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    This page is taken from Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen , the famous author who lived the prosperity of the 18th century . Austen has a brave personality , she faced and dared the obstacles that her society sets to the 18th century’s women . She was the first women who published literary works under her name and as in her time that women supposed to be married and live under a
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    Last but not least, one of the most important shared themes between these two novels is individualism and collectivism. This theme appears vividly in every inch of both novels thus it indicates that although Orwell and Huxley imagined two complete different futures of their current societies, in some cases such as this, they had the same type of advanced point of view. In general, individualism and collectivism are two co-existing different ideologies that oppose one another. Individualism is a…

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    “I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” (Fitzgerald.) This is one of many examples of how women are treated with manipulation in, ‘The Great Gatsby.’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel, written in 1925, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This historical fiction takes place in 1922, following characters that live in New York. ‘The Great Gatsby’ movie was released in 2013, as a romantic drama, and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. It contains the same…

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    “Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

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    Emma and Moll, Breaking the Mold The 18 and 19th centuries are remembered for the literal and art creations as depicted in the Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders of 1722 and Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary of 1856. The two pieces are novels exploring the lives of heroines Moll Flanders and Emma Bovary respectively. Similar to other pieces of increasing critical thinking such as law and philosophy at the time, the two novels were based on societal changes…

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    The movie “Miss Potter’’ reveals the true story of Beatrix Potter, the famous author for children’s book and the woman who made great contribution to the development of the Lake District. Through the movie, Beatrix Potter and also the era she lived in, were successfully depicted and several aspects of her life and work were portrayed in the most elegant way. Miss Potter’s life is illustrative of the Victorian time she lived in and also contradicted to that era of British history. She was one…

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    Elizabeth's power over the narrative in Pride and Prejudice is unmatched; she captures readers' hearts, and the story is told mainly through her eyes. It is her condemnation of Lydia's behavior that settles the matter. In Elizabeth's eyes, Lydia is wrong; therefore, Lydia must be wrong. From where does Elizabeth derive her opinion of Lydia? At the beginning of the novel, Elizabeth has very little to say about…

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    with a title that reflects the theme and meaning of the work, and this is certainly true for the title of Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. The title itself can set the mood that would otherwise require several or more paragraphs to develop. Austen chose the title of her novel to subtly point out that the characters involved contain a certain level of both pride and prejudice. Elizabeth, Darcy, Miss Bingley, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Wickham, and Mr. Collins are all characters who…

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    Cathy Ames: The Anti-Mother One of Steinbeck’s most extraordinary characters of East of Eden, and in his literary career, is known as Cathy Ames. Her preternaturalness in fact is spoken in itself, she is not like other females, let alone not like humankind. Steinbeck in fact creates this impression of Cathy not only through her extreme sense of maliciousness, yet he explores her paradoxical nature through her lack of morality, which ultimately empowers her instead. However, this very lacking,…

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    Comparative Analysis: The Namesake & Perfume Analysis of Perfume by Patrick Suskind and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Both texts are post-modern writings that either directly or indirectly focus on the identity of its central characters in the first two chapters. Lahiri being a diasporic writer reflects her diaspora in her work through her characters key features or conflicts. Süskind bases his story in the Victorian era; it is however, influenced heavily by the industrial revolution as well,…

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