How does Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" compare to the real life of an Victorian women?
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I think "The Awakening" is as accurate as any historical fiction can be.  Women did not have the opportunities that we do today.  even women of means were restricted  as to holding a job and fulfilling goals.  The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman speaks to treatment of women's emotions and the lack of understanding of the psychology of depression, which plays into Edna's decision at the end of "The Awakening"
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I enjoy reading about pioneer hardships, frontier life, hunting, home tending without modern conveniences, that sort of thing. Now, I have never read a historical fantasy novel from this genre and I think it would be cool. The research would probably be more abundantly available to you too, than going all the way back to the 1300's or whatever. I am a 40 yr old female, but you said no one responded before so I'm letting you know.\nI forgot-what shouldn't be there? I have had enough of bodice ripping romance.
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Ballet is awesome. It's so beautiful!!! I just went to my first live show (I used to watch it on PBS) and saw "The Firebird" by Stravinsky. It was breathtaking.\n\nLOL...PS this is Kev's GF!
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Both would be terrible. How would one rate which is worse. The good thing is tho that no matter what situation we are born into, we can make a choice for ourselves at some point to make our life the best we can. Helen Keller did just that. And Sybil did make positive changes, tho struggled with many past issues.    Forgetting the past and moving on and making a geat future is a choice.   We can see living blind and deaf as so bad, but Helen Keller was happier than most and did a lot with her life. What could we do without all those disabilities if we choose to ?  What a thought.   Many kids have horrible family like Syvil and many go on to be that way to their kids. BUt, many get out of it and become wonderful ppl. ITs all choice. Be thankful for all you have, cuase believe me, some have it worse.
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"Glory"\n"Gods and Generals"\n"True Women"\n"Roots"\n"Scarlett" is set in the Reconstruction Era\nThere are tons of books about the Civil War...including some Dear America books and similar diaries.
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There is an obvious vilian in the story\nthere is horror especially  at the end of the book\nThe book has some dark moments a white women fasely accusing a black man of rape when actually it was her father\nI can't remember her name the lady who Scout read to it reminded me of Miss Havisham  in Great Expectations -Gothic novel\nto kill a mocking bird- Edgar Allen Poe the "Raven" another Gothic story there are some cahracteristics in both\nI think there are some supernatural events in the book particularly around  “Boo” Radley
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I would have to say Maya Angelou. Her work is profound and I have learned alot about acceptence from reading her essays and poems. She has lead an extraordinary life and offers a strong role model for women everywhere.
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I sure did!!\n\nIt was one of my favorite books when I was younger.\n\nRoll of Thunder is part of a trilogy surrounding the Logan family (other two books are Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis) The protagonist is Cassie Logan and this is a basically a coming of age story set against the backdrop of what would be impending social change (i.e. the Civil Rights Movement) because the novella takes place in the 1930s.\n\nAnyway, to answer your first question, the location did matter. Mississppi, along with Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina are commonly referred to as the Deep South. In this region, racism and segregation were more blatant through the enactment of laws known as Jim Crow. It was also in this region (though really everywhere) that civil liberties of African Americans were violated and extreme antagonistic actions were taken against them (kidnappings, lynchings, etc.) by such groups like the Klu Klux Klan.\n\nThis is important because the Logan family actually owned land (a farm) in Mississippi. Property rights were so important to African Americans because they were denied for some time. Because of this, there was great pride in the Logan family; Cassie actually lived a pretty sheltered existence.\n\nYou have read the book so you know about the events that happen throughout the plot. It were those events that causes Cassie to sober up about what was happening to the idyllic world she once knew as social tensions began to escalate.\n\nThis book is actually a reflection of Mildred D. Taylor's personal experiences growing up during this time in America that proceded what was commonly referred to as the Civil Rights Movement (although in all actuality the Civil Rights Movement began FAR before 1955). She is actually from Mississppi, so that would be another reason for the location.\n\nYou can also go to Amazon.com and read their plot summary as well as Wikipedia to read Mildred D. Taylor's biography. Good luck!
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to b honest i like both depending on the day but they arer both totaly different but in all i thik they are both great i hope that helped :pinkfeverpink@yahoo.co.uk\nemail me or IM me anytime
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From Library Journal\n"I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha....I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan." How nine-year-old Chiyo, sold with her sister into slavery by their father after their mother's death, becomes Sayuri, the beautiful geisha accomplished in the art of entertaining men, is the focus of this fascinating first novel. Narrating her life story from her elegant suite in the Waldorf Astoria, Sayuri tells of her traumatic arrival at the Nitta okiya (a geisha house), where she endures harsh treatment from Granny and Mother, the greedy owners, and from Hatsumomo, the sadistically cruel head geisha. But Sayuri's chance meeting with the Chairman, who shows her kindness, makes her determined to become a geisha. Under the tutelage of the renowned Mameha, she becomes a leading geisha of the 1930s and 1940s. After the book's compelling first half, the second half is a bit flat and overlong. Still, Golden, with degrees in Japanese art and history, has brilliantly revealed the culture and traditions of an exotic world, closed to most Westerners. Highly recommended.\n-?Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"\n\nAccording to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and history from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tokyo who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geisha. This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent years charming the very rich and famous.\nThe result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumor spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider." \n\nGolden's web is finely woven, but his book has a serious flaw: the geisha's true romance rings hollow--the love of her life is a symbol, not a character. Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share. Still, Golden has won the triple crown of fiction: he has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world, and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors.\nAmazon
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Let me introduce you to a wonderful tool for literature. It's called www.sparknotes.com (Online Cliffnotes).  Go there search for Wuthering Heights, and you should be able to find what you're looking for.
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I love the Book Jane Eyre. It is the story about such a wonderful and principled love.  It makes you really appreciate honour over emotion but at the same time it says if something is to be, it will be, but maybe not as we imagine.
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pride and prejudice\nTristram Shandy: A C*** and Bull Story
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The Flower by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I think it's "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush. I'm not 100% on that but that's what I read on a website!
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Kate Winslet simply for the fact that she isn't a skinny twig. Keira seems to be a flash in the pan if you get what I mean. Kate just seems to be more versatile and I think that helps when you are going for longevity.
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Elizabeth Bennett is the main character. She's a sweet, strong and intelligent girl who is a little bit proud. Her pride and Mr.Darcy's prejudice are the matters that shape this story. The book and the movie of Pride and Prejudice (the book is by Jane Austen) are on top of my list of the best books and movies ever. I am absolutely obsessed with it! \nI suggest that you read the book or watch the movie because it's just simply a master piece. :)