YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Kate Chopin and James Joyce
Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...
than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...
accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...
Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
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...
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...
but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...
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...
In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...
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...
novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...
were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...
As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
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...
(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...
we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...
praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...