The Coldness of Ashes Susan Pfeffer’s story “Ashes” teaches a lesson about how trust is decided on past‚ not relationships. Ashleigh‚ “Ashes”‚ with divorced parents‚ talks about how when she is with her dad‚ the sun shines just a little bit brighter‚ but according to her mother‚ he is just an “irresponsible bum”. Ashes was a nickname her father gave her‚ which her mother hates. Ashes‚ says that her father hardly ever keeps a promise‚ such as when she was a kid‚ he told her that the stars were
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Women should be allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony is telling the state that excluding women from voting is wrong. The Woman’s right to the Suffrage speech by Susan B. Anthony was most compelling because she used good evidence and good diction. The Constitution states it is legal for women to vote and should be allowed to vote; she communicates this idea through diction and allusion. It is illegal for the state to tell them otherwise. “For any state to make sex a qualification that must result in
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There is irony in the title of the play. Trifles would mean things without importance or overlooked‚ even not needed; and yet the wife‚ the kitchen‚ the dead bird are all the most important elements of the drama. The kitchen is where the most important lines take place‚ the wife overlooked takes control‚ and the quilt and the dead bird tell the real story of the Wright home. There is irony in the focus on the activity of her hands "pleating" her apron‚ this is mentioned several times by Lewis Hale
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both take steps in order to take control of their lives. In both plays‚ the women come to a realization of a woman’s true meaning in life‚ which was not known before that. In A Doll’s House‚ the realization comes to Nora‚ but later in the play. In "Trifles"‚ the realization comes to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters who were witnesses to their neighbors abuse. In A Doll’s House‚ Nora is married to Torvald‚ controls every aspect of her from her spending habits to what she wears to the ball. By the end of the
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around the world suffers from low self-esteem and low self-confidence that could lead to depression‚ which we all know have endless serious repercussions. It’s a domino effect. What you do to others‚ others do unto another. “Lust”‚ a short story by Susan Minot‚ tackles certain cancers of the society that are passed on to the new generation including the question of self worth‚ the still existing misogynistic views of people‚ and the issue on double standards. “Lust” begins with a narrator whose characterization
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writer’s expression of attitude and feelings towards his or her readers. By tone‚ the readers are able to understand the mood of the story. Both the styles are important in this study to demonstrate their usages in a piece of literature. Lust by Susan Minot demonstrates the effective use of style and tone.
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beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind” -here she explains how theirs two types of beauty the “inside” beauty and the “outside” beauty. In Susan Sontag informative piece entitled “Beauty” she discusses her logical thoughts of the beauty of a women and a men‚ and of how beauty has changed over the centuries. Susan uses Logical appeals to evoke her philosophy of beauty. She says “The privileges of beauty are immense” said Cocteau. To be sure‚ beauty is a form of power. And deservedly
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1.2 The major literary works of Susan Sontag In Sontag’s life‚ she totally wrote four novels‚ they are "The Benefactor” (1963)‚ “Death Tool"(1967)‚"The Volcano Lover"(1992) and "In the United States" (2000);besides‚ there is one short stories “I ‚ etcetera" and a few scripts. Then she also published eight other works‚ among these works ‚ the famous works are "Against Interpretation" (1966)‚ "The Radical Form of Will" (1969)‚ "On Photography" (1977)‚ "The Disease Metaphor" (1988)‚ "The point" (2001)
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Caged Birds Without A Song Written within the nineteenth century‚ both Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House‚ use symbolism within the play to illustrate how different the roles were between men and women during this time. Reputation and public appearance were viewed as intrinsic forms of value within nineteenth century marriages‚ as though they were solely the backbone of the marriage’s success. Women were viewed as subordinates‚ mere extensions of their husbands‚ creating
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Jamillah Powell Maryann McCall ENGL 104 9 June 2014 Lust is Illusive Susan Minot’s short story‚ "Lust‚" shares a tale of sexually pervading adolescent girl. The unnamed protagonist victimizes herself in fragmented recollections of sexual encounters with multiple partners. Debauchery down spirals her into a realm of self- languish. The narrator begins as a morally bankrupt adolescent and the text unravels a severely ambivalent sad teenage girl. The more of yourself that you passively give away
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