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- 271: Comparison Of Mansfield Park A
- Comparison of Mansfield Park and Metropolitan Whit Stillman's attempt to capture Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park on film in Metropolitan is a fair adaptation but it is unable to give the viewer the same insights. Stillman manages to have most of Mansfield Parks characters represented in some way or another, however the time needed to develop those characters is simply not there in a two hour movie. It is this development that makes Jane Austen's books so interesting. She spends an enormous amount of time telling us the backgrounds of the characters, especially Fanny Price. We are then able to interpret their actions knowing their motives and history ...
- 272: Battle Between Sexes Critical
- ... makes it fun to watch them. The truth is, in humanity, there are many stories to be caught but the ones that got away - they make the best stories of all. The story of "GI Jane" begins in the male dominated world of the Navy Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil played by Demi Moore. The opportunity comes to be the first woman to train to be a SEAL she decides it is ... of a man and women must be shared. The other version, polyandrogynism suggests that gender roles be left as open as possible and there being no demand that the roles have to be shared. GI Jane suggests more of polyandrogynism. Jordan leaves behind her boyfriend who is also in the service, but had never went into SEAL training. The roles are changed while Jordan takes on that of a man s ...
- 273: Mayor Of Casterbridge 3
- ... disappeared like the crew of Comus'. It is the last we hear of the workfolk's mocking laughter for ironically the very success of this resurgence of carnival prepares the way for its suppression.Elizabeth-Jane's marriage to Farfrae signifies the truimph of the serious, the organized, the moral, the rational, the final triumph of spirit over the disorganized, the passionate, the festive, the flesh. The essence of Elizabeth-Jane's character is restraint and, like Farfrae's, her actions are characterized by their'reasonableness' and her perception of the world is consistently 'tragical'. In the closing passages of the novel she reflects that joy ...
- 274: Holdens Lonliness And His Inab
- ... encounter with Maurice; Holden's lack of knowledge of what to say and when to say it got him a smacking from the pimp. In another situation Holden could not effectively communicate his feeling about Jane with Stradlater. Because of this he got into a fight with Stradlater. This made him so depressed that he left the school the same evening. Even the plenitude of uncompleted phone calls that permeate the ... that in mind and thinks of that person as a 'phony'. For this reason he could not get along very well with other people. Stradlater was in a very good mood after his date with Jane Gallagher, and started getting playful with Holden but he lands into a fight Stradlater due to his misconceptions. Holden might be 17 but his mind is definitely immature. Even a prostitute calls him a crum ...
- 275: Sense And Sensibility Book Report
- Book Report - Sense and Sensibility 1.) In Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, the title is a metaphor for the two main characters Elinor and Marianne. Elinor represents sense and Marianne represents sensibility. We find out early that Elinor does not share her feelings ... found out Edward had always loved her and not Lucy. It is also during that time that Marianne and the Colonel developed a mutual relationship. Soon, both couples were married. 5.) I don't like Jane Austen's book that much. There was not much suspense in it and the happy ending is just too mundane. Despite the negative aspects, I think it is a very well written book. I learned ...
- 276: Sense And Sensibility
- English author Jane Austen wrote satirical romances set within the confines of upper-middle-class English society. Her books are known for their sharp attention to the details of everyday life, and her skillful treatments of character and situation has marked Austen as an astute observer of human nature. This is highly evident in her treatment of the complex relationship between sense and sensibility in her novel of the same name. Jane Austens Sense and sensibility contrasts two sisters: Marianne, who, with her doctrines of love at first sight and enthusiastic emotions openly expressed, represents "sensibility", and Elinor, who has much more "sense", but is still ...
- 277: Pride And Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice: Is it possible? The novel "Pride and Prejudice," written by Jane Austen during the nineteenth century, describes the trials and tribulations of five sisters of marrying age. The story is based in England around the turn of the century, and upon careful review, we find that ... Soon after their original meeting at the ball, Elizabeth and Darcys paths cross again. This time it is at the home of the Bingleys where Darcy is staying, and where Elizabeth comes to visit Jane, her ill sister. When Darcy see her this time, his reaction to her is quite different: "he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that ...
- 278: Pride And Prejudice
- In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen the entire novel is designed around a running theme: pride and prejudice. The passage in the novel that best relates this theme is in chapter thirty-four when Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth. This ... in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Austen, 142-145). Unfortunately for Darcy, Elizabeth only gets slightly insulted. Her refusal of Darcy was initially because of his treatment of Wickham and his actions toward Jane and Bingley's relationship. Elizabeth's prejudice shows in her actions towards Darcy too. She says, " From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners ...
- 279: Pride And Prejudice
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, set in Nineteenth century England, is a novel about marriage. Austen's feminine writing and weaved storyline creates a novel which can be interesting to read and which women especially ... parties - this is reserved for the women. Most of the men aren't even taken seriously. But I must give credit to Austen, for as Mark Twain once said, "Write what you know about," and Jane Austen probably wouldn't have done so well with her men as she did with her women. This is the basic argument that she is a feminine author, appealing mostly to women. Most importantly, she ...
- 280: J.D. Salinger
- ... right temple. "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" is a story about a young woman who tries to make sense out of all the confusion in her life. Eloise finds a loyal and trustworthy friend in Mary Jane. They are on the same path in life. Salinger suggests that they have stayed friends for so long because neither of them graduated from college. Eloise left college because she was caught with a soldier in the elevator. Mary Jane left college because she was to marry a soldier in jail. Eloise feels like an outsider in her own family. She makes a comment about her daughter looking more like her husband and his mother ...
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