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'How does this damn love unman me!' (Lovelace, Clarissa). How does the Rake figure illuminate the contradictions of masculine desire in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'?
... news of her fathers curse frightened Lovelace into a genuine proposal. As he prepares for London, he describes a battle with his ... they seem. Clarissa begins to gain some control, and Lovelace loses it. At Mrs Sinclairs whorehouse, after the fire, Clarissa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Lovesickness: "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
... with his violin, he feels martyred. And after Lorenzo Daza, father of Fermina, threatens to shoot him, Florentino challenges him by ... with Fermina is a great example for this. After he sees Fermina for the first time, he immediately loses his voice and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
The Issues of Class and Gender in the play of Ghosts
... Pastor. Is the steamer in already? [p27], and insults her father, a man whom is of a lower status, by stating What do you want? Stay ... it that Mrs. Alving can lose everything due to the actions of her dead husband, who is seen as a saint in the community? ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
stone cold essay
... a lamb's back", this shows a simile, which talks about the child being innocent and like the Lamb of God. Also it says " and my father ... who will have to go up and ask for more food. Oliver loses. On the day, after finishing his first serving of gruel, he ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
The Remarkable Writing and Career of Rowling
... strain with her relationship with her father. Later, Rowling divorced her husband, leaving her as a single mother and, also, forcing her ... affect Rowling, but it also affected her story of a boy who would lose his parents at an early age, too-Harry Potter ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
emily dickinson
... William Wordsworth, who her father had found his work Inappropriate. Ralph Waldo Emerson was another influential writer that had a great impact on Emily ... the hurt of the love one, what she is going to lose if she dies and how after death you will meet back ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Redemption: No piece of cake
... to the general."You see, General Sahib, my father slept with his servants wife. She bore him a son named Hassan. Hassan is dead now. The ... lose all he has built in America with Soraya. he says, "I can't go to Kabul, I had said to Kahim Khan, I have a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
"Things Fall Apart"
... a great tale of the life of an African tribesman named Okonkwo. Okonkwo is very unique man whom has deep rooted issues with his father ... one of Okonkwo's biggest downfalls. He often loses control and flies into a wild rage at the slightest insult. Throughout ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Gender Roles in "The Tree of Red Stars".
... "Money being wasted parading a poor girl before ogling boys. Wearing virginal white. Waltzing with one's father and having the men ... his reputation, deprives a woman of hers. And you are nothing without your reputation! I am nothing if you lose it."(Bridal). ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
"Sad as She" written by Juan Carlos Onetti.
... the beginning of the story by her father's broken promises. "So the little girl ... the garden slowly gets cut down she finds herself losing her primary source of security and her ... in reckless abandon. "It was all a game, a ritual, a prologue." (Pg. 45) She sees ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature