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Female Heroines in Victorian Novels, 2002.
This paper discusses the short stories "Little Doritt" by Charles Dickens "MiddleMarch" by George Eliot and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," by Thomas Hardy.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper compares the female primary characters, Amy, Dorothea and Tess, in each novel. The paper reviews each story and discusses what the novelists hope the reader will know about the character and what the characters do not know about themselves. The author believes that all three novels show women in very different lights, and all use their heroines effectively to illustrate social problems and mores of the time.
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""MiddleMarch" tells the story of several characters who live in the town of Middlemarch. Dorothea and Celia are two sisters who both marry early in the novel. The novel shows how the "other half" lives in the country and their very different concerns. Dorothea is a moralist and a liberal, who would like to see the people become more democratic and caring, especially for their poor tenants. "Surely," said Dorothea, "it is better to spend money in finding out how men can make the most of the land which supports them all, than in keeping dogs and horses only to gallop over it. It is not a sin to make yourself poor in performing experiments for the good of all" Dorothea represents a different kind of Victorian woman, one who can think for herself and attempts to be in charge of her own destiny."
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Victorian Novels and Male Characters, 2005.
A discussion about the qualities of male characters as depicted in Victorian novels.
2,458 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper argues that Victorian novels did not have adequate middle-class male characters because there was a certain rigid description of a gentleman accepted by the society. It explains that the two most important characteristics of gentleman were power and wealth, and anyone who lacked the two was shunned and rejected by the upper classes. It states that it is true that there were, indeed, some genuinely inadequate characters, but most were labeled inadequate because they lacked the wealth, sophistication, and power that marked the upper classes.
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"Victorian Age refers to the period in English Literature roughly from second half of the 18th century to late nineteenth century. This is a broad coverage of Victorian period and it has therefore been sub divided into early Victorian and late Victorian eras as well. It is important to discuss that various literary movements like Romantic Victorian or Elizabethan have been assigned these labels because of certain characteristics that were found in the fiction written during these periods. For example during the Romantic era, most authors and poets were highly interested in the nature and its influence on mankind. In the same manner, during the Victorian era, the fiction took on new meaning and there were some important changes that were noticed in the literature of that time."
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Two Victorian Novels, 2002.
An analysis of the importance of the narrative voice in fiction.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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Analysis of the importance of the narrative voice in fiction. Implications of the choice of narrator in LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and BLACK BEAUTY by Anna Sewell. How both novels use narrator in presentations of differences in social class. Assumptions about class. Social concerns. Major themes of the two novels.
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"An author's choice of narrative voice can have very important implications for the story s/he tells and for the particular points that s/he wishes to make. Two Victorian novels, Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell, show the importance of the choice of narrative voice and the difference it can make. In both of these books one of the most important implications of the choice of narrator is its relationship to the presentation of differences in social class.
Braddon's novel has an omniscient, unidentified narrator whose gender is never made known. Audiences often assume in such cases that the narrative voice can be said to be the voice of the author herself and may have done so in this case. Although the novel was published under the name M. E. Braddon the reviewers ..."
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Flaubert & Tolstoy: Heroines & Boredom, 1987.
Compares & contrasts the two novels MADAME BOVARY by Gustav Flaubert & ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy. Focuses on the shared theme of boredom by the 2 heroines.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"Boredom is a motivating factor for the heroines of the two novels Madame Bovary by Auguste Flaubert and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Both novels feature heroines who have unconventional relationships which set them apart from the society in which they live. Both are married women who have affairs, and both in the end cannot face the sort of world in which they live and commit suicide.
Anna Karenina is a novel structured on elements that are highly dramatic, but the story is told in a realistic fashion with characters who are firmly grounded in their social setting. Tolstoy images this by including considerable detail and by skillfully creating characters with strong psychological underpinnings. These characters come from different backgrounds, and their social roles conflict with one another. Anna and her (...)"
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Women in Victorian Literature.
This paper analyzes the status of women in three Victorian novels: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy, "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen, and "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
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This paper explains that the Victorian era was one in which massive inequalities existed between men and women; women were not allowed to vote, and in many cases, their right to own property was tenuous, and their place in society was limited. The author points out that "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" deals in the inequities women face and their serious consequences for the sex. "Sense and Sensibility" deals with the full spectrum of gender issues, while approaching the gendered system as posing problems for both male and female lovers, and "Wuthering Heights" seeks to transcend gender within love altogether, even though its characters, in this sense, often fail. The paper relates that each of these stories deals with the romance of a strong Victorian heroine struggling to survive in a male-dominated world, illustrating the difference in financial power between men and women, the inconsistencies in sexual mores that exist between the genders, and the difference in status made obvious in their different approaches to marriage.
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"In "Sense and Sensibility", the financial difference between men and women affects every one of the characters, and is in fact the cause of the family crisis at the novel's beginning. In the opening scenes, the reader discovers that the Dashwood girls have been left impoverished by their father's death. The family's entire estate has been left to their father's son by his first marriage, due to the patriarchal nature of of inheritance laws in England, which dictates that an estate goes to the nearest male relative. However, it appears the women are capable of having certain property rights, for a woman may inherit money from her parents and pass it on to her husband and children. In this case, Mr. Dashwood had money from marrying a wealthy woman in his first marriage, but on his death that money as well went to her son and could not be used to support his second wife and daughters."
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Detective Novels Compared, 2002.
A comparative analysis of five recent children's detective novels and five recent adult detective novels.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will argue that the key point of similarity between the two forms of detective fiction is the adherence of the authors to a formula. It will be seen that while the adult novels are undeniably more complex than the children's works, both generally present their audiences with the comforting familiarity of formulaic plot and repeating characters.
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Perspective and Stereotype in Western Detective Novels, 2001.
The writer examines novels by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrad, and discusses characters and scenes in light of prejudices the authors may have held, bringing as evidence Chinese (non-Western) detective novels.
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We can also see the kind of xenophobic stereotypes that Christie used when we compare her works to detective fiction taken from an entirely different cultural tradition: When we think about the detective novel, we are most likely to see in our mind?s eye Sherlock Holmes?s deerstalker cap or hear the Belgian accents of Hercule Poirot. The genre of detective fiction ? with its traditional elements of the seemingly perfect crime, the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points (in many cases, the bungling of the dim-witted police (in opposition to the cleverness of the private operator), the astonishing powers of observation and superior mind of the detective, and a startling and unexpected denouement (quite likely taking place in a parlor) in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained ? seems a quintessentially Western concept.
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Slavery Novels, 2002.
A discussion of two novels written about African American society during the period of the abolishment of slavery: ?Ambition? by Beryl Weston and ?Contending Forces? by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins.
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This paper examines these novels which depict the lives of Black Americans in the dominant white American society prior and after the legal abolishment of black slavery. Both novels discuss these social issues while discussing and narrating in closer detail the everyday lives of black Americans as they go through their lives in a new established society. The novels were written at slightly different time periods and the paper examines the differences in society during these times.
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"These love stories also illustrate how the society and the people in it determine the fate and course of romantic love for the main characters. However, the novels start in a different pace: ?Contending Forces? starts with the abolishment of black slavery, then proceeds with life in a society that has its black Americans as the equals of white Americans, not as slaves of them. Meanwhile, ?Ambition? by Weston starts initially with the already abolished black slavery, and we are introduced to a new American society, wherein black Americans are now educated and lived as equals with the white Americans. Despite these differences in the narrative structure, both novels are great eye- openers that illustrate what American society is like after the abolishment of black slavery and what society is like with black Americans as part of the whole operation of running a functional society."
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Place in Two Novels, 2002.
A comparison of two novels one by author Charles Dickens and the other by George Eliot.
1,815 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the two novels: Charles Dickens' "Dombey and Son" as a novel of metropolitan life, and George Eliot's "Middlemarch" as a novel of provincial life. The author chose these novels to offer the reader a view of England through two different eyes. The novels also convey how writers manage to get their themes and thoughts across to their readers in different ways.
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"Dicken's novel "Dombey and Son" appeared in serial form in 1847 and 1848. It tells the story of Mr. Dombey, a proud, rich businessman who hopes to pass his prosperous company on to his son, Paul, but Paul dies as a child, and there is no one to carry on the business. Because he is so enamored of his company, and passing it on to his heir, he neglects his kind daughter Florence"
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Social Novels, 2004.
A paper that links several novels through the theme of social awareness and change.
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This paper looks at examples of social novels and how the writers used these reflections as a method of critique and to suggest ways to change. The novels referred to in the paper include George Orwell?s "1984"; George Orwell?s "Animal Farm"; John Steinbeck?s "The Grapes of Wrath";and Joseph Heller?s "Catch-22". The paper concludes that the unifying thread in all these social novels is their reflection of reality.
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"Joseph Heller?s novel has more in common with Orwell?s writings than with Steinbeck. Unlike Steinbeck, who strove for a hyper-realism in The Grapes of Wrath, Heller?s Catch-22 uses satire to chronicles the futility and ultimate dehumanization of war. While stationed in the fictional Mediterranean island of Pianosa, Air Force soldier John Yossarian participates in several brutal and dangerous operations, where his men die not for their country, but to obtain good aerial pictures of the exploding targets. Disgusted that his life is constantly in danger for nothing, Yossarian vows to survive this pointless war at all costs. He thus spends much of his time faking illness and devising ways to be sent home."
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Feminism and Class in Two Novels, 2003.
An analysis of the concepts of class and gender in two novels.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper presents an analysis of the concepts of class and gender in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "The Silent Partner." It looks at the theme of both novels and how the role of women is depicted in the heroines.
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The 'Female Malady' in Literature, 2006.
An analysis of how form contributes to the representation of the 'female malady' in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and in Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper".
1,452 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper examines how the imposed confinement of Gilman's heroine in "The Yellow Wallpaper" drives her to insanity as a means of liberation and how in contrast, Walker's heroine in "The Color Purple" goes through rage to achieve hers. It discusses how form contributes, in Gilman's story, to represent the 'female malady' as insanity and in Walker's novel, to represent it as liberating rage.
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"The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story covering, chronologically, one summer. The protagonists spend it in a house in the countryside as part of the medical treatment prescribed to the heroine for her "nervous depression" (Gilman, p. 348), diagnosed by her husband and her brother, both physicians. The heroine spends most of this period in one room, deemed by her husband as the most suitable (given her "condition") and which she dislikes from first sight because of its yellow wallpaper. The isolation and, mainly, the prohibition to work (write), slowly drive her to insanity."
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Caribbean Female Sex Work, 2008.
Looks at female prostitution as sex work in Caribbean countries.
2,530 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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This paper explains that, in various Caribbean countries, women have very few ways of supporting their families and thereby capitalizing on their sexuality through sex work is within their conformist respectable cultures. The author points out that most North American and European female prostitutes are motivated by their heroin and crack cocaine addictions; whereas, Caribbean prostitutes or sex workers are prompted by the opportunity to make a livable wage. The paper stresses that these Caribbean sex workers recognize their right to political activism as women to be taken seriously in tourist economies, which require their labor.
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Introduction
Victims versus Survivors
Sex Economics
Gaps between Sex Trade Workers and Observers
Caribbean, not Western Sex Work
Race and Caribbean Sex Work
Concluding Remarks
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"Caribbean prostitution points to more than differing ideas on sexuality's importance in the Caribbean culture zone and can remind of a "racialized relation of power and resistance" at local as much as global levels. Caribbean women are absolutely aware of the obstacles of sexism, racism of different kinds, and bleak economic prospects. Observers tending to pit respectable Caribbean cultures and their expectations of women against women of classes involved in prostitution need to explore again for women who take up sex work see very clearly local social and political orders divided by class."
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Endings in Novels, 2002.
Four different novels and the impact that their endings have on the work. A look at why the writer chose to end the novel in this specific way.
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the novels "Little Doritt" by Charles Dickens, "MiddleMarch" by George Eliot, "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," by Thomas Hardy. Specifically this paper looks at the way the authors chose to end their novels and what it means about their lives.
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"Eliot uses the country town of Middlemarch to illustrate how characters in the countryside live and behave, and how their lifestyle is so different from those who toil in the grimy cities. They are able to walk in the countryside with their dogs, enjoy the fine weather, and ride when they want to, unlike the city dwellers, who often never see the sun, and whose lives end unhappily, as they did in this novel. While Dorothea seemed to deserve a happy conclusion, she was such a strong and powerful character that it seems almost inevitable that she will suffer in the end, and so the ending works for the novel."
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"The Cider House Rules" and Other John Irving Novels, 2002.
An analysis of the arguments created by John Irving in his novels "A Prayer for Owen Meany," "The World According to Garp." and "The Cider House Rules."
5,245 words (approx. 21.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 130.95
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This paper considers how John Irving's novels are challenging, infuriating and fascinating by examining three of them, particularly "The Cider House Rules," but also "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The World According to Garp." It shows how each of the major themes in each of the books leads to one or more particular argument that the author is endeavoring to make. It discusses how the themes range from activism to abortion to religion to love and how John Irving uses epic novels spanning lifetimes to bring these themes for the forefront of the reader?s consciousness.
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"The Cider House Rules is a complex study of love, duty, and life. John Irving?s strong beliefs shine through every facet of the novel. The story and characters are so multi-faceted and the narrative so sweeping, that every argument is impossible to fully exhaust in one paper. However, the main themes permeate the entire work. Abortion, love, duty, and life experience envelope the lives of both Homer Wells and Dr. Larch. The author attempts and largely succeeds in imparting the importance of these values to the audience."
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