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Expectations and standards for women in society are unrealistic and outrageous. These thoughts of what a woman should be like and how they should behave have been around for centuries. Woman are often times looked down upon when they don’t look like how society tells them to and this can cause a number of things to go wrong in their self image and life. Unfortunately these high expectations have had an extremely negative impact on females. In Margie Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” she discusses the…

The word thrive can be represented in different ways from person to person. However, according to its definition: to thrive means to grow or to develop well, which is often associated with the physical growing of a plant or animal. Nature can thrive even after a horrible fire and rebuild what was once destroyed. This is a more obvious example of what it could mean to “thrive”. More importantly though, the word can have many more implications than just growing physically. For humans especially,…

A Streetcar Named Desire is play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947s. The play is mainly about Blanche Dubois. She traveled from New Orleans to a place called Elysian Field to see her sister Stella. Her sister Stella is married to Stanley Kowalski; they live in an apartment building. Blanche came to see her sister because she has nowhere else to go. Her husband passed away, and she also lost her parents, employment, and her old family home, Bella Reve. Stella is her only remaining family…

The Two Fridas is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1939. This large-scale work presents a double self-portrait of two versions of Frida that takes almost the entire canvas, posing seated on a wooden-bench together. One is wearing a discreet, elegant, white European-style Victorian dress while the other one is wearing a colorful, traditional Mexican dress- both representing the artist’s background. The first impression that depicts this art of work is the duality of a…

The famous author, Charles Dickens, had an unusual character style compared to other authors in that time. One of his strangest and most complex characters was Mrs. Havisham in the novel Great Expectations. The author, Dickens, created Mrs. Havisham who was an old heart broken woman who insists on wearing her wedding dress the rest of her life, locked up in a world full of obsession. Mrs. Havisham’s heart was broken on the day of her wedding when her fiance didn’t show up and left her.…

The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck is a short novel about a boy named Alexander Armsworth who lives in Bluff City, Louisiana in 1913. Alexander is a normal 13-year-old boy, living a normal life, until one day he is informed by one of his classmates that her mother can see ghosts and has “seen” one in Alexander’s family shed. This turns out to be the ghost of a young girl (Inez Dumaine) and her dog Trixie. Alexander becomes a local hero after Inez warns him of an accident about to happen,…

Although “The Storm” is told from a third person omniscient point of view, “The Adulterous Wife” is told from the first person peripheral point of view. “The Adulterous Wife” is a poem that tells a story of a married woman that cheats on her husband from an overseer’s point of view. The wife is a static character and does not change throughout the poem. McClave depicts a flash back to inform readers she has done this before and does not plan on changing: “She lies and cheats and do the sins that…

The telephone rang on a crisp autumn morning, Camilia slipped out of bed still half asleep not knowing what yet was to come. On the other line was her aunt telling her the tragic news, she panicked and fainted. Luckily, her husband Pedro caught her fall. Sobbing, he knew it was something serious. “Pedro, my parents just died in a car collision, what will happen to my siblings?” she wailed. Not knowing how to react, he kept silent and tried to comfort her. After many phone calls with her aunts…

In "The Dead", James Joyce explores the character of Gabriel. Joyce goes into detail about Gabriel's emotions and his thoughts. Joyce uses literary techniques to present those emotions and Gabriel's character. Joyce uses imagery to describe the scenes that Gabriel experiences. For instance, "Gabriel, leaning on his elbow, looked for a few moments unresentfully on her tangled hair and half-open mouth, listening to her deep-drawn breath." This quote and its imagery gives insight to Gabriel's…

A Path To Individuality In the story, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin, a mother escapes her home temporarily, from all her worries of being in a lower class and encounters the luxuries that only people with a lot of money and wealth can experience. A poem, “Now and Then, America” by Pat Mora, however, is a short poem about a person that wants to be unique and free from society’s definition of ordinary. Even though the two authors both wrote about freedom, identity, and individuality,…