Rousseau's 'La Nouvelle Heloise' (‘Julie')
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An 8 page paper that discusses Rousseau's sentimental look at the roles dictated by society for men and women according to Enlightenment views with a Rousseau twist. His focus is on the 'nature' of the human male and how those needs are to be filled through the 'nature' of women for the good of society as a whole. The writers argues that the antiquated views postulated by Rousseau through his novel are still being debated today. No additional sources cited.
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Autobiography in Shelley's Frankenstein and Rousseau's Confessions
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Barbara Johnson has posited the idea that autobiography is always in the process of symbolically killing the mother off by narrating the fiction as though it were the child one has given birth to and that represents the author. In Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions the premise of an autobiography is not in question. The book does not end with his death, but rather with his life alone. In Shelley's Frankenstein, the creator (Victor) and the creation (the Monster) are both seen as extensions of aspects of the author, mirrored in behavior and psychological representations of the self, which are ultimately ended either by death or a return to solitude. This 7 page paper argues that Johnson's theory, at least in the abstract, is seen as valid and worthy of discussion. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Peter Abelard / Faith & Reason
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This 12 page paper examines the conflict between faith and reason in religion. Peter Abelard's works are examined in an analysis which concludes that both may and do coexist. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Peter Abelard / The Story Behind '[The] Letters of Abelard and Heloise'
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An 8 page paper discussing 'Abelard and Heloise,' the medieval French love story translated from Latin by Jean de Meun. Bibliography lists three additional sources.
Filename: Abelard.doc

The Story Of Abelard's Adversities
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This 5 page essay explores several aspects of an excerpt from Abelard's autobiography, focusing on the character of the author with quotations to substantiate the writer's opinions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'
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A 7 page paper describing Madame Bovary. The writer puts forth the thesis that Madame Bovary is a 'Female Quixote' due to her living in romantic illusion versus reality using analysis and passages from the novel to illustrate this. The primary source is cited.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' / Illusion vs Reality
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In 6 pages the author discusses the concepts of illusion and reality in 'Madame Bovary.' Emma Bovary, convent-educated and given to flights of fancy and a very bourgeois love of romantic novels, seeks the fulfillment of her fantasies, believing that such fulfillment is not only possible but right around the corner. Flaubert uses his entire bag of fiction-writing tricks to construct a masterful portrayal of an ultimately tragic and foolish woman too much in love with her illusions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' / Significance Of The Opera
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A 5 page paper on the significance of the opera 'Lucie de Lammermoor' in Flaubert's classic novel. The paper observes how 'Lucie de Lammermoor' summarizes all that has gone before and foreshadows Emma's fate. No additional sources cited.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' / Social Class
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A 6 page paper that provides an overview of the elements that define social class and underscore the prevalent themes of Flaubert's work. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Mambov.rtf

Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' / Social Classes
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5 pages in length. Flaubert's story is set in 19th Century France, a time of great class distinction. The story provides us a glimpse of characters representing each of the social classes with four individual who are striving to be come part of the bourgeoisie. The title character, Emma Bovary is obsessed with changing her social status and engages in activities she believes will lead her to happiness, instead, they leads to her destruction. Bibliography lists approximately 8 sources.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'/ Illusion vs. Reality
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A 4 page paper discussing the main character's flights of fancy. It concludes that in this novel Flaubert contrasts romance with Romanticism, and shows how romance comes up short. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'/ Tragedy
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A 4 page paper describing Madame Bovary. The writer argues the thesis that the novel is really about the tragedy of dreaming or living in a fantasy. No additional sources cited.
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