Flaubert mentions one such fantasy when Emma's adulterous ways cause her to burn and throb with desire, open her window, stare at the stars, yearn for a prince's love and end up thinking of León (268). Emma stares out the window as she desires love from a wealthy man instead of from Charles, who does not provide enough for her needs. ... After Rodolphe ends the affair, Emma becomes sick and "she hated the garden now and the shutter on that side was always closed" (197). Emma's hatred for the garden comes off as ironic due to the fact that this is her and Rodolph'...

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For instance, in the first few chapters, Hardy goes out of his way to describe the very atmosphere of Casterbridge, its Roman ruins, its market place, its inns, its" grizzled church", its High Street with its timber houses, its old gardens full of "bloody warriors" and snapdragons, its disputable Mixen-Lane, its two bridges towards which" gravitated all failures of the town". ... Such as: The Caged Goldfinch----In order to express his deep love to his daughter, Henchard visits Elizabeth Jane on her wedding day, carrying the gift of a caged goldfinch. ... He unknowingly ties Henchard's f...

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William Faulkner in his novel, Absalom, Absalom!, uses all of his customary themes and literary devices in his telling of the story. This story, like all his others, takes a look at the south just after the Civil War, which is the which is the Faulkner lived. Faulkner uses a Southern family, the Su...

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She frequently walked in her garden and her only companion was her Italian greyhound. ... Even to take her own life, she must resort to her sexual power, using Justin's love for her to convince him to let her get the arsenic. ...

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Jewel is very special to his mother Addie, and although both love one another, neither can show this emotion in open situations. He can only express his love in deep-rooted violent acts, just like when he visualizes: It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less. ... (Turner, pp. 33-40) The goddess of fecundity, Dewey Dell, "is often associated with things and places standing for ferti...

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Rather than searching for the love of a husband to support her, Behn took to pen and paper in an attempt to provide her own living. ... The start of Aphra Behn's writing career coincided with the opening of the London theatres, where she began to write for Sir William Davenant's Duke of York's company at Dorset Garden. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Yet in the end, the prostitute does not find love and Florinda and Hellena both a...

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His variety of interests especially the love of fishing almost followed all his life and had important influences on his writing inspiration, and helped to develop his special personality. He loved taking adventures. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ...

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