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Escaping The Fog Of Pride And Prejudice

... time Darcy and Elizabeth dance. When Darcy asks Elizabeth she is so surprised and confused that she says yes to a man who she is determined to hate. At the Meryton ball she had quickly made a sketch of Darcy's character. Compared to Jane who "never [sees] a fault in any body" (11), she doesn't believe only the best in everyone. She is usually right about people. From simply hearing Mr. Collins' letter, she asks if he is a sensible man, which he proves not to be. She is precisely perceptive of everyone except Wikham and Darcy. At the Mer ...

Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4

Great Expectations: Pip's Life In The Upper Class Society

... in the presence of wealthy people, is influenced and starts acting with more stature and class than his family. He feels embarrassed when his brother-in-law Joe, meets with Miss. Havisham of the richer and "better" society/class. Pip gains wealth from a secret benefactor and gets moved to London, where all have money and are high class. He lives and grows up in this new and different society, learning how to fit in and use money not as a precious commodity ( like he was accustomed to in his previous, low class lifestyle) but as it were a ...

Number of words: 495 | Number of pages: 2

Daily Life Of The Aztecs

... very civilized for this period in time. The center of Mexico was built on rocky and uneven ground. It was constructed on an island in the middle of a lake. The Aztecs were considered amphibious people, because of there environment. The Aztecs earned this label because they dug canals and built bridges while living on these islands. They lived in an area that was pretty much in the shape of a square, and it covered 2,500 acres. It took the natives about two centuries to totally develop this area. There were two main centers in this ar ...

Number of words: 1545 | Number of pages: 6

Spelling And Differently - Ana

... face children as their parents age. After visiting the county home in an attempt to find a place for Flo to live, "Rose spoke of the view and the pleasant rooms. Flo looked angry; her face darkened and she stuck out her lip. Rose handed her a mobile she had bought for 50 cents in the County Home crafts centre.... Stick it up your arse, said Flo" (Oates 151). The reader sees no affection between the two. In fact, the tone of the story illustrates a lack of acceptance and even disappointment by Flo and shows that there has always been a dist ...

Number of words: 1451 | Number of pages: 6

Joy Luck Club

... one receives in society. In the work force, the women of America hold many positions of importance. They are usually treated as equals with men and there are few jobs from which they are excluded. In China, women are expected to stay at home and are not permitted to be in a work force that is held exclusively for men. The women of America receive fair wages and have earned the right to work with men. In China, women are assigned the role of housewives and must stay at home to clean the house and raise the children. Women in Ameri ...

Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3

Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale

... of their Commander, whose wife is infertile. The main character in the book is Offred, one of these unfortunate servants who's only right to exist depends on her ovaries productivity. She lives with her commander and his wife in a highly supervised centre. Unlike men, women have been facing unique problems for centuries, and often women experience harassment and discrimination. In today's society, females are trying to combat their tribulations through lawsuits and protest rallies. Literature often deals with people being unable to articula ...

Number of words: 489 | Number of pages: 2

Revenge In The Crucible And The Scarlet Letter

... love each other very much. When Hester senses that she may never again see her husband, who had all but abandoned her, she seeks comfort in the arms of another man. She thought that Chillingsworth would never find out. When he did find out, he became very angry at losing his wife; she had betrayed him. He responded by trying to kill the other party, Arthur Dimmesdale. Revenge had turned a once normal man into a blood seeking, greedy, stingy, and decrepitly weak old man. Revenge was also the driving force behind the Abigail Wa ...

Number of words: 404 | Number of pages: 2

A Catcher In The Rye

... can’t go home yet because his parents don’t know that he got the axe yet and he doesn’t fell like telling them just yet so he decides to stay in a hotel until his parents expect him home for Christmas vacation. When he arrives in the city he hops on a cab to a cheesy hotel for the night and as he is alone in his room he feels lonely and sort of depressed so he goes to the bar in the hotel for a drink. All the people in the bar make him even more depressed so he decides to call it a night. On the way to his room, in the ...

Number of words: 646 | Number of pages: 3

The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Terror In The House

... the long and narrow windows, the black oaken floor, the vaulted ceilings, dark draperies, and the general furniture, all describe it. As Roderick Usher and the narrator are burying Madeline the vault is being described as small, damp, and without admission of light. These are just a few of the characteristics of which Poe uses to describe the setting. Poe uses the use and description of character to create the effect. Poe describes his friend Usher as having a cadaverous complexion, a large eye, small and thin lips, a nose delicate of a H ...

Number of words: 393 | Number of pages: 2

Secrets In Scarlet Letter

... what happens to the soul. Dimmesdale, as it is later made known, commits the serious crime of adultery with a young married woman named Hester Prynne living in the Plymouth Colony. Because of Hester’s unwillingness to reveal her partner in sin, and Dimmesdale’s fear of persecution and most of all humiliation, the minister is forced to keep his sin a secret. So he watches as Hester is placed before her peers on a platform in front of the whole town and is then called to speak to her and urge that she reveal her fellow a ...

Number of words: 1373 | Number of pages: 5

A Tale Of Two Cities: Summary

... life. Some of the characters included are Mr. Lorry, Miss Manette, her father Dr. Manette, the Defarges, Jerry Cruncher, Charles Darnay, Mr Stryver, Mr. Carton, Miss Pross, a Monseigneur, and Monsieur the Marquis. The people mentioned above are all involved in a fictional account of the French Revolution. Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter after he has been in the Bastille prison for eighteen years. She is unaware that her father was even alive. Together they go and live in London, England. There her father recovers from the effects o ...

Number of words: 462 | Number of pages: 2

Stephen King's The Stand

... of Ogunquit, Main be her recently deceased best friend's weird brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold aside, and goes with him to the place in her dreams, to Boulder, Colorado. On their way, they meet up with six people from various states in the United States who joined them on their journey. Fran is disturbed by her dreams, as all of them are by their own. She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is kind and loving and promises to protect them from the evil. In the dreams the ...

Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2

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