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    ’s emotional nature. The condemnation of women to a place apart results in the creation of empty‚ capricious women like Blanche Ingram‚ who tyrannize over men whenever possible‚ indulge in dreams of Corsair lovers‚ and can communicate only in the Byronic language of outdated romantic fiction. Only equals like Jane and Rochester dare to speak truth couched in language of unadorned directness. [pp. 93-94] Even in Martin ’s terms‚ can you take Jane Eyre as a feminist work? How does he define feminism

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    Essay: The Byronic Hero In Emily Bronte’s novel‚ wuthering heights‚ the protagonist‚ Heathcliff is classified as a Byronic Hero. The term Byronic hero originated from the writings of lord Byron that describe an idealized but flawed character. A Byronic Hero lacks a heroic virtue and possesses many dark qualities such as being isolated from society; moody by nature or having emotional/ intelligent capacities that surpasses the average man and mysterious origins. Heathcliff is considered a Byronic Hero

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    A Byronic hero has many traits‚ and Ultron has a few of these traits; such as‚ being intelligent and emotionally sensitive. Ultron is intelligent because he got Wanda and Quick Sliver to help him destroy the world without them even knowing; they thought that they were going to help the world by ending the Avengers. Emotionally sensitive because he cares for Wanda and was hurt when Wanda left him to help the Avengers. In the movie‚ “Avengers: Age of Ultron”‚ Ultron wants to destroy the world‚ only

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    The relationship between Jane and Mr Rochester is explored for the first time in Chapter 12. Mr Rochester’s entrance into the novel in Chapter 12‚ unbeknownst to Jane until the final paragraphs of the chapter‚ acts as an interesting way for the reader to explore both Jane’s and Mr Rochester’s characters and Bronte uses this as an initial indication of the relationship that develops through the rest of the novel. It is clear from the beginning of the chapter that Jane is frustrated by her situation

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    Gothic literature

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    some backround. Gothic fiction began as a joke.In 1764 author Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of The Castle of Otranto‚ a short novel in which the ingredients are a haunted castle‚ a Byronic villain‚ mysterious deaths and supernatural happening. When he used the word it meant something like ‘barbarous’‚ as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages’. Now Gothic is a literary genre‚ and a characteristically modern one. Gothic literature

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    Odysseus: A Hero Or Hero?

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    Is Odysseus‚ the man that survived 20 years away from home and at sea‚ battling many monsters along the way‚ a hero? Is the man that displeased some gods‚ and killed others‚ a hero? According to the Greeks‚ he certainly is. According to the Highly Gifted Magnet‚ probably not. While to the Greeks he possessed all of the heroic qualities‚ such as cunningness‚ loyalty‚ hospitality and physical strength‚ to the Highly Gifted Magnet community‚ he meets all most all of our standards‚ which include intelligence

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    A hero, My hero...

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    A hero is a person that saves people from dangerous times. A hero is a person that saves lives. One day I would like to be called a hero. Heroes are created by events around them. Most people have a person that they call their hero. I sure do have one. Most people say their heroes are they moms or dads. Most kids call their favorite super hero their hero. If all you want is fame it doesn’t matter what you do‚ you shouldn’t be called a hero. Heroic things happens around us all day‚ every day

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    Hero

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    A Hero In the worlds eye of a hero we tend to think of super heroes from comic books‚ movies ‚ and television shows. Well many of us look up to that special person in our lives that have shown courage and determination to succeed after set backs. My hero in my life is my father. My father was born in a small town in Durango‚Mexico. He was brought to the United States at the age of 6 years old with 6 other siblings. While being raised in South Central Los Angeles‚ California he was brought into

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    Hero A hero to me is someone who has courage‚ bravery or the ability to do something out of the ordinary to help another person and expect nothing in return. A hero has many definitions that show examples like comic book super heroes to your local police officers but in reality any normal person can be a hero in someone’s eyes. You see heroes everywhere but sometimes you just never pay attention to what’s going on. For example you can be walking downtown and pass by an alley where someone

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    notes on gothic horror

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    " older houses and manors replaced castles‚ though the sense of mystery and gloominess remained a strong element. Conventions of Characters o The Gothic hero is often an isolated or "marked" figure who must restore himself to society. A figure of evil -- sometimes with a relationship to the supernatural -- is often in opposition to the hero. Women play significant roles in Gothic novels; they are often depicted as victims of tyrannical and evil men. Doppelgangers -- "doubles" that are similar in

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