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Essays 1891 - 1920

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop

part of the agrarian economy (Bishop, 1987). As this brief synopsis of the beginning of Bishops test indicates, the beauty of t...

Early History of Women's Subjugation

In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...

An Analysis of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter

This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...

Women's Christian Temperance Union

were given the freedom to support and speak about those issues you could. If you could not, support all planks of the platform, t...

Women's Roles and Dramatists

can no longer continue the role of "doll," and "little squirrel," that she had maintained married to Tovald. She decides must find...

Rembrandt's Self Portrait, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Their Portrayals of Old Age

In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....

Women's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

Reality and Illusion in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

An Analysis of Citizen Kane

This research report looks at this well known classic film.A great deal of information is included in this report that not only pr...

Second World War and American Women's Roles

Iin eight pages this paper examines US women's roles during the war effort with factory workers and nurses among the topics explor...

Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and Literary Portrayals of Fear and Madness

In five pages this paper examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and 'A Pardoner's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer Compared

In five pages the shared themes and death emphasis of these two notorious literary classics are contrasted and compared. Three so...

August Strindberg's Portrayal of Naturalism in His Plays

lower classes, provided subjects worthy of serious literary treatment. Correspondingly these dramas were to be rendered in as natu...

Continued Validity of the Frankenstein Story

In ten pages this paper considers the issues contained within Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein and how they remain as val...

Industrialization in Hard Times

Industrialism as it existed in the time of the author is discussed in the context of Dickens' classic novel Hard Times. The proble...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Comparative Analysis of 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'A and P' by John Updike

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

Literary Criticism, Romantic and Classical Traditions

In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Eighteenth Century Novel Characters Pamela and Fantomina

In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...

Nontraditional Vocations and Women

This paper examines women's entry into nontraditional vocations such as killed trades in five pages. Six sources are cited in the...

New Designs from Ancient Forms

Originally, there were fifty-eight columns: seventeen on the sides, eight at each end, and six in the inner row of each porch. Th...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Body Portrayal

In six pages the Tales' General Prologue is the focus of this examination of the human body's significance during the Middle Ages ...

Narrative Fiction and the Portrayal of Female Characters

This paper considers how prose, drama, fairytales, and religious narratives portray female characters in 9 pages. Eleven sources...

Courses in Women's Studies and What They Offer Students

firm grounding in the social sciences, and opportunities to bring this perspective to bear in a variety of careers or areas of gra...

S.I. McMillen's None of These Diseases

Innes (20001) makes the point that much of the Bibles historical prophesy has come to pass and been documented as predicted. He s...

Japanese Heian Era and the Role of Women

This paper considers the 794 to 1192 Heian Era in Japan in terms of women's status in society and the growing prominence of female...

Mill Verses Tennyson Verses Gaskell, A Comparison of The Subjection of Women, The Princess and North and South

This six page paper considers the societal roles expected of Victorian women. John Stewart Mill, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Gaskell ...