Ruskin's tone of voice changes from didactic to moralistic, in paragraphs 15 and 16 where he takes on a more poetic mode, " the harebells should bloom, not stoop,-, he refers to flowers in the garden rather than her husband and sons, (para 15). He tells us that with the woman's protection and her constant love of all that she cherishes around her in the garden, her home, she can make everything " bloom" and repel the bad things in life. Ruskin explains that the woman could use her power to make all in her garden right, to flower and blossom with a quote from the Song of Solomon, ...

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This botanical garden filled with various flowers translates into a colorful social world in which we must discern what the author reveals about each flower or female personality. ... Rossetti also momentarily touches on the universal themes of marrying for love and marrying for money. ... Lewis Carroll uses flowers in a similar way in Through the Looking-Glass as the flowers in the garden of live flowers treat Alice rudely instead of with docility. ...

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When Eve was deceived by the serpent in the Garden of Eden and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and convinced Adam to do the same, God was very displeased and banished both from the garden. ... Jesus had a love and understanding for the equality of women that was far from common practice during the time and was often tested by others. ...

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Then she went out into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. ... Louisa uses china everyday, and she is an excellent gardener. She "clearly loved to sew a linen seam, not always for use, but for the simple, mild pleasure which she took in it", and has "almost the enthusiasm of an artist over the mere order and cleanliness of her solitary home" (658). ...

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If one should consider Eve in the garden of paradise, she not only struggled with God, she has continued to struggle her fight with the man she was created for, Adam. Not only is this woman condemned for eating the fruit of the sacred tree, but she is also banished from the perfect garden and forced to reckon with the man who was banished along side of her. As Eve is the first woman to struggle with the forces of God and with manipulative men, she sets the stage for centuries of ill-fated women who must also face the challenging forces of the men they love and the God they worship. ...

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Rather than searching for the love of a husband to support her, Behn took to pen and paper in an attempt to provide her own living. ... The start of Aphra Behn's writing career coincided with the opening of the London theatres, where she began to write for Sir William Davenant's Duke of York's company at Dorset Garden. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Yet in the end, the prostitute does not find love and Florinda and Hellena both a...

• Word Count: 2238
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