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- 1751: Old Neighborhood
- ... partying in Paris. Although Persephone is having a great time, what she doesn’t realize is that she can never really return home. The end of the poem symbolizes the mother realizing her daughter’s sexual awakening, and with that the realization that things are out of her control. Dove delves deep into these kinds of relationships in many of her poems, not just the examples given. The works we looked ...
- 1752: Loving April
- ... be stopped before matters got worse. April is forced to live in fear of persecution. Throughout the story, April encounters two swines whom try to take advantage of her by forcing her to engage in sexual intercourse with them. " "Did they rape you?" begged Tony. April shook her head." Page 127 After being assaulted, April feels insecure even with the presence of Tony. This creates a barrier between the two lovers ...
- 1753: Lorraine Hansberry
- ... plays, she quickly took on the task of becoming an articulate spokesperson for black Americans in the struggles for civil rights. Lorraine was a well vocal critic of racial discrimination. She also spoke highly of sexual and class discrimination. These themes were the basis for most of her plays and her career (Draper 147). As the Civil Rights Movement intensified, she had the need to help out with anything she could ...
- 1754: Lolita
- ... toying with Humbert as she rubbed her foot all over him in order to get a raise in her allowance and be able to be part of the play. You could not be much more sexual, manipulative girl than Lolita was! On minor change was that Lolita was twelve in the novel and fourteen in the movie. This was simply done to make the relationship a bit more accepting in the ...
- 1755: Lindo Jong
- ... broken in the American family but it is a matter of honor when the same happens in a Chinese home. When Lindo finally does marry Tyan-yu he is afraid of her and afraid of sexual intercourse. They are still not even teenagers and this duty of marriage is expected of them. Tyan-yu does not even let Lindo lie in the bed with him but forces her to sleep on ...
- 1756: Keeping Things Whole
- ... Contwell, Brooks, and Aronavon were the first to respect the book. In the sixties Chopin's popularity grew thanks to the feminists. They looked toward Edna as a heroine out of her time for her sexual awakening. This does not mean that Chopin was a feminist. Chopin wrote objectively and distanced herself from feminist struggles. Felix Chopin stressed that she "was not interested in the woman's suffrage movement" (Taylor 151 ...
- 1757: Jumping Mouse
- ... the village who end up poking fun at her white legs, and also to communicate with July about the problems between them, which her husband is unable to do. There is some sort of twisted sexual undertone when Maureen speaks with July. Maureen reveals her loss of civility when she drowns the litter of kittens. Bam is upset and suggests that she should have let a black woman do it, which ...
- 1758: Jazz
- ... day, if Violet and Joe had no intentions whatsoever of having children, one would think that after one pregnancy (it doesn't matter how it turned out) the pair would be more careful with further sexual acts. To say that Violet's three tragedies were more inconvenience than loss solely due to the fact that citylife would be better without children is not only a brutal attempt at making light of ...
- 1759: Jane Eyre - Fire And Water
- ... and water is used by Brontë, in keeping with her use of poetic symbolism, to develop character, strengthen thematic detail, and establish mood. In Jane Eyre, fire imagery has a strong metaphorical significance, representing passion, sexual desire and the heat of emotion and feeling. Brontë's use of fire imagery is very appropriate in that fire, as is with the passions, can provide warmth and comfort, but can also burn. Water ...
- 1760: Jane Eyre
- ... Not only is "Jane Eyre" a novel about one woman’s journey through life, but Brontë also conveys to the reader the social injustices of the period, such as poverty, lack of universal education and sexual inequality. Jane’s plight and her "dependant" status is particularly emphasised at the beginning of the novel. Miss Temple is the kind and fair-minded superintendent of Lowood School, who plays an important role in ...
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