SEARCH RESULTS

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...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

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

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...

In four pages On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson are ...

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

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

In four pages this essay discusses Kate Chopin's novella in terms of how the protagonist develops throughout. There are 2 other s...

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

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

delicious mysteries that await one who dares to take a road less traveled. The devil may care attitude that ultimately directs th...

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

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

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

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

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

fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

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

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

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

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

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...