Plot The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. ... Many other areas of the country are visited in the duration of the story including the Lake District, London, Brighton and many other places. ... As in any love story, the lovers must elude and overcome many problems, beginning with the tensions caused by the lovers' own characteristic qualities. ... Courtship In a sense, Pride and Prejudice is the story of two courtships "those between Darcy and Elizabeth and between Bingley and Jane. ...

• Word Count: 3094
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Despite the importance of Othello to the Venetian state, Brabantio (Desdemona's father) is both horrified and dismayed at his daughter's willingness and desire to marry a dark-skinned person. ... Brabantio also argues that his daughter, "A maiden never bold-, would never "in spite of nature,/Of years, of country, credit, everything -- To fall in love with what she feared to look on!... As Roderigo and Iago alerts Brabantio that his "daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs- [1.1.116], Brabantio states "In honest plainness /My daughter is not for [Roderigo]- [1.1....

• Word Count: 3595
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

An unmarried woman without a substantial amount of savings to rely on upon her father's death, however, risked falling into poverty. ... 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. ...

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

Her responsible nature is also evident after her father told her about his plans to move to the North. ... Her emotional response to her first visit of the Higginses, who represent the hard-working, suffering laborers of Milton, also proves her highly empathetic nature for she "could [afterwards] hardly smile at [her father's] little joke, so oppressed was she by her visit" (Gaskell 106). ...

• Word Count: 2975
• Approx Pages: 12
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In the fall of 1794, Lord Malmesbury was sent to ask for the hand of a German Princess named Caroline (daughter of the Duke of Brunswick) for George Augustus Frederick, the Prince of Wales. ... Her story became known as the "Queen Caroline Affair", and survives in the letters, diaries, and newspaper articles of the early nineteenth century. ... The Princess moved from the matrimonial home, and was denied custody of her daughter Charlotte. ... She allowed herself to be seen, and her story to be heard. ...

• Word Count: 3814
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography

Says John to his mother, "We are doing an act; we are playing at being you and father- (89), as if gender roles are performed. John and Wendy's rehearsal of their parents seems like a recurring part of the dynamic of the family, so that Mr Darling's entrance and his petulant demand that his wife fix his tie read like an extension of the role playing: as the children play their parents, so the father plays his child. ...

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