The irony is that she will exchange one entrapment for another if the she tries to avoid; that is her death. ... " (Gilmour 52) The secluded "The Lady of Shalott" resides in a world of darkness. ... This is when he administers the punishment of death to his female protagonist. ... The punishment of death is Tennyson's stern warning to women of the Victorian age to remember the place or risk the punishment of death. ... " For gazing at Sir Lancelot, the "Lady of Shalott" becomes a fallen woman and receives the punishment of death. ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But a dark cloud hangs over their marriage: Maxim's first wife, Rebecca , drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year, and her ghost haunts the newlyweds' home. ... On the night of her death, Maxim had demanded a divorce, and she had refused, and told him that she was pregnant with Favell's child. ... The local magistrate, Colonel Julyan, investigates, and finds that on the day of her death, Rebecca went up to London to see a Doctor Baker. ... She was fiercely devoted to Rebecca, and remains devoted to her even after death. ... Baker - A London doctor who saw Rebecca the ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

She is transported back to the present and is able to forget the past: "And then opening her eyes, how fresh, like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays, the roses looked; and dark and prim the red carnations" (P. 16.) ... He describes "the death of her soul (P.66.) ... Holmes pushes into his home to see him, Septimus throws himself out the window to his death. Death is positive for both characters. ... Septimus has experienced death and destruction. ...

• Word Count: 2609
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• Grade Level: High School

Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

• Word Count: 5174
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

His dark, lean face wore an expression of intense anxiety, his eyebrows twitched as if he were in constant pain. ... Here there were no street lamps, not even a light in the windows, but natural darkness; with the moon high overhead throwing sharp shadows across the white cobble paving (Cather 1197). ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School