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    Response In the short story Bluebeard‚ there is a man who is married to an average house wife. The main part of this story is how Bluebeard leaves his house for a week or so for some reason. This results in leaving his wife all alone in Bluebeards house‚ where his wife has not seen a whole lot of it. Bluebeard gave her a key and said there is a secret closet in the house that you are permitted from. So the wife goes on searching and does not think about that one closet. However‚ her curiosity kicks

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    Girl Found Dead Lying In Hay I think Curley’s wife is a victim because in the book it states “Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple‚ and face was sweet and young.” She did not hurt Lennie in any way. Lennie came after her and killed her while she was doing nothing wrong to make him kill her. Even though he is a big man and crushes about everything

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    Phát A popular provocative dance move in the Broadway shows in 1950s has been chosen as the title for this short story “The Can-can” of Vivante about a man having a love affair while his thought was wandering around “somebody doing the can-can”- his wife back home. The can-can therefore does more than just being the title‚ its repeated recurrence in the story recognizes itself as a noteworthy symbol and also contributes greatly in the interpretation of the story’s theme. The can-can emerges as a

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    To begin with‚ the Handmaid’s Tale’s introduction was begining with Offred the main character. Offred lives with Aunt Sarah and Aunt Elizabeth. The aunts are meant to show these handmaid’s‚ the aunts show them discipline. The aunts are very strict with the handmaids‚ for example they have a curfew for them and they can only go out twice in a day. The aunts purpose and importance is that the keep the handmaid’s on check like so that they can be good. Offred’s purpose in the Handmaid’s Tale is to show

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    their socially expected characters. They are identified by their role as a wife and mother. The wife in “A Sorrowful Woman” is depressed with her life‚ so much so‚ "The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again"(p.1). Faye has come to detest her life‚ the sight of her family‚ and withdraws into a deep depression. Faye is unhappy in her life because she wants more than to be just a wife and mother. She wants a life outside the home but doesn’t know how to get

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    against the culture and society. An attitude of a woman must have‚ defining rights and privileges to be love and be love by the person she shares her love. And not for the traditions sake of having a family. How my Brother Leon brought Home a Wife The story is all about culture in the rural against the culture in the urban. The place and surroundings in a particular society has a viral rule in developing your traits and culture. Maria in the story shows her decency as an educated person to

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    “ Okonkwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife ‚ who went to plait her hair at her friend’s house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal” (p.29). Ojiugo and Okonkwo do not see eye to eye .This action was not acceptable in Okonkwo’s mind. She knew she had to cook before doing any of her personal necessities. In this village‚ no wife should disrespect their husbands in any way. All of his wives do as demanded ‚ but not the youngest

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    Sound’ and the different techniques that Auden uses to tell the story. Cleverly the poem can be interpreted in more than one way depending on how you read the poem. The poem has two voices off a husband and wife. It tells the story of soldiers coming for this man that have been sent by his wife. One of the ways that Auden tells the story is through the juxtaposition of language at the start of the poem and at the end. At the start the character seems almost naïve about the situation and

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    Carver’s use of the first person limited point of view greatly contributes to the climax of the story‚ and is imperative in understanding it’s significance. The main character is married‚ and his wife has an old friend to visit them at their home. This friend is a man named Robert‚ he is blind and his wife has died fairly recently. The only name given is Robert’s‚ leaving

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    wish to marry Bianca‚ A gorgeous‚ young woman. However‚ she is not allowed to marry until her hot tempered older sister Katherina has found a husband. A man named Petruchio decides to take upon the challenge of ‘taming’ her to be a loyal and obedient wife. There are two main themes in ‘Taming Of The Shrew’ which are gender roles and also Marriage. The gender roles shown are stereotypically how woman and men should behave in the 16th century and how Katherina breaks these stereotypes. Marriage is also

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