Did she really drown herself in the sea, if s why? ... Edna is a twenty-eight year old mother and wife of Leonce Pontellier. ... Because she is not a Creole she does not understand that is it normal and understandable for a married woman to enjoy the company of a single man. ... She gave herself to the sea, for in truth it was the only one who could have power over her. ... Edna gave up her fantasy for a reality, which would lead her to and endless sea of eternal happiness....

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• Grade Level: High School

They were the property of man but Edna saw more to her life. ... Léonce is a rich business man, who makes more than enough to support his family fulfilling his duty as a man and husband. ... The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace " (Chopin 1263). ... She is an unconventional and unpopular older woman but she serves as Edna's inspiration. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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"As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift- (32-34). ... "Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse- (54-55). This final allusion to Neptune taming the sea horse is a direct comparison to the Duke himself; known to be a controlling man. This is a hint that the Duke will control his wife just as Neptune controls the sea horse. ... This man does not accept anything! ...

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We are led to believe that Othello is proud and disliked man. ... Only out of witchcraft could a young Venetian maiden fall in love with a black man. ... Brabantio does not approve of his daughter loving a black man, and is convinced this could not happen naturally. ... "An old black ram is tupping your white ewe" To Roderigo, Othello is seen as a rival for Desdemona. ... And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus high and duck again as low As hells from heaven" He feels peaceful now he is with Desdemona's company compared to the raging storm outside. ...

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Eyre has become a rich man because he was willing to work with a craftsman from a different country. ... Morose is a man who hates noise; Clerimont states about Morose, "He can endure no noise" (142). ... Morose states, "Oh, the sea breaks in upon me! ... Here Johnson show how odd it is for a man to see his surrounding community as noise. ... As a reader of these old plays one can see is that the topics of old are also the topics of the present and how we are searching for how they should be addressed. ...

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Sebastian was thought to be dead at sea. ... Except for the fact that one was a woman and the other was a man. Sebastian is freshly back from sea, he also is old enough to be married, and he thinks he is dreaming when Olivia tells him that she wants him. ...

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Giving it's a story about whaling it probably takes place by the sea. ... He has a great imagination, e.g. about how big a whale is, and probably his idea about the fight man versus beast. ... The narrator is probably not very old, if he had been older he would probably have found out that all things are not as lovely as they seem. ... The whaler is probably a quite sad man; he drowns his problems with alcohol, lived alone and drank alone. ... At that time it wasn't abnormal for young women to marry quite older men. ...

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Giving it's a story about whaling it probably takes place by the sea. ... He has a great imagination, e.g. about how big a whale is, and probably his idea about the fight man versus beast. ... The narrator is probably not very old, if he had been older he would probably have found out that all things are not as lovely as they seem. ... The whaler is probably a quite sad man; he drowns his problems with alcohol, lived alone and drank alone. ... At that time it wasn't abnormal for young women to marry quite older men. ...

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*Hester, so "youthful and fair" (Hawthorne 55), is doomed to spent eternity with a poor misshapen Chillingsworth, "a deformed old figure, with a face that haunted men's memories longer than they liked" (Hawthorne 158). ... Assuming he's been lost at sea, Hester jumps at the chance to love another. ... Hester and Dimmesdale performed an act of adultery their night together, one of the commandments God forbid man to do. ...

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Prior to their discovery at Qumran near the Dead Sea in the 1940's, our oldest Hebrew scriptures are only one thousand years old. ... The language and style of the Hebrew Bible or Christian Old Testament continued the traditions of ancient Canaan. ... All Near Eastern goddesses, including Asherah, were given titles such as queen of heaven, and goddess of the sea and moon. ... The creation of man and woman simultaneously parallels the Mesopotamian creation story, Enuma Elish. ... The reference to man leaving his father and mother and cleaving to his wife in Genesis 2:24 could be so interpr...

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In Monte Carlo, she meets and marries the older, wealthy Maxim de Winter, and becomes "Mrs. ... Maxim de Winter - A cultured, intelligent older man, and the owner of Manderley, a prized estate and mansion on the English coast. ... Ben - A harmless man, mildly retarded, who spends much of his time on the beach near Manderley. ... Danvers, and a man called Favell, and wonders where they are now. ... Van Hopper, a nosy, gossipy, vulgar woman, recognizes a handsome middle-aged man who is staying in their hotel, and points him out to the heroine. ...

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Anson compares himself to, a failure to love, a cocky old' unmarried man, a priest, a holy figure. ... Her red tam was a bright spot of color against the steel-green sea, and from time to time she looked up with a flashing bob of her head, and smiled with amusement and interest, and anticipation."" ... It tells the story of a chauvinistic man living in the twenties, when women were first beginning to stand up for their rights. ... Yet even though the women he interacts with change as he gets older he remains ascertain of them, which leads him to his eventual downfall. He gets too old fo...

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Edna Pontellier, a married woman, finds herself infatuated with another man. ... Pontellier is the epitome of a good man, but Edna thinks otherwise. ... This realization is further intensified by the intense presence of the sea. As Chopin describes, "the voice of the sea speaks to the soul- (659). ... Now Edna was alone, and she would have to return to her old life with her new vision, and face it all on her own. ...

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A friendly sea captain tells her about Orsino's love of Olivia, and Viola says that she would like to work in Olivia's home. However Lady Olivia refuses to meet with anyone; therefore Viola decides to disguise herself as a man. ... Orsino however believes Viola to be a man and therefore has no attraction to Viola at all. ... Antonio cared for Sebastian after the shipwreck, and is attached to the young man. He cares for him so much so that he follows him to Orsino's sphere of influence, in spite of the fact that he and Orsino are old enemies. ...

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Never flinching, she runs to this withered man, praising his "budding virginity" and "sweet fairness" (4.5.41). ... By describing this old man in bed beside his adoring young husband, Katherine judges the entire scene ridiculous. ... Did she not enjoy her act, she would not have commended the old man so passionately, nor would she have explained herself with such commitment. ... Meanwhile the husband "commits his body To painful labor both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold" only expecting "love, fair looks, and true obedience"...

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Nnu Ego is twenty- five years old and her firstborn son has died. ... She also hated the job he had he worked for a white couple called the Meers as a wash man. ... This man was Nwaskusor a man from her village. ... This after Nnaife went off to sea after his former employers the Meers left to go off to fight Hitler. ... Nnu had an older female friend named Mama Abby. ...

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Chillingworth was bent finding Hester's man to seek his revenge for nine years. ... What does it mean to be a man or a woman? ... Despite that, Hester has a strength that can rival a man's. ... Instead, she had to beg another man, who had power, to save her daughter for her. ... "She needs no old woman's broomstick to fly withal!...

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Barely 60 years old, Israel has a wide variety of immigrants from all over the globe. ... Of course small towns still live by the old values, but the consensus is very positive toward single people. ... Many marriages will not last too long, mainly because the wife is too young, the husband older, and the age difference is too big. ... Kung mother will usually breast feed until the child is about three years old. ... Having an older child didn't help, and usually our conversation were interrupted by either one of them. ...

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The basic foundation of a marriage is when a man is ready to leave his mother and father, he will and unite as one with the woman he loves and marries her (Reference 1). ... A marriage is considered to be between a man and a woman who have fallen in love with each other and should never be broken apart (Reference 2). ... A woman has beauty, charm, and allure while a man is handsome, virile, and masterful (Reference 8 pg. 65). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School