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- 181: Female Adaptation To Male Domi
- ... their traditional basic rights and to make use of the power they already possess. To accomplish the first half of my objective, I am going perform a case study of the 1997 flick, G. I. Jane. Going even a step further, I am going to look at Lauren R. Tucker’s effort to analyze the movie for the same purpose as mine. Her essay, Do you have a permit for that?: The Gun as a Metaphor for the Transformation of G. I. Jane into G. I. Dick, talks about the movie’s representation of female efforts to succeed in the male arena. She looks at the whole perspective in an authoritative way and picks a certain central core of it to have a discussion on in the form of an essay. Her interpretation of the movie can be summarized in the following sentences: "In G. I. Jane, the argument is framed in an innovative way. Through the abandonment of her primary, feminine identity, O’Neil engages in social exchange. This is an example of the “personnel turnover” referred to by Elshtain. ...
- 182: Emily Bronte
- By: Luke E-mail: Lws02279@aol.com Bronte, name of three English novelists, also sisters, whose works, transcending Victorian conventions, have become beloved classics. The sisters Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), Emily (Jane) Bronte (1818-1848), and Anne Bronte (1820-1849), and their brother (Patrick) Branwell Bronte (1817-1848), were born in Thornton, Yorkshire. The Bronte children's imaginations transmuted a set of wooden soldiers into characters in ... at their own expense, as Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), each sister using her own initials in these pseudonyms. Two copies were sold. Each sister then embarked on a novel. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was published first in 1847. Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights appeared a little later that year. On their return from a publishing trip to London, they found Branwell near death. ...
- 183: Pride and Prejudice: What's Love Got to Do With It
- ... it is probably even better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying. While Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth about her sister, she expressed her opinion as to Jane Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She says it is probably better not to study a person because you would probably know as much after twelve months as if she married him the next day ... Lucas comes up and Mrs. Bennet can not help but to comment about Charlotte's beauty, "...but you must own she is very plain. Lady Lucas has often said so..." (p.39). Even good-natured Jane, Elizabeth's sister, has something to say about Charlotte's marriage to Mr. Collins. Jane argues that Mr. Collins is respectable and that Charlotte is from a large family and is not exceptionally wealthy. She also states that Charlotte, "may feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin" ( ...
- 184: The Ideas Of A Moralistic Soci
- ... a basic respect follow the same moral and ethical obligations as a catholic priest. They are to live their lives for the love of God, and Christ. However in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin there is a fellow, whom is a minister in the church of England. Yet does not display even the basics of the moral and ethical code followed by the members of the clergy. He ... social hierarchy conscious man, who makes it a hobby of sucking up to money. This fellow, who goes by the name of Mr. Collins, is portrayed, understandably as a very objectionable individual. I believe that Jane Austin made a purpose of making every behavior and line of dialogue given by him into a reason for us to like him less and less. He starts out as a simple minded man who ... disgrace her family" (in speaking of Lydia s elopement) we begin to down right detest him. The manner in which he approaches people gives us a very good idea of the type of character that Jane Austin is trying to portray. Take his proposal to Lizzy as an example. His uncouth approach to the whole matter gave us the most insight as anything had previously. He went about it in ...
- 185: Catcher In The Rye
- ... out. " I wondered if I was wrong about Mr. Antolini making a flitty pass at me " (194). Holden met a friend who always kept her kings in the back row, what he loves about her. Jane to Holden she was a Goddess! It seemed like every guy wanted her. Stradlater wanted Jane and Holden hated it. He got so pissed off when he found out that the two of them went and sat some where a little too comfortable for Holden's liking! " Give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car!" (43). Then it really got to Holden when Stradlater showed interest in Jane "it just drove me crazy to think of her and Stradlater parked some where" (48). He was just pissed that he wasn't the one on the double date with Jane because that was ...
- 186: Emma - Romantic Imagination
- Jane Austen’s Emma and the Romantic Imagination "To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." —William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’ Imagination, to the people of the eighteenth century of whom William Blake and Jane Austen are but two, involves the twisting of the relationship between fantasy and reality to arrive at a fantastical point at which a world can be extrapolated from a single grain of sand, and all ... because there is no need for it and they remain in the best of health. In contrast, "in the decline of life, [imaginers] pay dearly for the youthful days of their vanity," (George Cheyne, 1725). Jane Fairfax does just this. She gets so carried away with the idea of Frank and Emma being together that she imagines herself into a serious illness. To people of the eighteenth century, imagination can ...
- 187: Catcher In The Rye - Character
- ... fight with Stradlater, his roommate, he reveals his moral ideals: he fears his roommate's sexual motives, and he values children for their sincerity and innocence, seeking to protect them from the phony adult society. Jane Gallagher and Allie, the younger brother of Holden who died at age 11, represent his everlasting symbols of goodness (Davis 317).A quote by Charles Kegel seems to adequately sum up the problems of Holden ... of, his troubled past" (qtd. in Davis 318).S.N. Behrman noted in his critique of The Catcher in the Rye that the hero and heroine of the novel, Holden's dead brother Allie and Jane Gallagher, never appear in it, but they are always in Holden's mind, together with his sister, Phoebe. These three people constitute Holden's emotional frame of reference -- the reader knows them better than the ... of exhilaration, an immense relief in the final scene at Central Park, when we know Holden will be all right. Behrman quipped: "One day, he will probably find himself in the mood to call up Jane. He may become more tolerant of phonies . . . or even write a novel. I would like to read it. I loved this one. I mean it- I really did" (75-6). Charles Kegel wrote that ...
- 188: Catcher In The Rye 3
- ... out. " I wondered if I was wrong about Mr. Antolini making a flitty pass at me " (194). Holden met a friend who always kept her kings in the back row, what he loves about her. Jane to Holden she was a Goddess! It seemed like every guy wanted her. Stradlater wanted Jane and Holden hated it. He got so pissed off when he found out that the two of them went and sat some where a little too comfortable for Holden's liking! " Give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car!" (43). Then it really got to Holden when Stradlater showed interest in Jane "it just drove me crazy to think of her and Stradlater parked some where" (48). He was just pissed that he wasn't the one on the double date with Jane because that was ...
- 189: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... fight with Stradlater, his roommate, he reveals his moral ideals: he fears his roommate's sexual motives, and he values children for their sincerity and innocence, seeking to protect them from the phony adult society. Jane Gallagher and Allie, the younger brother of Holden who died at age 11, represent his everlasting symbols of goodness (Davis 317).A quote by Charles Kegel seems to adequately sum up the problems of Holden ... of, his troubled past" (qtd. in Davis 318).S.N. Behrman noted in his critique of The Catcher in the Rye that the hero and heroine of the novel, Holden's dead brother Allie and Jane Gallagher, never appear in it, but they are always in Holden's mind, together with his sister, Phoebe. These three people constitute Holden's emotional frame of reference -- the reader knows them better than the ... of exhilaration, an immense relief in the final scene at Central Park, when we know Holden will be all right. Behrman quipped: "One day, he will probably find himself in the mood to call up Jane. He may become more tolerant of phonies . . . or even write a novel. I would like to read it. I loved this one. I mean it- I really did" (75-6). Charles Kegel wrote that ...
- 190: Henry VIII
- ... of the Church of England. In 1536, Henry accused his second wife, Anne Boleyn of adultery, so Henry then executed her. A few days after that, he married a young woman by the name of Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour, Henry's third wife, was the mother of Henry's only legitimate son, Jane Seymour died after bearing this certain child. Edward the VI was Henry's only legitimate son. A couple of years after Jane Seymour had died, Henry decided to marry once again. He married a ...
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