King Arthur gives the task of sentencing the nefarious knight to his wife, who proposes that his life will be spared if he can find the answer to the question: "What thing is it that wommen most desiren?" ... When he leaves the decision up to her, thus giving her authority over him, the hag is magically metamorphosed into a beautiful, young woman. ... The mistake lies in her analogy of the loaves of bread in which she claims that it was Mark who said Jesus refreshed many men with barley bread; it was actually John who said this(Justman 125). ...

• Word Count: 1002
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The kitchen is described as being in disorder with "dirty pans under the sink," a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, and a dishtowel left on the table (Glaspell 200). This gives the impression that no attention has been paid to cleaning up, either recently or usually. ...

• Word Count: 1048
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the second part of the story, the mother gives some advice how to behave in social contests, and how to love someone and how to be loved by someone. ... In the very end of the story mother would say, "always squeeze bread to make sure it is fresh." ... Probably, her mother did not give her any advice when she was a child. ... Giving advices and parents" point of view to your children are a great thing when raising them but in this story, the mother is overdoing it. ...

• Word Count: 678
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Edna's character was slowly awakened to being pulled in four archetypical directions: these archetypes include the marriage of the work-orientated and "bread-winning" husband and the ideal mother, the outcast "quasi-intellectual" feminist, the high-class society, and the true love. ... The blending of the typical male, bread-winning husband who is consumed with business with an atypical wife who rejects the role of the perfect mother who stays at home caused an inevitable breakdown of the Pontellier's relationship. ... Seeing her being pulled in two quite different directions by th...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It is believed that the ancestors use him to communicate to the family and give instruction. ... After marriage ceremony was over being with my husband, I was put under great pressure to give birth to a son. ... Due to these privileges, I, by giving birth to a son makes myself appreciated more than when I give birth to a daughter. As a result, my husband has always put me under pressuring to give birth to a large number of children since I have more daughters than sons. ... The job does not pay quite well and hence forcing me to depend mostly on my husband as the bread-winner for my family. ...

• Word Count: 1804
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Rose-Anna would give her children all of the food and only leave a bread crust for herself, and Christine would forfeit any chance of having her own family by taking care of her brothers when they were in need. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

MA. KATHRINA TERESA T. ALCALDE AUGUST 7, 2003 ENG2 - W THE PRICE OF BEING A WOMAN Clock ticks. Time passes. Different generations of life begin. And yet a "contagious disease" had not been treated. From the earliest tradition of the anc...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." It is often that things deemed inessential and trivial become overlooked, getting tossed aside. "Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School