Hester is segregated from society. Dimmesdale felt alone due to the secrecy of his sin. Chillingworth surrendered himself to evil and gradually withers away. Mad Shadows focuses on a family that live in a corrupt perception of true beauty and love. Louise‚ who only valued material possessions and outer beauty‚ disregarded her unsightly daughter while pampering her handsome son. Her shallowness planted a jealous seed in Isabelle-Marie preventing her from experiencing happiness. Patrice on the other
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sudden‚ wild abandonment” (Chopin‚ K. 1894)‚ her realization of freedom‚ and snap ending of her husband returning unscathed‚ providing the reader with a sharp insight. Yet‚ Chopin does not stop there‚ because immediately following Brently’s arrival‚ Louise dies‚ having never realized her true independence. In this end‚ Chopin’s form provides the reader with the fleeting moment women have for independence‚ merely a daydream before their husband comes home. On the other hand‚ de Maupassant
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Kate Chopin tackles complex issues involved in the interplay of female independence‚ love‚ and marriage through her brief but effective characterization of the supposedly widowed Louise Mallard in her last hour of her life. After discovering that her husband has died in a train accident‚ Mrs. Mallard faces conflicting emotions of grief at her husband’s death and exultation at the prospects for freedom in the remainder of her life. The latter emotion eventually takes precedence in her thoughts. As
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into the emotional struggle of her character Mrs. Louise
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time to sit there and watch the same play over and over. One song they choose to reenact often was “Let Me Entertain You”. This act they performed was from the musical Gypsy‚ based off an autobiography on the famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee (Louise Havoc) 1957. Gypsy 1962 film version was screenplayed by Leonard Spiegelgasse‚ with Stephen Sondheim the lyricist for songs composed by Jule Styne. The librettist was Arthur Laurents. I believe the main theme for the musical Gypsy was depicting what
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More often than not it feels as if less attention is given to the darker‚ more realistic side of love. Time and time again‚ there are tragic ends to even the happiest‚ most fairytale of romances‚ breaking the hearts of the fictional characters involved just as much‚ if not more‚ than the readers suffering in the heartache right alongside. Throughout a constantly evolving society with ever-changing beliefs and morals‚ there always seems to be a new high and a new low for people in love. Tragedy strikes
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Causes of Mrs. Mallards Death After reading Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ readers are left in wonder as to what ultimately resulted in the death of Mrs. Louise Mallard. While the very end suggests heart disease as the culprit‚ further analyzation of the story points towards a few other‚ deeper and slightly more complex causes. The first thing we learn about Mrs. Mallard is that she has heart trouble. This heart trouble turns is both mental and physical and is both within her body and
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as the story goes on‚ the reader is led to believe that Louise didn ’t much care for her husband. I say this because later in the story‚ when she attempts to picture a life alone without her husband‚ it said that "she had loved him-sometimes. Often she did not" (Chopin). The character becomes aware of conflict between the two a little over halfway into the story where‚ using the same reference as in the first question‚ it says that Louise "had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not"(87). She struggles
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Finch character. Atticus is extremely different is each of the novels‚ but Jean-Louise is the same naïve‚ child-like‚ troublemaker in each. “Go Set a Watchman” Jean-Louise is an adult woman who went approximately 20 years not knowing of her father’s racial prejudices. This becomes even more confusing after knowing the Harper Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman before To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s original conception of Jean-Louise was extremely childish‚ and then for the her second novel she decided to not
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Lisa’s Cat The day Muffin died was a huge disaster‚ at least to Lisa it was. The whole thing had happened on a sunny and enjoyable afternoon. Lisa Louise had just come home from school after saying goodbye to her friend who had walked with her. She rushed into the house‚ wanting to find her cat‚ Muffin‚ for a big welcome‚ only to find Muffin lying on the floor! She hadn’t seemed to look‚ well . . . very much alive. Lisa rushed to her side‚ but it had been too late; she only found the already hardened
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