She explores how female and male differences are countered by images of androgyny. ... After seeing his best friend, Evans die in the war Septimus has developed a post-traumatic disorder. ... At a party she thinks "If it were to now die, 'twere now to be most happy" (P. 202-3.) She felt it was a good point in her life to die. ... We can be empowered do so if only we can open our eyes and see ourselves and world more clearly. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Eliza died in 1793 as one of the most influential women of her time. ... When Daniel died, it left Martha a very rich widow. ... Her mother taught her how to read and write, along with her sisters. ... John Adams showed how truly thickheaded he could be when he wrote from Paris to his wife running his business and raising his children back in Braintree, Massachusetts. ... Abigail had a ready reply: "I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of females in my own country .You need not be told how much female education is neglected, nor how fashionable it has been to ridicule female learn...

• Word Count: 3378
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. ... As it was discussed in class that even today, we are affected one way or the other by the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City, and Washington D.C. ... Guy de Maupassant is one of those authors that was affected greatly by the war of his time as we are affected by the war of our time. The Story of an Hour In the short story The Story of an Hour by Kate C...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. ... But instead, it turns out that Rebecca was dying of cancer, and that furthermore she was infertile; she had lied to Maxim about her pregnancy. ... The only person to whom she could speak of it, we realize shortly, is her husband, whose name we have not yet learned. ... Pieces of a vanished life float vaguely about: the heroine misses her dog, Jasper, and remembers how meals were prepared at Manderley, and then she thinks of a Mrs. ... He is Maxim de Winter, the owner of the famous estate known...

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

She also tells Emilia if she should die before her to wrap her body using the sheets on the bed. ... How can we believe any of Iago's statements regarding Bianca when he is unreliable throughout the play? ... With this in mind, it isn't surprising our three women face a grim future by play's end: two die, and the other will be forgotten. ... Through the interactions of his characters, Shakespeare brings to light the mistreatment of women by men and also shows how women did not resist this mistreatment. ... Presently as a society, we generally feel that we have progressed beyond ...

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We note that Rukmani is prepared at an early age to accept her role as a wife, which is evident in the gay response she makes to her mother, "I shall have a grand wedding". ... And between, how many times, I thought, bleak of spirit, while her husband in his impotence and I in my innocence did nothing. ... When her daughter Ira is forsaken by her husband, she consoles her saying "we are all in God's hands and He is merciful. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ... Moreover, the essay would illustrate how these two poems represent the fallen women of the Victorian society who deviated from the feminine virtue of their society. ... "The Lady of Shalott"...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the time of her birth in Japan, a women, will have a much different religious experience than one of her counterparts from another society. This is partly due to the rigid and strict society in which she lives, but also due to the rich and generous blend of religious traditions that make one e...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. However, Claude's personal struggles do not reside strictly withi...

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

She was immature and acted irrationally and died as a result of her own foolishness. ... Madame Antoine was genuinely hospitable, and Chopin shows how pure and caring a person outside rich society can be. ... Chopin reveals each of the characters to be complex yet beautiful products of society, and offers understanding to how Edna really was confined and unhappy. First, we are re-introduced to Leonce Pontellier. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School