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Essays 151 - 180
him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...
the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...
Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...
those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...
grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
find more than two clients that year. As a result, he sought to hold concerts as a means of support and he held three concerts i...
In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...
In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...
This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...
In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...
This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...
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 ...
undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...
In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...
Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...
This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...
In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
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...
lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...
in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...
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...
down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...
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 ...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...