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

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...

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

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

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

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

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

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...

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

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

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...

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

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...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

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

In five pages this paper examines how 19th century English greed is portrayed in Joan Aiken's novel, The Five Minute Marriage. Th...

In five pages this paper examines 'jumping the broom' and other rituals that were part of the 19th century American slave marriage...

A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...

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

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

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

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

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

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

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

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

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