He has great expectations of his daughter. ... At first he emphasises the fact that she is not yet fourteen and has not matured enough for marriage: 'She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;' Juliet is Capulet's only child, he does not want her to grow up and leave his household but at the same time because she is his only daughter he wants great things for her and her marrying Paris is a great opportunity for Capulet to improve his family name and have his daughter well thought of for marrying such a noble gentleman. ... The audience see a difference in Juliet's...

• Word Count: 4397
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

But there is nothing comic about Joyce's vision, for each of the three principal characters are trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints from which it proves impossible to escape. ... All three of Joyce's principal characters in this story are motivated by the basest instincts for survival. ... There were three main characters involved in this story-Mrs. ... Doran had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant's office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job (James Joyce 40). ... She allowed the relationship to go...

• Word Count: 2723
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. ... The reader first meets the pilgrims in the General Prologue (GP), where Chaucer provides subtle indications to the type of character he describes. ... Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... The one weakness that comes forward in the WB character is when she steps out of the male role back into the fema...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
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These three stages are integral to our protagonist's notions of self conception, which both characters exhibit and demonstrate within the novels. Regaining one's loss of identity is important for the characters within both novels to undergo. ... The protagonist claims that nothing is the same after this attack and he has lost track of time itself; which begins the process of identify loss for this character. ... As soon as the protagonist reads this letter, he is shocked that all the accusations against his wife are true, resulting in his identity deteriorating as his expectations f...

• Word Count: 2550
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Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". ... This presents a great difficulty for Jake, because Brett's presence is both pleasurable and agonizing for him. ...

• Word Count: 2507
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

We will see how Willie, an outsider from Putney Wayne with no education and no money, is the one with the greatest amount of character and morality. ... While discussing a possible housing project near Linden Hills, the unfavorable comments coming from everyone seem to represent a great deal of discrimination towards their own race. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although this sounds noble, it will weaken him and she will eventually feel resentment. 3-A man says he needs her desperately and she is so flattered that she gets involved. 4-She sees a man's potential and feels that with her help he could be great. ... This is a sign that she is reacting to her expectations of who this man is, and not the man himself. ...

• Word Count: 2616
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School