Jane Mallett

Pride and Prejudice: The First of Her Kind For our assigned book report, I selected the famous English classic Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a revolutionary work that spurred the transition into romanticism for the literary world as well as comically played with the strict guidelines of society and behavior. In a time where books were written exclusively by men to discuss serious topics and intellectual process, Austen’s wrote her romantic novel to enlighten readers by focusing her…

The study of primates is not as simple and straightforward as one might initially believe. Theirs’ is a complex world of interaction. In many ways highly similar to that of humans. This intricacy has led to the need for scientists to redefine what being human truly means. For upon studying primates a social milieu was revealed. Primates were seen expressing themselves through different behaviors. In addition, their societies are intricately organized and they form enduring relationships. These…

Threads of the historicization perpetuated by Lawlor and Suzuki are further emphasized by Carolyn Day, in her book Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease. The historical narrative presented by Day is similar to Lawlor and Suzuki in regards to her attention to the social and cultural framing of Consumption during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In her cultural framing of Consumption as a Romantic disease, Day agrees with Lawlor and Suzuki, in suggesting that a peak…

Joel Weinsheimer writes that Pride and Prejudice does not end in complete chance, but instead is a logical effect of the characters’ desires. Overall, he explains that the choices of Jane Austen and the characters themselves are the primary factors of there being only four happy marriages. Weinsheimer argues that the Darcy-Elizabeth relationship is the result of the events leading up to it. To explain, chance could not validate the fact that Darcy’s business leads him to Pemberley. Instead,…

“Imagine Wanting Only This” by Kristen Radtke. “Imagine Wanting Only This” by Kristen Radtke is among nonfiction graphic novel which is a memoir. It is a tale which is filled with beautiful and the troubling graphic memoir which has extensive prose and one of the breathtaking illustrations. The book talks about the desertions and life which is termed as being ephemeral and fleeting, lacking ambitions. It is among one of the modern graphic novel which has been involved in incorporating actual…

Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, is a love story that provides insight into the social manners of two people and follows them as they gradually change into better individuals. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet live in a society in which social status plays a large role in relationships, and before they can experience love together, Darcy and Elizabeth must investigate their own flaws and overcome the pride and prejudice instilled in them. Their relationship and marriage is an…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, is a poem that was written in 1798 during the Industrial Revolution. The tale guides the reader through the adventures of an ancient mariner. The mariner begins telling his tale during a wedding. The mariner learns his lesson after killing an innocent Albatross on a voyage. Coleridge uses symbolism and diction to instill the lesson of respect for nature and all of God's creation. The lesson imparted by Coleridge in the poem is done so…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

Do you know a story that is told from much different point of views with the same meaning behind it? Cinderella, the story about a young orphan child who goes to live with her evil stepmother and stepsisters, is one of those various stories. Although there are stories told alike, many are also told differently. In the French story told by Charles Perrault, “Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella forgives her stepsisters for all the misery they caused her and allowed them to live in…

Throughout Evelina, the altruistic characters are the ones who are able to put themselves in the circumstances of other people. These characters successfully identify with other characters in the novel because sensible principles guide their actions. Many characters offer Evelina assistance, but only the characters who sympathize with Evelina help her confront further embarrassing situations she experiences. These altruistic characters in Evelina sympathize with other people and utilize empathy…