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It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

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...

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...

to obscure her perception as to the character of the man she marries, Emma is essentially trapped in this marriage. During Flauber...

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

this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with ro...

her only companion during her convent days, she quickly discovers her own life does not imitate art. She learns that it is a mans...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

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

This research paper, which includes a one page outline, offers an overall view of Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. The repor...

In seven pages this paper discusses the 'Female Quixote' aspects of Emma Bovary and the romantic illusions she prefers to reality....

In six pages this paper examines the theme of social class within the context of Flaubert's novel and the various aspects that def...

This paper consists of six pages and examines the ongoing conflict between reality and illusion that plagues the novel's protagoni...

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's destiny foreshadowing offered by the operatic presence of Lucie de Lammermoor ...

In four pages this paper presents the argument that living in a fantasy world invariably leads to tragic consequences. There are ...

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's obsession with changing her social class throughout the course of Flaubert's n...

In four pages this paper examines the conflict that exists throughout the course of the novel with Romanticism and not romance ult...

In three and a half pages a critical analysis of the observation 'Sex lies at the base of what happens: Along with money it is the...

balconies of great chateaux where leisure is abundant, from a boudoir curtained in silk, thick carpeted, from flowering planters, ...

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

In five pages there are four questions answered in an analysis of how metaphor and imagery are employed in these two literary work...

In six pages this paper compares the development of characters and 3rd person narrator uses in these novels by Gustave Flaubert an...