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• Major tragedies by William Shakespeare: no Tempest for<br />

you, they teach that in middle school, for goodness' sake!<br />

It's about the epic tragedies: King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet,<br />

et cetera. These tragedies will allow you to be emotive, intellectual,<br />

and hot all at once. (Romeo and Juliet is cheating<br />

though.)<br />

of course, I'm just scratching the surface here, but being a<br />

douchey intellectual is work. Postscript: beware of going too<br />

obscure. A girl won't be impressed by something that she has<br />

never heard of.<br />

http://www.quora.com/l/boq-cristina-hartmann<br />

Jane austen<br />

Which Jane Austen heroine most<br />

embodies feminist principles?<br />

Stephanie Vardavas, is too generous to trifle with you<br />

What a great question! It's important to remember that these<br />

are very young women, mostly seventeen to twenty years old,<br />

most of whom had no realistic choice for a life path other<br />

than marriage, so perhaps it's unfair to judge them too severely,<br />

but let's take a look and see what we find.<br />

I should begin by saying that it is a terrible shame that<br />

Austen never lived to complete either Sanditon or The Watsons,<br />

because the heroines of both those fragments, Charlotte<br />

Heywood and Emma Watson (same name as the actress who<br />

played Hermione Granger), show great potential for being<br />

independent-minded, spunky young women who might have<br />

become proto-feminists. But we'll never know for sure. one<br />

cannot rely on completions by other writers.<br />

So remaining in our universe of potential proto-feminists<br />

we have:<br />

• Fanny Price<br />

• Catherine Morland<br />

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