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The Postmaster

By Rabindranath Tagore

A Calcutta native takes up the position of postmaster in a small village and strikes up a friendship with his servant girl. When he decides to return to Calcutta the girl asks him to take her with him and is heart-broken when he refuses.

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In Australasia Tags: love, social class, neurochemistry, relations, relationships

Hills like White Elephants

By Ernest Hemingway

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

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In North America Tags: feminism, paternalism, abortion, relations, respect for autonomy

A Jury of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

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In North America Tags: domestic abuse, feminism, respect for autonomy, relations, cruelty

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  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
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