YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparative View of Female Protagonists
Essays 1771 - 1800
working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...
and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright 860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social control...
of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...
planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...
to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...
were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...
that he wants to pay her for any liberties he has taken with her. We, the reader, clearly see this as something of a payment to a ...
through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...
Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...
is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...
Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...
the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...
...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...
to change. He becomes a deeper person and becomes a more acceptable hero in many respects. But then Enkidu dies and leaves Gilgame...
he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...
personal life concerns until the arrival of the Trojan hero. Aeneas was emotionally smitten with Dido and he gave into these impul...
In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...
the reader to truly understand just how strong she is: "It all I can do not to cry. I can make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie...
is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...
violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...
his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...