Jane Lynch

Isolation plays a key role in the character development in both works of Jane Eyre and Metamorphosis. Jane Eyre was treated like an outcast for most of her life, and most people she came into contact with did not take a liking to her. Gregor Samsa was transformed into a giant bug and his entire family shut him out of their lives and they treated him as if he was a huge burden that ruined their lives. These two characters being isolated from their families and not having a lot of love in their…

the life of Elizabeth Bennet, who has to constantly navigate her way through troubles often caused by her sisters. You can see the profound impact sisterhood has throughout the book in the way Jane and Elizabeth act as each other 's confidants, the sisterly competition showcased throughout the book, and Jane 's relationship with her own sister Cassandra matched the events occurring in the book. That is why the relationships between sisters is a central theme in Pride and Prejudice, as the lives…

The novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is an unfolding love story in the midst of societal norms throughout history. Throughout the novel, Austen emphasizes the importance of marriage to the economic and social statuses of all her characters. Characters commonly tie marriage to happiness, but within each individual relationship marriage produces different amounts of love and happiness. Not only do the economic and social statuses of characters in the novel affect their eligibility for…

In the early 1960’s Jane Goodall traveled to the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania to study chimpanzee development and their social interactions. During her early years of study, Goodall discovered much about the social complexity of chimpanzee societies and their hierarchies, along with their development which is, for the most part, very similar to the development of our species. Throughout the book, Jane Goodall describes the many challenges she faced trying to get the protective chimpanzees…

"Pride and humility are above all connected with ‘our idea of ourself,’ though that idea is affected by the way others regard us; these emotions are, then, important regulators of human behavior in society" (Hirsch). In Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice, the main characters, Darcy, Elizabeth, and Wickham, possess the traits of pride and prejudice, both of which play a role in their “human behavior in society” (Hirsch). Elizabeth Bennet encounters a prideful and prejudiced man, Darcy, whom she…

basic needs have been met. Therefore, the institution of marriage has had the opportunity to evolve in its purpose, inquiry, traditions, and most of all, social ethics. While some may say all adequate societies adhere to this style of thinking, in Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice,…

Pride and Prejudice: The First of Her Kind For our assigned book report, I selected the famous English classic Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a revolutionary work that spurred the transition into romanticism for the literary world as well as comically played with the strict guidelines of society and behavior. In a time where books were written exclusively by men to discuss serious topics and intellectual process, Austen’s wrote her romantic novel to enlighten readers by focusing her…

The study of primates is not as simple and straightforward as one might initially believe. Theirs’ is a complex world of interaction. In many ways highly similar to that of humans. This intricacy has led to the need for scientists to redefine what being human truly means. For upon studying primates a social milieu was revealed. Primates were seen expressing themselves through different behaviors. In addition, their societies are intricately organized and they form enduring relationships. These…

Threads of the historicization perpetuated by Lawlor and Suzuki are further emphasized by Carolyn Day, in her book Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease. The historical narrative presented by Day is similar to Lawlor and Suzuki in regards to her attention to the social and cultural framing of Consumption during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In her cultural framing of Consumption as a Romantic disease, Day agrees with Lawlor and Suzuki, in suggesting that a peak…

Joel Weinsheimer writes that Pride and Prejudice does not end in complete chance, but instead is a logical effect of the characters’ desires. Overall, he explains that the choices of Jane Austen and the characters themselves are the primary factors of there being only four happy marriages. Weinsheimer argues that the Darcy-Elizabeth relationship is the result of the events leading up to it. To explain, chance could not validate the fact that Darcy’s business leads him to Pemberley. Instead,…