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

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

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

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author portrays the lacking maternal instincts of protagonist Edna Pontelli...

In four pages this paper discusses the soul's immortality as represented in Socrates' arguments that are featured in Meno by Plato...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

publicly punished for it, while no one ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is carefu...

off water. There is a visceral nature to her work; one that looks you right in the face, and asks "whatta you gonna do now tough ...

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

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

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. ...

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,...

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

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

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

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

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

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...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

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...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

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...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...