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“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. I am no bird; and no net ensures me: I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you” (Bronte 216). In the selected passage, from the analysis taken it appears that Jane is expressing how she is finally free as she always dreamed. This was around the time where Mr. Rochester did not want Jane to leave him after figuring out he was a married man. He…

Introduction One of the salient features of the film, The Avengers, is the clever dialogue exchanges between the characters. As far as movie scripts are concerned, The Avengers is, perhaps, one of those that have the wittiest lines. Despite the fact that the plots are quite predictable, the movie with its clean graphics and witty dialogue exchanges is purely entertaining. Created by Marvel Studios in 2012, The Avengers materialized Marvel’s plan to join some of their marketable comic book…

Mary Cassatt was an astute, versatile and acumen American printmaker and painter as implied by Broude (2000) and Saini (2013). She is widely acknowledged as a prolific and leading artist of the Impression movement together with Berthe Morisot and Marie Bracquemond. Cassatt is admired and distinguished as the greatest female painter and printmaker of her time. As an artist, Cassatt delved into paintings that depicted women involved in day-to-day activities and having intimacy with their children.…

Throughout Kate Chopin's The Awakening the main character, Edna, is shown to have a mental state that can be described as erratic and unpredictable. She never knows what she quite wants on a surface level but that she eternally wants liberating freedom. Edna can only achieves her freedom, her ‘awakening’ through death, but she does so consciously. She knows what she really wanted in the end and how she was going to get it. Edna's ‘awakening’ started in the Grand Isles, when she started…

Summary and Evaluation of the Critical Essay by Carole Stone Carole Stone begins acknowledging the other side and how she will work to prove them with her article. Stone starts off speaking how Edna’s memories, encounter with the sea, and search for a motherly figure are “emblems of regression in the service of progression” toward being an artist. The final step Edna takes to be an “autonomous human being” is seeing “through the delusion of romantic love” after witnessing Adèle give birth…

The novel Ladies Coupe (2001) is written by a remarkable female Indian English-language writer Anita Nair aged 50 (1966). She is known for her fictions as well as her travelogues. Time and again, she meets random young men and women who see her as a vagabond free spirit wandering from destination to destination. She always focuses on the problems faced by woman in Indian society. In the novel Ladies Coupe, she…

There’s no escaping the fairy tale in popular culture; a woman trapped under duress, awaiting for a man to rescue her. It’s an archetype that transcends time and continent, but whether it’s approach to gender roles is outdated is an entirely different question. Louise Bourgeois was fascinated with this concept, due to her parents tumultuous relationship and the trauma surrounding identity that pursued her throughout her life. One of the pieces that highlighted the existence of gender roles in…

A Rose for Emily and The Yellow Wallpaper are two short stories about two women during the late 1800s through the early 1900s. This is during an era when women are viewed as less important than men. Both Emily and the narrator are trapped in a world of delusions, control, and mental illness. Scorned by the men in their lives and society, both women experience feelings of control by others, loneliness, and a loss of sanity. Although both women share similar experiences, they came from different…

One widely known short story that Chopin wrote is the story of “Desiree’s Baby”. The story is about a woman who has struggling relationship with her husband. The story begins when Armand Aubigny all of a sudden falls in love with Desiree, who was a foundling discovered by Monsieur Valmonde. She and Armand marry and have a baby. When the baby is born, Armand is at first delighted. However, the baby’s skin color soon shows signs of the baby being a “Quadroon”. Armand assumes that because of…

In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin uses symbolism, imagery, and similes to show how marriage was for this woman. “The Story of an Hour”, describes a woman’s view on her marriage after her husband had died. This woman was happy that she was finally free to live her own life and not have to live her life in the shadow of her own husband. This whole story took place within one hour. She thought her husband was dead, but he ended up being alive, and soon after she found that out, she died.…