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…of the story the narrator has surprised John, who has come home from work to find her creeping around the room. She proclaims 'I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'         Although…

…. Holden experiences this several times throughout the novel. When he talks about Jane, the way she used to be perfect, placing her kings in the back because it would look nice, and now he has come to believe that she 'gave time to Stradlater in Ed Banky's car…

…the smell of it was enough to give him an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. He wasn't sure whether it was guilt or not. He had finally decided to tell Elizabeth about Jane his new girlfriend. Did she already know? He thought to himself. How could she? She…

…, attractive Fanny Price in Rozema's film version. Jane Austen was writing in the Romantic movement of early nineteenth century which was obsessed with the emotional, the imaginative and the world was characterised by tight, formal social rituals, high status…

…character Sara Goldfarb is one of the great acting performances in history. It is right up there with Betty Davis' Baby Jane Hudson from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Right there, that type of performance, that level. In other words, this isn't just an award…

…Comparison of Mansfield Park and Metropolitan Whit Stillman's attempt to capture Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park on film in Metropolitan is a fair adaptation but it is unable to give the viewer the same insights. Stillman manages to have most…

…relationship to marriage is even rarer. I mean, how often is it that your love lives have been set back by botched judgment, an unfortunate first impression, or even just a bad day at school? Through Jane Austen's presentation of characters in her classic love tale…

…Opera is a glorious spectacle, a splendid but uneven fabric of music, drama, dance, poetry, and stage architecture, imperfect by nature yet endowed with magic. -Mary Jane Matz, Opera: Grand and Not So Grand Opera was originally a pure art…

…down through the social strata is very autumnal as his creeps, inch by inch, towards the inevitable. When he reaches the lowest of the low he does not stay in the town and sponge off Elizabeth-Jane and Farfrae, he follows the yearning of his soul and returns…

…'. It is the last we hear of the workfolk's mocking laughter for ironically the very success of this resurgence of carnival prepares the way for its suppression.Elizabeth-Jane's marriage to Farfrae signifies the truimph of the serious, the organized, the moral…