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Beatrice and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing", 2002.
Explores the character of two main characters in the play "Much Ado About Nothing", Beatrice and Benedick, and the changing nature of their relationship.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 66.95
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One of the most engaging and entertaining comedic couples in any of the works of Shakespeare, is that of Beatrice and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing". Both Beatrice and Benedick are essences, they are the progenitors of the cliches of the woman-hater turned lover and the ice-queen turned golden-heart. Both of them experience a very similar sequence of events, both work with their respective tutee's in love in the same way, and both come to realize their love for each other through tricks played upon them by their own friends. In this, Benedick and Beatrice are really the true soul-mates of the story in that they truly seem to be of the same cloth and of the same heart - two halves of the same whole. Their change from enmity to love covers the course of the entire play and, in many ways, is much more engaging, funny, entertaining, and ultimately rewarding than that of Hero and Claudio. It is the purpose of this paper to explore that relationship as it changes over the course of the play, "Much Ado About Nothing".
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Wife of Bath and Beatrice, 2002.
A character analysis of Chaucer's wife of Bath and Shakespeare's Beatrice.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 39.95
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This paper discusses and reflects on the wife of Bath from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Beatrice from "Much Ado About Nothing." The writer of this paper takes the reader on an exploratory journey in which the characters are compared and contrasted. The main question is: Are the two women feminists? The writer addresses this topic in detail.
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Beatrice Webb: Women and the Factory Acts, 2003.
An analysis of the political views of Beatrice Webb.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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This paper analyzes Beatrice Webb's writing on society that illustrates how it embodies and/or extends the views of others of her era such as Karl Marx and Jane Austen. It also discusses Webb's concern with labor and her socialist philosophy.
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"The views of Beatrice Potter Webb on society were in large measure an extension of social views espoused by Jane Austen and economic views of social structure derived from Marx's views on capitalism."
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Tess and Beatrice ? A Comparison, 2002.
An essay comparing the character of Tess in Thomas Hardy?s "Tess of the D?uberville" to the character of Beatrice in Nathaniel Hawthorne?s "Rappaccini?s Daughter".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 86.95
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The paper shows how the characters Tess in ?Tess of the D?uberville? by Thomas Hardy and Beatrice in ?Rappaccini?s Daughter? by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both victims of man?s ego and immorality resulting in the loss of their innocence, dooming them to a tragic fate. Both stories revolve around the love of the women and their losing of this love, because of the immoral plans and actions of a third person.
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"Both books ?Tess of the D?uberville? and ?Rappaccini?s daughter? are written in the third person and contain even amounts of dialogue and description. Thomas Hardy has been more descriptive than Hawthorne has, while Hawthorne?s work is more didactic.
"Tess of the D?uberville is different from most other books as in this case the campaign of the protagonist begins with an event in her life which is generally treated as fatal and as the end. In this case, when the book ends, Tess is a superior human being in the eyes of the reader because she bounces back from this virtual finality to find true love."
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Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's "In Search of April Raintree", 2001.
The paper concentrates on the main theme of the book: how the common, everyday person can overcome great odds.
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, AU$ 56.95
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The paper discusses April's experience with ridicule and harsh treatment from many people, from her childhood to her adult life. It then discusses how April used this negative behavior from others and how it turned April from a weak woman to someone having an iron will. The theme of how the common, everyday person can overcome great odds is the overall theme of the book, and the main focus of the paper.
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April and Cheryl Raintree, 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's controversial novel "In Search of April Raintree."
4,000 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 163.95
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This paper examines in-depth the thrice-revised fictional work of Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's writings concerning the issues of a most unusual family. This book is influenced by events in the author's life including rape and alcoholism giving the novel an authenticity that is often mistaken for autobiography. This paper also touches on the issue of foster care which as been improved as a result of "In Search of April Raintree."
Topics covered in this report include:
Thesis Statement
Construction of the Work
April and Cheryl, the Early Years
The Hardening Years
The Maturing Years
The Rape Scene
Michael Creal - Critical Essay
Helen Hoy
Bibliography
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"Rape of women and children has long been glorified in literature and popular media. When Culleton wrote this book, the largely white, middle-class feminist movement was beginning to speak of such things frankly and openly. Culleton's book, with its matter of fact, almost dispassionate rendering of the rape scene, reminded all women that misogyny is compounded by racism. With profound understatement, Culleton reminds people everywhere of what it is to be an Aboriginal woman in Canada."
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"Much Ado About Nothing", 2004.
This paper examines Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing" and maintains that Beatrice and Bendick will have a much happier marriage than Hero and Claudio.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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The paper examines Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing" and presents the argument that Beatrice and Bendick will have a much happier marriage than the one between Hero and Claudio, even though they move toward their love slowly.
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"Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" illustrates the haziness and trials of true love. In the play we are presented with two very different sets of lovers. Beatrice and Benedick insult and tease each other mercilessly, all the while proclaiming that marriage is not for them. Hero and Claudio fall instantly in love, however, their love is easily disrupted by the forces of rumor, gossip and mistrust."
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The Native Girl Syndrome, 2008.
This paper looks at Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's book 'In Search of April Raintree'.
1,735 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 85.95
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In this article, the writer looks chiefly at the native girl syndrome as it makes its appearance in the text and how the use of this slur by whites complicates the lives of the two protagonist, Cheryl and April Raintree. The writer discusses that part of the horror of the native girl syndrome is that it renders aboriginal women and young girls into little more than intemperate, slovenly and incontinent children who possess a "bad seed" that makes them susceptible to wrong-doing and also highly susceptible to being a drain upon the public purse. The writer maintains that the native girl syndrome, inasmuch as it reduces aboriginal women to lesser moral, intellectual and emotional beings than their white counterparts - also de-legitimates their voices and makes it more probable that they will be compelled to suffer injustice in silence. The paper explores these issues and also looks at how the native girl syndrome came about - it may even still be the case today - a rationale for tearing apart native families.
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"Cheryl and April are two young girls who suffer a great deal in Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's, In Search of April Raintree. For one thing, Culleton Mosionier's work describes in painful detail the various ways in which aboriginal peoples coming of age in 1950s and 1960s Canada were infantilized by the dominant culture. For one thing, the intrusion of Child Welfare Services into the inner goings-on of the Raintree family reveals the callous manner in which aboriginal peoples were perceived as "wards" who could do nothing - be nothing - without the mainstream culture imposing itself upon them. The book, at least in the view of one perceptive critic, suggests that the violence of the troubled aboriginal home is equaled by the more subtle violence of Child Services, a dark and dubious entity that tears children from their families or at least did in the 1950s and 1960s and undermines the autonomy and, indeed, the adult personages of aboriginal parents. The book is also painful in the sense that it captures how the "culture of violence" ascribed to the native culture is a designation better ascribed to the dominant culture of the age. To wit, April and Cheryl experience racism and ageism and sexism in the dominant culture and face punishment from that culture at every turn; in fact, there is even a frightening instance wherein April is brutally raped by a gang of men who react explosively when she denies their advances. In this sense, part of the native girl syndrome is to be viewed as an inferior being - emotionally, intellectually, morally - and therefore deserving of such brutal mistreatment."
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"La Vita Nuova" ( Dante ), 1997.
Examines the poet's views on love and creative writing as expressed in his poetry and his relationship with Beatrice.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 71.95
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"In La Vita Nuova, Dante expresses his views on romantic love and literary creation, arguing essentially that the two are inextricably bound together. This does not mean that as love goes, so necessarily goes literary creation. To the contrary, Dante seems clearly to be saying at times that the most critical periods in his relationship with Beatrice have produced the most passionate and remarkable poetry. The study will argue that the process whereby Dante comes to understand and experience love in a mature, spiritual and transcendent sense is a process which for him requires the recording of his experiences in poetry which crystallizes those experiences for his vigilant examination. Love for Dante is a means of spiritual and creative awakening.
To a poet of passion such as Dante, what matters is not a "healthy" or "non-dysfunctional" relationship such as might be ..."
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Just a Poor Farm Girl, 2004.
This paper reviews and analyzes the novel "Minutes of Glory" by Kenyan author, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O.
2,073 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 98.95
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The writer of this paper details the plot and main characteristics of Beatrice, the main character in "Minutes of Glory." This paper discusses the issue of class distinction in Kenya. This paper examines Beatrice's lack of self esteem, which is limited due to her beliefs about herself. Beatrice longs for dignity and respect, but because of her background, she has had no access to education or training, the only place she can work is in a bar, where she hopes to sell her body to affluent men. This paper explores the intense relationship between Beatrice and the unnamed truck driver. The writer contends and explains how class distinctions, both in the novel and in society in general, can become so embedded and accepted in the shared consciousness of a culture, that people believe those distinctions define who they really are.
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"The class system is designed to perpetuate and maintain the upper classes. That the problem is one of class distinctions is shown by what happens to the man with the lorry whom Beatrice eventually chooses to be her lover. The man has no name in the story--to show that he too is a nobody. He is a nobody who has worked hard and been able to rise to some level of financial success, however. He owns a "lorry" and is tremendously proud of it. He keeps it locked so no one will steal it from him. His clothing is decent. Nevertheless, he is not accepted by the "big-shots" (neuveaux riche) at the Treetop who come to "dine"(dining is something the upper classes do-ordinary people just eat) and fraternize with other big-shots. Although he tries over and over again (every Saturday) to gain their acceptance, he is continually and openly rejected as not good enough for their company. Beatrice can relate to this, of course, because she has had the same experience."
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Dante's "Inferno", 2002.
This paper discusses and analyzes "Inferno," by Alighieri Dante.
655 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 35.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Inferno," by Alighieri Dante. Specifically, it describes two characters, Beatrice and Lucifer. Beatrice and Lucifer could not be farther apart in this poem. They represent good and evil, savior versus destroyer, and they are both present in the poem in order to illustrate the ultimate theme of good versus evil, and Dante's ultimate salvation.
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"The "Inferno" is the first of three books that make up Dante's classical work "The Divine Comedy." The "Inferno" follows Dante's journey through Hell on his route to finding God. He begins at the bottom in sin, and must fight his way to the top, where lovely Beatrice awaits him in Paradise."
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Science in "Rappaccini's Daughter", 2005.
Examines how science is linked to the characters in this story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1,151 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 59.95
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 fantasy tale "Rappaccini's Daughter," Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini is clearly obsessed with science. This paper shows that Dr. Rappaccini's obsession for the power that science brings to him has also affected his daughter Beatrice whose body has been slowly poisoned from her birth. As a result, she is immune to these poisons but her touch is deadly to everyone she comes in contact with, such as Giovanni Guasconti, a young student that falls madly in love with Beatrice even after discovering that her touch and breath is fatal. The paper shows that the lives and fates of Dr. Rappaccini, Beatrice and Giovanni are therefore intricately linked to science and symbolize how human beings can be destroyed when science runs amok.
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"Toward the conclusion of the story, Baglioni gives Giovanni a vial that is meant to be used as an antidote to the poisons Beatrice has consumed. And when she puts the antidote to her lips, Beatrice "shuddered very nervously and pressed her hand upon her heart." Just before Beatrice dies, she refers to Rappaccini's "fatal science" and tells Giovanni that her father has "united us in this fearful sympathy." Beatrice then looks at her father and asks him why he inflicted "this miserable doom upon thy child?" The answer is quite simple-Rappaccini has used his daughter as the "guinea pig" for his experiments. In addition, Giovanni and Beatrice are now bound together through science."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2002.
Analyzes the themes, particularly that of initiation, of three stories by American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 134.95
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Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, into an old Puritan family. Hawthorne's own 17th-century ancestors, as he frankly admitted, had been among the real-life Puritan zealots. "Young Goodman Brown" is a story of initiation. Evil is the nature of mankind. "Rappaccini's Daughter" is filled with symbols and symbolic allusions of both Hawthorne's time and his ancestral past. It serves to point up the significant contrast between Dante's Beatrice and Rappaccini's daughter Beatrice. Hawthorne repeatedly and with gentle irony characterizes Robin as "a shrewd youth." The religious polemic is the standard form of Hawthorne's writing. "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" blends yet another theme of initiation into the sobering responsibilities of adulthood with the historical movement of the American colonists in defiance of royal authority.
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The Course of True Love Never Should Run Smooth, 1997.
An analysis of Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" using love relationships expressed in "Sonnet 116".
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, AU$ 71.95
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Using Shakespeare?s thoughts and feelings regarding love expressed in the 116 Sonnet, this paper analyzes the love relationships in "Much Ado About Nothing". The play paints a clear picture of the thoughts and opinions Shakespeare expresses in the sonnet. When a reader compares the foil love relationships of Benedick and Beatrice to that of Hero and Claudio, Shakespeare?s meaning of a love that doesn?t ?alter when it alteration finds? can be truly appreciated. This paper is filled with many textual examples of ways that Claudio and Hero both fail to build the kind of love that Shakespeare admonishes lovers to have. It also examines the inconvenience and pain of Benedick and Beatrice?s love, which at times seems to be ?against their will?.
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"Here [quote from Sonnet 116] Shakespeare express his feelings about true love and the elements that need to be included in a loving relationship. Love should not be a mere infatuation that is easy to overcome, but rather a long-lasting relationship that can never be broken. This was not a conventional idea in Shakespeare?s time, where the woman?s dowry, not her love, was the prize most sought by suitors. Shakespeare gives a wonderful example of what he thinks true love should be in Much Ado About Nothing in Benedick and Beatrice?s relationship. In the play, he also offers a relationship foil to Benedick and Beatrice, that of Claudio and Hero. This foil compares the traits Shakespeare feels need to be included in true love with the conventional ideas about love of his day."
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Dante's "La Vita Nuova", 2006.
An analysis of Dante's use of the phrase "love and the gentle heart" in his collection of poetry entitled "La Vita Nuova".
1,615 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 79.95
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This paper analyzes Dante Alighieri's testament to romantic love and his own love for Beatrice in "La Vita Nuova". Through an analysis of the theme, tone and structure of the 25 sonnets contained in "La Vita Nuova", the paper explains that Dante uses the poignant sonnet form to convey the nature of his love for Beatrice and that his use of the the phrase "love and the gentle heart" refers to the type of mature love shared between the spouses in an old married couple.
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"The third and fourth lines of the poem use a teasingly sardonic analogy to emphasize the poet's main point. "...each from the other one as well divorced / as reason from the mind's reasoning." The use of the word "divorce" serves as a double entendre, referring both to two ordinary objects being rendered as well as to two persons dissolving their marital vows. As divorce is the exact opposite from union, the poet creates some dynamic tension through the use of phrases like "one thing" and "the other one" in conjunction with the word "divorce." The repetition of the word "one" in lines one and three acts as a unifying devise in this initial stanza. Similarly, the last line of stanza one contains another word repetition: "reason" and "reasoning." The poet could have easily selected a synonym for either "reason" or "reasoning." Dante's choice implies a conscious use of word repetition that parallels the repetition of the word "one." The repetition helps emphasize the poem's central themes. Finally, the concept of reason differs greatly from the concept of love." Love and reason are in fact often in direct opposition to one another. The irony of love being compared to reason mirrors the contrast between love and divorce in this first stanza."
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"Victoria's Daughters", 2007.
A brief review of Jerrold Packard's "Victoria's Daughters".
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 40.95
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This paper looks at how Jerrold Packard's "Victoria's Daughters", examines the lives of the five daughters of Victoria, Queen of England: Vicky, Alice, Louise, Lenchen, and Beatrice. It examines how the book tells about each daughter and their families and concludes that it is a good book to read for learning more about the royal family in the 1800s, and the tragedies that can befall anyone, even the royal family.
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"Packard focused on how even a royal family cannot escape tragedy. Tragedy will strike even the Queen of England, the most powerful woman in the world in the late 1800's. Her husband was taken from her on December 14, 1861, and then her third child, and second daughter was taken from her on December 14, 1878. Once Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria lived the rest of her life in a state of mourning, and allowed her days to be consumed with self-pity. Her sometimes aloof ways in raising her children would lead to her eldest daughter raising her children in the same aloof manner. This action would lead to Vicky's eldest son, Willy, to become quite harsh with his parents. "
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