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- 91: Jane Addams 2
- Jane Addams Even as a little girl in the serene community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, Jane Addams was "busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot."(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the ... faith. He encouraged her to pursue higher education but not at the cost of losing her femininity and the prospect of marriage and motherhood. John Addams was Cedarville's most respected citizen. A prosperous miller, Jane would sometimes hangout at her father's flourmill where she would romp in the empty bins. The piles of bran and shorts were as good as sand to play in. He was also a ...
- 92: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is not only a love story of marriage among the rural gentry in England at the start of the 19th century Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire. Her father was a vicar and she had six brothers and a sister. At the age of sixteen she started writing humorous novels. In 1813 she published ‘Pride and Prejudice’. She never got married and she died in 1817 at the age of forty-two. Jane Austen thought that the situation that should be written about is ‘two or three families living together in a country village’. She never wrote about environments she did not know about and only wrote about gentry like herself. That is why the characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ are middle class people, like landowners, vicars, and officers. She does not mention servants much. Marriage in Jane Austen’s society marriage is the status all the women strive to achieve. Money and looks are essential for a good marriage, youthfulness also counts. If a woman never got married, because of lacking ...
- 93: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is not only a love story of marriage among the rural gentry in England at the start of the 19th century Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire. Her father was a vicar and she had six brothers and a sister. At the age of sixteen she started writing humorous novels. In 1813 she published ‘Pride and Prejudice’. She never got married and she died in 1817 at the age of forty-two. Jane Austen thought that the situation that should be written about is ‘two or three families living together in a country village’. She never wrote about environments she did not know about and only wrote about gentry like herself. That is why the characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ are middle class people, like landowners, vicars, and officers. She does not mention servants much. Marriage in Jane Austen’s society marriage is the status all the women strive to achieve. Money and looks are essential for a good marriage, youthfulness also counts. If a woman never got married, because of lacking ...
- 94: Pride and Prejudice: Summary
- Pride and Prejudice: Summary Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a complex novel that relates the events surrounding the relations, lives, and loves of a middle-upper class English family in the late nineteenth century. Because of the detailed ... his cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy to be exceedingly handsome, however Darcy's pride is so irritating and repulsive, it makes his character almost totally disagreeable. It is at this ball, however, that the oldest Bennet daughter, Jane, becomes involved with Mr.Bennet; her younger sister Elizabeth, however, falls victim to Mr. Darcy's pride and is shunned by him during the entire ball. Beginning with this event, Elizabeth forms a prejudice towards ... future involvement with him. It is here then that the two main themes of he work, pride and prejudice, are first presented. Soon after the ball, it becomes obvious that Mr. Bingley's feelings towards Jane deepen, and Jane's feelings also appear when the family visits their neighbors the Lucases after the Meryton Ball. This, however, produces concern from both his older sister and Mr. Darcy, who dislike the ...
- 95: The Symbolic Use Of Hunger In
- ... struggled trying to achieve unattainable goals in the face of close-minded societies. Characters such as Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin s The Awakening, Hugh Wolfe of Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills, Jane Eyre of Charlotte Bronte s novel, and the woman being force fed in Djuna Barnes How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed all suffer from an insatiable hunger, which, in most cases, ultimately is not fulfilled ... feeling of deprivation. Although all of these characters come from different walks of life, they share a common struggle. Edna belongs to upper class Creole society, Hugh Wolfe is a poverty-stricken immigrant laborer, and Jane Eyre, an orphan. These characters lived during the middle to the end of the nineteenth century, in completely distinct worlds, yet all had their creativity stifled by society. Similarly, Djuna Barnes poem of the ...
- 96: A Dolls House-victorian Morals
- ... of the upper class were likely to be volunteer positions in charitable or social service enterprises. The Victorian period saw the emerging idea of feminism. It emerged mostly through literature. Charlotte Bronte s (1816-1854) Jane Eyre was the first major feminist novel. The book doesn t directly hint of any equality of the sexes, but many literary critics say Jane merely wants recognition that both sexes are similar in heart and spirit . A quote from Jane Eyre: Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings? ... Do you think, because I am ...
- 97: Creative Writing: The Visitor
- ... but well illuminated by the bright full moon, glistened with a pattern of twinkling stars. The background light from Brisbane was almost nonexistent, a pleasant change of atmosphere that was rarely appreciated by most. Except Jane. She loved the clear sky, the faint presence of the Milky Way as it wrapped itself across the near-endless plane that was the sky She stood out on the balcony, staring into the azure ... you'd think that there might as well be aliens to make the group whole. A streak of light suddenly pierced the night's sky and left a dazzling trail of cosmic dust behind it. Jane gasped in awe. A falling star. The brightest she had seen! She quickly closed her eyes and made a wish, knowing that a wish from a falling star had excellent chances of coming to pass ... night. She tried to form an image, . She almost had it. She slowly opened her eyes and visualized... Max. Standing at the door and was looking at her with an air of mild curiosity. "HEY Jane" he yelled! " What the hell are you doing ?" Jane nearly fell backwards. He was no vision! That idiot was once again eavesdropping on her! "I WAS making a wish, you jerk!" she blurted out, " ...
- 98: The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlo
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” explores the restricted societal roles of both Jane and John. Gilman, a strong supporter of women’s rights, focuses on her account with depression through this story (Hill 150). Traditionally, the man must take care of the woman both financially and emotionally while ... Gilman focuses on the hardships of the woman, she also examines the role of the man in society. Repression generated by social gender roles hinders men and women from acquiring self-individuation. The repression of Jane ties into her lack of exposure to emotional and intellectual stimulus. Jane’s feminine emotions towards her environment aid in her restraint. Representing the dominance of masculinity over the restrained female, Jane observes the female figure, who looks as if she is behind bars, in the ...
- 99: Marriage: The Perfect Ending to Pride and Prejudice
- ... of society. Occasionally, rebelling is the path to happiness. However, usually, the real path to happiness is through compromise. This is the case in the early nineteenth century England setting of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. In the novel, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is a lively, independent woman, whose family's financial situation and whose strong mindedness suggest that she may never marry. Mr. Darcy, is a rigid and proper man ... truly happy. In marrying, they not only fulfill themselves as individual, but also affirm the principle values of society. As in many of her novels, this marriage at the end of the novel shows us Jane Austen's ideal view of marriage as a social institution. The novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen gives us the reader a very good idea of how she views marriage, as well as society. The theme of marriage is set in the very opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice; "It ...
- 100: Pride And Prejudice By Jane Au
- In the novel Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, several, if not all of her characters, can verify the idea that in order to achieve happiness one must abandon their pride and in turn, replace it with self-respect accompanied by some humility. In addition, tolerance and mutual respect must replace one’s prejudice. In the inception of the novel, the Bingley sisters, Caroline and Mrs. Hurst, exhibit their prejudice towards Jane because of their differences in social status. It is their pride that forces them to believe they are better than others solely because of the amount of money they have. It is their prejudice that ... earnestly avoid people of different social status and do everything their powers allow to ‘protecting’ family members such as Mr. Bingley from people of the lower class. Instead of realizing the love Mr. Bingley and Jane had towards each other, they allow their pride to blind them of the truth and foolishly assume that only a lady of equal status as theirs is ‘worthy’ of their brother’s love. To ...
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