In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... Leo Tolstoy's novel, The Death of Ivan Illyich, is a novel which creates both a modern and traditional atmosphere. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ... The novel shows how modernism rose along with the rise of isolat...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

" "Pride and Prejudice," the acclaimed novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. ... The first line of the novel examines the notion of a blurred true/false reality in the novel, whereas the tagline from the movie brings in the theme of a conflict between cultures. ... It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. ... This clearly sets it apart in content from the original novel, but the themes remain the same. ... These feminine accomplishments are heavily scrutinized in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1319
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel contains immense paragraphs of description which deal with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. ... Due to the form of the text, (i.e. it is a film) formally structured sentences and verbal language are not as imperative as they are in the novel Emma. ... Austen's Emma is in the form of a novel while Heckerling's Clueless is a cinematic production (a film). ... A novel such as Emma leaves it to the initiative of the audience to take note and remember these specific events, places and objects, leading each responder to create their own meaning ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the novel, we are able to observe Catherine's failure to correctly judge people. ... It is interesting to note the original title for the novel: First Impressions. ... Whenever Austen introduces a new character into a novel the reader soon learns something about his or her manners. ... The nineteenth century generally perceived Austen's work as novels of manners', placing them in the same category as those novels that were part of the silver-fork school'. ... To secure the proper relationship between property and propriety in her novels was thus not the wish-f...

• Word Count: 1637
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The original version of this novel was titled Elinor and Marianne and has been known to be the first novel that Austen worked on, which is also her first published text. ... However, some critics found Sense and Sensibility to be one of her least successful novels. ... Besides the themes, there are two climaxes in the novel and movie. ... Marianne's climax in the novel came first. ... Elinor's climax in the novel occurred after Marianne's. ...

• Word Count: 1952
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Between 1948 and 1994, television was the chief medium for adaptations of Austen's novels. ... There viewers may be unable to recognize how film translates the complexity and subtlety of the novel. ... The difference in material scale alone make the novel-to-performance adaptation difficult. ... The one of the most essential differences between film and novel is that films show and novels tell. ... Particularly because we are conditioned to these effects, it is important to note the lighting effects of a film in order to broaden our understanding of visual images. ...

• Word Count: 3105
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

However, she fails to note the implied existence of these elements within a written text. ... Deciding whether or not Austen was exhibiting a female gaze can best be determined by comparing the role of the gaze in Austen's most widely known novel, Pride and Prejudice, and the novel that stands out among her others, Northanger Abbey. ... Austen's novels are full of men who fit this description. ... The other main male character in Northanger Abbey is Henry Tilney, who, we are told, is the hero of the novel. ... Mulvey notes that women, on the other hand, take on the passive scop...

• Word Count: 4152
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"2 Her novels raise central matters within her society, often challenging their foundation and meaning through her portrayal of them. ... Through an examination of her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, and with reference to her later 1815 novel Emma, it is evident that Austen's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. ... In light of this, David Herbert's assertion that Austen studies "personal values, virtues and deficiencies within her 'set,'" but neglects to "questi...

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

This novel had many conflicting themes characters and it was able to show how the themes of prejudice, pride, and fate were tied in with the relationship between the characters Mr. ... Elizabeth took quick note of this and concluded that he was in fact a very arrogant man. ...

• Word Count: 776
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This novel had many conflicting themes characters and it was able to show how the themes of prejudice, pride, and fate were tied in with the relationship between the characters Mr. ... Elizabeth took quick note of this and concluded that he was in fact a very arrogant man. ...

• Word Count: 775
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It is accepted at the beginning of the novel that Darcy is the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world'. ... It is important to note that those living in that time were essentially living in extremely bad conditions with bad hygiene, food, clothing and shelter. ... Within the novel there are other, smaller courtships: Mr. ... Courtship takes on an unspoken, importance in the novel. ... Journeys, even short ones are the function for change in the novel. ...

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

Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. ... Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... The novel follows the development of Jeanette as she grows up and makes the decision that she is a lesbian and this causes uproar in the family home and in church as her highly religious mother regar...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). Emma is so busy trying to match people up, mainly Harriet Smith, that she doesn't realize that while she claims she will never fall into the temptations of love, she will in fact succumb to them, and marry by the end of the novel. Emma's blindness to what is going on around her becomes evident in chapter 49 of the novel. ... While this is not the only chapter of the novel that...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. ...

• Word Count: 11136
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School