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no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

In two pages this essay analyzes an individual's social role and the gender stratification theories of author Charlotte Perkins Gi...

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

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...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...