Setting The action takes place in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century on two Louisiana plantations, one called Valmonde, a family name, and the other called L'Abri (French for shelter). ... She immediately writes a letter to Madame Valmonde, saying, "My mother, they tell me I am not white. ... However, conversation between Desiree and Madame Valmonde indicates that he apparently found time for La Blanche, the slave woman whose name (French for white) suggests that she was of mixed heritage, with light skin that made her a tolerable sexual object for Armand. ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Instead of open his eyes to see the truth, Lear response by saying "Out of my sight" when Kent reminds Lear that "See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye". ... Gloucester completely trusting his villain son Edmund by telling him that he going to help Lear and giving him the information that he received a letter of French invasion. ... When Gloucester meet Lear and his companion, he tells Kent to delivered Lear to Dover where French army under Cordelia is waiting for him. ...

• Word Count: 3449
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

The word romance has a long and complex etymology, originally meaning something written in French. ... Alvy identifies himself as nervous throughout the film, saying that his childhood was dominated by a roller-coaster because he was "a little nervous I think"; he dislikes the countryside because, he tells his second wife Robin while they argue in bed, "it makes me nervous". ... Modernity is characterized by what the nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire termed the new, the fleeting, the contingent: everything that could, would change. ...

• Word Count: 3864
• Approx Pages: 15

Born into a middle class mining family, D.H Lawrence grew up in the environment that was surrounded and supported by the coalmines. His father was a coal miner in the nearby mine. His mother was a schoolteacher that had retired when she started having a family. The family that Lawrence grew up in ...

• Word Count: 2691
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School