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    Frederic Chopin

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    Anthony Gross Wayne Smith Music 117 May 20th 2012 The Musical Life of Frederic Chopin Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was born in a tiny village of Zelazowa about thirty miles away from Warsaw where he was raised as the son of a Polish mother and French father. While growing up in Warsaw much of his childhood compositions are known today as some of the most significant achievements for a composer in the Romantic era. At a very young age his original style of playing and composing astonished the

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    Kate Chopin’s‚”The Story of an Hour‚” is an ironic and symbolic story as it portrays an innuendo of repression through the example married women. Chopin’s short story begins with Mrs. Mallard becoming lurid as she hears of her husband’s death. Consequently‚ Mrs. Mallard underwent changes from depressed to an elated state of emotion. Chopin displayed Mrs. Mallards’ grievances and attitude towards freedom through her diction. Just as Mrs. Mallard perceived that she gained her freedom‚ news was delivered

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    Frederic Chopin

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    Frederic Chopin was a composer of polish decent‚ from the romantic era Chopin composed mostly on a solo piano. He was born on March 1st‚ 1810 in what used to be Duchy of Warsaw and was raised in Warsaw. It later on in 1815 came to be a part of Poland. Many people considered him to be a child prodigy as his family didn’t have money‚ yet he grew up motived to love music by his mom was and because his father worked for a noble family he had access to instruments from an early age and was exposed to

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    these social pressures from society (Frye 69). Examples of society’s social pressures on women include marriage‚ children‚ and domesticity. These social pressures placed on women did not allow women to become their own self because women’s “social role[s] [conflicted] with her true identity” (Jones 121). Women had a difficult time finding their own identity because of these social pressures. One of the first social pressures placed on women is marriage. While women are growing up‚ they are told that

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    Compare and Contrast Essay 3/19/13 How motifs affect theme in The Awakening and The Great Gatsby In common literature‚ motifs are reoccurring symbols that develop a certain aspect of the author’s intention. In The AwakeningKate Chopin uses the motif of water to develop the theme of freedom. Similar to the Chopin‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the motif of yellow and white to develop the theme of appearance versus reality. In contrast‚ their themes may be different‚ however the intention of both

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    (as well as death and blood) and entrapment in order to show how naivete and innocence are exploited and taken for granted. Moreover‚ the idea of entrapment comes to fruition often in gothic literature‚ and usually happens to those who are innocent as a means of furthering the central idea of horror. In the short story‚ “Prey”‚ written by Richard Matheson‚ expounds upon the idea of entrapment when the main character Amelia is running from an evil doll and “trie[s] to open the bolt. It [is] helplessly

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    N.V.I.R.O.N.M.E.N.T. The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place down south in nineteenth century Louisiana. The environment of New Orleans‚ Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada had a huge effect on the protagonist of the story‚ Edna Pontellier experience; in her of finding who she truly wanted to be. Each different environment helped her progress into finding on Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin masters the use of setting as it concerns to Edna’s journey of spiritual awakening. The changing of settings

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    In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ the readers are introduced to the creole society in which the main character‚ Edna Pontellier‚ lives. Readers soon discover that Edna herself does not quite fall into place within the society and she feels uncomfortable at several points within the text. While she is feeling uncomfortable within the society she lives‚ she is actually becoming more comfortable with herself. This “comfortableness” she is obtaining is actually her awakening. Edna is gaining

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    is able to learn from what these women have gone throughout and this helps shape her into who she becomes. Minerva‚ only two years older than Esperanza‚ is one of these women. Minerva shows fear‚ entrapment and shows the gender difference in The House on Mango Street. Minerva displays fear and entrapment by her reaction to being abused by her husband. She has two children and a husband that comes and goes as he pleases. One day‚ Minerva has had enough of this and tell her husband. He reacts by taking

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    Noah Hill AP Language and Composition 13 August 2015 The Awakening: Literary Criticism Summaries. In Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s analysis of the novel The Awakening‚ Wolff identifies Edna’s struggle with sexual identity‚ and exploits in conveying her experience of displaying primitive behaviors‚ through utilization of Freudian psycho analysis. Wolff further supports her thesis through utilization of literary and cultural analysis. It is argued that her interactions with others sexually is uninteresting

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