Pride and Prejudice In Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, matrimony is primarily viewed in two ways, as the result of falling in love or the means of securing one's future. The latter being important to those who are not financially set or do not place very high in the soci...

For most of my life I have been on my own. My father passed away when I was very young. My mother remarried, and I never got along with her husband. I then decided things would be better for everyone if I left. It was very difficult being raised without my parents. Having to move from place to plac...

Would you ever want to be married and spend the rest of your life with someone you never loved? Janie finds security in her first two marriages to Logan Killiks, and Joe Starks, but a marriage cannot survive unless true love is involved like the marriage with Tea Cake. Different marriages in Janie's...

The Silent Sacrifices of LoveCan comfort be found in falsities? Can security be attained through lies? Can one truly sustain a relationship based on deceit? In Shakespeare's sonnet When my love swears that she is made of truth, the speaker portrays a less poetic illustration of love through a descri...

Sister Kate, a novel by Jean Bedford, was set during the 1870s, in Victoria, Australia. It tells the story of Kate Kelly as she progresses throughout her life, and deals with the effects of the Kelly gang on the young, romantic and loyal Kate. Through the use of language and visual imagery, this nov...

Ethan Frome Ethan Frome is a story about a man who is torn between love and security. Ethan marries Zeena for security after he is left alone be his mother's death. When Zeena becomes ill, Mattie, a female relation is sent for. During her years stay Ethan falls in love with her. The movie ve...

Why do I feel so much pain inside? Why do I feel like the more I love you the more you hide? Is it because you are so sure I will always be here? You say you love my smile, yet all you see are these tears. I gave up everything you asked me to. I changed my ways to assure you. I spend so much time d...

"A Rose for Emily"In William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily," Emily is in the search for love and security. The use of symbolism develops the theme of the story, bringing to light the issues of morality that arise from a young woman's struggle to find love. Symbolism is so carefully plac...

This is something to probe about . Marriage may be outdated, but it shouldn't be. We can learn so much from being married. How to respect, compromise and even sacrifice sometimes. Most people have a hard time trying to do these things , which is probably why the divorce rate is so high ...

Lovely People Do Stupid Things How is love to influence our lives? Love-struck people do crazy things to express how they care for that particular person yet it is a long and windy road to these actions. It is down this path that experience spawns and trouble and happiness are felt. Janie Crawf...

Running head: ATTACHMENT STYLE Attachment Style According to Ainsworth Attachment Style According to Ainsworth Discovering one's attachment style can prove to be both enriching and interesting. Through this discovery one can get a better understanding of one of the many different...

Jane Eyre gives a glimpse of the hardships and dilemmas faced by a t the time when they are considered inferior , and men are the normal and the essence of strength and security. The novel shows us the struggles of Jane and her desire to establish her own identity and be considered as the equal of ...

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie, experiences three different marriages that ended with a learning experience from each husband. Her fist marriage was to Logan Killics. The second marriage was to Jody Starks. Janie&a...

There are several different types of friendship and within those types, there are different levels. One of the basic types is between the rich class and the poor class. It seems as if the wealthy need friends in order to share their possessions and belongs. After all, what good are money and mate...

Professors lecture facts, while teachers help students learn lifelong lessons. Morrie Schwartz was both. His once "sparkling blue-green eyes, thinning silver hair that spills onto his forehead, big ears, an triangular nose, and tufts of graying eyebrows" became teary eyes, cluttered whi...

Although they are physically united in an erotic partnership, Tomas and Tereza possess very different attitudes about love and relationships. Their differing perspectives are summed up in the subtitle of Section 2 of Kundera's novel, "Body and Soul." Tereza wants to possess Tomas, bo...

In Emily Bronte's captivating novel Wuthering Heights there are several very important themes that come together to provide an overall theme of unrequited love. These themes are that true love is pure and seemingly unattainable, love is everlasting and profound, and that history repeats itself...

In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" there are some major relationships that are created. In each relationship, the partners base their love on some confound, idealized notion of need. Furthermore each couple has a distinct type of language that they share. A perfect ex...

In "Romancing the Stone," heroine Joan Wilder is a successful romance novelist, secure in her career but not in herself. She is very attractive, but plays down her looks by not dressing well at times. Her career dominates her life, and she has become well known around the world for her books. She...

There once was a princess in a far away kingdom called Geneva. The princess's name was Juliana she wanted to see the outside world so she asked to go to a certain city but her father did not approve of the idea. She begged and begged to go her mother agreed that she should go. Finally her fathe...

"The Things They Carried" The things they carried were items that helped them survive both physically and mentally. Most of the things that Lieutentant Jimmy Cross's platoon members carried were necessities such as armor, helmets, antibiotics, food, guns and ammunition. Each man h...

The roles of men and women in the play, "A Doll's House", written by Henrik Ibsen, are very different compared to what they are now. According to Ibsen, "A woman cannot be herself in modern society. It is an exclusive male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and j...

Unlike The Odyssey or any other epic tales, Their Eyes Were Watching God has a different perspective of what a hero is. In this novel, Hurston writes a story about an African-American woman named Janie Crawford whose quest is to find her identity and desire as a human being to be loved and a...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." – Jane Austen This opening line of Pride and Prejudice could well describe the whole point of her book. With this single short statement, Jane Austen declares a coup...

Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice; a place where individuality and freedom has been traded for sameness and security. Louis Lowery has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather community, is presumed to be in the future and is supposed to be a kind of uto...