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- 231: Pride And Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice The passage which best relates the theme of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin, is on page 125, in the middle of the page. This is where Mr. Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth, and is informing her of the inferiority of her family and connections. This passage is ... a situation where insults are likely to bring results. This point is compounded because Elizabeth only gets slightly insulted by this comment. Her initial refusal of Darcy was based almost totally on his actions towards Jane and Bingley's relationship, and his treatment of Mr. Wickham. However, she is barely perturbed by this comment of Darcy regarding her family. This is so strange because one would expect Elizabeth to at least ... situations, they add more interest to the story. Here, it is simply prejudice by rich people against poorer people, which only detracts from the writing. So while this theme may have existed in reality during Jane Austen's lifetime, it should not have been included in the story.
- 232: Catcher In The Rye
- ... around him as "phonies" and again according to Jones; "Holden’s belief that he has a superior moral standard that few people, only his dead brother, his 10-year-old sister, and a fleeting friend [Jane] can live up to" that make him a snob (7). Presenting Holden as "snobbish" hardly does him justice. Critics such Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner, and Frederic I. Carpenter view Holden as a character ... his life have created a desire in him to preserve the innocence of those he considers to be innocent. He attempts to physically overpower Stradlater when he realizes that Stradlater may have "screwed around" with Jane Gallagher, whom Holden considers to be innocent simply because she "plays checkers with more regard for the symmetry of the pieces on the board than for the outcome of the game"(Gwynn 13). Along with Jane Gallagher, Holden wishes to protect his sister Phoebe, who is very much like Allie in that she has a mix of youthful innocence and generosity that overwhelms Holden. The best example of this generosity ...
- 233: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
- ... traces of profanity can be seen scattered about the page in the form of "crap", "hell" and "goddam". Holden's first sign of distrust comes when he speaks to Ward Stradlater about his date with Jane Gallagher: "Listen. Give my regards, willya?" "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he probably wouldn't... "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row." "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he wouldn't. (p.33-34) This is seen again when he doesn't trust Stradlater to stop his advances of Jane in the case that she says no. Holden gives up his faith in people to trust him when he boards a bus holding a snowball. The driver refuses to believe that Holden won't throw ... the future. Eventually he comes to the realization that he can't rub all the profanity away himself. Another example of Holden's attempt to shelter innocence is the fact that he never does call Jane, possibly for fear that she will scar his memories of her as an innocent child. The title of this novel presents this theme to the reader in that Holden wants to be "the catcher ...
- 234: Victorian Literature
- ... BEDE, described the slow dissolution of a rural community. The many powerful novels of Charles DICKENS, William Makepeace THACKERAY, and Anthony TROLLOPE focused on the isolation of the individual within the city. Charlotte BRONTE in JANE EYRE dramatized the particular problems of creating a female identity. Among the writers of early Victorian nonfiction, Thomas CARLYLE in Past and Present (1843) argued for the re-creation in industrial England of the lost sense ...
- 235: How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
- ... life led to a flowering on the novel of romance. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Cranford, producing a charming picture of Victorian Village life and the complex studies of family life in Wives and Daughters (Brown 53). Jane Eyre and Villette by Charlotte Bronte, expressed the daily lives of ordinary young women. Bronte also took an even broader step in her novels. She wrote about women's sexual passions (Summers 14). Never before had ...
- 236: Billy Sunday
- ... a series of other deaths would come to have a tremendous impact on Sunday s life. For the first three years of Billy Sunday s life he was a very sickly child. His mother, Mary Jane, would carry him around on a tote pillow while helping her parents plant corn, milk cows, chop wood, and wrangle horses. Then a traveling doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the second child, a girl, died in a fire when she was three. Not long after, Mary Jane s second husband died also. These untimely deaths left a mark on young Billy that stayed with him for the remainder of his life. In a short autobiography written for The Ladies Home Journal, ...
- 237: Biography Of Emily Bronte
- ... volume was titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Action Bell and was published. The first venture into publishing was a failure. By July, Wuthering Heights was finished, along with Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. All three were seeking a publisher and finally had their novels published in late 1847. Initially, the results of Wuthering Heights were poor, selling few copies. In 1848, Branwell died. Emily left ...
- 238: Biography of Katharine Hepburn
- ... her in These Days. She went to the reading in old clothes. She wore no make-up except for bright, red lipstick. Benn Levy, an English producer was not used to this way of auditioning. Jane Cowl, the star of the play, took her to the make-up room and made her look beautiful. Levy still didn't like what he saw and let her go. Katharine knew that they would ... letting her go. She was right. They called her a week later and said they would pay her one hundred fifty dollars per week to do a play called Art and Mrs. Bottle. She and Jane Cowl became good friends. Jane helped her immensely with her acting. In 1932, she appeared in a play called The Warriors Husband. A representative from RKO Studios came to see the play. He gave her a contract. She made ...
- 239: Billy Sunday
- ... a series of other deaths would come to have a tremendous impact on Sunday’s life. For the first three years of Billy Sunday’s life he was a very sickly child. His mother, Mary Jane, would carry him around on a tote pillow while helping her parents plant corn, milk cows, chop wood, and wrangle horses. Then a traveling doctor prepared a syrup that Mary Jane fed to Billy every day for three weeks. Miraculously, Billy gained strength and became a normal active child. Luck changed for Billy’s family, but only for a short time. His mother remarried and had two more children. Sadly, the second child, a girl, died in a fire when she was three. Not long after, Mary Jane’s second husband died also. These untimely deaths left a mark on young Billy that stayed with him for the remainder of his life. In a short autobiography written for The Ladies’ Home Journal, ...
- 240: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... union's contacts. Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of communism in the film industry. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1940, Reagan married actress Jane Wyman. "They were young, attractive, naïve, and unattained by scandal."8 Wyman met Reagan while on the rebound and dated him during the filming of Brother Rat. Hollywood gossip columnist Louella O. Parsons, whose initial ... 350 acres in the Malibu Mountains, a transaction that ultimately would have made them millionaires even without other investments. The Reagan children were far from being their father's greatest asset. Maureen, his daughter from Jane Wyman, has married three times, currently to a husband twelve years her junior, and campaigned for her dad in a somewhat glitzy fashion. Michael, the son Reagan and Jane Wyman adopted, has achieved little in life beyond falling out with his stepmother Nancy, making two marriages and providing Reagan with his only grandchildren to date. Nancy's elder child Patricia Ann has made ...
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