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shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...

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...

53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...

Chinese culture recognized womens inherent value. This is not to say, however, that women - even at their most esteemed positions...

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

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

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...

various measures, the first step that the researchers took was to compare maltreatment items that were administered in the lab ses...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

"terrible grand in her ways" (Ibsen I). Hedda is perhaps everything they assumed she would be. She is arrogant and above these p...

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...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

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

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...

those who do not stop to examine their existence. For example, Americans do not often think of their historical past save as somet...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...