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Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...
in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...
In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...
which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...
amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....
an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
this situation held certain peril for these men. Second, the omniscient view has allowed Crane to describe, in a birds eye...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...
his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...
ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...