Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for the...

During the Middle Ages, French society, along with the rest of Europe, revolved around the warrior class. In order to gain land and power nobles gave their services in the military and lived violent lifestyles. Treatment toward women during this period was harsh. "In a society of landed nobility ...

The Relationship of The Awakening and Creole Society In The Awakening, Kate Chopin brings out the essence of through the characters of her novel. In this novel Edna Pontellier faces many problems because she is an outcast from society. As a result of her isolation from society she has to learn to...

Emotions as Art; Arising as a complex entity rooted in the Psychological Panorama of Human Expirence. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) 11 March 2004 That Obscure Object of Desire, (197...

Anthropology Projecta).It would be difficult for a French Catholic historian who was a devout Catholic to write a book about Kateri Tegawitha that would show respect for her people, and be critical of those who have written about her before because it was normally unusual for a native to embrace Chr...

"You've Got to Do, What You've Got to Do""Simone De Beauvoir was one of the most important post- World War II French intellectuals." (173) She is a French socialist, feminist, and writer. She wrote Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex) in 1949. In which she concentrates on " women's lack of personal de...

Kate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800's. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of...

The reason why Flaubert's book was so controversial during his time is because readers thought that he was glorifying adultery and insinuating that French middle-class women were lecherous whores. Another reason for the controversy would be Flaubert's scandalous descriptions of Emma's lewd sexual a...

Kelley Vickers-Sullivan Engl. 141-Mid-Term Essay March 30, 2000 You've Come a Long Way Baby! Shakespeare's presentation and portrayal of his female characters in The Merchant of Venice and Henry V follows a typical pattern that is present in all of the Shakespearean plays that ...

Symbolism in The ChrysanthemumsJohn Steinbeck's short story The Chrysanthemums shows Elisa Allen, a strong, capable, childless woman of thirty-five who is frustrated with her present life with her husband, Henry, a man of unscrupulous confidence (French 83). She "longs for what women's magazines va...

Cristobal BalenciagaCristobal Balenciaga was born in 1895, just over the French border, in an ancient fishing village called Guetaria, in Spain's Basque country.In 1937, after opening his own tailoring shops in Madrid, Barcelona, San Sebastian, and Guetaria, he emigrated to Paris due to the Spanish ...

M. Butterfly Act 1, scene 11, Gallimard, the love stricken French Diplomat in China announces his decision to "try an experiment."(Act 1, Scene 11). Upon thinking up this experiment, he reverts back to a memory of Madame Butterfly where "Cio-Cio-San fears that the western man who...

and prejudice Written in the 1700's, Marriage and women's roles were major issues in a young woman's life and Jane Austen ties up these serious issues with good humor and entertaining situations. Each main character in Pride and Prejudice learns an important lesson in life through trial and...

An eleven year olds' destiny had already been adhered to. Bertrande de Rols had been married at this tender age in 1539. She was married in Artigues, a small isolated French town where 'the crags and the valleys of the Pyrenees were the cause of their prosperity and pride.' Martin Guerre was the...

I very much enjoyed this story, almost hard to believe that it was written in 1899! I can imagine that it was very shocking to read of a woman's sexual awakening. I found the opening imagery very interesting, could this beautiful bird in the cage symbolize Edna? Very interesting that in the...

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty, grew up in a prominent family on February 8, 1850. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was an immigrant from Ireland who was a merchant. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was from one of the oldest aristocratic Creole families in the St. Louis area. Kate...

Riske vs. Reserved Women in the 20th century would most likely stand out if she were to be transported back into the time of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Women during the 14th century were to be "seen and not heard". Their rights in society as well as their role was subordinate...

Women's attempt for independence started when "Declaration of the rights of Men" issued after the French Revolution in 1789. This article by Mary Wollstonecraft clearly portrays life of a woman during those ages. The thematic message of this article denotes how women should be tr...

The 20th century was full of change, travel, and excitement. It was an era of sudden new changes in the dressing styles of Americans. People had no worries and problems. Hence, they started thinking about their look, dressing style, and personality. The luxurious department stores of the time attrac...

The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan was one of the first feminist authors in the history of literature. She wrote many poems and books voicing her opinion on the injustice women of her time faced. One such novel is The Book of the City of Ladies. In a visionary dream, Christine i...

The Prioress and Grisilde: A Medieval Parody How does medieval society view women? Or more importantly how does Chaucer view women in his society and what does he think about society's views? By examining the way Chaucer portrays women in his tales, perhaps we can get a better understanding...

Consider the way in which McEwan portrayed women through his female characters Every female character within the novel is connected through Stephen. The main female characters are part of Stephen's private life; these are the people with which Stephen is closest to throughout the Novel...

Woman in Man's World As the only girl among forty male classmates in a Electrical Engineering class my aunt Ana had very uncomfortable feeling, which she never experienced before. She will probably forever remember professor's class discussions and question...

Two Lives Reflect Gluckel von Hameln or Glikl and Marie de L'Incarnation lived mirror like lives in Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis. The two women were very devout in their religion. They were both well-educated women. They were both motivated wome...

Charles Joseph Natoire painted The Toilet of Psyche around the year 1735. The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) houses this composition in the French Art Exhibit. This painting is approximately 78 in. by 66.5 in. The media used is oil on canvas. Natoire painted this artwork two-dimensionally because ...