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into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (Gilman PG). Obviously, the wallpaper is not soothing and so the wallpaper, its color, and its...

In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...

In eight pages the evolution from fantasy to postmodern in the children's literature genre is considered in an examination of The ...

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...