This comment raises issues of both security and choice, as the 'wants' of women are ignored in favour of men. ... By turning down both men, Lizzie suggests that happiness is more valuable than stability, and more importantly asserts that marriage is not just a man's choice, but a woman's, too. ... "8 In doing so, she highlights the idea that women and men are essentially just humans, rather than 'female' and 'male,' and are thus fundamentally equal. The right to choose is inherent to human existence, and therefore both women and men should have t...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate