... is dealing with the burdensome obstacle of unplanned pregnancy. Many different themes such as one's choices and the consequences that follow, doubt and ambiguity, as well as the relationship between man and woman develop throughout the story. Hemingway also exhibits various examples of symbolism including the attention to ... hopes of finding true love and happiness. Another theme portrayed in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is the feeling of doubt and ambiguity. As time progresses throughout the story and the couple's verbal "tug-of-war," the reader witnesses the irrevocable det...

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... by the emblematic literature, allowing them to familiarize themselves with these symbols. For the modern viewer, the understanding of these disguised symbols may be obscure, thus requiring more searching. But ambiguity was not something feared by the artists of the seventeenth century, as it is has allowed for the study of the paintings to continue being the subject of speculation throughout ... ...

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... part of the social order to be of limited femininity and conditioned with sexual immorality. Not all of the women who accepted the bounty were considered to be of moral ambiguity, some were respectable widows, quite literate and well-spoken with the highest of morals, but the majority were women trying to change their outlook, moving to the colonies from paupers ... ...

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... of The Street, she becomes it's roleless and liberated queen, the pedagogue of success independent of patriarchy and free from the mandates of corporeal attractiveness. (Thomson 8) By turning Ann Petry's ambiguity towards Mrs. Hedges into the "anti-heroine" of Lutie, Thomson uses Mrs. Hedges to "articulate a model of selfhood that affirms both the identities disabled and woman" (Thomson 10) that is ... ...

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... morals. As a female director in an otherwise male-dominated 1950s Hollywood, perhaps Lupino's most arduous task was to make her films stand out from the classic Hollywood mode and her ambiguity and subject matter both aid in achieving this goal. Feminist critics can easily have ignored Ida Lupino's films because while controversial, they are not conducive to feminist modes of representation ... ...

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