Pride and Prejudice

A Comparison of Mr. Rochester’s and St. John Rivers’ relationships towards Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre provides two masculine characters who show an interest in taking Jane to wife. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers are the two men in Jane Eyre’s life when it comes to courtship and marriage. Both are interesting and different in their approach. In the process of meeting and getting to know the both men, Jane goes through a mental process of getting to know herself and her…

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…

“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…

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…

disapproved her offer of marrying Mr. Warne due to the fact that he was beneath and the marriage would humiliate Potter’s family traditional values. The class distinction, somehow, is portrayed in such a trivial aspect as marriage life and social prejudice at lowest…

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,…

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,…

TRUE WIFE & FALSE GEMS Zhang Jiahe 1409853Z-B111-0013 Department of General Education GLL026 Introduction: Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story, and his novel “The False Gems” told the story of the twisted human nature under the money enticement. However, there are some arguments that Monsieur Lantin would prefer false gems and a true wife, or real gems and a dishonest wife. In my opinion, he wanted a true wife and false gems. Through close reading, and…

Mehmet Geyik Prof. Emmolo ENG 106 – Writing Through Literature 08/21/2015 How love, age, and beauty are intertwined in "When You Are Old" by Yeats The love feelings in human beings are a unique feeling that translates to several actions by the person experiencing it. However it is intertwined into other aspects of the people such as the age and beauty of the people in love. Age dictates the beauty aspects which in turn is responsible for attraction to the people of opposite gender who are to…

In Charlotte Bronte's, Jane Eyre, her unexamined, culturally conditioned definitions of 'success' and 'happiness'; shape the narrative through their contradicting definitions. According to Bronte, women have the same capacity for success and Independence as men. However, her subconscious cultural belief that a women's success is to be married is a contradiction of her first definition of success. This results in a struggle between these two beliefs in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, the culture…