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    Gothicism confusing good and evil. Miss. Strangeworth is spreading gloom onto people which is also related to Southern Gothicism. To go on with these Southern Gothic elements‚ the non-participating narrator describes Adela Strangeworth and her perception of others. 71 year old Adela Strangeworth is placed as a Southern aristocrat as

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    Oppression Within “Like Water for Chocolate” and “The House of Bernarda Alba” Lead To Unnatural Consequences? In both ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ and ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ rebellion against oppression is a strong theme‚ with both Tita and Adela struggling to break free of their mother’s authoritarianism. However‚ it is important to realise that with both characters‚ the authors are using them to symbolise their own journeys. Federico Garcia Lorca uses Adela’s strong willed fight against Bernarda

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    The novel and film ‘A Passage to India’ written by Forster and directed by Lean is about the Society of British people in India. Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested arrived in Chandrapore‚ India because Mrs. Moore’s son Ronny and Adela are recently engaged. However‚ when they arrived they sensed‚ and were quickly trapped in‚ a prejudiced British community which misuses the natives of India and abuses them throughout the whole novel and film. ‘A Passage to India’. The film is directed by Lean presents

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    dispirited for most of the‚ time and we do not often see the side of her character which so endears her to Aziz. Her second meeting with Aziz at Fielding’s tea party is the last time we see her in a carefree mood. Her problems begin at that party: first‚ Adela indiscreetly tells Aziz that she does not intend to settle in India; this remark indicates to Mrs Moore that her mission has resulted in failure and Fielding observes that she ‘looked flustered and put out’; secondly‚ Ronny rudely breaks up the party

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    Hallock‚ Isaiah Hallock built a farmhouse on this spot around 1832. It burned to the ground in 1915. In the mid 1920s Konstanty and Adela (Lipnicka) Cichanowicz (both born in Poland) bought the 35-acre farm consisting of the Little Hallock House east of the current Cich farm garage‚ the circa 1832 Isaiah Hallock barn and various outbuildings. Konstanty and Adela married in Glen Head‚ LI in 1912 and started their family in Glen Cove. They moved to Mattituck c. 1920 to work as a farm laborer.

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    Moore and Adela‚ foreign to India‚ were devastated at their arrival by the marxism and comedy of manners in India. They were shocked with the behavior of the British towards the Indians‚ the level of arrogance from the British shocked them. They quickly felt responsible and wanted to make immends with the Indians. As far as Mrs. Moore and Adela reached this barrier of friendship they wanted with the Indians the universe kept trying to pull them back‚ evil strikes from within the caves Adela enters and

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    The word “silence” is constantly repeated throughout the play. In fact‚ the very last word that comes out of Bernarda’s mouth is “silence.” What do you think this word can symbolize? In the play called “The House of Bernarda Alba” by Garcia Lorca‚ Bernarda Alba is a mother of five who silences her daughters and servants several times throughout the play. In many instances of the play‚ the word silence is used or is enacted‚ placing great significance to the word. If the word is taken out of context

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    this work I was able to learn many things about Adela as a reader‚ as a writer‚ and as a speller. As a reader‚ Adela had decent fluency when reading out loud. She read in two or three word phrases which allowed for a relatively easy understanding from a listener’s perspective. She was also very good at self-correction when reading out loud. When she misread or omitted a word‚ she would go back to the beginning of the sentence and start over. Adela was a much more confident reader than writer. She

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    Esquivels’ pieces of literature portray the hardships and burdening lives while enduring restrictive love due to the oppressive female roles. Lorca creates the character‚ Bernarda Alba to act as the tyrant in his tale‚ leading some characters such as Adela and Maria Josefa to defy her and try to escape the tyrannical environment. Lorca expresses this uprising against Bernarda using colour as symbolism‚ while the house is symbolically used by Bernarda Alba as a means of repressing her family members and

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    Suppression of women was a serious issue in several countries over the past few centuries. The women of Spain and Norway were suppressed at the time the two plays A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba were written. Although this issue has improved in most countries‚ it still is occurring in some countries. This issue was portrayed in the themes of these two plays. Both A Doll’s House and The House of Bernarda Alba portray the suppression of women and their lack of freedom in different ways

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