'On Monsieur's Departure'

Since the beginning of time, women have been treated as second class citizens. Therefore, women were forced to face many problems. Because of this women were repressed. At that time, the Napoleonic Code stated that women were controlled by their husbands and cannot freely do their own will without the authority of their husband. This paper shows how this is evident in the "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and " A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. In both stories, the use of literary elements such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and significant meaning of the titles are essential in bringing the reader to an unexpected and ironic conclusion.

This poem is addressing the issue of slavery at the time. It was a very big issue and an issue that a lot of writers sought to address. Slavery was not something that people liked or agreed with.

For the wife, Louise Mallard, this was an awakening of a new life. This new life is cut short as the information that led her to believe this news turns our false. Kate Chopin reveals that even the desire for love is trumped by the need for freedom and independence, through her use of precise diction and syntax, and symbolism. (rewrite)

Edith Wharton’s short story “A Journey” tells the story of a woman who travels to New York with her husband. During the first half of the story, the narrator describes the relationship between the main character and her husband, even during his sick days and the second half of the story offers insight into the main character’s reactions towards her husband’s sudden death including her interactions with the secondary characters. In “A Journey”, Edith Wharton’s choice to include secondary characters highlights the wife’s selfishness.

However it was no use. A wonderful and terrible image of her dear, sweet John is painted across her eyelids. She is haunted by her beloved; never to be forgotten. He now resides in her head; guiding her and keeping her strong, telling her that everything is fine. But it’s not. It will never be fine: John is dead, never to return. No matter how many tragically beautiful dreams Elizabeth has, where she is wrapped up in John’s strong arms and he is looking down at her adoringly or they are just laughing and smiling at the pure euphoria of each other’s presence, she can never again wake up in his warm embrace or laugh at one of his jokes.

The inner battle is noticeable in her poems “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” and in “Aurora Leigh”, the conflicts demonstrated in both text can be easily associated to Browning’s own personal life and struggles. We can draw many lines from the “runaway slave” in the text, and in Elizabeth. This may provide a reason for us to believe that the poem may have deliberately, but it mirrors some events that Elizabeth experienced as a Victorian woman. This poem tells us a story of a black female slave, to a legitimate white female in “Aurora Leigh”, however we can see that in “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”, also portrays Elizabeth’s conflict with her own identity as an author and a woman. The narrator in, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s

The fact that the poet chooses to write about London, England in the form of an Italian sonnet is an indication that the speaker is making fun of England. The speakers word choice reveals that speaker is actually making fun of England instead of showing sympathy for it when the speaker states that England has “forfeited [its] ancient English dower/ of inward happiness” (5-6). This shows that the speaker feels as if England had an opportunity to have happiness, but they gave it up or “forfeited’ it. The speaker the uses a disrespectful tone when they say,” We are selfish men… (6)/ Give us manners, virtue, freedom, power” (8). In these lines the speaker continues to make fun of England by calling it citizens’ selfish people who lack manners, virtue, freedom, and power. This explains why the speaker is calling for Milton, who is known for his defense on political freedom, at the beginning of the poem to aid England in its time of need. In the sestet at the end of the sonnet, the speaker uses imagery along with simile to transition from the present, to the past. This translation allows the speaker to describe how England used to be. The speaker states that, “thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart” (9). The speaker also uses personification when he states that “[England’s voice was] pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free” (11). These compliments about how

The beginning of the poem shows how Elizabeth was blessed with beauty, and what seemed like a good life. Queen Elizabeth reject all the suitors that fancied her because she never knew if they were after her, or her position. It does not bother her to be alone, and she even enjoyed sending the men away. “Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere, / Impòrtune me no more!” (4-5) These two line are repeated at the end of every stanza; the first two is Elizabeth refusing the men, however, the third one is said to her, and the last one is her repenting what she had said. The line has the same meaning, but a different understanding for Elizabeth. The words she once enjoyed saying were used against her, and she realize the hurt that she had caused to the men and to herself. The men she sent away were heartbroken, and devastated, and she never got to experience love. The

Warmth is what people feel when they are happy. If someone is happy they will sometimes say they feel warm inside. Emma’s affair makes her happy, and that is obvious in the way she talks about it. When snow is on the ground and the sun comes out and begins to warm it up, it begins melting immediately. Flaubert uses simile to compare the lovers’ bitterness to snow that is melting as they kiss. Their cold feelings towards their respective lives are only warm when they are together. When the reader reads that the warmth of Emma and Rodolphe’s kiss melts the snow of their resentfulness, they see the true love that the two have for each other. This allows a deeper connection between the reader and the affair that is unraveling before them. While

about the duke in the poem by what he says and how he says it. Through

Luise Mallard is a young wife (p.78, 3rd paragraph). She immediately feels grief and starts to cry when Richards gives her the news about the death of her husband. But directly after her outburst, the reader can already make out signs about how her feelings will change. In the story are several symbols, showing the approaching of a new life. Through the open window Mrs.

In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, there are two main themes reinforced by the irony present. The first is the oppression brought on by marriage, and the second being, the “killing kiss of independence”. When Mrs.Mallard is first informed of her husband's death, she exhibits the expected signs of grief and despair, but soon comes to the sudden realization that she is “free” and no longer oppressed. When “[s]he said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes”(180) showing how she once felt terror and grief in some manner, but after thinking on her husband's death, realizes that even though she is now alone, she is no longer tied down

Margaret Atwood’s short story My Last Duchess aptly employs ideas from Robert Brownings poem My Last Duchess to highlight themes of importance in communication, The relationship between judgement and inadequacy. The author narrates a story of the trials of being a high school student from the point of view of a young woman who not only has to cope with the stress of an upcoming examination and the pressure her teacher puts on her to excel, but also the added trepidation of what the future holds for her relationship. Many aspects of her relationship with her boyfriend, Billy, and her teacher, Miss Bessie, parallel to the relationship illustrated by the Duke about his relationship with the Duchess in Robert Brownings poem. Similarly, many of the themes found in Robert Brownings poems also apply to Margaret Atwood’s work.

Although it appears that her love towards her husband eclipses everything else, Elizabeth ends this poem with the acknowledgement that it's God's will if this perfect love continues after death. This recognition of God's supremacy, typifies the fervent, Christian beliefs which colored and shaped her ideals of love. This poem to me, symbolizes the purest form of love between husband and wife. Although you could argue that it is written from a selfish perspective, in that she only speaks of her love, her feelings-you have to bear in mind that in Victorian society, women lived their lives solely through their husbands.

In the first few lines of the poem, the reader can already receive a feel of the irony as the poet describes the scene of a maiden left behind as her lover falls in battle. The poet illustrates a scene as to where most readers would feel sorrow and sympathy towards the maiden and perhaps have the speaker in the poem enlighten the