Sexuality in pride & prejudice and wuthering heights
Hi guys,
im in first year in college and am currently stuck on my english essay title :O
"Compare and contrast how Austen and Bronte represent sexuality in P&P and Wuthering Heights".
Im sure to most of you, this may seem pretty easy, but not to me!
Being the silly girl i am, i havent actually finished either books and know i wont have the time to as the essay is due in 3 days.
Ive seen both films and know all the themes, characters, plots etc.
But how do you think i should go about answering this?!
Ive already made a start on it, but dont want to keep referring to the 'sexual tension' between Elizabeth and Darcy.
Some opinions and advice on how to tackle the title would be much appreciated!!
thank you!
Here is how you write the paper you described
In college you need to read the whole book. By yourself. In your free time. It's something called "homework".
This thing called "homework" is assigned in other classes too. Usually teachers hand out something called a "syllabus" that contains guidlines for when certain homework assignments are due.
To write an essay you need five things... a thesis, an introduction, a body, a conculsion, and sources. If you don't know what these things are, find out and use them while writing your paper. Two of your sources will be Pride and Predjudice and Wuthering Heights. You should probably have a couple more sources. These are called "secondary sources" and are generally what the College library is used for finding.
Don't plagerize. Plagerism is the root of all evil. If a professor finds out you have plagerized, you will get an F, and it is easier for a professor to find out that you have plagerized than you might think. If you don't know what plagerism is, look it up, and find out NOW.
Also, don't procrastinate, though I have a feeling you may have done that already. :rolleyes5:
Where is sexuality to be found in Pride And Prejudice?
Jane Austin's Pride And Prejudice is the classic example of puritan emotional affection. There is not even a trace of sexuality or even amorous sensuality to be found in the novel. Even then from the original request posed to the forum, it is evident that some teacher who set the subject wanted his or her students to explore for sexuality in this particular novel, which all who have read the novel know would be a futile attempt. Burdened with a misguided suggestion, a student who never read the book sought instant assistance in the forum, which proper or not, prompted her to never visit or use this site again. That was the real outcome of this talk. Why can't learned persons simply part with knowledge? And Pride And Prejudice is not at all considered to be containing social commentaries or criticism. In fact it and the author remained sterile to whatever were happening around. It is the only novel of it's times and the author the only person of that era that remained moot as if such a thing as the French Revolution has had happened in the world.
