 3
- ... from one type of servitude to another throughout the novel, from her beginnings at Gateshead under Mrs. Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst at Lowood Academy, to Rochester at Thornfield, and then to St. John at Moor House. She Jane ultimately realizes that attaining true liberty is not only beyond her power, but it is also not really her true desire. She rejects the idea of seeking spiritual liberty alone and accepting a ... that the "white road" leading to complete freedom, out in nature all alone, ends in total desolation. She ends up coming into yet another form of servitude, this time under St. John at the Moor House. St. John is the extreme representation of the repression of physical desires, and his repression turns him into a "cold, harsh man"(400) with "reason, and not feelings"(401) as his guide; he is "inexorable ... shows up on his doorstep, that she is spoiled and lazy. When his prejudices are proven wrong, St. John becomes even colder to Jane; no matter how hard she tries to clean or improve the house, he still takes no notice. Once they are established as equals and family, Jane begins to study with St. John, and he gains more influence over her than ever before. Jane feels smothered by ...
- 1794: Leaders of the Progressive Movement
- ... in gaining women the right to vote. Each of these three women made a unique and enduring difference in American society. Even in the time before women's suffrage, Jeanette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives. During her time there, she worked tirelessly for all kinds of legislation to help women, while never compromising her pacifist stance. Jane Addams also worked for social reforms, using her position in society to form Hull House, a settlement house for the social and economic betterment of the poor. She wrote many books about worthy causes such as peace, and endured harsh criticism of her work. Perhaps the most radical of the three, Emma ...
- 1795: Fahrenheit 451: The Hope of the Phoenix
- ... books. To Montag, the books was like a sweet piece of candy. He did not know why he liked them, but he always wanted more. But when Captain Beatty forced Montag to burn his own house, Montag's soul had died, but then resurrected. His life which was suppose to be happy was burning right in front of his eyes. How ironic, that Montag was a fireman himself but like the ... that the world was wrong. He did not know why it was wrong, but he knew that he had to do something about it. He started that by burning Captain Beatty into "a charred wax doll(119)". Montag now had the feeling of hope, not much since he believed he could not do anything. But Montag had now broken the control of the government and was using the books as his ...
- 1796: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea." The fire that night that engulfed Miss Maudie Atkinson's house can be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County, as the fire melted the snow from the snowman, and left nothing but a clump of mud. The fire depicts the prejudice people of the county ... no better than the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off ... racism of the Southern whites that tries to protect this womanhood. The purity of the womanhood is being protected from miscegenation, from the black man. As the black quarters lie just beyond the Ewell's house, the entire scene (the flowers, the fence, and the quarters) represents the fear of miscegenation as the threat from the black man is ever-present, and very near. In fact, a sort of miscegenation ...
- 1797: Baby Think It Over
- ... kids until I have achieved some of my goals. I want to get into college and enjoy my education, I want to travel the world, have a stable job and eventually marry and buy a house. Basically I will not have kids until I am sure I will have a house and enough income to raise them healthy and will all the luxuries I had growing up, such as a nice house in a beautiful town with good schools.
- 1798: Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea." The fire that night that engulfed Miss Maudie Atkinson's house can be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County, as the fire melted the snow from the snowman, and left nothing but a clump of mud. The fire depicts the prejudice people of the county ... no better than the niggers and trash he works for!" not only show us her own views, but they also represent the views of the rest of Maycomb County. As they were going by the house later that day Jem snatched Scout's baton and "ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard...He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off ... racism of the Southern whites that tries to protect this womanhood. The purity of the womanhood is being protected from miscegenation, from the black man. As the black quarters lie just beyond the Ewell's house, the entire scene (the flowers, the fence, and the quarters) represents the fear of miscegenation as the threat from the black man is ever-present, and very near. In fact, a sort of miscegenation ...
- 1799: The Garden Party
- ... thing to do, but she gets the task to give the basket filled with sandwiches to the poor family. Laura isn t certain if the poor family will appreciate the gift. When walking to the house, she is afraid of their reaction. This isn t something she is used to do. She hasn t been in touch with people in poverty before. What will they think? A well dressed upper class girl, coming to their house and thinks that a basket of sandwiches will replace a dead husband? But she continues her walk to the house. She meets with the young widow, and her dead husband. Laura looks at the young man and understands that he didn t care about the garden party or the load music that it caused. ...
- 1800: I Remember
- I Remember I remember going over to my Grandparent's house when I was very young. Their house was always filled with candles and strange people I didn't know. My Uncle used to own his own candle factory but decided to move his factory into my Grandparent's basement. The strange people ... for it. There were Garfields and Bart Simpsons, unicorns, dragons, skulls, wizards, eagles, praying hands, mother Mary, Jesus, pigs, horses, cats, dogs, you name it, we made it. My Uncle made the molds at his house. I never got to help with that. So I would string the molds about ten at a time, weaving in and out through the different characters. Then, leaving about six inches coming out the ...
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