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. ...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"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! ...

• Word Count: 2454
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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"...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2054
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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!...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School