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Comparison of Protagonists in Joyce Carol Oates' and Anton Chekhov's The Lady with the Pet Dog

experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...

James Joyce's 'Eveline' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Protagonist Analysis of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

Iin five pages this paper examines Edna before and after marriage, considers her 'awakening' and conflict and also incorporates fe...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Escaping into Nature Through Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

Ideas of a 'Catch-22' in the Works of Kate Chopin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Joseph Heller

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Insanity in Comparative Literature

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

Suicide in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

Themes in The Awakening

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

Chopin’s Edna and Ibsen’s Nora

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Chopin's Awakening and Smart's By Grand Central Station

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

Chopin’s Awakening

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

An Analysis of the 'Fear Cripples the Soul, So You Just Have to Fight It' Aphorism

occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He ...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Joyce Carol Oates

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

In 3 pages the life and boxing analogy developed by Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing is analyzed. There are 2 sources cited in the ...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Literature, Female Characters, and the Theme of Phenomenal Women

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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna Pontellier

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Identity of the Protagonist

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Idealism

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...