... the under represented women of Paris and ultimately the world. Fantine, in particular, represents a group of women who are largely under represented in society: women forced into sex work. Hugo goes into great detail about how "slavery still exists, but now applies only to women's and its name is prostitution" (180). Fantine is not a victim of her own actions ... , and eventually chooses to sell her most prized possessions. Fantine is a character that shows true diversity in the feminine character breaking the stereotypical passive role and taking full control over whatever destiny was l...

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... . On the day of its completion, the "the iron-hearted Puritan, the relentless persecutor, the grasping and strong-willed man, was dead!" (20) The rather lengthy introduction of the Colonel goes to show his role in the Pyncheon version of domestic ideology. The Colonel being the man of the house, the figurehead of the family was in charge. He took up ... , Clifford becomes so self-sufficient he becomes Hepzibah's guardian towards the end of the novel: "At home, she was his guardian; here, Clifford had become hers, and seemed to comprehend whatever belonged to their new position with a sing...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to do with God, at least not directly. It is a type of secular religion that deals with a pagan god of batteries and small towns--a type of order and structure. But whatever is behind the religious instant, it cannot communicate anything in particular. "She gave it up presently, as if a cloud had approached the sun," thus, ending the moment. Oedipa has not ... . Indeed, simple, truthful exposure is not possible in this game. However, the game may be a larger allegory for the broader scheme of the detective story about to begin. When Oedipa goes about trying to solve the mystery of the Tr...

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• Has Bibliography

... rules, formal manners, and rigidly defined gender roles. Relations between the sexes were hedged about with sexual prudery and an intense concern for maintaining the appearance of propriety in public, whatever the private facts. But although she was presented as the ultimate role model, Victoria herself could not escape the contradictions of her era. The most powerful woman on earth, she ... is chiefly set in the cathedral city of Cloisterham and opens in an opium den. "Ye've smoked as many as five since ye come in at midnight," the woman goes on, as he chronically complains. "Poor me, ...

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... like "Stones in his Pockets" completely relies on the audiences willing suspension of disbelief, or ability to pretend its all there: the hat, the window, the box, the man, the "whatever needs to be imagined". Plays that include too many scenes in to many far fetched places will never be produced and never be put into high school 10th grade curriculum ... process which is best understood through the idea of symbolization and its role in the discovery and communication of meaning (McGregor, 24). This is an accurate definition, as it also goes on to explain that drama is 'multi-faceted' a...

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• Grade Level: High School