It is only through the advent of the rise in fiction by Indian women writers that the woman has been able to assume a major role in the novel. ... In her novel 'Nectar in a Sieve', the central consciousness is that of a woman. This novel is characterized by a fine feminine sensibility. ... Indian womanhood and all its facets are portrayed significantly in Kamala Markandaya's novel 'Nectar in a Sieve'.This image of the unsullied, selfless Indian woman is primary in this novel. ... In the novel, Rukmani is seen to fulfill all the roles of the Indian woman. ...

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[Key words] Pride and prejudice, marriage, money Introduction First published in 1813, Pride and prejudice is a very popular novel written by Jane Austen. ... But in other marriage cases in this novel, we can see that if money and love can't be held together in one marriage, love would always make a concession to money because of the special background. ... Marriage is central for all characters in the novel: not just daughters and sons, but parents, aunts, uncles and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. ... This is the first line in the novel, which clearly shows the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each man Brett has a relationship with in the novel possesses distinct qualities that enable Hemingway to explore what it is to truly be a man. ... Still adjusting to his impotence at the beginning of the novel, Jake has lost all power and desire to have sex. ... Mike appreciates Brett's beauty, as do all the other males in the novel, but perhaps this is as deep as his love for her goes. In his first scene in the novel, Mike cannot stop commenting and eliciting comments on Brett's beauty: ""I say Brett, you are a lovely piece. ... Very early in the beginning of the novel, sh...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lawrence, published 1913, a closely autobiographical novel set in the Nottingham shire coal-mining village of Bestwood. ... In his novel, Sons and Lovers, he feels his writing was the best he was achieved. ... This reaffirms the critic's belief that the novel was a psychological journey. ... The critics agree Lawrence wrote an amazing novel, especially through his use of the human psyche and realistic experience. ... No other important English novel seems to offer quite such a stark illustration of an 'Oedipus complex' "4 What is "Oedipus complex"5? ...

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Loss of identity, self realization and identity reconstruction are common themes found in both of the novels , Sirens of Baghdad and The Attack by Yasmina Khadra. 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. ... These types of identity crises are evident in both novels, The Attack and Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra and Sirens of Baghdad. ... His psychological state and his behaviour re...

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Characters The Heroine - The novel's protagonist and narrator; we never learn her given name. A shy, self-conscious young woman from a lower-middle class background, she begins the novel as a paid companion to Mrs. ... When the novel begins, he has recently lost his beautiful, accomplished wife, Rebecca, in what the world believes was a tragic drowning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The main character in the novel Jane Eyre is a strong, ambitious, self-sufficient woman by the name of Jane Eyre. ... At the start of the novel her cousin John attacks Jane. ... The red-room is the first in a series of imprisonments for Jane in the novel. ... At this point on the novel Jane is beginning to feel lost. ... This scene in the novel shows how much control Mr. ...

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Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. ... In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless and plain woman. Once you read the novel, you can not forget Jane's strong personal character. ... From her leave from Gateshed Hall to the end of the novel, Jane's experience can be divided into three parts. ... (P245) This paragraph, I think, is one of the most wonderful parts of the novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. ... The novel shows society's negative view of Sula when it describes how she returned to the Bottom "accompanied by a plague of robins" (89). ...

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"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainment of material things and status become the driving force for people. "They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" (Naylor 39). This quote is from Lester in a conversation with his friends, summing up the people of Linden Hills, of which he begrudgingly is one of. ...

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The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. These struggles often occur between characters, but predominantly they occur between the characters and their emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, s...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEEN EARNEST The play was writen by Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900), who was an Irish author. Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction (from 1871 to 1874), and at the Magdalen College in Oxford, (1874-1878).He wrote "The importance of being Earnest- in 1985. "The importance of being Earnest- can be regraded as a comedy although it has more serious and dramatics themes. In the play nine actors take part: John "Jack" Worthing: Jack is the play's protagonist; he is the most sy...

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• Grade Level: High School

Is it worth the 365 days of countless hours of hard work, just trying to make someone else's one "big day" special? A professional wedding consultant has many jobs in planning the bride's big party, from finding the right venue, talking with the bride and groom on what colors they want and what food to serve. But lastly picking the big date to start their new chapter in their wonderful life journey. I have chosen to do research on the wedding consultant using narrative skills and using an informative tone to show you what the job consists of underneath the umbrella of Hosp...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...

• Word Count: 9974
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: High School