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Psychoanalysis of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Literature Book Report/Review
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It is a critically acclaimed literary work that is considered ahead of its time due to the successful exploration and presentation of the themes which include the complexity of human struggles not only within one’s self but also in the interaction with other people.  The book had been referred to as an autobiography probably based on the fact that it mirrors the struggles of a person in life, specifically that of a woman (Bronte).
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Frankenstein: The Art of Darkness Literature Literature review
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Darkness has always been associated with mystery, horror, and the supernatural. Poets, writers, and philosophers have used darkness sometimes personified, sometimes as metaphor and in many different ways with telling effect. Questions have been raised, experiments conducted with science, nocturnal life, religious rituals, spiritualism, occultism, etc. with the intended purpose of unraveling unknown mysteries and happenings.
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Tthe Gender Roles Found in the Literature of the Emerging New South Literature Essay
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In the early days leading up to Lexington and Concord, they prepared food for militia musters and made cartridges. War, when it came, touched everyone: resources were scarce leading to high inflation; invading troops destroyed farms and homes, and the absence of husbands and fathers left some in danger of starvation. 
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The Symbolism of Fire in Literature Literature Essay
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Although books have some technical aspects, you can make your symbol what you want it to mean.
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A Solo Song: For Doc Literature Book Report/Review
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In the paper “A Solo Song: For Doc” the author’s intention was to keep the language and tone of the story as true to the original as he could while retelling the story from Doc’s inner perspective. He wanted to capture the feelings and impressions of the man who had so affected his peers.
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Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that although classically trained as a surgeon, John Keats quickly abandoned this profession in favor of his heart’s calling, the lure of poetry. He had received fairly harsh criticism of his early poetry, yet he took up the challenge of a lyric epic in the form of “Hyperion” in 1818.
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Paulina Salinas and Noboru Kuroda: A Comparative Analysis Literature Coursework
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The most interesting stories are those that not only appeal to the senses but also those which strike a chord in the hearts and minds of the audience. Fancy stories made for entertainment will be discussed but compositions involving human nature such as but not confined to political and social aspects will always be remembered and cherished.
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Comparison of Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane and Five Faces of Oppression by Iris Marion Young Literature Book Report/Review
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Iris Marion Young after viewing various forms of oppression that happened in the United States earlier and still which are happening now, tried to interpret oppression with different meanings. She defines the operation as a kind of inhibition, which prevents the oppressed people from the chance to develop their ability or show their capacities.
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Imation to Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin Literature Essay
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I have been tried for years to visit Egypt but it was only this humanitarian trip arranged the last minute, which urged me to travel to Africa. In fact, I had promised to my colleagues that in case that such a trip would be ever organized I would participate with enthusiasm. Now, I had started to wonder if my decision was right. 
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Reading Literature Is a Challenge Both for the Learner and the Reader Literature Case Study
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Тhe most interesting thing is the skill of Shakespeare to depict the whole life within the very short framework of the sonnets which comprises just 14 lines. In just 14 lines Shakespeare has been successful in telling the philosophy of the entire life. The same attempt Donald has achieved while composing the poetry.
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Analysis of the Book Food Politics by Marion Nestle Literature Case Study
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Even an important person who ingests indecent quantifies of darling on an everyday basis, as I do, understands that convinced things can be too sweet. Specifically, sodas and other bottled food and drink, which the nourishment realist Marion Nestle, writer of Food Politics and the new What to Eat calls "liquor candy."
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: The Imagery Hidden in the Title Literature Essay
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One thing to note is that the hurricane which prompts the original line where the title is taken from could also be a symbol for a greater and deeper cause. In a book about how an African-American woman overcomes the obstacles of a society dictated by the white society, the hurricane could serve as a signal for the end of an era.
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Bizhu and Zhu: Freedom Literature Essay
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Both the narratives deal with the women’s decision to divorce their respective spouses and the repercussions of this act. Bizhu divorces her old husband and turns down the offer of marriage from her childhood sweetheart. Zhu Xiaofen divorces her young husband and is puzzled by society’s reaction to her position.
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Detailed Analysis of Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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From a detailed analysis of sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare, it is revealed that the poem is the words of the sonneteer, a man in agony who knows it is impossible to free his soul from the force of love towards the beloved.
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Analysis of Emersons Nature Literature Essay
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The author begins the essay with the claim that he is not alone even when there is nobody with him as he is in a special relationship with nature where the omnipresent nature surrounds him in the form of thousands of stars and reminding him about the greatness of the Universal Spirit.
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The Consequence Is Devastating Literature Case Study
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Before plummeting into these financial records, some background may show helpful. This foreword addresses the principal questions that stand on the substance discussed in this book: What are we hypothetical to eat to wait healthy? Does diet actually substance? Is there an important gap stuck between what we are hypothetical to eat and what we do eat?
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It Is an Elegy That Commemorates the Life and Death Literature Literature review
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“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem that blends the elements of imagery, theme and character judiciously. It travels in time through the various changes and differences of perception. It is informed with the new scientific inventions but at the same time strongly attached to the mythical and archetypal images of collective life.
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Elizabethan Culture and Drama Literature Case Study
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It is significant to note that Queen Elizabeth was a protestant. In the story, Macbeth holds an influential position in the Scottish kingdom as a nobleman. He is a fighter motivated by protecting his kingdom and the leading fighters for Lord Duncan. On the way home from the battlefield, Duncan encounters three peculiar figures (Witches).
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Folklore of the Human Mind Literature Assignment
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The author states that although fairy tales usually cause a good impression among children and adults, there are many horrors and cruelties in their plots: “graphic descriptions of murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest that fill the pages of these bedtime stories for children”.
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Analysis of Thank You, Ma'am, by Langston Hughes Literature Essay
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"Thank you, Maam," contains valuable lessons thus remains relevant up to date. For one to unveil the full story, it is essential to familiarize oneself with an analysis of "Thank You Maam", a simple story about second chances and how it should be given as written by Langston Hughes.
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Mrs. Dubose, the Most Complicated Character In To Kill A Mockingbird Literature Literature review
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Lee's novel appealed to an audience on a global scale because of its multi-layer of context and interesting characters.
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Literary Analysis of The Negro Artist the Racial Mountain Literature Essay
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The piece confronted Negro aesthetics during an era in the United States when racial segregation was at its peak. The article calls out artists of African-American origin who obscure identity to appease the high members in society.
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare: Hamlet Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that insanity plays a key role in Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. In this play, the young prince of Denmark is informed by the ghost of his father that his Uncle Claudius, now married to Hamlet’s mother, murdered his father with poison. Hamlet feigns insanity to discover the truth, but might as easily be insane.
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The Decameron: A Monument to Ingenuity Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that The Decameron has the weakness of character in contrast with Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, modeled on a similar oral narrative structure. In Chaucer, the tales often weary us, but the tellers never do; in Boccaccio, the tales never weary us, but the tellers always do.
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An Analysis of King Lear Literature Literature review
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King Lear’s action is very quick and he immediately disinherits Cordelia. In this part of the play, the king severs his relationship with his daughter Cordelia and considers her as a “stranger.” The rage that King Lear feels is so great that he does not only disinherit Cordelia; he also gives her share to her sisters Goneril and Regan. 
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Abdurrahman Zeitoun and The Hero with a Thousand Faces Literature Book Report/Review
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Campbell has put forward three main criteria as features of a Hero’s journey. The actions and adventures of a real-life personality, Abdulrahman Zeitoun are assessed on the basis of the criteria mentioned by Campbell. 
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Significance of Setting in The Dead by James Joyce Literature Book Report/Review
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The physical environment plays an important role in affecting the psyche of a person. One can always take refuge in his physical surroundings and camouflage his emotions or can merge in mirth. The setting of ‘The Dead’ plays an important role in the story and acts as a character on its own just like that of Gabriel Conroy. 
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The Story of An Hour and In the Lake of the Woods Literature Book Report/Review
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The importance of art in the success of certain social movements and in attaining certain social ills the attention that they deserve cannot be stressed too much. Artists in every age have been the torchbearers of change and have managed to communicate the sentiment of the downtrodden in forms of protest, to the rulers of a community or nation.
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Lady Audleys Secret Concealed by Gender and Sexuality Literature Essay
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Cities were built, people gathered in large numbers to work in factories instead of fields and long-held cultural traditions were beginning to break down as a result of this shift. Social structures started to crumble as fortunes were measured at the business table in cash rather than by King’s favour and landed property. 
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Literature Book Report/Review
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The paper implies critically examining the text in terms of the qualities and traits that characterize a text as it is. Although it may seem complicated to conduct a contextual analysis of a text yet it does not require much complex skills to undertake the task. It can be done by studying the circumstances in which that particular text was written.
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Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer and The Welcome Table by Alice Walker Literature Book Report/Review
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The particular form of literature may be a factor for study. For example, poems are constructed in a way that is quite different from the other literary works, and the way that poems are studied may be quite different from the way other literary works are studied. However, other issues that are related to the study of literary works such as style are usually the same.
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The Play Tartuffe Is Molieres Way of Exposing Hypocrisy, Religion, Foolishness, Deceit, and Sin Literature Essay
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Tartuffe is the most sinful person in the play. However, Madame Pernelle and Orgon think otherwise, they regard him as very righteous and as far as wrongs and rights are concerned, they view him as the person in power. In fact, Madame Pernelle tells the rest that “your souls would fare far better if you followed his precepts to the letter.”
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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Maker Literature Assignment
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The author states that the struggles she made were more to be a part of the high achievers she lives with. She seems inferior not only because of the physical differences between herself and other beautiful family members but also for her average results as compared to the brilliance of others’ results.
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Runaway by Alice Munro Literature Assignment
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The author states that the main characters, Carla and her spouse, Clark, tries to make a decent living from giving trail rides to school children, guests from summer camps or regular customers seeking to enjoy an outdoor trip on a horseback. Carla’s concern for the lost Flora, their white goat, could have been the plot of the story.
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Comparison of Siddhartha and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Literature Case Study
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“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse is a novel that deals with the spiritual trajectory of a boy known by the name of Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the period of Buddha. Published in the year 1951 in the U.S., the book was able to influence the mass of the 1960s greatly. Another book crafted on the path of humanity and presented on a spiritual plane was the book “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” by Yukio Mishima.
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A Short of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Literature Literature review
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This book took Bryson along a path less traveled by him and in this, he traverses the realm of subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and geology, using unusually simple language to explain highly complex theories. The book is written in a casual, talkative style and the resultant bonhomie between reader and writer derives as much from Bryson’s electric verbal skill as from his “show-biz brio”. 
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What is the Function of Disguise in Dr Faustus and The Shoemakers Holiday Literature Coursework
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Shoemaker, on the other hand, was a light-hearted comedy that was reminiscent of some of William Shakespeare's comedy. As such, there was not necessarily a deep moral message in the play, other than the message that class does not mean anything when it comes to love.
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Characteristics of a hero Abner Snopes Literature Case Study
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Most literary criticism focuses on Sarty and how sad it is that he has to deal with his father's erratic behavior.  What many people do not see is that Abner is actually the hero of the story. He is a vigilante who is out to right the injustice of the common man.
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Bartholomew Fair and The Jew of Malta Literature Essay
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The Bartholomew Fair is a play by Ben Jonson and can be regarded as the Seinfeld of the English Renaissance (Cantor 2009). On the surface, the play does not deliver a sense of any meaningful story or theme. When it was first presented to the London theatres for being staged, the play drew nothing but confusion from the theatre companies.
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Measure by Measure: A Play Misunderstood Literature Essay
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It is also necessary to maintain Isabella’s purity until the end of the play. The poet then devises a means for her to refuse Lord Angelo’s offer while fooling him to believe that they are met. Giving in to Lord Angelo’s demand would have damaged Isabella’s virtue and the overall dramatic ploy set against moral corruption in the play’s entirety. 
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Comparing and Contrasting the Romanticism and Enlightenment Period Literature Essay
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The poem Sick Rose, William Blake uses imagery and similes to describe the destruction of a woman because of a sexual affair. He uses simile rose to describe the women's health that is sick and is lying in the bed, she is suffering because of disease that she has acquired out of matrimony and therefore has to suffer.
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Poetic Articulations of Estrangement in the Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that concepts of estrangement and articulations of the marginal, as the introduction to the thesis, will show, have been preoccupations of modern and modernist poetry, and, as the main body of my work will argue, developed in a different and more complex manner in post-war poetry.
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How Overseas Discoveries Raise Fundamental Questions About The Values And Standards Of Civilization Literature Essay
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Both Shakespeare and Montaigne challenge cultural imperialism. They both lived in an age when it was believed that European culture was superior to that of the developing world, and these attitudes and beliefs led to the oppression and ultimately, the enslavement of millions. Both Shakespeare and Montaigne reflect on differences as relative.
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Original Script: Childrens Home Love Literature Essay
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EXT. BUS – NIGHTDixon gets into the last bus and goes out in the mountains. EXT. AT THE MOUNTAIN’S – DAYHe walks to the big stone to sit and sees there a crying girl with beautiful blue eyes and a scar on her chin. He sees his brooch on her jacket and takes her hand. She is surprised, recognizes him, irons his cheek and they both smile.
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Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor Literature Coursework
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Any social transitions and personal evolution and growth depends and is influenced by factors of the past.  As according to the title of the story, true convergence occurs when pride and pretentious identities are thrown off. Flannery’s Regina factor stands for these and there runs a parallel between the two.
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Hamlets Relationship with His Mother Literature Essay
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Hamlet loses interest in his beloved Ophelia because of his extensive losses in his life. He even insults Ophelia due to which she gets disheartened. Hamlet as a lover is unable to fulfill his duties and pushes Ophelia towards a tragic ending as she commits suicide after considering her deprived state at the hands of Hamlet, her lover (Weitz 1964).
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Gender Roles Revealed through Jane Austen Literature Article
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Edward makes this distinction clear as he describes the scenery to Marianne with reference to both styles. “I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.”
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The Effect of Truth on the Protagonist Survival Literature Case Study
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The truth about the metamorphosis hits him when he finds that he has many legs that he waves in the air. Gregor is devastated when he becomes alienated from his family because he does not have the use of speech in his insect form. But one of the truths that remain is that his cognitive abilities remain intact but this is not revealed to his family.
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Personal Choice: A Comparative Analysis Literature Case Study
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The nature of personal choice opens itself for an in-depth philosophical discussion. While The Road Not Taken, Everday Use, and I Dwell in Possibility, don’t always agree on the extent to which choice and personal responsibility are directly attributable to the individual or to what is always the right choice, they all function to analyze the decision making process in relation to these choices.
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The Medieval Europe: Christina of Markyate and Margery Kempe Literature Essay
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The physical beauty of Christina is mentioned in ‘Life of Christina of Markyate’, several times. The patriarchal notion that the beauty of a woman is there to be enjoyed by men, may have been one factor that made her life full of miserable experiences like sexual assaults. Christina had fleed her marriage disguising as a man.
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