Papers On French Literature
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Two-Part Thesis on Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"
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A 5 page, two-part thesis on Gustave Flaubert's novel, "Madame Bovary," in which the
first part attributes Emma Bovary's depression and adultery to her husband, Charles, and the second part considers the correlation between the happiness of Charles and Emma Bovary, with the ultimate demise of each.
Filename: TGmadbov.wps
Visions of Hell and Utopia in Sartre, Voltaire, and More
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A 5 page paper discussing whether the three condemned characters of Sartre's play would have had a more productive life in More's 'Utopia' or Voltaire's 'Eldorado' (from 'Candide'). The paper concludes that despite the fact that the most famous line from 'No Exit' is Garcin's exclamation that 'Hell is other people,' Hell is really in yourself, and no physical Utopian surroundings can transform it into heaven. No additional sources listed.
Filename: Visions.wps
Voltaire and the Church
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A 5 page research paper that examines the stance of eighteenth century French playwright and philosopher Voltaire against the organized religion of his time. The writer discusses Voltaire's work and then puts it in perspective relative to the political atmosphere of that era. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khvolch.wps
Voltaire's Candide/ Enlightenment Philosophy
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A 5 page essay that examines Voltaire's Candide and argues that despite the negativity in Voltaire's famous satire, this work is still representative of the optimism of the Enlightenment. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khcanph.wps
Voltaire’s “Candide” and Learning about Life from Experience
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This 5 page report discusses Voltaire’s famous work “Candide” ad
addresses how experience repeatedly proves itself to be the
greatest of teachers. Candide discovers that fact time and time
again. Voltaire is constantly showing his readers, through the
adventures and misfortunes of Candide, the good and the evil of
the world, the compassionate and the cruel. Bibliography lists
only the primary source.
Filename: BWcanexp.wps
Women in "Les Mains Sales" by Sartre and "Les Justes" by Camus
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A 5 page paper
which discusses the roles of women in Sartre's "Les Mains Sales" and Camus'' "Les
Justes." Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: RAdirty.rtf
Women in French/African Writing
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A 5 page paper which discusses "God's Bits of
Wood" by Ousmane Sembene and "The Dark Child" by Camara Laye, and examines how
their portrayal of women is the result of confinement within specific gender roles
concerning African women. Bibliography list 5 sources.
Filename: RAbitwood.wps
Women's Roles in 'Madame Bovary' & 'Mary Barton'
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A 5 page paper looking at the way social influences in the nineteenth century limited women's options by limiting their boundaries to the home. The paper shows that many women who would have loved a purely domestic life could not have it because the financial support on which they were supposed to rely -- men -- was missing or incapacitated; other women, who could have had such a life, did not want it because it was too emotionally and spiritually constricting. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KBbovary.wps
“Story of an Hour” and “The Necklace”: A Comparison of the Short Stories by Kate Chopin and Guy de Maupassant
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A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting these two short stories. Emphasizes that Kate Chopin was one of the greatest female writers of the late 1800s. Concentrating on short stories, Chopin used her extraordinary talent to illuminate the societal plight of women during the Victorian era. While Chopin is distinctive in her own right, she looked to the writings of her contemporary, French author Guy de Maupassant, for inspiration and stylistic guidance. Comments on the parallels between theme, characters, and conclusion in these two stories. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPstory.wps
“The concept of identity in Genet’s The Maids”
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A paper which looks at Jean Genet’s play, The Maids, in terms of the way in which he presents the concept of identity as evinced by gender roles, social and cultural values, the ambiguity of the female role and the way in which identity can be deliberately reconstructed and redefined through the power of the imagination.
Filename: JLgenet.wps
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