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Essays 151 - 180
In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...
person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...
themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
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 -...
slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...
changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...