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and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

yourself some wonderful fellow, thats a sure deal, too. Just make sure hes got class, like my man" (p. 30). Adulthood This statem...

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

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

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

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...

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

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

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

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...

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, ...

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

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

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

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

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

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

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

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...