A Garden of Discovery for Mrs. ... Givings' failed attempts to feel like the woman she is supposed to be are aggravated by her wishes to feel loved by her husband. ... In the absence of this connection with the doctor, she runs to Leo Irving and decides she is in love with him. ... Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ... It is there, in the garden, where Catherine finally experiences her full sexual awakening. ...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Although written quite differently, "In Search of Our Mothers" Gardens" by Alice Walker and "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto are quite similar in the messages that they convey about women and keeping culture alive that is passed down to their daughters. ... Children were also the product of women who were just looking for love, and got children out of the act of love (60). ... Walker also describes how her mother expressed her artistic self through her flower garden that she took so much pride in (63). ...

• Word Count: 712
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The protagonist in this story is Elisa, whose character is round, has a love for raising chrysanthemums. ... His behavior and actions supportive of his wife also show his love for her. ... Her only sense of achievement in life is from her husband and her garden. ... Everything that she does not have is put into her garden. She seems to enjoy her garden immensely, but was actually trapped in it. ...

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She attends a garden party where she meets a squire named Aurelius. Aurelius eventually tells Dorigen that he is deeply in love with her. ... Part of the tale also is set in a garden, which holds the garden parties at which the squires and the singers are invited to. ... Aurelius is, assumably, very emotional, as his love for Dorigen is so strong. ... The first theme is the freedom of love. ...

• Word Count: 766
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It would be unnatural if a father did not love his child, but what Culer Goodwill feels is only a pygmy love produced by the ether custom. ... Although her father does love Daisy, she feels alone. ... Daisy cannot help Aunt Clarentine in the garden. The garden is the one true thing that makes her happy. ... Love and family. ...

• Word Count: 1810
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

She believes that if a woman's main purpose to attract a husband, she should not conceal her feelings regardless of the fact if he loves her or not. ... He goes in depth about his furniture, patron's estate, garden and he even gives cost of every item while Charlotte seems placid. ... Collins is so fond of Catherine de Bourgh and her estate, he usually spends his time in the garden or the study room. ... Because of his pride, he could not love Elizabeth or even find her attractive. ... In the movie, the reason why Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth is not clear, but in the novel Darc...

• Word Count: 1036
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

I love being able to walk outside, take a deep breath and enjoy it every time. ... Down the hill, I have neighbors that have a garden. ... By the time I finish school and find a well paying job, I would love to own a home with the same friendly and beautiful environment as my home now....

• Word Count: 401
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

January becomes blind and May falls in love with Damyian. One day in the garden January regains his sight in time to catch May committing adultery with Damyian. ... Even though in this story May has the power, both of them are in a deceitful and love-less marriage. ...

• Word Count: 484
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Women were essential to the Puritan community: The Puritan woman was not only a wife, mother, and housekeeper; she also kept a vegetable garden, salted and smoked meats, preserved vegetables and dairy products, spun yarn, wove cloth, and made clothes. (Nash pg. 47) Puritans stressed that marriage should occur for the right reason: love. The man needed to love his wife and she needed to love him back in order for the marriage to work. ... Society was overall healthier with less disease, marriages consisted of people loving each other and staying together, and family life was genuine with...

• Word Count: 566
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Before the debate in the Garden State is resolved, the Supreme Court will probably have ruled on the two cases it agreed last month to take up. ... I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married.Well-intentioned people can disagree on the question of marriage for gay couples, and maintaining religious freedom is as important as pursuing civil marriage rights. ...

• Word Count: 1098
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since meeting Catherine, all Henry wants is sex, not love. Catherine is looking for love, not sex. ... I love you" (30). Henry doesn't think that he can fall in love. ... While talking in the garden, Henry states, "Let's drop the war" (26). ...

• Word Count: 588
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In saying that Denmark is an "unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank in nature possess it merely" Hamlet compares his home country, even the world, to a garden that has been infested by things dismal by nature. ... Hamlet illustrates the love he has for his deceased father, and then wonders the question "Must I remember?" ... 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. ...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

If her father is really a good one and love his daughters, he could get a maid for them and let his daughters feel easy about their lives. ... That's why I conclude that Belle's father don't really love them since there mother was gone, he might wanted to marry again that's why he's trying to put away his daughter. ... The castle is described as a dark, lonely, and somehow creepy, but having a garden full of roses opposed the aura of the castle. ... The rose symbolizes love and happiness but in the story it becomes the root of the problem. ... Belle loves to read, she...

• Word Count: 819
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Another change that occurred in Jane's life happened when Rochester proposed to her out in the garden and the tree suddenly got struck by lightning. Jane cannot understand her love for Rochester which makes her very confused. ... She knew deep down that she loves him, but she just needed some kind of help or encouragement. ... She finally realizes that her and Rochester were always meant for each other and that she really and truly loved him. Now that Jane found her true love and she felt equal to him, she could finally live in peace and enjoy her life. ...

• Word Count: 814
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• Grade Level: High School

Paul's behavior is strange because even though the children knew that she could not love them, he still sought her approval rather than that of his father's which is what most little boys have a tendency to do. But the portrait that the mother paints for Paul of his father is one of extreme bitterness and misfortune, it appears as though she has completely forgotten that she once "married for love" (118). The only real communication that takes place is between Paul and the gardener, Bassett, and between Paul and his uncle, who seems to serve as more of a father figure to him than...

• Word Count: 812
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Though she returns his love, Gwendolen appears more self-centered and flighty. ... In the garden at Jack's country house, Miss Prism and Cecily discuss about Jack's seriousness; Miss Prism believes it is due to his anxiety over his brother. ... Chasuble enters the garden. ... Jack enters the garden, dressed in black. ... Cecily enters the garden. ...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Lucie County Welfare Home, Hurston died of "hypertensive heart disease" and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce. ... Janie is only sixteen, yet she has to be married off to someone who can support her, and not someone she loves. ... Nanny thinks that love would come after marriage, and Janie has no real say in the matter. ...

• Word Count: 843
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The plaster priest, first seen in Tostes in Emma's garden, is symbolic of the pride of their marriage and later the deterioration of their religion. As she examines the garden for the first time she notices the plaster priest posed reading the bible. ... Flaubert shows that from the day he made them meet until death does them part they are doomed and will not succeed in love or happiness. ...

• Word Count: 1022
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the section of the novel that parallels a scene in the Garden of Eden, Antonia plays the helpless damsel in distress. ... She is a cook, a gardener, a mother, and a wife. ... She loved the life of farming, returning to the symbolic "Mother Earth". ...

• Word Count: 2199
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Gregory writes that the probability of marrying on the basis of love is very slim (Gregory, 407). ... Charlotte does not love Mr. Collins, but she does not anticipate ever marrying someone she loves, this would not be practical. ... Austen uses this to emphasis the societal importance of marriage over love. ... Collins to attend to Lady De Bourgh's every whim and produce an abundant garden. ...

• Word Count: 1216
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The love they shared for one another was undeniable even back then. Jay does whatever he can to make the love of his life in good spirits. ... There's a garden and pool to accommodate both of them. ... Even though they came from different worlds, so to say, they rose to occasion and beat the stereotypes and fell in love. ... Inside the apartment there are beautiful pictures of Myrtle up on the walls to to show Toms love for photography and Myrtle is his muse. ...

• Word Count: 1076
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

You know how some people say that they never realized how much they loved their childhood until after they grew up? ... There was lots of love, lots of space and lots to do. From gardening to cutting hay, from working the horses to doing household chores, the world "bored- never found its way into her vocabulary "she loved it all and none of it seemed like work to her. ... She realized she was missing the love of a man in her life. ... So they began looking for a place outside of the city "a place complete with animals running all around and a garden full of vegetables just wait...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Likewise, Martha Smith endured strenuous work from raising, and feeding farm animals, taking care of eight children, milking cows, harvesting a garden and canning all of the goods, to making the clothing for herself, husband, and children, carpets, coats, and doing the laundry. ... He says "You learn to love a job that is not like sacking groceries, or working in a factory or painting houses, because everybody watches you when you come down the street. ...

• Word Count: 813
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Although Reva knew of her father's search for a proper husband, she couldn't help but fall in love with a young, strong, dark skinned farmer. ... He too was of the vaishya class and worked a plot of land adjacent to the garden Reva worked in (Altekar 67). ... Never feeling wanted like this before, Reva was overcome by love for her new husband and his family. ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

.), he conceived the plan for Ann and Steven to fall in love. ... Ann falling in love with Steven is not an accident, but instead, a part of John's plan. ... Such a storm to face, I should feel flattered), fell in love with him. ... John and Ann are kind of like Adam and Eve, the farm they live on is kind of like the garden, and Anne's temptation with Stephen is kin of like Eve's temptation to eat the apple. ... Ann just wants to feel loved by John but because he doesn't make her feel loved. ...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School