In the end, she achieves freedom from these oppressors through the symbolic, delusional escape in the yellow wallpaper. ... Although the narrator is oppressed, she uses the wallpaper as a way to escape from society and free the women from oppression. ... The bars on her window relate to the bars oppressing the women in the wallpaper, therefore, the women who get out of the wallpaper actually escape the bars on her window. ... This shows that she wants to fully escape oppression, but something is holding her back. Finally, she escapes through the wallpaper and begins creeping around the r...

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• Grade Level: High School

Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Awakening, Chopin questions gender roles at the end of the century, but also shows that, because of years of conditioning, many women are unable to escape those roles by any satisfactory means. ... In the best way she knows how to escape her caged domestic life, Edna chains herself to another man because she is unable to choose freedom in the way later feminists would claim she must. ... In order to have both independence and love with a man, Edna seems to believe, in the end, that her escape can only be through death. ...

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Catherine's threatened escape [to France with Leo] would leave her dependent upon a man," though she would be abandoning a husband and child in the process (Al-Shamma). However, Catherine doesn't escape to France. Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ...

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At the end of the play, a distraught and emotionally strained Eliza escapes to Mrs. ... She kept repeating this phrase until it got a little annoying, but what we see here is a young lady trying to escape from societies stereotypical views of poor, young women. ...

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When the time came for Flora, the spunky female horse to be slaughtered, she managed to escape her captors and run for her life. ... She made it to the gate in time, however, as the horse came running towards her, she swung the gate open and allowed her to escape. ...

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EDNA'S SELF-EXPRESSION In Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, suddenly finds herself dissatisfied with her marriage and the conservative lifestyle that it allows. She gradually emerges from her semi-conscious state of devoted wife and mother to a state of total awar...

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In order to escape from Fonso, she marries Mr. _______, who is an abusive husband that values her only as a sexual object and a caretaker for his children. ... Sofia also escapes her abuse by leaving Harpo. ...

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"The Monk" is a horror-gothic novel written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a man who came from a somewhat scandalous background which influenced his work as an author later in life. Lewis's mother, Frances, left his father for a lover and Frances had to leave her children as a consequence of the ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... What Barrie tries to convey, I think, is that for adult readers, we frequently grow-up too quickly, and so he presents to us a fantasy land of sorts that allows us to escape from our reality. ...

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There has long been an ongoing debate as to witch gender differences in behavior and personality are due to innate personality, biology, physiology, cultural and social factors. In Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls" she tells a story about a girl coming of age and lacking identity in an environment fill...

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Also, in attempting to escape being privately owned by their husbands, independent women instead become, in a sense, public property. ... They still retain a desire for "true love,"" and must repress this in order to escape the societal paradigm. ...

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Fake eyelashes, fake breasts, fake blondes, fake tan. What may appear to be the description of a drag queen competition is actually the cut-throat world of pageantry. To the average civilian a pageant is seen simply as a beauty contest in which girls fix their hair up and put on sparkly dresses. ...

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Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. Through the relationship between black men and black women, Walker portrays the prejudice that black women have to face. Sh...

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To add to Woolf's idea of struggle, it is suffice to state that, woman undergoing their struggle, takes in to consideration the forces of double aims, as she must escape the contempt of the world to be just a child bearer or a simple caretaker, versus on the other hand, to achieve sovereignty- as a result of which, she seems to be neither. ...

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In this society, a woman would actually have to turn against her own sex in order to be free, for example when Moira kidnaps and ties up Aunt Elizabeth to escape from the Red Centre, leaving "that old hag Aunt Elizabeth tied up like a Christmas Turkey behind the furnace". ...

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Cause and Effect of Divorce Most people believe that the main reason people get divorced is because of deterioration of the family structure. What most of these people do not realize is that the economy plays a major role in causing of divorced. In this paper, I will and explain how the econo...

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Battle of the Sexes: The Role of Genders The obedient role of the female in a marriage or relationship is a common problem in many societies, including our own American society. This role has become so common that in fact it is now expected of the female. This male dominance goes as far back ...

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Battle of the Sexes: The Role of Genders The obedient role of the female in a marriage or relationship is a common problem in many societies, including our own American society. This role has become so common that in fact it is now expected of the female. This male dominance goes as far back ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked a...

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Most individuals, who have viewed the well-known film Pretty Woman, have found the film to be romantic and a modernized version of the happily ever after tale of Cinderella. The two protagonists in Pretty Woman, Vivian and Edward, are from two very different worlds. Edward is a high class business m...

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-Source 13 and source 5 Conclusion I have concluded that life was extremely hard for women as they were completely controlled by men and were treated like dirt or as pets most of the time, and they had virtually no way of escaping this. ...

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Seeing this, Marlow lies to the Intended not only to escape the darkness that enveloped Kurtz but also to preserve a world in which women are dependent upon men, no matter how they might perceive the men to be. ...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate