... 's BookNotes for The Taming of the Shrew - The Play-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com"). One is that Katherina's father shows favoritism to her sister, Bianca. Perhaps she developed this unruly behavior in an attempt to get the attention that she was deprived of as a child ("MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary"). Another cause of Katherina's unpleasant behavior is ... is transformed into a wonderful wife (Boyce 331; "MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary"). Ka...

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... Newland. The farewell dinner party which she then throws for Ellen is, in effect, rubbing salt into the wound. This view of May is an interesting contrast to the way in which she has been represented throughout the narrative: the lilies and the white dress, for instance, which are associated with her and which symbolise purity and innocence. In the first chapter she is ... any case, it is ironic that, in a patriarchal society where the subjugation of women works very much to the advantage of men, that a man should promote the freedom of women in any meaningful fashion. In chapter six, N...

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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been considered the greatest war and love story of all time. As a lost generation writer, Hemingway, like many others, wrote about World War I. The story takes place during the ... writes about are described as women who act in the service of men rather than in their own desires. The women that he describes are more like most women of that time, where it is considered a more traditional role. However, in A Farewell to Arms, Catherine seems to be a more liberal character who has escaped from the traditional ... roles of women. Catherine does not supp...

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A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway Summary We meet Fredric Henry, an American amgulance driver and a lieutenant in the Italian army. He is stationed in a small village in Italy. Fredric Henry meets Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, through his roommate Rinaldi. Fredric and Catherine start spending a lot of time together, and eventually fall in love. But Fredric has to go to the front with the ambulance unit ... military police. Recklessly abandoning his responsabilities, Fredric finaly meets Catherine again, and they become vagabonds on the run and smuggel themselves into Switzerland. C...

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The historical novel, "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway in 1929, uses a minor character as a foil to show the strengths and weaknesses of the main character. Lieutenant Fredric Henry is an American ambulance driver for the Italian army during World War I. Henry meets an English nurse, Catherine, and falls in love with her. Henry and Catherine are both struggling to find themselves during the tough times ... asks Henry if he said he loves her, lying, he replies, "Yes . . . I love you" (30). Henry doesn't think that he can fall in love. Catherine pushes Henry to step outside of his comf...

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... . Fischer without an appointment so he has to come back a few days later. Resumes chapter 4 to 6 Chapter 4 Alfred Jones went to Versoix for his appointment with Dr.Fischer. Before he had stopped in a English Pub called Winston Churchill. He drank two glasses of whisky and took a taxi. When he met Anna-Luise's father, the man wouldn't exactly to know where she lived and accepted by giving ... hand weakly, lamely. When Jones tells him that he wants to marry his daughter, Dr. Fischer doesn't mind(p.28). He accepts by giving all responsibility of his daughter to Jones. Because of this attitud...

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... , by Thomas Hardy, has many significant chapters that relate to Tess's downfall. However, the most important of these is chapter four in Phase the First of the novel. This chapter is very significant because it is where Tess's family horse, Prince, dies. The effects of the horse's death cause many tragic events to occur throughout Tess's life. Prince's death in chapter four initiates Tess's guilty feelings, forces her ... . Tess's downfall is finally ended when she is put to death because of her sin. Angel refuses to love Tess, which indirectly causes her slow deterioration and final down...

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... will think by saying "I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage". He has an obsession with reputation that Beatrice lacks - she seems far less ashamed to admit her love for Benedick, saying "Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adieu!" (3.1.115). Like Emilia, his honour is tested when ... he is asked by Beatrice to kill Claudio. Does he follow the code of honour and remain loyal to his comrade who fought alongside him, or does he seek vengeance and ... obsession with reputation that Beatrice lacks - she seems far ...

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... the baby he was upset so he beat her send her back to her father. Nnu was very depressed and her father had to find away to help her. Vocabulary: 1. Concessions- to acknowledge as true, correct or proper; admit "He made all these concessions for the emotional of his beloved daughter." Chapter 4 - First shocks of motherhood So he found her a husband that lived in Lagos. His brother ... recognized her and grab her before she could jump. This man was Nwaskusor a man from her village. Ego considers her self a failed mother hence the title of the chapter. Vocabulary; 1. Facilitate- to make e...

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... in but the ocean which in this story represents the freedom and the independence. And she commits suicide by throwing herself to the ocean. We can see the steps of her "awakening" through the story and how this awakening changed her. Edna is introduced as a married woman who seems ... vaguely satisfied with her life. However, she cannot find true happiness. Her dread of being incarcerated in the world begins with her realizing her unhappiness in her marriage. In chapter III, Chopin represents Edna's displeasure in her marriage. When her husband, Leonce, returned from the gambling ... pla...

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... while Newt was away, and their wedding was set to take place in less than a week. Newt asked Catharine to take a walk with him, she didn't want to go, but he persisted until she gave in. She told him she was getting married, and he of course knew already from writing to his mother. Catharine asked why Newt was here ... and he told her he was home to se her, and that he wasn't on leave, he was A.W.O.L. Catharine thought he was kidding and he told her ... he loved her. Being in love with another man, and never having even kissed Newt before, she thought the idea was absurd. She explained ...

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... by the morals and customs of the time period. Chapter one, The Observers, begins by demonstrating the accuracy of the local historian; Feng K'o-ts'an, who compiled The Local History of T'an-ch'eng in 1673. The descriptive context of the Local History encapsulates the reader's attention to understand and literally project themselves into people's lives of the period. The records of the earthquake of 1668, the White Lotus ... -ch'eng. The battle that Mr. Spence mentions in the beginning of the story is finally revealed in chapter four. The vivid depiction of strategy in the battle by Mr. S...

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... struggled with frequent depression problems, just as Emma does when she realizes she never can have what she most desires. The first use of irony in Flaubert's novel is portrayed in part 1, chapter VIII, when Charles and Emma are invited to a Ball. Emma is embarrassed by her clumsy, unsophisticated husband. She is surrounded by wealthy, elegant noblemen and women. When the ballroom ... while they were starting a scandalous affair is irony in itself. In part 2, chapter IX, the irony of public morality contrasted with infidelity occurs again in Charles's ignorant facilitation of Rodolphe...

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... to begin this new life on her own. Evidently, her husband who was not in the train after all comes home. Then Mrs. Mallard, known as Louise after her husband's dies from heart failure on the spot. I was kind of confused when I first read the story, but after reading it twice, it all came down to ... one conclusion, I like it. It takes a couple of twists and turns that makes the ending ironic and unobvious. The ending of the story where Louise's husband did not die ... is what ties the story up so well. This wonderful story was so well written and descriptive that we can be Mrs. Mallard....

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... ), Mrs. Stewart and Chuffy (Stephen's mother and her spoiled dog) and Grams (Amy's grandmother). (This book did not have chapters; it was set up in a diary format, I can't really go chapter by chapter, so I will just have to cover the main events in the book.) As the book starts out, we find that Amy is someone who doesn't have any desire ... like most brides (panicky, scatterbrained, self-centered, un-organized aka a crazy bride) she decides to approach this in the most organized way possible. She makes a list of things to do. Soon though, after reading A LOT of bridal magazines, she re...

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Discuss the characterization of Emma Woodhouse in the first chapter of Jane Austen's Emma. Introduction and short summary Jane Austen began writing Emma in 1814, and the book was published anonymously for the first time in 1816. Anne Taylor, Emma's governess, who had been extremely close to both Emma and her father, moves out to live with Mr Weston. In the absence of this confidante, Emma looks ... for a new friend and becomes acquainted with the seventeen year old, illegitimate girl Harriet. The characterization of Emma Woodhouse The first chapter of the book introduces the protagonist of th...

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... knowledge on infidelity was conducted based on martial therapists. Recently reaches has begun to perform a survey asking people about their real experience. Many people who are in happy marriage, commit adultery. It's the desire for variety, twist their sense of judgment. More then one in five Americans do have an affair in their ... life time. There are 2 patterns in the timing of affairs. A married woman like hood of staying is the highest in the first five years. For men is the first five years and after 20th year. ... couples are tempted by the craving for flirtation and sexually c...

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... pure although she may seem like a savage. Pearl becomes more human in the last chapters of the book. She has a yearning for Dimmesdale to acknowledge she and her mother in public, showing that she cares about him to some extent. This hypothesis is proven in the final chapter when she kisses Dimmesdale on the head after she has joined him at the scaffold. The ... conclusion of the book gives Pearl a real life. Her real father, Chillingsworth, leaves her a great amount of land and she moves ... to England where it is hinted that she is ... ...

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... play for those who study gender and its depiction early literature. Its heroine, Katherine, is such a strong willed and overpowering character in the beginning of the play, and when Shakespeare wrote, that was not as common. The play also depicts the typical males in Tranio, Lucentio, and Baptista, among ... had quite forsworn! For me, that I may surely keep mine oath, I will be married to a wealthy widow, Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. And so farewell, Signor Lucentio. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall w...

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... could be sold and treated as a slave." (Document E) Castes viewed code involving matrimony and intercourse strictly. Inter-caste marriages were absolutely unacceptable, as was adultery. The occurrence of either of these could cause a woman to be immediately lowered in social class and be treated as a slave. Marriage within castes as dictated by the Hindu religion is what kept society going. Throughout India, Hindus ... ," (Document A) and was composed of members not fit for society, many of whom had incurable diseases. This group suffered constantly because of discrimination. Hindus beli...

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... all." A Day Late and A Dollar Short goes within a maximum of 10 year span, often times recalling past events, of the lives of the Pierce family. Viola, Cecil, Paris, Janelle or Lewis, each narrate a chapter by chronicling their intricate lives and how each one of them connect to one another. Each member of the family gives his or her own perception of events such as Lewis's alcoholism, Paris's addiction ... to Vic Odin, Janelle's failed marriage and Charlotte unwillingness to cope with issues within the family. This novel shows how the Pierce ... am?" (351) A Day Late and a Dollar Shor...

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... but little impression," that is what Thomas Hardy starts off the book as the title of the first chapter depicting Egdon Heath, the major symbol in the book. Although there are many interpretations of what the heath symbolizes, one the most prominent reasons is that it is a symbol of fate. The person whom is victimized is most by fate is Eustacia Vye. She is ... the character who tries so hard to leave the tiresome Egdon Heath, but is never able too ... change his mind. After a while, there marriage becomes sour when Clym, losing his eyesight, begins work as a furze cutter on the heath....

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... Watkins describes the deep inner struggle of leaving home to start a new chapter in her life. She describes her inner self as being woven into the very fibers of her family's heritage and life style. She describes the intense battle of her having to let go of her family's working class lifestyle to pursue her career as a writer and go on to obtain more credible and more extravagant education ... very things they taught her were out of date and insignificant to her lifestyle as an adult now. Although her instinct told her to stay home and stay close to everything she was used to it was o...

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... ", the one that takes care the kids, the one that cleans the house and just the typical wife with a twist to it. On the other hand, you will also see that the man is portray as messy, insensitive, and most of the time being nagged by the wife. Just like the shows, in the story Dame is constantly nagging Rip because he ... is such a "typical" male which are messy and lazy. As a viewer or reader, you learn from these and apply them to real life. Through out the year, the prospective of what a male and female have change. In earlier television shows, like I Love Lucy, Lucy is portray as the...

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... and the Jeweller" is written by Virginia Woolf. London, England is its setting. A jeweller is the main character, overcoming poverty to become wealthy. Royalty frequently visits his door for assistance. The story critically depicts earned wealth, inherited aristocracy, and a desire of an aristocratic marriage. As the story unfolds, the jeweller, Oliver represents the earned wealth. Oliver is a poor young lad selling stolen ... dogs in his childhood days. Now, he is a wealthy jeweller as a result of his hard work. Famous customers seek his help. He is not satisfied with himself because h...

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