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seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

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...

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

In seven pages this paper analyzes relationships and self containment within the context of the play and Kate's 'shrewish' attribu...

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

marriage is accused of being unlike heterosexual unions apart from the gender. All the moral hypocrites who fuel the controversy ...

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

itself is set up to favor men. There is nothing new in this and to a large extent its true. Women still earn significantly less th...

This Dickens tale is looked at as it relates to this single character but other characters are discussed as well. Gender is someth...

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

the only musician of the first order whose creative life pivoted around the piano.4 In fact, Chopin was known as the "poet of the ...

what the loss of the deceased means to those who have been left behind, while he simultaneously acknowledges the glory of the afte...

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...

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...