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Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the protagonist is constantly described using bird imagery, which invokes the concept of freedom. The story follows Jane’s journey and her various struggles to be ...

In a May 1964 speech, president Johnson offered a new version of the American Dream, in which the federal government would engineer a ‘Great Society’. The dream addressed issues of poverty, racial inequal...

The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Republic of Gilead, a patriarchal near-future society. While the novel presents women as "passive victims", it also shows how women overcome this role....