"The Plantation Mistress" By Catherine Clinton The Plantation Mistress focuses on the elite women living on plantations with twenty or more slaves in the seven seaboard states of the plantation South during the period between 1780 and 1835. ... Clinton believed that southern women occupied an undesirable position with respect to women of the North. ... They were also burdened with more complex tasks of household management and lived in greater isolation; thus reducing the female companionship of emotional support and social gatherings. ... Even though I have not seen Gone With The Wind ...

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However, what Janie did not foresee is that Joe took her away from that life she hated with Logan Killicks and led her into that same life with him. ... As long as Janie is with Joe, she can never live the life she had once hoped for. ... Gone with Joe is everything he represented. ... The funeral is the beginning of a great change in Janie where, with Joe gone, "she would have the rest of her life to do as she pleased." ... The storm's winds become "louder and higher and lower and wider," and it totally engulfs the house. ...

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During her life with Joe, Janie struggles to keep her fighting spirit alive and battles to keep her individuality. ... For a while she thought it was gone from her soul...She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels...going about tending the store and prostrating [herself] before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes (72-73). ... She also survives a hurricane with Tea Cake where he rescues her from a rabid dog and gets bitten himself. ... Janie's e...

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Her works were primarily symbolic and filled with superb visual images. ... It concerns with the problem of oppression regarding political, sexual, emotional, spiritual and intellectual issues. ... And every time he would take his meal with them, he would not take a look at Minnie. ... This was the main reason why James did not gave any attention and interest with Minnie during meals with Marshes. ... She looked at life, played the game, had gone with the flow of the wind, and tried to conceal the pain she was suffering. ...

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The first section deals with reviewing two major theories, "The Stockholm Syndrome" and "The Battered Womans Syndrome". ... LEARNED HELPLESSNESS/ BATTERED WOMENS SYNDROME  Attempts to explain why women stay with violent partners and why they become victims of brutality. ... Stanko (1985) cited in (McWilliams & McKiernan, 1993:14)  Impact of popular culture- i.e films like "Gone with the Wind"- belief that men cannot live without women, need to be constantly with them etc. ... (Hague & Marlow, 1998:50)  Research in the USA showed women choose to stay with viole...

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Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. ... Men cannot dictate what we do with it. i.e wear tudung, cover up, etc. ... We don't know yet (-; Also in this paragraph Harry was more concerned with work unlike his two colleagues, Tom and Stanley. ... She was on her back, fully visible, glistening with oil". ... He has made up in his mind that the so called relationship he had with her in his mind was romantic. ...

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• Grade Level: High School