It wasn't until she received information of her son's death that her behavior changed dramatically. ... Gwyn page 67 paragraph 7) At this point Mother Savage's behavior is doubtful. ... Gwyn page 69 paragraph 3) Maupassant took the subjects for his pessimistic stories and novels chiefly from the Norman peasant life, the Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoisie, and the fashionable life of Paris. ...

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The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. ... While men were able to go about their business and indulge in politics in public, women faced exclusion from any social and public participation. ... While the men were active participants in social life, women were not to participate in any kind of social life since there was a belief that it would taint their pure virtue (Lawrence 281). ... This aspect exemplifies her desire to be involved in the social activities of the outside world as well as her dependency on...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. However, ideas of "appropriate" behavior according to gender vary between cultures, although some aspects are more widespread than others. ... Gender, however, comprises two "sets" of social characteristics, which combine to create the categories of "woman" (girl) and "man" (boy). ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are suppos...

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