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    Jane Austen’s novel pride and prejudice presented four married couples, non-of the couples are a like in their love story and personalities. In that era, women were concerned a lot about marriage and who to marry which was an important thing in women’s life because mostly the women’s financial stability is on men or husbands. Austen in the novel she presented several contrasting attitudes to marriage. Austin focused mainly on pride and prejudice which presents true love, while there was other…

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    1. In the story “The Necklace”, Mrs. Loisel we learn, is a very gorgeous lady, but lives poorly. She is married to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. She thinks highly of herself, as if she was made to be born into the luxurious lifestyle. She has a friend, Madame Forestier, who is very wealthy, and lends a diamond necklace to Mrs. Loisel. The central conflict of this story is the loss of the diamond necklace. She loses it just after the big ball, and spends the next 10 years of her life…

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    Characteristics: The Lady: "The Lady" or the beloved who regularly appears in Donne's poetry is normally a delightful lady who is bashful around an enthusiastic or physical connection to the speaker. Donne for the most part spends the greater part of the ballad participating in a contention to charm her yet from time to time with a resolution. In his later verse, the woman tended to is a perfect lady who cherishes the speaker with a profound love mixed together with physical energy. In these…

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    Alissa Nutting Model’s Assistant: My Best Friend Garla Why are you making a decent attempt to fit in when you were destined to emerge? In the story "Models Assistant" by Alissa Nutting, she paints an examination between humanities battle between medias unattainable flawlessness, and our own instabilities that prompt the fixation of our predictable approval through these standards. In such manner, Alissa perfectly exemplifies our unreliable society, whereas Garla fills in as the background to…

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    Kamala Das Poem Analysis

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    An Introduction" is Kamala Das' most renowned sonnet in the confession booth mode. Keeping in touch with her, dependably filled in as a kind of otherworldly treatment: "On the off chance that I had been an adored individual, I wouldn't have turned into an essayist. I would have been a glad person." Kamala Das starts without anyone else's input declaration: I am what I am. The poetess guarantees that she isn't keen on legislative issues, however claims to know the names of all in control…

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    In the novel, Madame Bovary, Flaubert explores hand gestures to establish the nature of the characters and the power of the relationships between the characters. With the description of the character's hands, Flaubert presents Emma and Rodolphe’s personas. Flaubert also foreshadows the character's future actions or their demise and empowerment over others. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert altars hand description and movement to further enhance the story of the Bovary’s. Through the detailed repetition…

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    Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Mrs. Mallard is fighting oppression through not having the same rights as men in this period of the 1890s. Women didn’t have the right to vote while also having arranged marriages for which they can’t choose their own husbands. An analysis of “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, uses the themes of death, freedom, and irony to show the struggles women faced in the 1890s. The first theme in “The Story of an Hour,”…

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    Understanding Gender Norms in Gilead with Feminism and Politics in the Handmaid’s Tale: Jill Swale examines the political and historical context of Atwood’s novel Readers of dystopian will recognize many of the themes and features of Atwood’s novel: war, surveillance, oppression, lack of freedom, underground movements and rebellion. In Jill Swale’s examination of the social and historical context of the novel, she comments on the idea that the novel is and “amalgam of trends” (Swale) that have…

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    The reading questions and discussion boards were particularly important in helping me analyze and research especially for my RA. For example, this particular question made me ponder upon several things until I researched and found something interesting to use for my RA. “George Cruikshank – “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” Q: The stepmother is portrayed as proud, selfish and extravagant which makes her unjust and cruel, in contrast to Cinderella whose “disposition was even better than her…

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    Things By Arundhati Roy

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    an unorthodox narrative that draws the reader in and provokes bafflement at the same time. The story runs through different time frames, moving back and forth from the present to the past, foretelling without disclosing upcoming events. The warped timeline leaves the reader, if oblivious to India’s historical context, estranged from the concepts brought up in the novel. Previous knowledge is needed when reading this text to find out the…

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