A short while later, Armand enters the room to search through documents on a table. ... He leaves the room. ... Themes Racism and Gender Bias Like many other American men of the mid-nineteenth century South, Armand Aubigny bases the worth of a person primarily on his or her race and gender. ... Finally, like other Old South plantation owners, he viewed the blackness of his slaves as a defect that colored even their souls. ... Come with your child." ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. ... A friendly, outgoing woman with a passion for horses. ... (It was a common custom in the 19th and early 20th century for wealthy, unmarried older women to pay young girls to travel with them, as both a servant and a friend with whom to converse. ... At lunch she runs into Maxim, who insists on eating with her, and then invites her to drive with him along the beautiful coastline. He shows warm and courteous demeanor--except at one place on the road, a place with a particularly striking view, w...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects this view on life. ... Jack sums it up from his point of view. ... Cecily sums up the main theme in the play when she says to Algernon: "I hope that you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. ... The name is central to the plot regarding marriage to women with money and status. ... (Act 1 p16) Among the views expressed by Wilde's characters is that romance and happiness is hindered within the bounds of marriage and once marriage is proposed romance en...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The importance of being Earnest- can be regraded as a comedy although it has more serious and dramatics themes. ... From my point of view, using this characters, Oscar Wilde wants to do a criticism to the Victorian society. ... Apart from this, from my point of view the story becomes more and more interesting as the play goes on. ... They go into the music room. ... She tells him his brother is in the dining room; Jack says he doesn't have a brother. ...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

With great irony and wit Austen shows how the tenderest human feelings interact with and are influenced by financial considerations. ... It lies in the interest of a woman to marry a man with a fortune, or at least some good deal of money. The husband is meant to support his wife, since he is the one with a profession and she is not. ... Or as Jane says when she hears of Lydia's elopement with Wickham: "So imprudent a match on both sides!... A blunt restatement of this sentence would read, " it is an acknowledged truth in our particular society that a single woman without a fortune mu...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School