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in charge of the farm by her father when he dies. The farm is not left to her brothers or to Alexandrias mother but to her. The st...

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

She goes anyway and is soon caught up in a mutiny (Avi). At first she sides with the captain, thinking hes a gentleman, then reali...

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...

years roaming the hills, tending sheep but was in charge of taking care of the sisters in the convent she lived in (Orr, 2005). It...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...

May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...