An area to consider is how different writers emphasized literature's rise of modernization and society's feelings of isolation. ... She is a simple, prepared housewife who will settle for a good home over love. ... Tolstoy begins achieving these goals by explaining how Ivan was successful in marriage as he states "Ivan Illyich married for both reasons: in acquiring such a wife he did something that gave him pleasure and, at the same time, did what people of the highest standing considered correct" (56). ... The traditional part of the ending is when he changes his ways right befor...

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Marriage to Rochester offers her a chance to liberate her passions, live a more fulfilling life as a housewife rather then a lonesome governess. ... He genuinely loves Jane, and admires her for being able to stand up to him, and express how she really feels. ... Rochester clearly loses all interest in other affairs as he pursues Jane, demonstrating how she really is constantly on his mind. ... Rosamond is very much in love with St John as well, though he casts her aside, as he doesn't feel that she would make a good missionaries wife. ... By proposing to Jane it is evident that St John pl...

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"It's a weary life, it is; she said: - Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I were a man; Or, better than any being, were not" In the above lines, taken from Christina Rossetti's From the Antique, she lets her speaker openly express female discontent. ... The speaker implies that being a man is the second best alternative after death, for man's lot in this world is at least better than woman's. ... People of Victorian Era idealized the Angel in the House," the view that the perfect woman was embodied in the submissive, selfless devotion of the do...

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