The protagonist, Miss Brill, leads a lifeless existence and seeks a way of escaping her lonely, everyday life. ... The one place she used to escape loneliness had now been taken away from her. Overall, Miss Brill was a very depressed old woman, who was simply seeking a way to escape her lonely, isolated life. ... She could leave her real life behind for that one special day every week and escape to a place where she felt she fit in and was needed. ... (p. ) Now, unhappy and all alone, Miss Brill realizes she must seek another way to escape loneliness....

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She always wanted to escape and finally built up her courage to actually try. ... Before helping others escape, Harriet wanted her husband to escape with her but he would not. ... Her escape caused separation from her parents and her brothers and sisters. ... She had many adventures helping other slaves escape. ... Her own personal escape years earlier was uneventful but brilliant. ...

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One reason why I believe that is because as I was reading the book I noticed that he wanted to escape but every time he escaped, his first thought was to go back after his family. ... Henrys attempts to escape with his wife and child failed because the first time he escaped, he was in Cincinnati and he was betrayed by two men who lied and said they wanted to help him. ... After Bibb was captured, he was to be sold further south but before he could be sold away he escaped from his captors before they had a chance to sell him. ... While being in jail, Bibb managed to escape once again only but...

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"Eveline" One thing I noticed in James Joyce's "Eveline" is that the main character only wants to marry the man she is dating to escape the pain and anguish that she grew up in. ... She does not love him, but simply wants to escape. However, although she wants to escape, she decides to stay because of her fear of going into the unknown. ... Frank is merely an escape from the pain of her world in Dublin. ... She may realize that even though she is able to escape the fear she has of her present circumstances, it is not right to marry him if she does not love him. ...

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This is a prison on an island, where no one has ever escaped. ... Abbe died before they could escape and left him with knowledge of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Dantes escaped in Abbe's burial sack and was thrown into the sea, and was freed. ...

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In essence Ethan discovers that the only way to get rid of his responsibilities without living a guilt-ridden life, is to take his own, in an attempt to escape reality. ... He marries Zeena after the death of his mother, to escape silence, isolation, and loneliness. ... Her energy and warmth excite him and allow him to escape from his lonely, monotonous life. ... The very escape they had planned to make their lives so gleeful, had in a sense put the final nail in the casket that is their untimely demise. ...

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Second, people often tend to marry to escape a miserable or boring domestic situation. ... They may just be unhappy at home and having insensitive parents may be tempted to quickly find a mate, simply so they can escape the misery of their parent or current circumstance. ... When it comes down to it, escape is not a noble motive for someone to form an intimate relationship with someone and unite in marriage. ...

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"Hunger" reveals how each character seeks an escape from their painful circumstances, with horrible results. ... In trying to escape the pain of giving up everything he had to pursue the "one thing that a person must do,"" (28) Tian decides to discipline himself to practice playing the violin. ... As much as Ruth wants to completely escape her father's grasp on her, she fails and her running away was not the best option. ... No matter how much she wanted to escape Tian's influence on her, it is apparent that she continues to live in his shadows because Min notices that she is so muc...

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Shelby goes against her husband to help Eliza and her son escape the slave trader. ... Bird's generosity and maternal loss leads her to accommodate Eliza and she influences her husband to help Eliza escape. ...

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The ring even had troubled her causing her problems with her needle work and that is the one thing where she can escape and live her dreams, which is shown in line six. ... Even through death she can not escape this fact, this does not mean that she does not want to live on. ... She feels there is no escaping her faith of being just the wife of her husband and never having any purpose in life. ...

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Hearing this, Oedipus fled from his new home, back to Thebes where he thought he could escape an inevitable destiny. ... No matter what Oedipus did he was not able to escape his dreadful fate. ... Even though he did not know Iokaste was his mother, marrying her was a sin according to the gods because he tried to raise himself above the gods, in order to escape his destiny. ...

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Her relationship with her husband is so oppressive, lonely and limiting that even death is considered a reasonable means of escape. ... This might lead one to believe that this may have been commonplace, for women to be unhappy in their marriage and have no conventional means of escape; as divorce may be viewed during current times. ... Eveline is a product of her environment lonely and isolated, the irony here is that she can escape her misery and loneliness but opts against the escape with Frank. ...

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Flaubert uses the wedding dress to represent Emma's confinement and her restriction that she can't escape even in death. ... She freely takes her own life to escape and her husband still confines her in her death by enclosing her in three coffins, as to not let anything in or out, and laying her to rest in eternity in a dress that represents why she wanted out of her life so badly. ... Flaubert uses windows to represent Emma's desire to escape from her marriage and her dull life. ... When the window breaks open at the ball, Emma can see the peasants outside and is reminded fr...

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If Oedipus had not been confident of escaping the oracle's revealed destiny, he would not have left Corinth. ... He wants to escape and the only way he thinks is feasible, is by blinding himself. ...

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2.) Yu-I escaped having her feet bound as a child, but she never successfully escaped other, more severe boundaries her culture imposed on her. Agree? "Second brother said foot binding was a custom that was no longer beautiful." And so Yu-I was freed from the constraining tradition of bound feet....

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a) Eveline has been given a chance to escape. But in the end, the girl finds herself incapable of going. Certainly, she has every reason to leave. The portrait we have of her family life is not heart-warming. We see that she is responsible for keeping the family together, as her mother did before h...

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Being valued by men becomes very important for the women on Mango Street because it means an escape for them. ... (p.26) But if getting married means an escape than why are so many women unhappy in their marriages? ... Instead, these women, like Marin, will not give up this power until they get what they want in life; which is to escape from Mango Street. ...

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The moral of this story is that human beings can't escape their fate, and thus it is not Oedipus' fault for committing those two crimes. ... Also, in telling Oedipus about his prophecies, Apollo was trying to seek revenge from Oedipus' parents for trying to escape fate. ... What is neglected escapes."" ...

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While visiting Yalta to escape her sad and regretful marriage, a woman meets a man and they spend many days and nights together. ... While trapped in a suffocating marriage, she lies to her husband of an illness to escape to Yalta where she admits her "curiosity" and proclaims her desire for " something better" (220). ... The seaside resort of Yalta provides an almost anonymous place where both individuals can escape the restrictions of their repressive homes. ...

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Edna escapes her oppressed life by committing suicide; the narrator in the other story rediscovers herself and continues to live. ... In the end, Edna realizes she is still not free from her responsibilities, so she decides to escape life all together by committing suicide. ...

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He made a brave move by tricking the genie into escaping from the cave to avoid wasting his wishes. ... Having been sheltered her whole life, she almost had her hand chopped by an angry merchant on the streets but Aladdin intervened and helped her escape to an empty building where he feel in love with the princess. ...

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Girl With a Pearl Earring Griet's decision to marry Pieter is a sane and sensible one. Before that, she was living in a fantasy world. Do you agree? Girl With a Pearl Earring, written by Tracy Chevalier, is a novel that follows the life-changing experiences of sixteen-year-old Griet, particular...

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It is also somewhat ironic that the soap that the mother describes as aiding her son in escaping her grasp is the thing that once eased the wedding ring off the wife's finger, but will no longer do so. ...

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This conflict was so profoundly ingrained in Louise that when she discovers that her husband was not dead and she was not free, death was the only escape from the internal conflict of personal freedom. ...

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It was once said that "To be truly memorable a story must have at its core one of life's great quests: the quest for love, truth, or power." Essentially meaning that what makes a story interesting, and have an unforgettable plot and theme is for the objective of its main characters or any character...

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