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    Darcy's Obstacles

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    overrule love in Pride and Prejudice. Eventually, love proves it cannot be hidden in ones heart as Elizabeth accepts her love for Darcy. Throughout Pride and Prejudice, the courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth is challenged and comes close to failure multiple times but ends with a marriage that fulfills a happier ending. In the beginning, social structure refrains Darcy from considering dancing with Elizabeth, then as he is forced to spend more time seeing within the depths of who she truly is he overcomes

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    emotional book in terms of plot. The plot was about a girl named Abigail who accused many many people in the village of witchcraft. She also accuses Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctors wife. Abby used her power of the court to get to her obsession, which was John Proctor, by trying to kill and/or get rid of Elizabeth. Her and John had an affair, and Elizabeth knows about it and knows that Abby’s trying to get rid of her. She is unsuccessful in getting this done and ends up executing over 12 people, including

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    The two characters Abigail Williams and John Proctor actions give them very interesting traits for what is done in their actions. John being a hardworking, fallible, and a man of integrity, still has his downs for the being he is. Abigail having the mind and feeling of being a leading, crazy, heartless women. Not all traits and first impressions are good towards someone. Reasons and background come around to be who you are. John Proctor did everything in his good to do the better but also did things

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    Mr Darcy's Struggles

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    because it is natural to be pleased and satisfied by one's own achievements. In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy’s struggle with pride and Elizabeth Bennet’s struggle with prejudice are common flaws in all people and are the reason for their initial discord. The pride of Mr. Darcy is origin of conflict between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. Mr. Darcy’s pride first damages his reputation when he refuses to associate with those around him at the Meryton ball. To the people of Meryton “his manners

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    will cut off my hand before i’ll ever reach for you again”. Abigail fell in love with Proctor when working for him and his wife Elizabeth Proctor but her affair with Proctor came to an end when Mrs. Proctor found out, Abigail was then fired. They were forbid to see each other and that triggers Abigail into being revengeful and cruel. So Abigail finds ways into taking Elizabeth Proctor’s place. People have different ways in getting back at what hurt them but what Abagail does to retaliate is horrible

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    Elizabeth is intelligent, strong-willed, non-submissive and witty. Austen believes that woman are as intelligent and capable as men and considers their lower status in society of being unjust. During the 1800s, many women married solely for the sake of financial security. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth is able to be happy by refusing to marry for financial purposes and only marrying a man whom she

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    the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet throughout Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. During the Regency Era, marriage is considered to be of the utmost importance for both men and women, and “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen 3). Both young women receive a marriage proposal from the same man, Mr. Collins, who Elizabeth finds to be the most undesirable bachelor she has ever come across. Elizabeth kindly rejects his

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    Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg later named Catherine the Great was born on May 2, 1729 and died November 17, 1796. She was the daughter Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst a minor German prince. She lived in Russia and was eventually the empress of Russia and carried on the work her father Peter the Great began. In 1744 Catherine arrived in Russia, acquired the title of Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseyevna, and she married her young cousin Grand Duke Peter that following

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    Olive Kitteridge Essay

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    Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge is a character in a collection of Elizabeth Strout’s stories. Through the collection, Olive is passing from middle age, and is well into her old age. Over this time, she ekes out a living as a seventh-grade instructor, taking on math classes. Later, she retires and comes to be a wife and a mother. She then takes care of her husband Henry, who agonizes a stroke, and finally a widow who is starting over (Renshaw, 2015, par.1). She appears as a main character in some

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    Essay Topic #11 “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, ” Charlotte Lucas. Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, follows the love story of a bright, independent girl named, Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth comes from a well-off family, but due to her having no brothers and only sisters, her duty as a women is to find a husband to spend the rest of her life with before her father dies and her family loses all claim to their home and fortune. As many women in the Regency period, love

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