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Kate Chopin/ The Awakening
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A 20 page research paper on Kate Chopin's turn of the century novel, The Awakening, which challenged society's concepts of what a wife and mother should be. The story, which tells of a young woman's search for identity and her sexual awakening, shocked the country and seriously damaged its author's career. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: 99awake.rtf

Literary Mastery in Chopin's 'The Awakening'
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A 5 page paper on this late nineteenth-century novel by Kate Chopin. The paper looks at the literary techniques Chopin used to develop her work, and concludes that the novel's construction and development is as innovative for the times as its shocking theme. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Sexuality in Chopin's 'The Storm'
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A 5 page paper analyzing the astonishingly frank depiction of female sexuality in Kate Chopin's landmark short story. The paper looks intensively at the social backdrop against which Chopin wrote her story, and shows why this story remained unpublished until long after the author's death. No additional sources.
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Women In Power
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6 pages in length. Powerful women are a rare breed. Such rarity is clearly depicted in three particularly outstanding stories: Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, Everyday Use by Alice Walker and The Widow of Ephesus. While each woman's strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within one's very being. It is about this strength and power that the writer describes these women as they are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more worthwhile. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Women's Self-Image in Ibsen and Chopin
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A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting hthe characterization of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening with that of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The paper concludes that the heroines' differing fates are defined by the nature of each woman's self-image at the time of the story's climax. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Womnself.rtf

Oppositions in Tan’s “The Hundred Secret Senses”
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A 5 page paper looking at the oppositions Amy Tan has drawn between western and eastern cultures in this evocative novel. The paper contends that it is necessary for the present to become integrated with the ancestral past, the world of the spirit with the world of the flesh, in order for a person to be whole.
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Franz Kafka / Judaism In His Works
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A 5 page paper looking at this important German writer of the twentieth century in terms of the Jewish context of his works. The paper argues that his frequent allusions to deformity, illness, and guilt mirror his own self-perception, resulting from the anti-Semitic stereotypes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kafka's work entitled 'Metamorphosis' is emphasized. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Doestoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' vs. Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'
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A 5 page essay that looks at how the doctor-researcher symbol (representative of tradition and 'state') is treated by Dostoevsky and Kafka in these two works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Franz Kafka / 'Metamorphosis'
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A 5 page essay in which the writer posits that Kafka's story is allegorical for the creationist evolution of the planet Earth, and also for the evolution of religious beliefs from antiquity to Christianity. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Franz Kafka's 'Country Doctor' / As A Definitive Myth
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A 5 page discussion of the short story 'A Country Doctor' by the German writer Franz Kafka. The paper shows how this extremely complex story unfolds like a nightmare and actually functions as a kind of modern myth. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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