YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Themes and Symbolism in The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Essays 271 - 300
In five pages this paper discusses the author's life and writings in a comparison with the short story regarding Alcee and Calixta...
Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...
shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...
with love and tenderness, a place where man and woman awaken each other to share the beauty and brutality of life together in mutu...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...
tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...
storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her" (Chopin p. NA). She retires ...
- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...
world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...
In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...
In four pages this paper examines the symbolism in terms of how a couple's aging love is represented in the sonnet....
conscious mind. * _ The kinds of wishes that are fulfilled in dreams and why they are forbidden in consciousness. * _ Dreams and d...
In five pages the importance and symbolism of the shield of Achilles is considered in this examination of Homer's epic....
that he will do anything to avenge his death and bring the now King Claudius to justice. He understands that it will not be easy ...
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...
In three pages this novel first published in 1937 is analyzed regarding the author's use of symbolism....
In five pages this essay examines the Young Captain and Leggatt's relationship in The Secret Sharer and the growth symbolism that ...
In seven pages this paper discusses the use of symbolism in this text....
to find fulfillment and happiness in their marriage, even if they marry the wrong man, hes abusive, a drunk, or a womanizer. This ...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...
home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....