Elizabeth Bennet

Anne Elliot is very different from the rest of her family. Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth are much more concerned with appearances, of which is less of a priority to Anne. Keeping this notion in mind, she takes pride in practicality, patience, and intelligence. She is levelheaded in stressful situations such as after Louisa’s fall in…

The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, contains elements and characters that can be interpreted as an expression of Maupassant’s misogynistic portrayal of women. However, there also exist contrasting events and features present in The Necklace that serve to lessen the extent of the misogyny portrayed by Maupassant. This essay will explore a few of these elements, and will discuss the extent of the misogyny shown through Maupassant’s Madame Loisel. Through Madame Loisel’s obsession with…

Myrtle and George Wilson were once two passionate lovers, caring for nothing else in the world but each other. However, Myrtle’s selfish aura led her to fall in love with not a man but a thing: money. She became dissatisfied with her husband and decided to move on to someone more enticing, someone wealthy like Tom Buchanan. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Wilsons are discontent with their lives as they become unsatisfied with one another and turn to lives of avarice,…

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. Growing up around books influenced the way Jane Austen incorporated symbols into her own writings, sometimes even using books to build her characters and themes. Prominently shown through Austen’s Northanger Abbey and seen in her other pieces, she expertly uses engaging realism, subtle irony, and effective parodies of what was going on during her lifetime,…

In the novel Graceling by Kristen Cashore, there are many theme ideas worth speaking about one of which being lies and deceit. There are many ways that the author communicates this throughout the text, for example she makes it clear that not all the lies and deceit are for bad reasoning, like when Po finally reveals his true grace to Katsa. At first she was enraged now, it has given them a more open bond allowing Katsa to further her survival abilities. Katsa was struggling with self control for…

"Pride and prejudice" by Jane Austen Jane Austen’s valuable treatise Pride and Prejudice exemplifies various kinds of marriages; however, leaves the readers with the impression that marriages of suitability and love are the ones to be wished for. Pride and Prejudice falls in the genre of romantic and sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. In the first three chapters of the novel, every situation and incident of the plot advances the progress of the story. The chapters contain gentle and…

In Jane Austen’s book, Persuasion, she eludes on her audience that class within society is of the greatest importance to those in Britain. She uses examples such as Sir Walter Elliott and his favorite daughter Elizabeth and their economic problems or aspirations as evidence toward this. The story starts off with Elliott reading his family ancestry to show nobility and significance of class and goes all the way to not calling a specific person “Gentleman” because of their wealth by the end of…

Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters addresses the anomaly of an ideal marriage, an ideal culture and the stereotype immigrant theory of South Asians into America. Love, marriage, sex, dowry, woman subjugation intertwined with a small plot of victory in the face of child-marriage induces progressive interest through the novel. The conflict of tradition and modernity, irony of arrange marriage and acceptance of cultures beyond the laid-out limit, unfurls instantaneous engrossment. The two…

Harper Connelly is the lead character in the Harper Connelly mystery series of novels by the American novelist Charlaine Harris. The first novel featuring the character was the 2005 published title Grave Sight that went on to achieve massive popularity among urban fantasy enthusiasts. Harper Connelly the lead in the series is a 24-year-old woman who comes from a family that is the quintessential rags to riches story. She has a brother Tolliver who is a product of her mother’s remarriage to…

Lucy Westenra significantly differs from the above-mentioned examples of female predators. When the reader acquaints her, she is a human being – attractive, beautiful, fairly innocent and probably superficial but certainly not evil. One gathers that she is a close friend of Mina Murrey, albeit their strikingly different attitudes toward life and love – Lucy is adored by three men and her greatest bother appears which one to choose as a husband. The affairs get truly complicated when one…