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down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

In six pages this paper examines Flora Tristan in terms of her life, the French Revolution, and the philosophy of this feminist so...

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

about Egyptian life. Discuss how an artist may express his or her point of view by explaining the content, concept and style of a...

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...