Elizabeth Montgomery

Darcy confessing his love for Elizabeth Bennet in a field near by and asking her hand in marriage was unlike many proposals during the early 1800’s. He walked there rather than taking his carriage because he knew that Elizabeth preferred walking, he called her “Mrs. Darcy”, but only when he was completely in love with her and he did not need social class alikeness for this engagement…

in the 1800’s. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy’s relationship is established on honesty and love while the bond between Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley is built on love and companionship. In contrast, the marriage of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins is one created by societal pressures. Based on the three relationships discussed, I believe Jane Austen saw Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy as well as Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley as the ideal types of relationships between people. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.…

Flora and Fairuza: The Symbols within the novel, The Bluest Eye The definition of beauty is as indistinguishable as the definition of ugliness. However this has not stopped the human race from searching for the true meaning of both, and moreover obtain this beauty for the purpose of social standards. The same can be said within the characters of the following novel. The novel, The Bluest Eye by author Toni Morrison uses symbols to capture the emotional trauma within the African American…

The Crucible Essay “Whore! How do you dare call Heaven” (Act 2 Scene II). This quote caused quite a stir in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Proctor, one of the main characters, is yelling this at another character named Abigail, who, along with Danforth, is to blame for the witch trials. The characters in the play that are most to blame are Abigail and Danforth because Abigail makes false accusations throughout the whole play, she causes all the hysteria that feeds the witch trials,…

Hannah Mary Tabbs and George Wilson were accused guilty of the merciless murder of Wakefield Gaines, which surfaced a multitude of testimonies and confusion in their justice system leading to a significantly long trial. A freshly slaughtered torso of human remains found in Eddington lead to a shocking and brutal murder case. Kali Nicole Gross argues that Hannah Mary Tabbs manipulated ideas of race and gender throughout the case, Tabbs had the ability to do this successfully because she…

“Internalization in The Female Quixote and David Copperfield” The Female Quixote, or The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox, and David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, are both early forms of the novel. Though written approximately 100 years apart the two novels are both influential in their respective periods of authorship. Arabella, as the novel will be referred to henceforth, is influential because of its examination of the novel as a newer form and its parody of the former…

Abigail is a very good example. She and Proctor had an affair and was now very jealous of Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth was accused of being a witch by Abigail because Abigail wanted to have Proctor to herself. As mentioned before, witchcraft represented sinning in The Crucible. Lying is a sin and Abigail lied when she made the accusation about Elizabeth. The only reason Abigail lied was so that she could possibly have Proctor. That was her motive. It was obvious…

In the Victorian period men and women’s roles sharpened and became better defined. Gender relationships and stereotypes characterize a society which sees eccessive hypocrisy and social expectations. Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, makes use of a simple and spontaneous writing style, associated with a refined and prone approach in the depiction of reality. In his play, Wilde continuously uses aphorisms and paradoxes to invite the reader to reflect upon the drastic change in…

“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John…

Judge Wilhelmina Carson is the lead character of the Judge Wilhelmina Carson series otherwise known as the Justice series of novels by American author Diana Capri. The first novel of the series was the title Due Justice that was first published in 2011. Diana Capri the author of was born and raised in a small American German small town just north of Alabama where she spent much of her childhood reading books. She attended the Wayne Law School before she went on to become Wayne Law Review editor.…