Epilogue To Boudreaux's Friendship

In Kate Chopin’s novella, The Awakening, Léonce Pontellier, Edna Pontellier, and their children spend the summer in La Grand Isle. Grand Isle is a town in Louisiana, populated with Creole families. Not able to meet the Creole social standards and be true to herself, Edna, with the help of her husband, becomes aware that she is meant to be an independant woman. Lèonce’s high focus on his image and business makes it hard for him to see his wife's process of self-discovery, he becomes apathetic and can even be ill- tempered towards Edna.

“Le Chat” by Charles Baudelaire is from the fascinating collection “Les Fleurs du Mal”, published in 1857. “Le Chat” is an erotic poem, which portrays the image of the cat in a complimentary manner. The cat is an ambivalent figure and is compared to a treasured woman. The poem contains two quatrains and two tercets but cannot be called a sonnet due to the alternation between decasyllable and octosyllable lines and not Alexandrian. Baudelaire does not adhere to the traditional rhyming scheme, which therefore makes it irregular.

Lady Fidget, Dainty Fidget, and Mistress Squeamish meet Harry Horner in his lodging. The ladies have come before Horner was expecting them, and he now plans to lock his most recent conquest, Margery Pinchwife, inside his chamber. The ladies prevent him from stepping aside to lock the door, however, and soon everyone is drinking, singing, and making confessions.

“Desiree’s Baby” is a story in which a young girl, Desiree, is abandoned and raised by an upper class family. A harsh slave owner, Armand, falls in love with her and orders corbeille – wedding gifts from the groom to the bride – and marries her as soon as they arrive. They have a child whose skin color shows to be of a mixed race. Armand rejects his wife and child, sending them off to die. When Armand is getting rid of Desiree’s things, he finds a letter from his mother stating that he is the son of a slave. An analysis of Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” shows the ways in which gender inequality, class and race play a large theme in mid-nineteenth century Southern culture.

Marguerite Duras’s novel “The Lover” can lend itself to the interpretive extrapolation that colonialism is in essence a social phenomenon which is engendered on the basis of socio-cultural, as well as intra-personal and inter-personal psycho-emotional, all of them being interwoven into another and inter-consequential or inter-determining. The novel, although predominantly functioning on a domestic level, strongly suggests the profound effects of its social frame upon its domestic story, specifically on the characters of the narrator and her mother, as well as the relationship between the two and that of the narrator with her Chinese lover, the latter serving, as I will argue, as an allegory to the process of colonialism. In this paper I will

Topic: Bertrande’s position as a woman in a patriarchal society makes her choices impossible. Discuss.

Don’t break the unspoken social law of conformity, ever, on penalty of social exile. In the 19th Century, to be a picturesque example of social position was the focus of every women. In Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, Mademoiselle Reisz is truly unafraid to be herself; in both her society and that of the 19th Century, individualism in women was frowned upon, while certain talents were praised for being unique.

“You did know that Marie is his sister did you not- Myles is half Negro, though he does not look it or claim it. His father took him into his home and raised him as a legitimate heir because he had none with his white wife… You are always pretty forward about what you think of people; at least you have been about Boudreaux. How do you feel about Myles, knowing that he is half Negro?”

The two short stories I have chosen are Machado De De Assis’ ‘Midnight Mass’ and Rosario Ferré’s ‘When Women Love Men’. Through reading and analysing both of these I can compare and contrast the two very different themes of love throughout them.

“Yeah, yeah whatever. But it would be a hell of a lot better than it is know if I had

Bourdieu’s Distinction, a social critique of the judgment of taste, is one of the author’s main contributions to sociology, with parallels from classic authors such as Kant and Marx. Bourdieu reports society stratification and efforts towards class differentiation based on taste, using a sample analysis of 1.217 persons on a survey applied in France in 1963, 1967 and 1968. On his analysis, Bourdieu applies statistical analysis linking economy, culture and educational capital as variables, measuring the intensity of this relationship in terms of photography, composers, furniture shopping, gastronomy, youth generation singers, abstract painting, food budget, sports and fashion taste. From these observations, he traces the most cited ones back

Mordecai Ralston hated the smell of vampires. Each and every one he despised. There was an earthy, pungent smell that constantly surrounded them. It mixed in with a scant hint of blood and something akin to the aroma of dead rot, making spending any time in their company almost unbearable to those with, at the very least, an above average sense of smell. Being in their midst put him in an immediate bad mood, and when he was in a bad mood, things died. The only saving grace, at the moment, was the simple fact that he was being led through a whorehouse filled with pretty smelling women. The overwhelming scent of overused and very cheap perfume definitely helped to douse the stench of any nearby bloodsucker. Not entirely gone, there is still a light touch of their filth in the air. The little worm that sprung him from prison had made it clear he was to show up at this address, on this specific date and time, or his contract of freedom would be revoked. He would then be sent back to prison and executed in front of Queen and country. Ralston never expected to be standing in the middle of a whorehouse during midday London. It was lunchtime for Christ’s sake! Yet, here he stood, waiting with beautiful, and some not so beautiful, women as they paraded around him like he was the last hunk of bread at a hobo camp.

“Furthermore, I have to disagree with inhumane treatment women face in other parts of the world such as in Persian harems. Women in Persia are humiliated, closed off from the outside world, and are subjected to the sole will of their husband. Therefore, I have to agree with the level of freedom women in France have and the influence on their husband they have.” Montesquieu depicted these views in his writings of the Persian Letters. In the letters, he traces the adventure of two Persian men who come in contact with the culture of France including the French treatment of women. Montesquieu contrasts the inhumane treatment of the Persian wives by the men and supports the rights French women have including reading the Bible.

Caribbean folklore functions as a vehicular tool for Danticat to discuss ideas of politics and gender in ‘Nineteen thirty-seven’. The cultural transmission of folklore is central to the story’s thematic resonance. The word of mouth nature of storytelling ensures the preservation of a tragically monumental episode in Haitian history, in addition to a feministic outlook on this event. The legend of the ‘Lougarou’ is emblematic of both political freedom and feminine freedom.

The Prince was a social figure widely loved for his good looks and compassion towards the common man, however those close to him knew that “he could be irritable, selfish and stubborn, and felt deeply oppressed by his official life and family pressures, from which he sought escape in the frenetic pursuit of pleasure,” (qtd. in Bloch 33). His pursuit of pleasure increasingly involved Wallis, whom he thought was entertaining due to her Americanisms and witty humor. When Thelma, the Prince’s current mistress, left for America to visit her family in 1934, she asked Wallis to “look after” the Prince for her