YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing Modern and Nineteenth Century Female Characters
Essays 481 - 510
attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...
who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...
de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...
the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...
of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...
Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
In five page this research paper examines the female characters revelations and what they say about their competition and their li...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...
her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...
When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...
are based on a childrens story which made an impression on him when he was a child. The childrens story is a tale in which "a litt...
the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...
learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation....
allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...
spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
gender equality is seen throughout the world and not limited to the Middle East (Kandiyoti, 1991). To assess the link between wo...
preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...
to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...
the massive scope of mortality, with some contending that natural rights are those that are without social infiltration, while oth...
conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...
was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...