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Treatment of women in society shashi Desponde’s selected short stories A Liberated Woman and It Was the Nightingale Shashi Desponde , an Indian woman writer in, was born in a small town of Dharward in 1938. Her father, the famous kannada playwright, was described as ‘the Bernard Shaw of the ‘Kannada theatre’ .She acquired an M.A. in English from Mysore University. She married Dr. Desponde, A Neuro-pathologist in 1962 and visited England in 1969. Inspired by this visit, she published an account…

Prakash Aryal Dr. Suzette Bishop English 1302-201 February 17, 2018 Literary Analysis on “The Storm” “The Storm” is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1898. The story did not publish until 1969. The Author did not make any attempt of publishing the story as it contains some adulterous scenes at the main part of climactic tale which would not be acceptable to her readers at her time. The story is about the reignition of passion between two…

drienne Rich (1929-2012) was by many regarded as the voice of her generation. Her work was often political, and her poetry explored themes such as change, feminism and sex. In the earlier years, having a family, she often wrote her poems in between chores. Perhaps it was her traditional lifestyle gave her work a “neat and orderly” (Rich, as cited in Mays 912) tint. “Aunt Jennifer's tigers” was published at the mere age of 21. As times changed, so did her poetry, growing more social and political…

Since Esperanza’s father was now dead she and her mother where forced to ride in the low-class section on the train during their journey to the United States. Upon boarding the train, Esperanza couldn’t help but notice that all of the passengers looked poor, disgusting, and dirty. She also noticed that the train was filthy and smelled of urine. She immediately became disguised and complained to her mother, telling her that Papa and Abuelita would not approve of them being among such people and…

inevitable and decide to face it with a mere appreciation of life itself. Despite the different emotions corresponding with one’s perception of death, there is a unique twist on this inevitable part of life in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour.” Death indicates an initial sensation of freedom for the main character Louise Mallard in this story when she believes to have lost her husband in a tragic train crash; however, one may see it later controlling Mrs. Mallard with her own…

In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

Once you experience something of such great significance, it is hard to let that go and move on. This universal theme can be seen in both the song “Want You Back” by 5 Seconds of Summer, and the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. In “Want You Back” the band sings about a girl whom they have left and will always want back. In “All Summer in a Day” the author tells about about students on Venus, who are in the absence of the sun and are grieving the loss of it too. In both of…

In the poem "Minerva Jones", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about how Minerva Jones died in the hands of a doctor. People hooting at her while she walks down the street. Minerva Jones is describe as a heavy body, cocked-eye, and rolling walk girl. What i learned about this individual was that she was named called for just walking down the streets. The people she talks about are the people who were hooting at her and the doctor that they left her with. She was left on her own fate with a doctor name…

helps to demonstrate the symbolization of a woman who just experienced her most triumphant victory over her oppressor. With her “body and soul free” (66), she is expressing just how great of an oppression that had consumed her soul. In “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, which represents the element of symbolism through seasons, freedom, and death to convey a message of the oppression of a woman’s soul. The seasons play an important role in setting up for the freedom aspect of the story, but it…

"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The short story talking about a woman, Louise Mallard, who locked herself in her room after hearing the death of her husband and the series of emotions her endured. Ironically，Mallard finally died of her heart trouble when she saw her husband back. Especially the foreshadowing and irony make the story really wonderful. Though Mallard’s thinking, the author showed married women’s self-struggle at that time. To be honest, I…