Throughout the novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin generally uses formal diction to express the character's thoughts and actions. Chopin uses certain diction to express emotions, desires, and fantasies of characters, such as Edna Pontellier’s and Robert Lebrun’s. For example, surrounding Edna’s feelings towards her husband, Chopin uses lengthier wording to describe Edna’s thoughts. In doing so, the reader sees the...
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The story A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, tells the story of the main character Emily Grierson. Emily was a staple character in the small town of Jefferson and the story follows the maddening acts of this sad woman caused by her want for love. In 1983, A Rose for Emily was made into a movie. The movie...
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‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ by Gabriel García Márquez and ‘Life of Pi’, directed by Ang Lee, delve into the human response to weakness and the supernatural as well as the primacy of survival. Religion is a focal point in both works, they look at how the belief in the divine can be either evil or act as...
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I don’t think my parents were ever in love. My older sister swears they were, but not in a good way. They had that all-consuming love, the type that destroyed everything in its path. They would fight over anything and everything. They’d break plates, and photo frames, and eventually they broke each other. I mean that in both a figurative...
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The brief summary of the story entitled, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings the story tells, of Pelayo and his wife Elisenda, who locate an ancient man with wings in their courtyard after killing crabs in a very rainstorm. Pelayo gets his wife, and that they attempt to talk with him unsuccessfully. They ultimately get their neighbor woman, who...
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Two generations do not seem like much of a big deal. To the common man or woman with children, it’s been this way for as long as we have known. However, in between our generational patterns, it seems as though some essential things have been lost. The way men treat women, and vice versa. A certain mutual respect has been...
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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1968 is a magical realist text, which falls into the category of a short story, depicting the contrast between good and evil through the use of religious symbols to emphasize societal views of faith. I chose this story because I want to understand more about the author’s...
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Cinderella is considered one of the all-time favorites, and one of the most popular stories all over the globe. Nonetheless, while watching the movies of Cinderella members of Uzbek culture may find several differences regarding the European culture. Gender has played an essential role in establishing the different characters in Cinderella. The main characters are mostly in Cinderella are all...
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Since it was the end of the war, America in the 1920s was a huge materialistic culture, and the roaring Twenties erupted, with wealth and status as major core values. The relationships in 'The Great Gatsby' depict this appearance of wealth as a core value; Jay Gatsby spends the entire novel attempting to be of a higher social class than...
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In The Crucible play, Arther Miller amplifies the theme of fear and hysteria within Salem's community. Although this theme runs throughout the play, it is especially apparent after the witch trials start. The play starts with the girls dancing in the woods and getting caught. This directly leads to Betty being ” paralyzed” by the Devil's spirits, although this is...
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Ancient Myths, legends, and folk tales have played a huge role when it comes to modern media, especially in the film industry. A big example of the influence of mythology, specifically Greek Mythology, in today’s entertainment industry is the Harry Potter series. Many characters, creatures, and even storylines that have happened in Harry Potter are based on myths or even...
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Not having human companionship can have huge repercussions. It can lead to sadness and being miserable in others. In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck introduces us to some minor characters who suffer from no human companionship daily. Whether it is due to their ethnicity, their gender, their age, or their mental capacity, these characters are left alone and...
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The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a tense and compelling fictional novel set in America in the 1960s. The novel follows the story of the greasers, a group of outcasts struggling with discrimination from the socs, the more wealthy people in the novel. Hinton writes from the perspective of Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old boy who has been caught up in...
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In both the short stories “The Story of An Hour” and “Girl”, Chopin and Kincaid focus heavily on the roles that women must play in order to fit societal norms. While the two stories are written in different times, both views the restraints of societal norms on women as a negative occurrence, railroading women into one singular path of life....
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Reading, The Most Dangerous Game Outline: Literature: The Enigma of Amigara Fault written by Junji Ito Parameters: Appeals through our feelings- reading is dangerous because it greatly shapes the person's mind as he traverses into every word and meaning through his feelings. In reading, we exposed our minds to different profound ideologies and perspectives about life that intend to interest...
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The stories chosen for comparison are Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ and Amy Tan’s ‘Rules of The Games’. The comparison would be conducted based on the aspect of protagonist’s isolation which is evident from both the stories in which each of the protagonists has their own world and has their own way to interact with the world. The thesis...
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'The Yellow Wallpaper' first appeared in the January 1892 issue of New Magazine. Written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, later to be known primarily as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the story was first received as a tale of horror, but Gilman later made it clear that she definitely had a more distinct purpose for the story. As she pointed out to William...
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Totalitarianism is destructive, this is the theme and argument that is made in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. He creates this theme by using effective language, providing examples of destruction in the text, and character’s emotions to show the reader how totalitarianism has destroyed the quality of life in Oceania. Orwell also writes about how totalitarian rule has denied...
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The oppression of women refers to a more insidious type of manipulation and control of women. Little Women by Louisa Alcott was published in 1868. It was written in the 1860s and was set in the civil war where the mum and the four sisters live in a neighborhood in Massachusetts in refined poverty. This book is about four sisters...
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In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist, Winston, is essentially alone in his own mind. In a world where everyone around him has chosen a path of conformity, Winston refuses to come to terms with the reality that Big Brother controls him and everyone he knows. It is this sense of alienation that drives him on a path of mental release...
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Is it corrupt for a government to manipulate its citizens to maintain full control over their country? In the novel 1984, the three-party slogans are contradictory phrases that are manipulated to be true by the party. “ War is Peace”, “ Freedom is Slavery ” and “ Ignorance is Strength” are the slogans Orwell uses as a form of propaganda...
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Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises many questions, but when I state that one of my teaching perspectives is feminism, more questions are asked. Feminism as a perspective is not only relevant to our times but provides another way to look at the past – be it at the time when Frankenstein was written, or even earlier. Students often say that...
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“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story by Charlotte Gilman that was published in the year 1892 in The New England Magazine. This short story mainly discusses the life of the woman who is the narrator and all the issues she faces. Many of these issues were common during the 19th century so it is important to analyze the life...
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Monster culture symbolizes what we see in ourselves. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents a narrative where the main character represents a “monster” because of her nervous condition. The narrator is an upper-class middle-aged woman battling postpartum depression. Her husband often dismisses her and does not talk to her about her case; isolation from society...
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The work of women writers in the 19th century is termed to have been very limited in both physical and artistic sense. Many facts can be attributed to that including politics of the time and the places of women in the society at the time. Women of that time saw the need to emancipate themselves from such restrictions using a...
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This paper is based on the awakening of patriarchal oppression. mechanism and feminism in The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper. Through the comparative analysis of the female struggle and awakening in a patriarchal society. Although both books are about men. However, there is still a difference between the confinement of women in the power society and the awakening of women's...
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Individuals’ attitudes toward illnesses are often influenced culturally and socially. With different perspectives, the idea of illnesses has been systematically stigmatized for many decades. However, most stigmas are directed towards the category of mental disorders. Society often associates individuals with mental disorders as psycho or crazy leading to prejudice. While most stigmas of illnesses have been associated specifically with mental...
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In 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' written by prestigious feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, after the birth of her baby, our nameless narrator suffers from postpartum depression and is forced by her dominant doctor's husband, John, to weeks of bed rest. While in the confines of bed, the narrator starts a rapid descent into madness and becomes convinced that women are stalling...
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In some ways, we are all trapped within our own reality. This reality is subject to our own socio-economic and political context. Where we are born and what time period we were born into we have no choice but we do we do have the choice to challenge our contextual bonds. Today I will be comparing a poem by a...
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The Yellow Wallpaper presents a unique format that can be interpreted in many ways. Gilman adds purpose to her writing by bringing awareness to overlooked topics and issues. One way the author does this is through her descriptive writing style. The Yellow Wallpaper seamlessly depicts the concepts of the Id, Ego, and Lacanian psychosis. The narrator’s constant focus on writing...
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