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Elinor Dashwood, 2006.
Analysis of the character Elinor Dashwood in the Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility"
2,040 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper provides an in-depth critique of Elinor Dashwood, one of the two sisters in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility". The author investigates Elinor's decisions and relationships -- including her marriage -- through the lens of her defining character traits: self-control and a sense of propriety.
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"The character of Elinor teaches one much about human nature. For one thing, Elinor demonstrates, by force of her good example, that a person should take into account the various societal obligations and expectations placed upon himself or herself. Secondly, she just as pointedly shows how those obligations can be manipulated to suit one's own desires, even when those desire conflict with the obligations. Elinor's force of will is admirable. This will is never broken in Sense and Sensibility. One of the societal expectations for Marianne and Elinor is, as nineteenth century women, to get married. Here again, Elinor's will is rewarded. Indeed, Marianne is characterized as "born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions" (Austen 388). Elinor, for her part, has no false opinions that she must become aware of in order to be happy. Her self-command does ultimately aid in her happiness, however. She successfully manages to endure news of Edward's engagements without becoming dangerously ill, as is the case with Marianne, although she does recover (Armstrong argues that Elinor almost does become ill; the severity is completely different from the severity of Marianne's illness and the comparison is inappropriate (94)). Elinor's endurance eventually is rewarded when she and Edward are given permission to wed."
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Elinor's Silence in "Sense and Sensibility", 2003.
This paper closely looks at what is said and unsaid by Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper provides a character sketch of Elinor Dashwood in relation to her silence in the novel "Sense and Sensibility". The writer closely examines how her silence leads to opportunities for observation, how silence in others speaks to her and how her silence leads to the confessions of others.
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"For Elinor, silence provides time to observe the actions and words of others. In the midst of dinner parties, balls, and drawing-rooms, Elinor??s silence moves through the clutter of mundane conversation and wild gossip with the powerful grace of a closed mouth and open eyes and ears. Elinor overhears a conversation between Marianne and Willoughby in which Marianne is declining a horse offered to her by Willoughby earlier in the novel. After Marianne??s declination, Elinor overhears Willoughby say to Marianne, ??But, Marianne, the horse is still yours. . .when you leave Barton to form your own establishment in a more lasting home, Queen Mab shall receive you?? (55)?x . Elinor observes not only the words that Willoughby says to her sister, but also that ??. . .in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her Christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided. . .as marked a perfect agreement between the two,?? and at that moment, Elinor ??. . .doubted not of their being engaged to one another?? (56). Though the reader will later find this interpretation of Elinor??s observation to be false in that Marianne and Willoughby are not engaged, this passage shows how closely Elinor listens to and observes others. Furthermore, it is important to note that Elinor never voices this observation of or hypothesis about Marianne and Willoughby to anyone, she keeps silent about it, aware that her notions are based only on words, and therefore need more to support them than a simple conversation. This also shows how Elinor avoids and is aware of the dangers of gossip, where as we will see later on, she is a listener, never a passer-on. She not only heard the words exchanged between the two, she noted the tone in which the words were said, how formal or casually the words were given, and whether these words were meant for another to hear."
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Elinor?s Isolation, 2002.
An analysis Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility", focusing on the character of Elinor Dashwood.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 23.95
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An examination of a minor theme in this classical novel. The writer points out that the major themes of class division, social values, the joy and pain of love, and the overriding importance of money are often addressed while the minor theme of isolation is often dismissed. The theme of isolation is directed at the character of Elinor and how she deals with these emotions.
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"The isolation that is suffered by Elinor is clearly not physical as, throughout the novel, she is surrounded by family and friends, and enjoys the romantic attention of men. Elinor?s isolation is purely emotional, and is caused by her natural ability to keep her feelings under control, and by a desire to conform to the social values of that era, which required that women, even those who were intelligent or talented, should remain in the background. Austen informs the reader of Elinor?s reserved and private personality very early in the book and, in chapter one she describes her character as, ? affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.? "
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"Sense and Sensibility", 2004.
An analysis of the lives of the two sisters in Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'.
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines this story, which is about the lives, loves, and dreams of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The plot of the story centers on the possibility that both sisters may have to put up with the banality of country life, which is full of gossip and superficiality, rather than being loved by the men of their dreams.
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"The distinction between "sense" and "sensibility" is one of the main themes of this novel, and is best seen in the psychological contrast between the novel's two main characters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor, the older sister, epitomizes the word sense, as she is reserved, socially responsible and concerned with the well-being of others. Her younger sister, Marianne, epitomizes the word sensibility, as she is ruled by emotion, spontaneity, impulsiveness, and devotion. According to Austen, men "came to look at Marianne and talk to Elinor (p. 142).? "
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"Sense and Sensibility", 2005.
Compares Jane Austen's novel to the film version by the same name.
2,095 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 65.95
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"Sense and Sensibility", Jane Austen's classic novel has been filmed more than once. Most recently, Emma Thompson adapted the novel; she wrote the screenplay for the most recent filming, which is titled, as is the book, "Sense and Sensibility". The paper shows that the book and movie are not identical and that there are several important changes made by Thompson and director Ang Lee, particularly involving the two main characters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The paper shows that, although in general the film follows the novel, Thompson and Lee alter the characters slightly. In particular, in the movie version, Elinor is made to be both more humorous and more emotional than in the novel.
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"The greatest difference between the character of Elinor in the book and in the film is in the amount of emotion she displays. In the novel, Elinor is almost always in complete control of her emotions. Her self-control is enormous. It is not that she is emotionless. In fact, Austen explicitly writes that Elinor's "feelings were strong;" it is just that she has learned to control them (7). In the film, this self-control is less obvious. First, Elinor broods more over Edward's absence in the film than in the novel. In the novel, we learn about Marianne's obsession with the fact that Willoughby has not visited the Dashwood sisters in London, but we know less about Elinor's feelings when Edward has to leave Norland for London. This longing for Edward is more pronounced in the film."
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Frida Kahlo, 2002.
An analysis of "An Open Life" by Raquel Tibol translated by Elinor Randall University of Mexico Press.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This book review depicts the life of Frida Kahlo completely and with great introspection of what actually made the artist the wonder that she became.
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Sublimation in Action, 2006.
An analysis of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility".
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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The paper examines Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility", as an outlet for her frustrations with her social strata. The paper argues that Austen manipulates her characters to craft biting social commentary. The paper demonstrates how the majority of her characters serve to expose what Austen sees as follies of the upper class. The paper also discusses how Austen succeeds in inviting the reader to experience her own dissatisfaction with her place in society. The paper explains that Austen achieved this goal by creating a ying and yang of herself in the characters of Marianne and Elinor. As two halves of herself, these characters' thoughts and actions teach us that while Austen longed to act with sense, like Marianne, her personality was closer to that of Elinor.
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"Life was really no picnic in terms of freedom for a woman growing up in the 18th century. If a woman wanted to exercise her views, it was made extremely difficult within the context of the societal boundaries set up in that particular time period. Jane Austen was a woman that had many opinions, but as a woman in the lower echelons of the upper class, she found herself restricted. Consequently, much of Sense and Sensibility, serves as a cathartic release for the author. As her first published novel, it grants the author the opportunity to make light of and expose the folly of the English aristocracy, and reveals Austen's larger views of society when examined outside the context of the story."
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The Lives of Working Women, 2004.
Reviews four separate books on the trials and tribulations of working women in the 19th century.
4,325 words (approx. 17.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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The four books, "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, "Emily: Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman" by Emily French, "Prairie Voices" by Joanna Stratton, and "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" by Lillian Schlissel, are reviewed and summarized by this paper. The depiction in these books of the hardships and sufferings of American women in the 19th century is the focus of the paper. The story of each of the heroines presented in the books and the myriad difficulties they had to endure are examined, and the hardiness of character, both physical and emotional, needed to survive the time period is described.
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"Elinore Pruitt Stewart was a writer whose life transcended the common expectations of what a 19th century woman was capable of achieving. Although a woman, and alone, and a mother, Pruitt became a thriving part of the roughness of homesteading life in the American West. Part of this was due to necessity. Pruitt often said she found herself doing work that most women did not do, because, in her own words, she did not have enough money to hire a man. Often she found herself traveling to places that ?ladies? were not supposed to go to, out of pure need or the needs of her children. Yet Stewart also admits that her own stubbornness and fortitude drove her into many of her ?adventures.? Stewart states in her own prose that her project of homesteading was designed to prove something about female endurance and ability, rather than simply to sustain herself and her family."
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