The Women Of Jane Austen
.... Watt says that Austen’s characters cannot be seen “clearly until we make allowances for the social order in which they were rooted” (41). Austen lived in a society where women were expected to be “accomplished,” as Darcy states in Pride and Prejudice, but not well educated (“Notes”). Women of the late eighteenth-century could not attend educational institutions like Oxford or Cambridge. It was not considered necessary for a woman to have knowledge of e .....
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The Women Of Shakespear
.... obedient. Lady Capulet is almost resentful that her child is not yet married at almost fourteen year old, she was already a mother at that age, which would make her about twenty-eight year old. This scene adds to the tragic element of the play because of Juliet’s lack of enthusiasm for Paris and marriage. It makes her forbidden love for her enemy, Romeo, appear more disastrous when compared to her indifference regarding Paris.
Juliet is dancing with Romeo when her nurse interrupts them b .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper 5
.... that she must take pains to control her emotions. Leaving much to be questioned in the reader’s mind as to the health of her marriage, she abandons the topic and instead describes the house. All is well until she gets to the room where she and her husband are staying. This room’s wallpaper evokes a sense of anger and passion from the woman as she calls it “sprawling”, “flamboyant”, “dull”, “lame”, and “uncertain” (426). Such strongly e .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlo
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First of all, John handles everything to an extent but he doesn’t solve the problem at hand. He tends to run away from it. For example, when the narrator asks, “why the house had stood so long untenanted,” he just laughs at her and doesn’t even investigate about it, which proves that he just let it go and does nothing about it. And that is what he does throughout the whole story. Also he “scoffs openly at any talk.” This means that he doesn’t talk about h .....
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The Yellow Wallpaper, A Descen
.... and feminist who wrote prolifically about the necessity of social and sexual equality, particularly about women’s need for economic independence. According to critic Valarie Gill,
"Gilman attached the nineteenth century’s configuration of private space as woman’s domain and its attendant generalizations about femininity. Gilman seeks to blur the distinction between private and public life. Gilman unflaggingly urged her audience to consider their logic in assigning women to the home. .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 2
.... that love comes after marriage though love is secondary
to the security marriage provides. Nanny feels marriage
was simply for security and to start a family. “Taint
Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have baby, it’s
protection.”(pg. 14). Nanny says this to Janie before
her arranged marriage to Logan. Nanny wants Janie to be
financially set with her life before she dies and leaves
Janie to fend for herself. Nanny wants her to start a
family. Nanny makes Janie think that .....
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 3
.... Hurston, 10).
This quote shows how young Janie came to the realization of her sexuality as she masturbated under a pear tree. The pear tree represented her sexual desires. Janie soon found herself fond of the opposite sex, as explained by the following quote: “Through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road. In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and .....
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Theme Of Beowulf
.... unlike his absence of humility.
Beowulf’s role in society was almost identical to that of a Knight. Only, unlike the Knight, Beowulf made the choice to have this role in society. He was considered the strongest warrior around. He could fight anything, and would easily fight for his King and country. When King Hrothgar had trouble in his battle hall Herot, he asked for Beowulf’s assistance. With honor and pride, Beowulf gladly accepted the Kings plea for help. Many believed he did so bec .....
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Themes In Macbeth
.... that the play is centering around an evil theme. Throughout the play, each character has to either fight or give in to evil. In the play, evil contradicts normal human nature. For example, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to bend their natures to murder King Duncan. First, Lady Macbeth has to beg evil spirits to tear all human feeling from her, and then she has to make her husband ignore his own conscience. However, due to the evil that has been committed, at the end of the play both characters are emotionall .....
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Theprince By Machiavelli Chap
.... his people, and he would never get a task done. An effeminate ruler is thought to have feminine qualities. In those times, someone who was feminine could not be taken seriously. A leader must always resolve a problem for all problems allowed to "get out of hand" tend to become large problems, and this will show the leader’s inability to resolve things. An example of this would be a king becomes aware that his crops were not as productive one year. The king decides nothing on it. Later that w .....
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There Are No Children Here - S
.... are different. The remnants of grass are dry brown patches, mostly dirt. Where there was once a playground, there is now a shooting. The bricks are now worn and tattered. The windows are either translucent or broken. And the walls are no longer white, rather a dull, yellowish color. Worst of all, instead of joining boys and girls clubs, the adolescents joined gangs.
At the Henry Horner Homes, it was the Conservative Vice Lords that reigned. Led by Jimmie Lee, the gang was in charge of the proj .....
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Things Fall Apart
.... Shylock's mind is "concentrated, obsessed, focused upon a narrow range of fixed ideas," which is revenge against Antonio for his insults (1.3.1-10). This obsessive characteristics cause Shylock to seek revenge in the trial. Also, even in the diction of periodic and short sentences shows Shylock's unmistakably emotionless and stubborn quality. Shakespeare makes this character alive by matching diction with the personality. This becomes apart when contrasting with similar statements by Salerio about Anto .....
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Things Fall Apart 8
.... and consider them all leaders without giving a single person absolute power. In this passage the English missionaries ask who the king of the village is, but the villagers tell them that there is no king. “We have men of high title and the chief priests and the elders,” they said. A society with several leaders is most successful because it has several people working together to stumble on the smartest choice for an important decision that has to be made.
The Christians clearly show no .....
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Things Fall Apart Things Fall
.... culture. More specifically we witnessed the weakening of Igbo spirituality, as well as the death of the tribe's livelihood. The apparent cause can be found in a seemingly good intended mission acting as a gateway for the intrusion of a foreign government. Also it was its quest to conquer a self-sustaining, prosperous culture. Although the Igbo downfall was caused primarily by the invasion of Christian missionaries, their own religion played a significant role in allowing the initial infiltration of an alie .....
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Things Fall Apart- The Meaning
.... fertile land, preferring to stay at home playing his flute, drinking palm wine, and making merry with the neighbors. He had to borrow money in order to maintain this lifestyle, and was never able to pay it back. Okonkwo perceived this trait as an imbalance toward the female side in his father's character; staying at home and not using one's strength to provide for the family is what a woman does. In reaction, Okonkwo completely rejected his father, and also his own feminine side. It was this deep-roote .....
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