Introduction For this essay, I chose to read the perhaps most famous book by the English author Jane Austen. During the reading I was thinking about which theme I should choose to write about and analyze, and eventually I felt that marriage was the central keyword in the book. ... My dealing with different ideals and problems within a marriage will be illustrated with examples from the text. ... When the daughter once had chosen her husband, the connection was a permanent one since divorces were very uncommon during this period (and misfortunate for the family's good name, one can ima...

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It might imply his understanding of the world came from a different view point, one of the future. ... However, Jane Austen does show characters growing through out the book. ... They lived their life through this romantic framework in their head and did not stray from it. ... We learn a great deal about Henry Tilney from John Thorpe. ... The different backgrounds that Catherine and Henry come from show differences in the way that they each handle society. ...

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Because of their power, women were properties that fathers gave to the highest bidder, and these women had to surpass expectations to be chosen. ... Bennet] was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.... Mademoiselle Reisz influences Edna through the entire book, being a single women, living on her own. Reisz is one of the few people who believes Edna is becoming more herself throughout the book. ... These books have many common themes, lik...

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All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's close friendship with Helen, Jeanette's amorous tryst with Melanie and the apparent hatred between Tamora and Lavinia. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ... The relationship between Jane and Helen is often a shelter for the characters, a place away from the rest of the world away from their problems, something that I have noticed across literature that explores female relationships. ... Helen advocates living accordi...

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In this paper, the marriage cases of most characters in the book we taken as typical to analyze how money influenced their matrimonial value orientation. ... After reading the whole book, we will find that money acts as the cause of each plot and the clue of its development. ... The narration above describes the British country squires' life picture from one aspect. ... But all this, together with her ability of administrating the county, derives from her rank and fortune. ... A blunt restatement of this sentence would read, " it is an acknowledged truth in our particular society that a s...

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• Grade Level: High School