... lusts "made public by her illegitimate child "disrupted the social order and threatened the very existence of the village. In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... about making herself attractive to boys. The most vivid parts of the chapter are those in which Kingston lets her imagination about her aunt run free. She depicts in exquisite detail the careful manner in which her aunt "in Kingston's imagination, of course "plucked hairs from her ... ta...

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... alleged terms of endearment tap into what the famous psychologist Thomas A. Harris would refer to as, her "Not OK child."" Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. Harris explores in depth what he calls 'life positions'. At some stage ... ). All of us have Parent, Adult or Child data' guiding our thoughts and decisions, and Harris believed that transactional analysis would free up the Adult, the reasoning voice. The Adult in us prevents a hijack by unthinking obedience (Child), or ingrained habit or prejudice (Pa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... superior male- (Fetterly). While this criticism may be a bit harsh, I would deem it quite accurate, as the perception Alcott appears to give off is that a young woman may be free and independent for a brief while, but eventually she must conform to society's standards. Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively ... messages across to her readers. Peter Pan focuses primarily on children growing into adults. In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the boo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them."" (Woolf, 4) The word "but" might be instructive for suggesting something about the subject of the book itself. "Butting in," one might say, is very much a focus of this work. The reason that a woman needs a room of her own to make fiction is because privacy and solitude ... have. In addition, she has views about what women are like and how it affects the fiction they create. She also has views about what women writers are like. She notes at one point, for example, that the great 19th century ones were all childl...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School