I think that the contrast between a typical modern day love story and the typical Victorian love story is very interesting. For instance, if Persuasion were to take place today, there is no doubt in my mind that there would have been a lot more "drama" about the new arrival of Captain Wentworth int...

Karen Casey once said that "truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." In Jane Austen's early nineteenth century novel, Persuasion, Austen depicts a simplistic story about love and anticipation. ...

Personal Reaction Essay A man and a woman who have loved for eight and a half years are finally able to wed after circumstances before had not let them. In one sentence the idea sounds cute, but Jane Austen author of Persuasion works off that very simple theme to create a masterpiece. When J...

The individual and society is a course, which describes the struggle of individuals against social conformity. It discovers the lives of many individuals in our prescribed texts, Pride and Prejudice and A Doll's House. These texts were written in the 19th century, when authors found themselves ...

You know when good literature is lost by when its very realism of chance is lost as well as the cold hard facts of life. The coincidences Thomas Hardy failed to use to save Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles makes it more realistic than Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Tom Jones by Henry Fie...

Imagine entering an enormous, narrow hall, one side totally covered with mirrors, the other a plain white wall reflecting nothing but the light. Chairs are set up along the mirrored side, therefore when you sit down you are facing the white wall. Just think how many of you would take a seat and how ...

Emma and Clueless essay The process of transformation preserves more of the important ideas and concerns than it alters. Amy Heckerling's teen film Clueless, a modernised version of Jane Austen's classic novel Emma, strongly parallels Emma's story in conditions of character pr...

Literature can be expressed in many ways. Some people use literature to portray life experiences. In my preference, I enjoy reading novels that I am able to relate to my own life. Most often, I love to read romance novels and poetry. Romance novels give you an understanding of different aspects of l...

Jane Austen was born on December 16,1774, in the tiny village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, served as the town rector. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen, was the daughter of a rector herself, and Jane was the seventh of eight children. She had an older brother, George...

During the 19th Century, first impressions were very important; consisting of a highly structured society which judges people on superficial qualities, such as physical appearance, social status, clothes, possessions, behavior, speech. The message Austen leaves the reader to understand is that a soc...

Since its initial publishing in eighteen-thirteen, Pride and Prejudice continuously promulgates the world with a maudlin tale of the Bennet family women, as well as their various suitors. The work concentrates on the "courtship of a genteel young woman" (Kroeber 510h) and the development of relatio...

Having a strong heart like Elinor and a latent sense similar to Marianne, Jane Austen displayed her characteristics through her characters. Elinor and Marianne were two main characters that Jane Austen used to display her true character. Elinor is very devoted to her family and tries to do everyth...