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Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

A Marxist Perspective on The Tempest

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

'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 ...

Michael Cunningham's The Hours

housebound in Los Angeles in 1949. Sally has learned that she is pregnant again, and gives herself the time to read Virginia Wool...

The Film 'Titanic' from a Formalist Perspective

heroes (or heroines) epic journey in self-discovery and personal awareness and understanding of the world in which he or she exist...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Kate Chopin: Exploring Culture and Identity

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Views of Women, Chopin, Morrison, Tremblay

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

The Life and Works of Kate Chopin

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

Women's Voices: Kate Chopin and Luisa Valenzuela

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Power Struggles

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

Women's Self Determination in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

but he cant precisely put his finger on the problem either. She is lovely and gracious; she certainly doesnt abuse the children or...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Edna Characterization in The Awakening by Kate Chopin III

In two pages this paper discusses the character's true self understanding and how it evolves throughout the course of the novella ...

Freedom and Escapism in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In four pages The Awakening by Kate Chopin is analyzed in terms of the roles of freedom and escapism. Four sources are cited in t...

Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans' Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Edna Pontellier's Importance to The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

Literature and Freedom Themes

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

At Fault by Kate Chopin

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...