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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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"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.
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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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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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Sensibility and Freedom: Two Early Feminist Novels, 2002.
Explores the issues of sensibility, or strong feelings, in women's literature from the Enlightenment period.
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This essay deals with issues of sensibility in Enlightenment women's literature. Sensibility is the Enlightenment term for strong feeling, which was often disapproved of in women, yet encouraged in men. The essay explores how the characters in Wollstonecraft's "Mary" and Hays' "Memoirs of Emma Courtney" claim the power of sensibility for themselves.
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Silence in Counseling, 2005.
An examination of silence as a counseling method.
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This paper discusses the types of messages that can be communicated with silence. The paper focuses on silence as a counseling method. The paper asks how many of these messages might occur in a counseling session. The paper also studies how one silent message can be distinguished from another.
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"According to Corey, counseling is a form of psychotherapy usually far more brief in the length of time clients receive in traditional psychotherapy that aims to assist people who are experiencing problems in a variety of ..."
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Silence in "The Woman Warrior", 2004.
This paper offers an analysis of the implication of silence in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior".
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses the implication of silence that is portrayed in Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior". The writer examines how this aspect of silence relates to the narrator's Chinese roots. Further, the writer explores the debilitating and empowering effects of the silence.
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"In Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" the concept of silence plays a significant role in illustrating concepts of gender, culture and prejudice. Above all, silence is used as a symbolic representation of the muting of individuality and individual expression due to gender culture and prejudice. These forces of gender culture and prejudice that undermine individuality and stifle expression manifest themselves both within the culture of the individual and the mainstream culture. Kingston's semi-autobiographical novel demonstrates the struggle ..."
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Pairings in "Sense and Sensibility", 2005.
This essay looks at "Sense and Sensibility" and examines the pairings throughout the novel created by author Jane Austen.
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The writer of this article points out that Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" has the perfect title for two sisters who are completely opposite of one another. The writer notes that Austen's characters are pairing of opposites through all the main characters of the story. Further, the writer discusses romance and money as the themes of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" that lead to several pairings of people throughout the story with neoclassicism and romanticism as a major cause for these pairings.
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"Jane Austen writes a story using characters that grabs the heart of most readers such as Marianne who falls in love only to be heart-broken or Elinor who never expresses her emotions yet falls in love with little hope of marriage. Austen's characters often have characteristics that are completely opposite of one another such as Marianne and Elinor. Romance and money are two themes of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' that lead to several pairings of people throughout the story with neoclassicism and romanticism as a major cause for these pairings. Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Ferrars are opposite pairings in the way they treated their children and their characteristics are complete opposites of one another. Mrs. Ferrars openly tells Edward that if he marries someone she does not give her approval that he will be cut off from any of the family's wealth."
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"Silence", 2005.
A review of Maxine Hong Kingston's work "Silence".
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This paper examines how Maxine Hong Kingston's work "Silence" is a demonstration of the many significant ways of how preconceived notions based on history and culture effect the ways in which an individual perceives what is and what is not important. It looks at how Kingston builds imagery around her experiences in her two very different schools and how the experience within each, as she sees it today, created her response to it and therefore her development of understanding.
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"Kingston recognized differences in the way that culture played a role in the meaning and importance of words, or she did as she looked back upon her confusion, as a child. She speaks of her inability to understand the words "I" and "you." Culturally the importance of "I" was different, the Chinese character for "I" was much more complicated while this single letter word seemed to mean so much to the American's that it was to be boldly written in capital. To Kingston this was a contradiction a poignant misrepresentation of the individual. "
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The Role of Classical Hollywood Techniques in "The Silence of the Lambs", 2002.
An examination of the role of classical Hollywood techniques in developing the relationship between Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the film "The Silence of the Lambs".
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This paper examines how classical Hollywood cinema techniques such as narration, camera angles and lighting aid in the development of the relationship between the protagonists Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter in the film "The Silence of the Lambs". It evaluates how classical narration develops the relationship which changes from an impersonal to a more personal one, as Clarice Starling, an FBI agent, struggles to solve a problem to which Dr. Hannibal Lecter provides the answer. It also looks at how in all four of their encounters, the camera shots move from low and high-angle shots to those of eye-level shots signifying how the relationship changes from one of superiority to one of equality.
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"In The Silence of the Lambs camera angles are another classical Hollywood technique that helps in developing the relationship between Starling and Dr. Lecter. In their first of four encounters, low-angle shots and high-angle shots were used. ?With low-angle shots, in which the camera looks up at the action or person, the audience assumes that the person looking up is inferior to what they are looking at? (Belton 45). In the first encounter the low-angle shot was used subtly, not to the extreme as in other movies. An example of a low-angle shot is when Starling is talking and the camera breaks to Dr. Lecter, showing him slightly higher. High-angle shots are used as well."
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?Carved in Silence?, 2004.
This paper discusses the documentary film, "Carved in Silence", directed by Felicia Lowe, about the Chinese Exclusion Act and the subsequent incarceration of the Chinese immigrants on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that the documentary film, "Carved in Silence", indicates how poorly America treated Chinese immigrants and how desperately these people wanted to live and work in America. The author points out that the film uses interviews of survivors of Angel Island, workers on the island, and modern-day reenactments to depict the plight of the Chinese immigrants who were forced to stay on Angel Island until their immigration papers were either approved or disapproved. The paper stresses the immeasurable historical value of this documentary, which should be a part of every American history class, because today Angel Island is a California State Park, and most visitors have no idea what really happened there.
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"The documentary is short, only 45 minutes or so, but it presents a vast amount of information in that short time. The interviews of people who stayed on Angel Island are quite compelling, but the documentary also uses modern day footage as historic recreations of what life was like on the island, from what the detainees ate, to how they wiled away the long, isolated hours. Some played games, some read, and some wrote poetry, which they carved into the wooden walls of the stark barracks. Many of these poems, "carved in silence," remain in the barracks today, and there is a concerted effort to save them for posterity and for Angel Island visitors to understand and view. The documentary ends with a review of what happened to immigrants after the Exclusion Act was lifted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, and how Chinese still distrust Americans because of these early practices."
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"Sense and Sensibility", 2002.
A review of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" from a feminist perspective.
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This paper will discuss the differing aspects of feminism in the Jane Austen's book, "Sense and Sensibiltity". The focus will be on what influenced Austen and what novelists were influenced by her approach to the feminist issue. Also to be discussed, will be what the options open for women at the time of writing. Austen only writes about the middles classes and skims over the working class female, yet she must have been aware of their plight. This paper will cover these issues and describe the world of "Sense and Sensibility" within the scope of feminist perception.
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"From Silence to Voice", 2002.
A review of the book "From Silence to Voice".
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This is a critique of the book "From Silence to Voice."
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Film Adaptation: Identity in "Silence of the Lambs", 2005.
A study of the film adaptation and the effect it has on the characters and their relationships in Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs".
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This paper examines how when Thomas Harris' 1988 novel "The Silence of the Lambs" was to be converted into film by director Jonathan Demme, there was an apparent theme of character identities and relationships as determined by gender which he interpreted from imaginative literature to visual cinema. It looks at how these characters, which were each inevitably altered in their own different ways by the artistic rendition of the novel, are therefore presented differently. The protagonist, a young female FBI trainee from rural West Virginia named Clarice Starling, is sent to interview the imprisoned serial killer psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter in order to better understand the mind of a mad man. But she instead finds herself in a race against time to save a young innocent girl and capture the fledgling serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. It looks at how though the story seems simple enough, the complexities of identity among these characters presents mysterious subtleties, as they try to stretch the boundaries of what defines their gender's role in society.
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"Buffalo Bill, though a small character in both the novel and the film, is an excellent tool for understanding Clarice, as he parallel's her own confusion of identity of gender. Both Clarice and Bill, in the novel and film, dislike their past identities and are trying to construct new one. Clarice strains to hide her pure West Virginian accent and the fact that people would consider her, if they knew her true identity, a "rube". Buffalo Bills confusion about his identity stems from the fact, as Hannibal explains to Clarice, that he was abused as a child, and because of that never formed an actual realization of who he was, or even what gender meant to him. "
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A Sociological Look at "Silence Of The Lambs", 2002.
Looks at the novel "Silence of the Lambs" and analyzes it in relationship to deviance and criminology.
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This paper discusses the novel "Silence of the Lambs" and explains how Hannibal Lecter the fictional character is a perfect example of both criminology as well as deviance
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"Criminology being the study of the criminal mind is exactly what Silence of the Lambs is, they give you a look at Dr. Hannibal Lecter first hand. You get the opportunity to see how his mind works, and see that in his eyes he is doing something good for society. He believes that he is ridding the world of bad people; you also get to see what makes him tick. Lecter knew how far he could push the police without killing the innocent Catherine Martin. "
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