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    Malith Wijeratne Professor Julie Marzano RDG055-01 July 7‚ 2011 Madame C.J. Walker was an inventor‚ businesswoman‚ philanthropist and a social activist who made her fortune by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women. The Guinness Book of Records cites Walker as the first female‚ black or white who becomes a millionaire by her own achievements. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23‚ 1867 on a Delta‚ Louisiana plantation‚ this daughter of former

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    An Education in Escape: Madame Bovary and Reading A theme throughout Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is escape versus confinement. In the novel Emma Bovary attempts again and again to escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels‚ having affairs‚ day dreaming‚ moving from town to town‚ and buying luxuries items. It is Emma’s early education described for an entire chapter by Flaubert that awakens in Emma a struggle against what she perceives as confinement. Emma’s education at the convent

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    The revolutionaries are very secretive about their actions in the beginning. If caught‚ the punishment could have been death. Madame Defarge is a fervent member of this movement as well as a knitter. Her pugnacious spirit is undying‚ but it is not often seen. In the same way‚ it is repeatedly stated that “Madame Defarge knitted with nimble fingers and steady eyebrows‚ and saw nothing” (42). She is definitely aware of her surroundings and probably even more observant

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    boredom in Madame Bovary and Therese Raquin. Through a close-reading of specific scenes‚ discuss the different ways in which Emma and Therese experience and cope with boredom. What role do marriage and setting (Paris v the country) play in their respective boredoms? Emma Bovary and Therese Raquin are both unable to maintain an enthusiasm and engagement in their lives‚ their respective marriages or their surroundings. This essay will argue that boredom is a mental element in Madame Bovary‚ as Emma

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    What we see as Romance‚ is not really Romance at all. Words are sweet and wonderful‚ but do they really mean what they sound like? In "Madame Bovary‚" by Gustave Flaubert‚ the author uses equine imagery to satirize Romanticism‚ cleverly using horses to foreshadow the downfall of his carefully structured "Cinderella" scene. Madame Bovary will eventually die in large debt‚ and as Flaubert explicitly describes her gruesome death‚ our traditional ideas of Romance are knocked down. Charles is so distraught

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    In the novel Madame Bovary‚ Gustave Flaubert displays through the use of symbolism the moral corruption that eventually consumes Emma’s being. Flaubert uses a combination of characters and objects to illustrate her impending downfall. At a young age‚ she harbors idealistic romantic illusions‚ longs for sophistication‚ sensuality‚ and passion‚ and descends into fits of extreme boredom and depression when her life fails to match the romantic novels she treasures. Emma’s bourgeois aspirations set her

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    fieldnote extract above suggests‚ modern technology has altered the process in which theatre is devised‚ executed‚ understood and documented (cite McAuley). Theatre Kantanka utilise technology in their theatre-making and performing process of The Obscene Madame D through their decision for the audience to wear headphones and experience the audio closely and undisturbed‚ minimising live speech‚ and pertaining to the idea that the prominent monologue of the production is occurring

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    Explore the relationship between Stephen and Madame Azaire in the opening of ‘Birdsong’ In this essay I will be arguing that the relationship between Stephen and Madame Azaire is intangible in the opening of Birdsong. I think that the reason Faulks has done this is to engage the reader so that throughout the novel it is unclear on how their relationship is going to develop. I will be exploring a number of different encounters with Stephen and Madame Azaire. I will be talking about how their relationship

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    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens uses descriptions of Madame Defarge’s knitting to evince the theme of secrets being best kept in plain sight. While Madame Defarge and her husband Defarge perform closing duties after their wine-shop closes for the evening‚ Defarge describes the British spy John Barsad for record keeping to his wife. Shortly after‚ Madame Defarge “began knotting [the descriptions] up in her handkerchief‚ in a chain of separate knots‚ for safe keeping through the night” (Dickens

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    their actions whether it is revenge or a search to find a purpose. Throughout the novel‚ Madame Defarge makes it obvious she has a hidden motive. She has a constant quest to disrupt the lives of Darnay and the Manettes. Madame Defarge is one of the three who accuses Darnay‚ sending him to prison again. She wants him put to death and she wants to catch Lucie illegally mourning a prisoner. In Book 3‚ Madame Defarge’s motive is revealed. She wants to put an end to the Evremonde family line because

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