It is among the core question of this novel which is "What, Basically, is it about?" ... The novel entitled Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte was first published in 1857.This novel was also published in England and the settings itself takes place in the English countryside. ... As stated earlier, this novel has taken place in the nineteenth century. ... Furthermore, the second theme of this novel is the gender relation. ... In addition, in this novel also Jane has shown h...

• Word Count: 2440
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This is key throughout Forster's novel. ... This trait is shown throughout this novel with Mr. ... "Only connect"," which is Margaret's mantra to the novel is the main theme of this novel. ... Forster's techniques in this novel allow the reader to stay fully engaged and ask many questions before reaching the end of the novel. ... Wilcox and other characters feel throughout the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Money holds a significant role within the plot and development of the major characters within Pride and Prejudice, as well as shaping the novel as a whole. ... Bennet plays a major link between love and money, this is particularly evident when her purpose is set out within the opening chapter as the novel, "The business of her life was to get her daughters married". ... Throughout the novel Austen tries to show that money and social class should not determine whom someone should marry, apart from the relationship between Charlotte and Mr. ... Bingley leaves Jane without a marriage pr...

• Word Count: 1392
• Approx Pages: 6

All considered though, this novel is a true story of love and in the end true happiness for Pip is obtained. ... These conditions were prevalent in Dickens's time and therefore were expressed in the writing of his novels. ... The novel begins in the marsh country of Kent, in the western part of England. ... Miss Havisham's beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip's unattainable dream in the novel. ... It was shown throughout the novel as Pip rose from the lower laboring class to the higher upper class. ...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Novels have always been a dominant artwork due to British literature. For centuries people had entertained themselves by reading different kinds of novel. Pride and Prejudice is one of the first novel written in English language. ... The consciousness of social class is obviously presented by Jane Austen through the different characters and events in the novel. ... The difference of social classes often creates attitudes that are related to the title of this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Wells' 1895 science fiction novel The Time Machine is a cautionary tale of what will befall mankind if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits of the rich. ... The novel demonstrates the true concept behind Darwin's theory: species do not necessarily progress toward perfection over time, but instead adapt to their environments over time. ... While this fictional future may appear as an exaggeration of nineteenth-century London, the novel insinuates where the human race is heading. ... Although technology is important to this novel and is correlated with the future, ...

• Word Count: 1341
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the novel Oliver Twist there is a great discrepancy existing between the lower and upper class of society. From the onset of the novel it is clear that the upper class believe they are superior. ... The first chapter of the novel details Oliver's birth and the tragic death of his mother while giving birth to him. ... The novel contends that one who is born in their social class tends to stay in that class. ... The social statuses in the novel are based on hypocrisy; they claim one thing and do the other. ...

• Word Count: 2500
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Although May Sinclair's focus in the novel is upon Psychoanalysis and the repression of sexuality, the actions, virtues and social systems within this text are relevant to Marxist literary criticism. ... This "chant" (which appears no less than fifteen times throughout the novel) is seen by Harriett as the moral embodiment of all what her parents thought and did. ... The economic factors throughout the novel are prevalent. ... In the novel, it is clear that the book is critical of the social order of the capitalist system, but it is hypercritical of Hilton to suggest ideas such as these w...

• Word Count: 1734
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, is based on the girl named Griet in Vermeer's painting. ... The novel Secret Daughter describes the panic of Kavita when she has to give her child away, describing in the novel, "She did not dare ask what had happened to her baby. ... In the novel Girl With A Pearl Earring, we see the different roles among the social classes. ... In Secret Daughter, when Sarla recalled the moment when her son Krishnan decided to go aboard and study, saying in the novel, "[s]ixteen family members travelled together, caravan style, in four se...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel exemplifies the Victorian's desire for upward mobility and dispels the common fantasy that anyone can rise to higher social status if only they would come into a source of wealth. Throughout the novel, the essentially good-hearted characters learn to live with what they have and therefore, find peace and happiness in even the harshest of life's realities. ... There is an overwhelming source of closure seeing how at the beginning of the novel Pip's innocence has him helping out a criminal and by the end, Pip is staying by that same criminals side for his last few moment...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel The Kite Runner, by describing how Pashtuns characters behaved and how they considered Hazara characters, Khaled Hosseini shows that class structure has a big impact on relationships, and that difference of class makes it very difficult to create friendships and maintain family ties due to a sense of superiority, public image and prejudice even if class structure disappears. ... In some parts of this novel, readers can know how much Baba cared about Hassan. ... But, in the novel, reality was that Hazara people were likely to be discriminated by Pashtuns, and they were forced to b...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the work was primarily about life as a governess, the novel explores the different social classes and the superficiality of the era. Bronte having experiencing the superficially her self, trying to make her way as a poet, she heavily criticized the social standards, and the standards that society placed on women throughout the novel. This outlook was part of the reason why the novel had both heavy negative and positive criticism. Also, with the novel being told through a first person narrative by the protagonist, Jane, periodically addressing the reader, it put emphasis on the asser...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5

An Integration of Mathematical and Multicultural Viewpoints Flatland, a novel written in the early 1900s by mathematician, social philosopher and head of the City of London School Edwin Abbot Abbot, is a wonderful novel that, on the surface, is a cute little story about some geometric shapes who live in a two dimensional world called Flatland, but underneath is full of strong statements about racism and social structure - gender equity in particular. ... Thomas Banchoff, who wrote the introduction for the newest re-publication of Flatland said this about the novel, "Abbott was a social ref...

• Word Count: 1407
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The events in the novel, particularly the times when Mr. ... At the end of the novel only the shockingly blunt nature of Mr. ... When they are all in Italy together, in the beginning of the novel, Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1345
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton offers a complete and insightful view to the varying degrees of classes that made up the women's society at the time. ... If this novel were the only source of information on women's society at the turn of the century, it could be concluded that society and its various levels of reputation served as a chief effecter of a female's actions. ... Overall, if the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton was the only source of information on society at the turn of the century, it could be...

• Word Count: 1424
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In the novel, Great Expectations, class is a central theme as it was set in the 1820s when class divisions were very strict. ... In the first part of the novel, Pip wants to become a gentleman because Pip made him aware that he was a "common labouring boy". In the second part of the novel Pip finally becomes a gentleman but he is ashamed of his background, Joe, Biddy and the forge, which was so good to him. In the third part of the novel, the different plot lines all join up together in unison and Pip has to reassess his perceptions of people and most of all class. ...

• Word Count: 2416
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In "Candide", the novel ridicules a number of Enlightenment Period philosophies, it showed how the Enlightenment was nothing like a uniform movement. ... In the novel "Candide" is not free from the biases and "unenlightened" thoughts that the revolutionary movement in France was based upon. ...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the Henry James novel, Daisy Miller, the main character, Daisy Miller, is American and is at odds with European societal norms. James' novel is a "study" of the character Daisy Miller, as seen through the perspective of the character Winterbourne, an American European gentleman. ...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. ... In more than one instant in this novel, the outcomes of situations are often decided on the appearance of illusions versus the truth of reality. ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. ... In more than one instant in this novel, the outcomes of situations are often decided on the appearance of illusions versus the truth of reality. ...

• Word Count: 1658
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jane who is biracial, half Japanese and half white, and her mother were the only few Asian Americans in the novel as well, but their implications on meat and class were not mentioned; although Jane does turn into a slight vegetarian at the end of the book for political reasons regarding the hormone antibiotics DES still being injected into animals. ...

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Victorian Era develops during the reign of Queen Victoria and ends with her death, which was between 1837 and 1901. It is characterized by rapid growth and extreme change in politics, literature, science, social class, and economy. It was a time of great innovation and reform not only in socia...

• Word Count: 1447
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A. Pygmalion 1. When we are first introduced to Eliza Dolittle, her status is that of a flower girl with a strong, cockney accent. She has limited or no education. This was the norm for people, women in particular, of the lower classes in English society. The transformation that would eventually t...

• Word Count: 1418
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• Grade Level: High School

Social class plays a major role in the development of a person's life and the events that take place within it. Faiza Guene in "Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow" and Guy de Maupassant in "Boule de Suif" use the relationship between the class systems and their characters to show differences in the characte...

• Word Count: 1524
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• Grade Level: High School

Transitions can be a difficult process with many obstacles to overcome, but ultimately the result is worth it. Transitions have obstacles in differing the individuals journey in being able to transition effectively which allows them to see themselves and the world around them in a new perspective. B...

• Word Count: 1674
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate