The overall tone of this passage is quite dark, with the opening paragraph graphically describing the mutilation of the Pleasure Mouse's foot, ending with her bellowing 'in agony.' ... This particular passage is in past tense, and told in story time, meaning readers are able to closely follow the process of the foot binding and the how Pleasure Mouse reacts to it in more detail. ... In addition, a 'moon sickle' is an agricultural tool used for harvesting, that when used on people, may cause agonising pain, correlating with what Pleasure Mouse will experience later...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One such instance occurs in that passage where Jane, having departed from Lowood, awaits her carriage to Thornfield: the next stage of her life. ... These questions in particular, in their invitation of a response, draw the reader further into a sense of dialogue with a real person independent of the novel. ... She asks "how could she really like an interloper not of her race?"... In the passage recounting Jane's first real conversation with Rochester, we see another of these moments. ... Indeed, never again in the novel is Rochester quite so unreserved and "gregarious and communicative a...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The chosen passage focuses on the ensuing conversation between the sisters. ... Further concerns with modernity are apparent within the text. ... Margaret questions her: 'what do you know?' ... We can assess the noun 'telegram' as a synecdoche for the capitalist world as whole, therefore the juxtaposition of it within the syntax with the emotive noun 'anger' may illuminate how Forster, through narrative focalization, highlights how he himself connects emotionally with the world he lives-within. ... But what is the lasting image of England we can take from the pas...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of course we think that we know the people we have spent most of our time with and gone through a lot with, however, we can never know somebody completely. ... How did Vriginia Woolf manage to do this? ... How he scolded her! How they argued! ... But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another annoyance was when her grandmother was telling her she girls do not slam doors, girls keep their knees together and don"t ask questions about things that are "none of girls business." ... She began to conform to society's ideas about women The author is able to depict the hardships and successes of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young narrator. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. This reflects society's notion at the time, how men were always right. ... She would be the one needing to be rescu...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

And "Mrs Dalloway- is a typical work dealing with women's difference from men. ... Firstly, one might ask, how many narrators are there? ... These are the questions I will try to answer. ... As it is smartly and exactly stated in The Literature Network's passage dedicated to V. ... I guess how it is in her work "Orlando- where the narrative voice should indeed be androgynous ). ...

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After finishing reading, we feel puzzled and frustrated which is due to the sudden ending, in contrast with the extended beginning. ... The narrative frame is no longer provided with "a god", which implies that is no longer governed by "the rule". ... Relativity and paradox prevail and if any explanation is possible, it means that there is no proper explanation, so The Turn of the Screw has continuously challenged the reader and has given way to a lot of questions and a lot more misunderstandings. ... We may wonder why this story is so important to him and how closely he was connected to ...

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