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    discussions. Many of Austen’s novels, such as Emma, have been reimagined into films, enabling her to reach many different audiences through different interpretations. Emma is a beautiful novel about a young woman who is convinced that she will never marry; she does, however, what to help whoever she can in this matter. Once she deems herself successful in matching Miss Taylor, “less a governess than a friend” (Austen 5), with the widowed Mr. Weston, Emma seems unable to think of anything else…

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    It often seems that the most momentous changes and events in people’s lives are also the most uncertain in their foundations. People always ask “what if this had happened differently?” or “what if that had happened differently?” or “what if I had behaved differently?” when meditating over major events – either good or bad – that they have experienced, be it love, death, or something in between. There are often not definite causes to definite outcomes. The outcomes of Jane Austen’s novel…

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    Emma is a story about a privileged young woman named Emma. Emma is described as handsome, clever, and rich. Emma is often seen as a spoiled and rich young woman with soft, womanly looks. Yet, Emma is also a bright young woman, who has a wandering imagination and a certain cleverness about her. Education plays an important role in the esteemed novel Emma. In the book Emma, many references about education are made because education plays a highly important role in the book. In addition,…

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    Major Works Data Sheet: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of plagiarism. Thoroughly complete each section of this. The more information you input, the better. Title: Emma Biographical information about the author: Author: Jane Austen Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Steventon, England to well-respected members of the community who valued learning and creativity. Her father was Oxford educated and was an Anglican rector. Jane and her many siblings read from their father’s…

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    In the published ending of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the character of Anne speaks much more as compared to the original ending written. One may find this to be inconsistent with the rest of this book, however it can be shown that she must speak more for her character to progress correctly. When reading through this book we become accustomed to Anne being the silent character, leading us to feel like something is wrong when she begins to speak more. Due to this we are naturally drawn to question…

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    The Temple of My Familiar After a huge success of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1983), another novel, The Temple of My Familiar came which was published in 1989. Though the events in the novel were beautifully woven but it did not receive much acclamation. bell hooks praised the novel and called it a “multivocal experiment with postmodern romance and magical realism (hooks)”. The novel is considered a sequel to Walker’s The Color Purple. Alice Walker herself described the novel as “a romance…

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    There are a few important themes which are treated again and again in the novels of Jane Austen, though in each case the novelist is able to impart something of freshness and novelty to the treatment. The business of getting people engaged and married is one of the important themes which the novelist takes up for the treatment in novel after novel. Jane Austen, sharing the opinion commonly held by her contemporaries and satisfied with the conditions that prevailed, was of the view that a young…

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    One of the major themes in the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is marriage. Unlike today, women in the nineteenth century women did not have a lot choices. One of the choices include marriage. Women in this time were held back and are not expected to have careers like men. Once they decide on a man, there is no going back and divorce was considered uncommon. The women in the novel, each display their thoughts on marriage. However, Elizabeth Bennett, who is opinionated and passionate…

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    1. Accept personal responsibility: Many know Hermione as the smart, A-type bookworm, but she truly proves herself to be ethically caring as well throughout the films. Specifically in the first film, Hermione’s “bossy” attitude seems to be a predominantly known and well-recognized characteristic, so it came as a shock when she showed a shred of selflessness, in the beginning. In The Sorcerer’s Stone, Hermione had enough of the constant mockery and ridicule entreated upon her by Ron and Harry, so…

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    vomiting and laxatives and those old favourites, bleeding or leeches” (Robinson). Many of the illnesses prevalent in the early 1800s were caused by exposure to cold, damp weather. It is undeniable that weather plays a significant role in Jane Austen’s Emma, but it is the anxiety caused by the weather that plays an even more significant role. The term “under…

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