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    H.P. Lovecraft wrote a book called Supernatural Horror in Literature. In the book he wrote a literary analysis about Poe’s writing he says, “Like most fantasists, Poe excels in incidents and broad narrative.” I agree with what Lovecraft has to say about Poe’s protagonist. In each of his stories like “The Black Cat” and “Tell Tale Heart” both of these stories have such an amazing horror into them but when you start reading more about the main characters you realize that all his main characters always

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    Charlotte Bronte writes Jane Eyre in 1847 which depicts the life of Jane Eyre who had a rough childhood and is able to get herself a job as a governess which makes herself a self-made women. Jane Eyre furthermore expresses the belief that women can be inspired by literature to make their way up in society. Contrary to popular belief Jean Rhys believes that Jane Eyre is actually detrimental to the advancement of women in the social hierarchy because of the fact that in order for Jane to make her way up

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    Actions may be influenced by many different things. Many times, Society and the opinions of others are greatly influential. Other times, internal motivations are the guiding force. This fight between external and internal motivation is explored by Jane Austen in her novel Persuasion. She uses theory of mind and free indirect discourse to argue that internal motivations are better guides than persuasion from society, family, or any other outside force. In Persuasion, thoughts are greatly privileged

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    Jane Eyre’s life was full of oppression, neglect and sorrow. The novel was formed around a few main ideas. One of those would be the search of love and acceptance. Jane wanted to find a family so desperately and she wanted to belong to people. More than this though, Jane wanted to be treated equally. She was denied equality because of her social status, her income,her lack of “beauty” and most of all because of her gender. The book Jane Eyre shows the struggle that women face while attempting to

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    In my personal cherished novel, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the worlds of two immensely divergent people display the marxist idea of the importance of social status and its affect on the people. The two main characters seem to be on opposite ends of the earth in terms of an affluent Mr. Darcy being so privileged while on the contrary, Miss Elizabeth Bennet is of a lower class. Throughout the novel, there is a fine distinction between their clashing opinions and actions that are highly influenced

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    Jane Eyre was ten years; she was with her aunt Sr. Sra. Reed, Sr. Reed took charge of Jane, moreover, became orphan in her mother death. When Jane was with her aunt, she did not like it and her star questioning the injustices of how they care about her. Then the Sr. Reed sends Jane to a women's institution to learn how to be a women independent. Went Jane goes to the institution, even more, she makes a lot of friends like the superintendent of the institution the Sra. Temple. Jane becomes

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    ANALYSIS: Northanger Abbey is the story of a naïve girl of seventeen years old named Catherine Morland and how she matures by experiencing the modern world. The novel is divided into two parts; these halves contrast each other in setting and in tone. Catherine’s story begins with the description of her living in the village Fullerton where she has grown up with her family of nine siblings and her parents (who educated her over the years). It is then that family friends of the Morlands, the Allens

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    describes the superior quality of Jane Austen, the writer. In ‘A Room Of One’s Own’ Woolf emphasis that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are the best dramatist and novelist respectively because of the element of androgynity. The mind of Austen and Shakespeare had consumed all impediments. ‘They had complete mind’. Their minds were never dominated by either masculine or feminine qualities, but by a combination of the two. To prove this point, Woolf compares Jane Austen with George Eliot and Charlotte

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    analogy between Maxim de Winter and Bluebeard is that both characters hide a dark secret . 37 4.3.4. Psychological Thrills: Obsession Rebecca as a reflection of its era's literary fashion includes many psychological elements. All the main characters has a psychological struggle and repressed fears which turn to psychological diseases like obsession. Obsession leads to many gothic associations like half madness-state, illusions and even nightmares. Starting with the nameless heroine, who comes to

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single good opening line in possession of clever phrases, can grip the readers right from the very beginning. This truth is so well fixed in the minds of the authors that they deliberately chose it to set the tone for the narrative to unfold and bring out the concerns of the novel. In the light of this authorial truth this essay is focused towards discussing how the opening line of Pride and Prejudice in itself contains the major themes and conflicts

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