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Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

The Hairy Ape

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

Roger Chillingworth's Imitation of the Devil

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

Hard Times by Dickens

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

or arrogance, in life that would have made him proud to be the subject of a film. Kane was too simple for that in relationship to ...

Insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

Words, Words, Words

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

Munro’s Meneseteung

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

Macbeth and Macduff

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

And the Shadows Took Him by Daniel Chacon

simply going along with life in many respects until one day his friend, Ricky, tells him about a play he is going to try out for. ...

Bunraku: Costumes and Wigs

material as they manipulate a puppet. It is considered to be a very powerful form of art and it is considered a great honor for o...

Hamlet: Thought, Feeling, Action

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

Possibilities of Love and Change in "Wide Sargasso Sea"

aspects of life. The opening pages of the novel take us to Jamaica, and they are very evocative. They tell us of the beautiful, l...

Analysis of "The Burning Bed"

be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, n...

The Tragic Flaw in Oedipus

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Wright and Singer and Their Hapless Heroes

Dave is horrified when he shoots Jenny, but rather than admit what hes done, he makes up some goofy story about her falling and la...

Changes in Othello and in His Relationship with Desdemona

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Short Stories of Richard Wright

In five pages this paper discusses how social realities are depicted in the themes and characters of Richard Wright's short storie...

Love During the Age of Cholera

In a 6 page paper, the love qualities of the main characters in Gabriel Marquez's novel are compared with those in Robert J. Stern...

Raney by Clyde Edgerton

In five pages the characters represented in Raney are analyzed with the employment of Satir's communication modes, Bowen's theory,...