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it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

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...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

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

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

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

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

student researching "Macbeth" should understand that there is virtually no relationships in the play in which people or a group of...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

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

This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...