Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. At last, at last, to be free of the past. ... I hope we"re being true to the spirit of the book if not to the letter of it." ... It is important to note also that the film lasts a mere ninety-three minutes, which not only suggests numerous omissions from Woolf's dense text, but also that there must be some condensation and invention. ... Because Orlando the book breaks so many rules in that i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... While this criticism may be a bit harsh, I would deem it quite accurate, as the perception Alcott appears to give off is that a young woman may be free and independent for a brief while, but eventually she must conform to society's standards. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple wi...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ... This prototypical Benedictine community was not intended to be built, so the designers were freed fr...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. ... Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate