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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...

and as such women did not have these freedoms at the time the Declaration of Independence was written. Interestingly enough, tod...

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

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author portrays the lacking maternal instincts of protagonist Edna Pontelli...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...