It is also important to note that when Brently returns home, he opens the "front door with a latchkey," which indicates that Louise was literally locked inside her own house. ... She could also hear the "notes of a distant song which someone was singing" as well as smell the "delicious breath of rain" in the air (635). ... It is interesting to note that Louise is not only experiencing a physical freedom, but a mental one as well. ... 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 ...

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Tamed Shrews and Twelfth Nights: The Role of Women In Shakespeare Shrews and Twelfth Nights: The Role of Women In Shakespeare It is curious to note the role of women in Shakespearean literature. ... For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. ... Viola disguises herself as a man for most of the play in order to preserve her state of free will. ... It is important to note though, that they freely resume these roles, and that they do so out of their own sens...

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Critical readings of Chopin's works often note the tension between female characters and the society that surrounds them. ... Which tells us that she is no longer trapped in a room but can be free is she chooses. ... She has just been set free. She has been released, or in her words "Free, free, free- (page 315 ). ... Mallard feel free, free from oppression, and free from the burden of society's expectations. ...

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Living as a slave and always knowing there was something better to do, Truth could not wait to be free (History). ... After looking through and carefully organizing my notes, I was able to decide on my claims. ... After taking the notes from my index cards and imputing them into my writing, all I had to do was reread it to myself, fix any noticeable mistakes and turn it in. ... After being freed, Truth got word that her son Peter was illegally sold across states. ... By shedding her slave name Truth felt she was truly free to travel about and fight for her rights, including the rights to her ...

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It is important to note that, the narrator, being the one for whom the vacation is taken, is not allowed to do what she wants. ... During the day, when she is temporarily freed form John's control, she says the woman is "subdued, quiet. ... She is the result of a distorted mind trying to free her from the male oppression. ... However, as soon as her mind has freed itself, she had freed herself both from her husband and from her own identity. ... She strives for independence, and she wants to break free from the bondages of that oppression, but due to the nature of her situation she only g...

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When she puts the snacks down on the counter, Sammy sees that her hands are free. While he is pondering where the cash is going to originate from, she continues to force the dollar bank notes "out of the empty at the focal point of her nubbled pink top" (Updike 1027). ... It is critical to note that Updike even kept up some boyish qualities in Sammy after his stand. ...

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Once the narrator determines that the image is in fact a woman struggling to become free, she somehow aligns herself with the woman. ... The narrator wants the women to be free of the paper just as bad as she wants to be looked at as a sane person as well as being allowed to read and write again without being scolded by her mentally and vocally abusive, overpowering husband. ... As a female in the twentieth century, reading this story, I had this overwhelming desire to free this narrator from her husband and the rest of the males in her life. ... Many of her attempts were turned down wi...

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The character must return to the true self and break free from the boundaries established by society. ... Edna is also free from the burdens of all labor, as she has servants to carry out any necessary tasks. She is free to bask in the glory and luxury of being a respectable upper class woman. ... He is young and free and accepts Edna's independence and respects her free will. ... Edna notes that it felt good to wake up in a bed that had a "sweet country odor of laurel."" ...

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Oscar Wilde wrote, "A Woman of No Importance," because of the general ignorance about the Married Women's Property Rights Act, promulgated in 1882, by Queen Victoria. This play was not a big success, surely not for it being of an inferior quality, but more for depicting gender inequalities in the Vi...

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She became what society expected of her, a delicate, childish, "care free" housewife. ... Back in school you were such a free spender," (Ibsen 1573). ... According to Ibsen's "Notes for a Modern Tragedy," a woman cannot be herself in modern society. ... If women were trying to break free of their chains, why couldn't men do the same? ...

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To be a lady free of marriage, free of children, and free of stereotypes in the 50's wasn't to be a woman at all. ... There are many places throughout the novel that Esther makes note of being a mother. ...

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Eleanor Jane is Miz Millie's daughter, who loves Sofia like a mother and will not stay away from her even after she is free from her mother"s service. ... During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each other. ... Celie went through a struggle to turn into an independent, free women. ...

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The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not ...

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However, it is important to note that she is one of the characters who followed gender roles almost perfectly as an adult. ... Lucy's behavior proves that even though she had a desire, though a small one, to break free of the mold, society pushed her back into a pattern of "appropriate" behavior as she matured. ...

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The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds the mansion to be "a haunted house" and still she thought it had s...

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In order to save her husband's life, Nora forges her father's name on a promissory note. ... When Nora closes behind her the door of her doll's house, she opens wide the gate of life for woman, and proclaims the revolutionary message that only perfect freedom and communion make a true bond between man and woman, meeting in the open without lies, shame, and free from bondage of duty. ...

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In addition, she begins doing whatever she wants whenever she wants with whomever she wants; including the free spirit Mademoiselle Reisz, who reads her letters she has received from Robert and plays the piano for her. ... After returning to her "pigeon house- Edna finds a note in place of Robert, he has left her and will not be returning because he loves her so much. ...

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It is important to note that Macbeth is primarily a brave, courageous, and loyal man. ... "... his liberty of free choice is determined more and more by evil inclination and that he can not choose the better course..." ...

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Abigail Adams was a unique woman because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read, write, and enjoyed reading especially poems. She did all of this at home. She was ahead of her time with many of her ideas. She opposed slavery and believed in equal education for boy...

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Note the word "control-. ... Nadel (1952) notes that if there is a case of witchcraft where there is a death or something unimaginable, it is said, "a few evil individuals among the men (whom no one can name) have betrayed their own sex and become the helpers of a woman witch [and] men are never blamed or accused of witchcraft- (p.19). ... As well, when a woman chooses this career, she is usually reluctant to have children, and if she does, she is often found to be "leaving their children once they are four or five years old; more importantly, women also refuse to have children, practici...

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In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. However, Claude's personal struggles do not reside strictly within the confines of his household. His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. At times, Cather portrays Claude as man who is crippled in his sexuality and is this act is demonstrated with the way he handles himself with women. ...

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