Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“love is blind” (Shakespeare) and “self-love is often rather arrogant than blind” (Samuel). The short story “Désirée's Baby” by Kate Chopin relates the story of a baby boy born to Désirée and her husband Armand in antebellum Louisiana. The protagonist, Désirée, is introduced as an abandoned toddler who found refuge and safety in the home of plantation owners Monsieur and Madame Valmondé. Foreshadowing the cold darkness to come in the story, Monsieur had originally found Désirée sleeping in the shadow

You awaken to the sound of waves upon a shore, and with your mouth full of sand. Coughing, you blink a few times to adjust your eyes to your bright, new surroundings. You see a sparkling beach edging a gentle, clear sea, and farther in, a thick forest. Glancing down the shore, the sand continues endlessly in a way that makes it hard to tell whether this is an island or the mainland. There is no boat in sight, and so you decide to head into the forest to find some sort of civilization. As soon

Haruki Murakami supports freedom and this is shown in “The Ice Man” as when the woman decides to marry the ice man, the idea that the love between them is important is more justified than the idea that her family and she cannot explain the decision to others in an understandable way. Haruki Murakami supports freedom, but still suggests that one should not go too much over the line. In the story, when the woman does not listen to all of her family members and mates with the iceman, her decision

The emotion shown by characters in a play appeals to an audience, the emotional impact characters have on us makes them interesting and attractive as in a way, emotion is the universal glue that binds us together. Emotional quality within a character hooks the audience by taking them through a series of different feelings throughout the play allowing the audience to relate to both the positive and negative qualities of the character’s search for meaning. This allows the audience to connect with the

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