She goes on to start work on her book, while he resumes reading proofs in the printing room. Virginia moves into her study and notes that it is in here that she feels safe. ... Throughout the book one can see that Virginia is an unhappy person. ... Her feelings of inadequacy are voiced throughout the book. ... She notes that "because she is pregnant, she is allowed these lapses." ...
In Summa Theologica, Aquinas expands Paul's argument for female inferiority even farther: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition" (Source Book 211). ... WB's awakening occurs as Jankyn reads to her from his "book of evil wives". Why would Jankyn read from this book? ... He is behaving like a medieval cleric but like an inexperienced medieval husb...
Paul goes through a series of very realistic romances over the course of the book. ... The Oedipus complex is seen through out the book, Sons and Lovers. ... If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. ... The Oedipus complex runs rampant in this book, read a few chapters closely and one will see. Note that he cannot get along with Miriam, because mommy does not approve, and that Mrs. ...
His theory of facts is important because later on in the book he will learn that what he thought was good for his children will be bad for them in the end. ... Louisa receives a note from Stone Lodge, the name of her parent's house, saying that her mother is almost dead and wants to see her one last time. ...
Calude's two main goals in this book are his quest for achievement and his quest for sexual fulfillment. ... Claude "wished he could do something to help that boy; help him get away from the doctor who was writing a book about him, and the girl who wanted to make the most of himself; get away and be lost all together in what he had been lucky enough to find" (Cather 1201). ...
James Joyce's "The Boarding House" In "The Boarding House," we meet Mrs. Mooney, a working-class woman who rents rooms in her house to young male lodgers. Running a boarding house is a difficult life for a woman, but Mrs. Mooney has shown herself to be as resourceful in business as she was in e...
