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Essays 151 - 180
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...
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...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
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...
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...
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...
("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
housebound in Los Angeles in 1949. Sally has learned that she is pregnant again, and gives herself the time to read Virginia Wool...
falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...
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...
This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...
This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...
feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...
be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...
fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...
This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...
a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...
or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...
there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...
for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...
contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...
his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...
themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...
slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...