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Women and Sexuality in Greek Life

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the time of Pericles and the status of gays and women in a contrast and comparison t...

Frankenstein/Symbolic of Women's Fate

are equated by Frankenstein as emotionally synonymous to pursuing and conquering a woman. From this sexual conquest of nature, Fra...

Emecheta/2nd Class Citizen

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

Workplace and Opportunities for Women as Opposed to Men

court case to struggle for the freedom of all people who were otherwise discriminated against, it does stand as one of the most in...

Second World War and the Diverse Roles Played by Women

Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...

3 Operas Inspired by The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

Women of Early Rome and the Role They Played

In seven pages an excerpt from Balsdon's book on early Roman women and the role they played is critiqued. One source is cited in ...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...

Mafia and Roles Played by Women

females are no longer held as high on the pedestal they once were. While men in the mob continue to treat their women well, it app...

Arthur Miller's Plays and Women

In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...

Social and Familial Status for Women in 3 Plays

and culture separate the 1888 play of Swedish playwright August Strindberg, Miss Julie, from those of twentieth century Canadians ...

Identity Need of Women in the Plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov

This paper discusses women's need for their own identity as considered by Anton Chekhov in Three Sisters and Henrik Ibsen in A Dol...

Ben Jonson's Play Epicoene, the Silent Woman

"The stylish young Ned Clerimont, apparently drunk, stumbles in, sips a cup of who-knows-what, sips another cup, and then proceeds...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

World War I and the Roles Played by Women

living American veterans of World War I (Smith 5C). When the war broke out, Frost signed up for the adventure (5C). In those days...

Rights for Women in the 19th Century Play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Literary Depiction of Human Nature

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Role of Women in the Victorian Novel Dracula by Bram Stoker

when a man and woman become married they become one person, but that one person was the man, the husband, thus indicating that a w...

Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...

Content and Gender in Feminist Literature

Throughout history, until very recently, women have been little more than property, things men could do with as they pleased. But...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Sins of Macbeth

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

Comparative Analysis of Women's Status in Iran and Pakistan

the way this s interpreted now and in the past which reflects on the current status. If we look at Pakistan this is a country wh...

Self and Suppressing Black Feminist Thought

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

Labor Movement and the Rights of Women

as an outward attempt to assemble some semblance of organized labor for the overwrought American worker. The primary goals of thi...

'Time is Out of Joint' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...