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The Awakening
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... attend her sister’s funeral even though, according to her father, she should go out of “womanly consideration”. And as most wives unconditionally obeyed their husbands, Edna often refused her husband’s wishes from simple matters of merely meeting him downtown to more complex issues such as her Tuesdays at home.
Through her struggles, Edna came to understand her means to happiness. She realized that an abundance of material things as were in her husbands home did not please her and in fact added to her continually deepening depression so she moved to the more cozy ‘pigeon-house”. Edna also discovered t ...
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The Awakening: Casting Shadows
Number of Words: 869 / Number of Pages: 4
... never an alternative.
Women's lives were austere and self enrichment or self gratification were often
times cast aside relative to the more mundane tasks of daily life. Most women
accepted this but Edna did not. She figured that life was more than constantly
doing for someone else. She wanted time for herself in order to figure out who
she was. Some may see this as selfish but everyone is entitled to “me” time and
space. Although I admit she did not go about it in the best way at times; Edna
still was in going in the right direction.
Edna's marriage to Leonce Pontellier was to spite her father ...
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Eveline By James Joyce
Number of Words: 446 / Number of Pages: 2
... build up dust time after time no matter what environment its in resembles her. Eveline is constantly being involved in problems and stress time after time. So who’s to say that if she changes her environment that other problems wont build up again like the dust.
A promise is supposed to be something that is sacred. It’s something that is not ever to broken and this is what Eveline’s mother asked out of her. “ Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could” (6). This promise is not just an ordinary prom ...
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The Effect Of Major Symbolic Elements In The Yellow Wallpaper
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... does not want to see all the other women who have to do the same because she realizes they are a reflection of herself. She expresses how women have to move without being seen in society. The window does not represent a gateway for her. She can not enter what she can see outside of the window, literally, because John will not let her, (there are bars holding her in), but also because that world will not belong to her, she will be oppressed like all other women. She will be controlled, and be forced to suffocate her self-expression. The only prospect of possibilities that this window shows are al ...
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Of Mice And Men: Why I Shot Lennie
Number of Words: 404 / Number of Pages: 2
... leading up to Lennie's death I kind
of think that it's my fault that he's dead. Not just because I'm the one
that killed him but because I should have watched him more closely. I
should not have left him in the barn with Curley's wife. I think that they
started talking and somehow Curley's wife had him touch her hair. As you
know Lennie likes soft things so he kept touching it. She started to panic
when he wouldn't let go so she struggled and screamed. Lennie got scared
and grabbed her neck and somehow snapped it. The poor fellow. He didn't
know any better.
My farm seems very empty without m ...
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Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... the stifling heat” (pg 114) the day he commits the crime. In the former place he leaves money on the windowsill, while in the latter he takes money away. In both cases, however, the rooms are hot, and a feeling of an uncomfortable and unfriendly place is drawn in the reader's mind. Neither Raskolnikov's narrow room, Sonya's cheap apartment or Profiry's office, where the latter hints at the airlessness of the room and asks whether he shall “open a window” (pg. 404), seem very inviting either. However, these are the places where Raskolnikov spends most of his time talking to people. Later though, he hims ...
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Running A Thousand Miles From Freedom: The Victimization Of Women In Slavery
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... in a cast, so that they could use the alibi that the master (Ellen) was traveling to Philadelphia for medical reasons. They traveled through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland before they reached Philadelphia on Christmas day. At one point while traveling, Ellen was seated next to a friend of her owner, who knew her from childhood. To avoid him, she looked out of the window and played deaf (Craft 43).
Even though Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom highlights the victimization of females in slavery, it is told from a male’s prospective. It also only touches the surfa ...
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A Review: The Day Of The Jackal
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... with the many characters as they each take part
in the many small ventures that give rise to the climax. In a scene where the
Jackal is purchasing a fake identification card, the reader can tell that the
man making the card is an expert. Not because it was mentioned, but because the
man has such a large amount of information about I.D. cards to offer. This same
writing talent that displays the characters with subtle suggestion instead of
giving specific details is also shown when the Jackal goes to purchase his
sniper rifle. It is not mentioned earlier, but the way the armorer talks about
the mechani ...
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Summary Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... of deformity, although I couldn't
specify the point"(Stevenson,8-9). There is no pinpoint of what Endfield
saw that was so disturbing but it was something about him that did not seem
to be right.
When Mr. Utterson himself came across meeting Mr. Hyde in person,
he understood what his friend had told him. At first Hyde would not let
Utterson see his face, but when he saw it he got a sense beyond words. "He
must be deformed Somewhere; he gives strong feeling of deformity, although
I couldn't specify the point"(Stevenson,18). Utterson was truly shocked at
this man's appearance. "God bless me, the man ...
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