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5 Results for Great Expectations

1. The Ideal Of Womanhood In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great influences in the writing and controversial reception of this work. ... A woman's own expectations were meek because neither her family nor society expected her to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. ... Women began to organize and participate in a great variety of reform movements to improve educational rights as well as individual liberties. ... A marriage without passion guarded a Victorian woman from the pain of a relationship that fell short of her expectations. ...

  • Word Count: 3206
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Esperanza in The House on Mango Street

In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. This Bildungsroman narrates the experiences of growing up in a Hispanic-American neighborhood in Chicago through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero, a fictionalized adolescent girl who is transitioni...

  • Word Count: 2834
  • Approx Pages: 11
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Wife of Bath

Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. C...

  • Word Count: 2959
  • Approx Pages: 12
  • Has Bibliography

4. Mulvey and Latin American Cinema

She subtly bemoans these tendencies and offers hopes to "[transcend] outworn or oppressive forms, or [dare] to break with normal pleasurable expectations in order to conceive a new language of desire....

  • Word Count: 4301
  • Approx Pages: 17
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. Explication of Doris Lessing's "A WOMAN ON THE ROOF"

Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. These guys were tough, they were constantly exposed to heat, hard headed, domineering and egois...

  • Word Count: 4111
  • Approx Pages: 16
  • Grade Level: High School
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