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later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

In six pages this paper discusses the theme of women's subjugation and how it impacts upon the relationships portrayed in The Awak...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

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...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

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

to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...

and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

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

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...