the family and tries her best to entice Amelia’s brother‚ Joseph‚ an obese inept man. She practically succeeds her attempt‚ when George Osborne presents and foils this plan; he intends to marry Amelia and does not want a governess for a sister-in-law. Then‚ Becky works as governess at Queen’s Crawley‚ and marries Rawdon Crawley‚ second son of Sir Pitt Crawley. Consequently from this marriage‚ Rawdon’s rich aunt‚ Matilda‚ disinherits him. Meanwhile‚ Amelia pines over George‚ who disrespects and disregards
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Person 7. Choose one character and write a character sketch in a well-developed paragraph. Be sure to include several aspects of character analysis. Provide examples and quotations to support your argument. Yulia Vassilyevna is an educated governess; she is soft spoken thanking the man even though he wasn’t benefiting her as he played the joke. 8. Literary devices: give an example and explain how three of the following literary devices are used in the story. Satire: when the man says to
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In Jane Austen’s novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Lady Catherine’s dialogue‚ appearance‚ and actions portray her as a supercilious and domineering person. Lady Catherine is described to be a “tall‚ large woman‚ with strongly features.” Her “strongly marked features” symbolize her high and superior social status in society. Her “tall” figure is representative of her high position in the hierarchy of social class as compared to other women in society. Furthermore‚ Lady Catherine’s supercilious personality
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Riders to the sea SUMMARY: This story begins with a young Irish girl baking and spinning in a fisherman’’s cottage on the west coast of Ireland. Her sister comes in‚ bearing the clothes of man washed up drowned up the coast. They are waiting for their brother Michael to be found--he disappeared over a week earlier‚ and they know he is dead‚ though hope never dies really until one knows for sure. They do‚ and they finally have to tell their mother‚ and that he got a decent burial by the parish priest
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Victorian boys and girls did not have the opportunity of going to school. When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 education wa still mainly for the privileged. Rich children might have a governess to teach them at home until they were old enough - if they were boys-to
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Paper II Preparation Report on Emma by Jane Austen Topic 4 “Consider the female characters in the novel. Discuss and characterize in terms of themes and relation to the protagonist.” Prepared by Abigail Boursiquot‚ Jennifer Fliesser‚ Katharine Christie & Shaima Kaka I. Introduction to Characters and Theme Female Characters Thematic Topics ❏ Emma Woodhouse ❏ Miss Bates ❏ Importance of social class ❏ Lack of creative/intellectual freedom ❏ Harriet Smith ❏ Jane Fairfax ❏ Socially acceptable matches
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power to argue against higher social class. While these stories all draw comparisons between different divisions of social class‚ they still lead to an unfair division of power. Mumu compares as a serf own by the landlord‚ Ninny as being employed governess in high class family and Vanka as low class apprentice in community. But by highlighting the similarities‚ the texts give a major concept that characteristic as low society level consistently appears from past to
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people to make big decisions in everyday life. This connects to the novel‚ Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte‚ where Jane Eyre finds her first love and only true love. only with a man named Mr. Rochester who is wealthy‚ while Jane is only a governess to Mr. Rochester’s ward. After Jane discovers her lover’s dark past she is conflicted because she had never felt love like this before and did not want to give it up. Jane faces many tough situations and her love for Mr. Rochester makes it even
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* Jane Eyre: The protagonist of the novel and the title character. Orphaned as a baby‚ she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane is passionate and opinionated‚ and values freedom and independence. She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian. * John Reed: Jane’s cousin‚ who as a child bullies Jane constantly‚ sometimes in his mother’s presence. He ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling and is thought to have
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honesty Jane wants to be in an honest relationship unlike most Victorian women whom thought was okay to cheat on you spouse. St. John Rivers‚ a wealthy pastor‚ asked Jane to join him on a trip to India as his wife and for she could continue her job as governess. Jane thinks it through‚ after all this will be a good
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