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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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    creatively made up their are a lot of events in the show that are currently happening in some households. The television show, “Being Mary Jane”, is a great drama series that connects with its audience while having great dialogue and giving life lessons to the viewers. Being Mary Jane is about a successful black woman TV news anchor named Mary Jane Paul, who is played by Gabrielle…

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    Humor and laughter appear frequently in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but underneath the surface the humor often depicts an ongoing anxiety and issue the character faces throughout the novel. Mrs. Bennet would frequently denounce the protagonist, Elizabeth 's love interest Mr. Darcy and his personality however the moment Mrs. Bennet hears of the engagement between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy she boasts about her profound love for Mr. Darcy, his personality and his money resulting in a humorous…

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    less frequent in recent books. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses elements of the gothic fiction genre to help focus the reader on mysterious inheritances which are set in the storyline of having women cast in a man 's world, while presenting villainous characters who threaten Jane…

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    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 library. Jane and her older sister Cassandra went to boarding school for a more formal education. However, they both got typhus and returned home for financial reasons. Later, Jane began to publish works…

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    Bildungsroman In Jane Eyre

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    may burst through those bars and soar high above the clouds, and finally she 'll be able to see. Jane Eyre, a story of passion, mystery, and romance, by Charlotte Brontë. In Brontë 's bildungsroman, she describes the milestones in Jane 's life that lead to her to her self-awareness and independence. Through her harsh childhood, passionate romance, her venture to her wits end, she discovers herself. Jane Eyre must love herself before she can gain her freedom. She must find a balance between her…

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    “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” “beggars can’t be choosers,” and “actions speak louder than words” are all common day proverbs that just about any average child living in today’s American society has heard numerous times. These are lessons are taught to children young, that way they can better comprehend what is commonly viewed to be truly important in life. Values of this consist of kindness, respect, happiness, intelligence, friendship, etc. Children most…

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    In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and many other novels, characters are deceived by others. This deception is used to either help or harm a character. In Pride and Prejudice, the character, George Wickham, deceives others and toys with their emotions in order to fulfill his wishes. Wickham is always in search of money because he wastes all the money he has in foolish ways. In attempts to gain a fortune he deceives others in many ways. George Wickham is a militiaman who is very dishonest…

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    Works Cited Bird, Kym. “Leaping into the Breeches: Liberal Feminism and Cross Dressing in Sarah Anne Curzon's "The Sweet Girl Graduate."” Australasian Drama Studies, 1996. ProQuest. Web. Bird’s article focuses on female cross dressing in Canadian theatre through Sarah Anne Curzon’s protagonist, Kate from the Sweet Girl Graduate. Bird suggests that female cross dressing is a mechanism used to critique male sexuality and expose the socially constructed relationships between sex and gender. Bird…

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    The Secret Garden

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    The narrative that I have chosen to write about is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I have chosen this book because of the metamorphosis of the main character Mary. She goes from an oppressive and sour girl to a caring and understanding young girl with empathy. This book is about a young girl named Mary who is a privileged, unloved and selfish. The book begins with her living in India with her wealthy parents who hardly acknowledge her existence. She has servants who do everything…

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