Larsson states, "Certainly, we are told of the joy she feels with the freedom she finds in her husband's death, but we are not specifically told that she is skeptical of marriage in general.... For example, in the story she says the following words to herself under the breath, "Free, free, free!... Back then woman were mostly inside the house in other words they were just house wives. ... Mallard could see, "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were al aquiver with the new spring life.... The birds for her resembled how free they were and...

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a middle-aged black women named Janie Crawford who lives in Eatonville, Florida. ... Zora Hurston gives us a great description of being a women and how we are portrayed to be in the world and also being a black women too. ... She wants to run away but she knows there was no were else for her to go. ... After the death of Joe Janie fell free from him and everything that he made her feel less of a women. ... Janie thinks about Tea Cake all the times because he makes her happy, the happiest than she has ever been before. ...

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America is a free country, where "all men are created equal", people do not have equality. ... Why does this happen in the land of the free, this place we call home, this America? ... The American dream denotes an economy in which the parents can work to get ahead in life so that their children have the advantages that were not laid before them by their parents. ... During the time that this show was made, women were expected to be the "trophy wives" who supported and were subservient to their men. ... Women were expected to care for and love their husbands and take care of his needs befor...

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They were also supposed to be passive responders to men's decisions, actions, and needs. ... Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about the woman's place in society were Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. In looking at "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman, we will consider the tone and narrative structures in each story. ... I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper" (541). ... Connected to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women; the only means...

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Wright was much happier before she was married to her husband and was forced to give up things that she loved to live a more domestic life. ... YOUNG WOMAN: To be free. JUDGE: To be free? ... They were not happy with their lives and wanted a way out. ... Wright and the young woman murdered their husbands not out of hate for them, but hate for the way they were forced to be because they were with them. ...

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Mallard's overwhelming response of "free, free, free!" ... Body and soul free!" ... The "trees were all a quiver with the new spring life" and "there were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds." ... Mallard is "free" that we find out that her name is Louise. ... Mallard does in fact finally escape the restrictions of her old life, not merely upon the hour before Brently Mallard's arrival but in the end for eternity....

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In Chapin's story, her protagonist even goes as far to say "Free! Body and soul free!... We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing" (Ronson 223). ... Minnie Foster liked to sing before she was married. ...

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– I have as much soul as you, – and... at God's feet, equal, - as we are!" ... She refuses to behave in accordance with existing social paradigms of blind obedience and instead of her own free-will. ... Since the very beginning she refuses to kneel before the ever-present atmosphere of masculine oppression. Throughout the novel, Jane's search for true love and friendship often crossed paths with men who were just the opposite. ... This struggle is especially prevalent even before Jane realizes that she has feelings for Rochester. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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We can see that the extent of Louise's entire world was her house. ... For instance, we are told that Louise was looking out the window at the "tops of the trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life" (Chopin 635). ... When Louise realizes the freedom that is before her, her "pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body" (636). ... By having Louise realize her bright future as a single woman who was free from the chains of marriage, the sight of her husband was enough to kill her. ... Again, Chopin reinforces the idea tha...

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Acts of free will and liberation were taken as a violation against God and His word. ... Women were again being taught that silence is golden. ... Due to Europeans thoughts during the colonization of America, many of the early politicians did not think twice before ratifying the 14th Amendment in Congress in 1868. ... We no longer look down on those women that wish to learn. In fact, we do the complete opposite and respect them for having the drive and the determination to become a lawyer, a doctor, a politician. ...

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Similarly and agreeably, in Katha Pollitt's essay, she claims that "instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers." ... Looking at the way we raise kids, we can determine how incomplete the feminist revolution really is. ... Before males took the role of being dominating because of gene...

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Truth overcame things that were unheard of in her time. ... One of the things we had to do as a requirement in this paper was to make headed claims for each section of the paper. ... After being freed, Truth got word that her son Peter was illegally sold across states. ... During the time of abolition women of New York were fighting for equal rights. ... Her fear that abolitionism would falter before achieving equality for women proved propriety. ...

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To demonstrate this, I would like to cite two quotations from the book: "Your mother and I, when we were children we had never control over anything. ... Her ten fingers had been named for even before she was born." ... If we ask or try to find a reason Haitian women commit and follow the tradition maybe we can get an answer from a quote in the novel: " "I did it," she said "because my mother had done it to me. ... Here we see how the practice of testing goes from Ife to Martine and then to Sophie. ... Sophie has to "double" during the test and even with her husband to free her mind and bo...

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Up until more recent times women were not encouraged to understand their own sexuality. ... Michael sees his actions as though it were as harmless as viewing ornaments in a Christmas shop, he may want them but that doesn't mean he is buying them. ... From the moment they meet, Jim experiences things he hasn't experienced before. ... On a road trip to free Thanksgiving turkeys Jim quickly realizes that Alena's passion is not only for him. ... As Alena leaves for her next adventure and nonchalantly frees Jim, he slowly comes to see how his expectations of love had gone sour an...

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The man goes free.... Hester says she is a puritan, but we know her character is flawed and ironic. ... Through the play we can also see that Mrs. ... Arbuthnot said that she knew, "nothing about life," before leaving Lord Illingworth. ... It was not even conceivable at the time for women, that this was a problem, since they were so used to being an inferior being. ...

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She was horrified when I slapped her back, but I said that so long as she felt free to slap me, I would feel free to return the favor. ... To counter the words of Eva Luna, divorce without half of what we own makes us men melancholy. ... Bettie Beets of Payne Springs, Texas had to kill her fifth husband before authorities apprehended her. ... Guess what, men realized that these women were absolutely right! ... Once again, the context should be considered before blaming men for women being such a minority. ...

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These women were jobless, surviving off the paychecks of their egotistical significant others, living with the sole purpose to cater to their mates and offspring. ... Will she embrace the womanhood so many before her have or will she fight to preserve her own dignity no matter how rough the journey may be? ... Plath uses the imagery of certain phrases such as the words "electrocuted"" and "burned"" to help generate the picture of death; regardless, it's only later that we see the effect of Greenwoods fascination with heat. ... This of course, as referenced before, ties into the idea of Es...

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Ten years before the feminist movement really embraced women, the women in Mona Lisa Smile were already challenge the role of man and women's liberation and making choices on their own. ... Then we have Katherine Watson an art history teacher forcing them to think on their own. ... In 1953, women wanted what they had before the war. ... Women are more in control now than ever before. ... They made choices that helped them become free, liberated, and uncontrolled. ...

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Racism and Sexism are a major issue today as it was before. ... She likes how the pants feel and how they were comfortable. She didn't care if they were for men or not. ... Celie went through a struggle to turn into an independent, free women. ... Do we know how to appreciate life or are we just letting life pass us by? ...

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Now this may sound somewhat contradictory to what was stated before but women censorship and how it is wrong. ... Women are deprived of their rights to be free even if that means to be topless. A current protest against women censorship is known as the Free The Nipple movement. ... We teach women "how not to get raped" when in reality shouldn't we be teaching men not to rape? ... This is why women are fighting, to prove that we are no less because we are women and we deserve to be treated as an equal especially if women are the ones who make up the majority. ...

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In Act I, scene 3, we again see the feminine presence through the witches. ... Just like a woman would do, she begins to put her own interests before the well-being of her husband. ... Going back to the story of Adam and Eve, we see such an example... "... his liberty of free choice is determined more and more by evil inclination and that he can not choose the better course..." ... His actions were controlled by his wife, and this led to their downfall. ...

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