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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...

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

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...

This research paper discusses the terrorism instigated by Muharem Kurbegovich, the so called "Alphabet Bomber," in 1976. Nine page...

The human element can bring two seemingly mutually exclusive tales and ideas together. This essay uses Maus, A Survivor's Tale by ...

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...