In order to be a considered a good mother, a woman would not only be expected to devote time and effort to her role, she was expected to approach that role in a new way. ... Finally, it was up to the middle – class mother to teach her sons to fulfill their roles as males and her daughters to be properly feminine. ... Perkin tells the story of Stella Davies, the daughter of a successful salesman, to illustrate how firmly mothers enforced class lines even late in Victorian era. ...

• Word Count: 763
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This made them increasingly dissatisfied and idle and as time went on they wanted to be given the opportunity to work and make a difference to society. ... The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat and an all round uncomfortable time. ... Even some families thought that their sons should be educated but not their daughters, as it was thought they would only go and get wed and have children anyway. ... In many cases parents just paid for the boys to be educated, even if the girl got a scholarship she probab...

• Word Count: 1324
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mrs Bennet's determination to marry her daughters is a direct result of financial concerns. ... "5 Once an attraction has formed between Bingley and the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Mrs Bennet manipulates the situation and sends Jane to Netherfield on horseback during a storm, hoping she will catch a cold. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... When he continuously ignores her refusal, she is forced to show her position as different to "thos...

• Word Count: 5516
• Approx Pages: 22
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most interpretations summarize that its meaning is about a father grieving over the death of his young daughter. ... During the time Pearl was written, merchants did not truly fit in with a social group. ... So, this "new social group" argument correlates with both the poem and fourteenth-century society because the Jeweler is a tradesman that deals with wealthy aristocracy all the time, but is not a part of the group. ...

• Word Count: 766
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For one thing, the average Victorian was much more likely to defer to the opinions of his "elders and betters" than to question them or think out his own, which is to say that the tradition of respect for the upper classes survived for a long time. ... To be bored was the privilege of wives and daughters in upper and middle class families in which feminine idleness was treasured as a status symbol. Well off wives and daughters, lived in households where the servants ran everything, even taking off the principal role in the rearing of children. ...

• Word Count: 1835
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Author Francois-Marie Arouet better known as "Voltaire" grew up in a middle class family in Paris where most of the people at this time were living in poverty. During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. ... (Page 19) Candide's origin is discussed, and it is stated that his mother and father did not marry because his father, "could only claim seventy-one quarterlings, the rest of his family tree ha...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrator and his wife state that they were even uncertain of the number of children they had although one of whom was a daughter named after the narrator's aunt. ... At the time of the novel writing, a killer cholera epidemic was reported in England which could be another reason why the novel contains such a big number of characters who die in the course of the character's narration. ...

• Word Count: 1075
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• Has Bibliography
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In this play, the consequences that result from Dolly's failure to fulfill her role in the family are outlined through her daughter Rose. ... As a group, Emma, Alex, Mark and I were admittedly rather unprepared that day due to insufficient time and perhaps a lack of initiative in meeting outside class times. ...

• Word Count: 1509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It can be seen that the novelist does not share the ideals held by the Frean family, indeed Sinclair's own views took much from the modern thinkers of the time, namely Sigmund Freud. ... Harriet also relates and names herself to her father, as shown on page 116, "You forget that I"m Hilton Frean's daughter" and this act of willing patriarchal oppression where Harriet has no real identity herself, moulds Harriet into a conformist to her parents standards. ...

• Word Count: 1734
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By the time Louis XVI came to the thrown in 1774 his kingdom was deeply in dept. ... Lefebvre tells an anecdote about a woman named Madame Lebas, who was the daughter of Robespierre's host Duplay. ...

• Word Count: 2327
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides i...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate