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Local Color in Three American Literary Works

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,...

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...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' Analysis and Criticism

In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

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

Stories of the Nineteenth Century That Feature 'Unruly' Women

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

Jack Kerouac

A 6 page overview of the life of this famous writer. Kerouac's early life experiences were a tremendous impact on his later writi...

Themes of the Letters Abigail Adams Wrote to Her Husband John

a view of the conflicts that drove men to see out separation from British rule, that influenced the creation of the American Const...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and Protagonist Edna Pontellier

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...

Simplicity Masking Complexity in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...

Importance of the Unknown Letter Writer in 'Her Letters' by Kate Chopin

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

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and the Character of Calixta

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

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

Kate Chopin and Marriage Aspects

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

Composer Frederic Chopin's Life and Music

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

Regional Role in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

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...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

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

3 Essays on Romantic Composers

up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...

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...

A Letter Evaluating the Work of Beethoven

the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence (Machlis, 1970, p....

Chopin’s Tragic “Hour”

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

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

Setting in The Story of an Hour

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...

Chopin and O’Connor

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

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

Maria W. Stewart, Early Abolitionist

as well as several of Stewarts essays. Stewarts connection with Garrison began when she brought him a religious-political treatise...

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 ...