Word: womans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...satisfies these conditions, it has individuality. Also, an individual expresses a purpose which no other individual can express. When a lover loves, he has but one object of his affections; yet in praising this object, he describes a type. Does he love a class of women or a single woman? If another had the same face, voice and inward sentiment as the one "perfect Woman," would he love both? If he did, he would have neither true love nor true loyalty, which, if he possessed, would hold him faithful to his one ideal. We may hold an idea in common...
...grass, however, Mr. Fox has by no means deserted the mountaineer, for Boone Stallard is certainly the more striking and convincing of the two chief figures in the story, although possibly Randolph Marshall is the real hero. There can be no doubt as to the heroine, for only one woman is more than the merest sketch...
There are two things to remember in considering the development of her genius. In the first place she had to suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger Dumas...
...author has presented his own character in Fantasio, and in all his other plays for that matter. In "Jacquetin" he has drawn an adorable and hateable picture of the heartless woman...