Elizabeth’s Feminist Independence and Freedoms The character of Elizabeth Bennet portrays startling unique and individualistic personality traits throughout her story in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Indeed‚ Austen uses Elizabeth’s frank nature to challenge traditional notions of gender. Unlike other romantic heroines‚ Austen chooses to depict Elizabeth as a level headed‚ deductive‚ and observation individual who is objectively distant from her social world. Thus‚ Pride and Prejudice challenges
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The Complete Plays. 1. Frank Romany‚ Robert Lindsey. Penguin Classics‚ 2003. 1-67 Marlowe‚ Christopher. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9. Julia Reidhead. Norton‚ 2012. 1126. Print Ralegh‚ Walte. "The Nymph ’s Relpy to the Shepherd." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9. Julia Reidhead. Norton‚ 2012. 1024. Print Turner‚ Craig. "Love and the Queen of Carthage: A Look at Marlowe ’s Dido." Essays in Literature 11.1 (1984): 3-9. Web.
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Libraries One Search. Web. 3 Mar. 2013. Gilman‚ Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’?” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th Ed. 5 Vols. Nina Baym‚ et al. New York: Norton‚ 2012. 804. Gilman‚ Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym and Robert S. Levine. 8th ed. Vol. C. New York & London: Norton‚ 2012. 792-803. Halttunen‚ Karen‚ Joseph F. Kett‚ Neal Salisbury‚ Harvard Sitkoff‚ and Nancy Woloch. "The Cult
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Cited: The odyssey Puncher‚ Martin. The Norton Anthology World Literature‚ Volume 1. 3rd. A. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 430-431. Print. Puncher‚ Martin. The Norton Anthology World Literature‚ Volume 1. 3rd. A. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 430-431. Print. Odysseys Translated Fagles ‚ Robert. Homer The Odyssey . Deluxe Edition‚ 1997. New York : Penguin Classics‚ 1997
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The Underlying message in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina” Naming a poem after the form it uses may give off the impression of a more technical exercise‚ rather than a poem that achieves a very moving effect. In Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina”‚ however‚ she is able to find a surprising beauty in an otherwise difficult form. Bishop utilizes the rules that are laid out by this challenging form‚ and manipulates the six repeating words in a way that strengthens the message that she is attempting to portray
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including The Nation‚ Plouqhshares‚ The Iowa Review‚ Ontario Review and Poetry‚ which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in Poets in Person. He is one of the youngest poets to appear in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Soto has received the Discovery-The Nation Prize‚ the U.S. Award of the International Poetry Forum‚ The California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award twice‚ a Recognition of Merit from the Claremont
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Cited: Smith‚ Captain John. “From ‘Description of New England.’ ” The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Seventh Edition. Gen. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: WW. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 54-57. Whitman‚ Walt. “Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855).” The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Seventh Edition. Gen. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: WW. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 996-1010.
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Odysseus declines Calypso’s offer for the most sought after immortality because ultimately‚ his desire to return home and reunite with his wife‚ Penelope‚ outweighs any of Calypso’s most tempting offers. This proves to be true in several ways: first‚ it is important to realize that Odysseus has been on Ogygia Island for over nineteen years and is still yearning to return to Ithaca. Second‚ his direct decline of Calypso’s advances is clever and courageous‚ and lastly‚ even though Calypso foretells
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Cited: Sophocles. Oedipus the King The Norton Anthology of World Literature Eds. Peter Simon et al. 1 vols. New York: Norton‚ 2009. 573-614. Print. SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Oedipus Plays.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2002. Web. 29 Nov. 2011.
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Cited: 1. Lawall‚ Sarah N.‚ and Maynard Mack. "Gilgamesh." The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Beginnings to A. D. 100. 2nd ed. Vol. A. New York: Norton‚ 2002. 12-41. Print.
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