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This paper discusses the brevity of Adrienne Rich's poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," examining how this poetic device is used in the poem to shape the reader's understanding.

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"In Adrienne Rich's poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", the brevity of the poem is a deliberate device used to shape the reader's understanding of it. Rather than telling the complete story of Aunt Jennifer and what happened to her, the poem in its brevity merely hints at her fate with allusions; "When Aunt is dead and terrified hands". (Rich) Although the poem does not make clear whether Uncle will actually kill Aunt Jennifer, it does indicate that she is terrified of him as..."

Tags:Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, poem, poetry, Adrienne Rich, brevity, brief, short

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This paper discusses how, in the poem "Aunt Imogen", Robinson delves into the psyche of a character who has not seen her dreams fulfilled. The paper attempts to discover just who is Aunt Imogen and what she means to little Jane, Sylvester, and Young George. The paper also analyzes the life of Robinson himself, who has likely spliced his own thoughts, emotions and life experiences into the character of Aunt Imogen.

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"Despite the way she was with the family, Imogen is perplexed by the love provided her by her family and riddled with self-doubt and regret. Without question, Imogen loved her sister and her sister's children. They, however, could not fill the void left by the fact that she had no children, no family of her own. The love of her children's sister only further tortured her soul. The life that Imogen's sister had, that she wanted, left her filled with "incompleteness and regret" (54)."

Tags:Jane, Sylvester, Young, George

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This paper discusses how in her short story "Aunt Moon's Young Man", Linda Hogan captures some of the deepest and most fascinating aspects of her Native American culture, which make up most of the symbolism of the text. In particular, it looks at how Hogan emphasizes the differences between the Indian and the white cultures, using the imagery of windows and mirrors.

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"First of all, the mirror and the window are symbols of the domination exercised by the white culture through reflection, that is, through the construction of identities for the other. Thus, the characters in the story seem to be separated in two sets as well, Bess and Isaac as the preservers of tradition, both through their gestures and through the ways in which they live their lives, and the other members of the community as representatives of the mixed culture which emerged under the influence of the white people. When the men and women in the tribe condemn the relationship between Aunt Moon and Isaac they become symbols of the white culture, which usually attributes fixed identities and codes for behavior for every member of society."

Tags:indian, white, culture, bess, isaac

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This paper explains that Linda Hogan draws on her Native American heritage as she tells a tale tinted by earthy memories of her youth in her short story "Aunt Moon's Young Man". The author points out that the plot itself is relatively simple: A dark, lean, full-blooded Indian, who comes to town on an autumn day just as the annual fair is about to begin excites the women with his exotic good looks as well as the fact that the man is "alive in his whole body." The paper relates that the cyclical character of nature brings reassurance that balance will prevail; this storyteller incorporates several cycles to represent this balance such as the story begins in the autumn and ends in the autumn - the annual fair anchors the narrative at both ends.

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"Though Aunt Moon is obviously the central study in this story, the character of the narrator contributes to the sense of hope and renewal as well. We are told that "good Indian women" should not "learn too much from books" or "laugh too loud" or "look into the faces of men." Yet the storyteller is hopeful that she can escape such oppressive expectations. Her mother shares these great aspirations for her daughter, and college plans are made. However, with the advent of war and all the changes that it brings, the girl's education is postponed, though not ceded. She will work for a year or so in the city before returning to school, and this, too, speaks of future and hope. The cycles of nature are again invoked when the narrator's mother assures her that she's "sure as the night's going to fall" that all will work out well for her and her daughter."

Tags:plot, characters, man, eye, autumn

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This paper examines the way in which Adrienne Rich's poem both exposes and attempts to overthrow the ideology of male patriarchy. The paper analyzes the tropes Rich uses, from needlework tigers to a wedding ring and assesses the value of each as weapons in the oppression of women. It offers opposing viewpoints as to just how much Rich succeeded in her attempt to lay claim to a freedom for women in one generation that was denied in another.

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"In her extraordinary poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Adrienne Rich writes about the vicissitudes of women suffering under the heel of male patriarchy. She does so through a metaphorical look at the ordinary life of a single housewife, the "Aunt Jennifer" of the poem's title. The assumptions made by the male-dominated society that she inhabits would likely define her existence as a rather dull one, lacking the bold, adventurous lives that have always been the masculine ideal. In truth however, as Rich makes clear in her poem, the life of a woman like Aunt..."

Tags:patriarchy, chivalry, tigers

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The paper presents an analysis of Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" that supports the thesis that oppression diminishes individual expression and potential.

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"The state of all beings including humans in nature is free. When individuals join societies they often enter a social contract that robs them of unlimited freedom but offers them certain protections in return. In many cases the protection of ..."

Tags:oppression, racism, prejudice, freedom, nature, meaning, potential, expression, voice

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This paper explores the hospital experience of an older woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer, which is concerned with needs at life stages. The participant was my aunt and will be referred to as Joanne. Joanne was hospitalized to undergo breast surgery and initial chemotherapy. Over the course of those treatments, she was inconstant touch with doctors and nurses and descried her experience with them. The client reflected on the care she received as well as her feelings and emotions linked to care. Her main hope was to clarify her own perspective regarding current continuing treatment. In general, she evaluated the care she received as positively impacting her wellbeing.

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Analysis of a Helping Experience This paper explores the hospital experience of an older woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer, which is concerned with needs at life stages. The participant was my aunt and will be referred to as Joanne. Joanne was hospitalized to undergo breast surgery and initial chemotherapy. Over the course of those treatments, she was inconstant touch with doctors and nurses and descried her experience with them. The client reflected on the care she received as well as her feelings and emotions linked to care. Her main hope was to clarify her own perspective regarding current continuing treatment. In general, she evaluated the care

Tags:communication, empathy, change

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This paper presents three case studies that were taken from the advice column in the Chicago Tribune with the aim of analyzing them using the framework of consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness of the person's reactions.

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''The actor in this situation is behaving in such manner because the 19-year old who's in a relationship with her father breaks the equilibrium (as she has already mentioned that her father has never been in a relationship since her parents' divorced). This is the distinctive component of the problem. On the other hand, we can see that the advice of the observer lacks consistency on the part of the social actor. As a matter of fact, Phillips' advice contradicts the reader's behavior, i.e. by saying that instead of discouraging the relationship, she should give her father and his girl a chance. Lastly, the advice has not reached any sort of consensus because of the pertinent inconsistency between the advice and the reader's feelings. Understand that the behavior of the reader was not, in any way, reinforced by Phillips.''

Tags:behavior, observer, advice

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This paper compares Rich's poem and Glaspell's play. It discusses the oppressive situations both women are in and how they escape this oppression in two very different ways. From a feminist perspective, these two works give very different examples of how a woman is the cast as the "insignificant other", but discovers a way out of her continual oppression by rejecting her insignificance.

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"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich tells of the repressed Aunt Jennifer who produces scenes representing freedom and fearlessness, but in reality is trapped and powerless. Only through her artistic expression is she able to find a temporary release from her entrapment. In "Trifles", Minnie Wright allows herself to be subjugated for thirty years before she frees her whole self, through drastic means that leads to a more permanent solution, murdering her husband. From a feminist perspective, these two works give very different examples of how a woman is the cast as the "non-significant other" (Bressler 144), but discovers a way out of her continual oppression by rejecting their insignificance. Rich begins her poem by describing the tigers of Aunt Jennifer's tapestry."

Tags:criticism, female, feminism, feminist, literary, nonsignificant, other, suppression, women

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This paper analyzes the three female characters in "Heart of Darkness" from a Jungian perspective. The paper explains how Marlow's aunt, Kurtz's African mistress, and his intended are representative of key archetypes found within Carl Jung's structure of personality. The key archetypes described in the paper and compared to the female characters are the earth mother, the animus, or the male part of the female personality, and the anima, the female part of the mind.

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"As one can see, the three prime female characters of the novel Heart of Darkness are easily recognizable as the three aspects of Carl Jung's structure of personality. Kurtz's Intended, whom readers meet in the end, is the personification of the female anima, in her speech, her naivete, and her innocence. The other woman in Kurtz life, his African mistress, is the Intended's counterpart, the darkly masculine animus, as is demonstrated by her power of commend and fearless outlook. Finally, Marlow's adoring aunt is the prime representation of the mother, who nourishes and encourages. Through these three women one can see the mother, the animus and the anima can be blended into one well balanced unit, contrasting and complimenting itself in it's different aspects."

Tags:anima, animus, aunt, earthmother, heart, intended, joesph, jung, karl, kurtz, marlow, mistress