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How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

Deaths of Cleopatra and Juliet in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet

In eight pages the deaths of these female characters are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

In each, their gestures of submission paradoxically enable the expression of desire. This shows female characters that inhabit th...

Islamic Culture and Women in So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

focus in the Islamic groupings of Senegal. The two friends describe their lives in complicity and state things like "our lives de...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Sophia's Characterization

In five pages this paper examines the duality of Sophia's character as both a position and an independent female in this novel by ...

Central Characters, the Ideals of Strength and Devotion in Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves Films by Lars von Trier

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...

Female Oppression and Self Liberation in Mother Courage and Her Children, Tartuffe, and The Rover

reason for the rather wimpy Mariane. Dorine appeals to Orgon to preserve his daughters happiness and when he refuses to listen, s...

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...

Rebellion of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper argues that the fictional female character Hester Prynne was 'more of a man' than were either her creator...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

A Comparison between Sula by Toni Morrison and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence

This 5 page paper discusses the relationship among the female characters in Toni Morrison's Sula and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence. The...

Women's Roles In Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun

This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Colonialism and Feminism as Seen in Ngugi and Head

This paper examines the Twentieth Century authors, Ngugi and head. The author specifically addresses the contributions of the fem...

The View of Women in Jane Austen's Society

This paper examines the roles played by male and female characters in the society created within Jane Austen's literature. This f...

Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City

In five pages the novel's three female characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and significance. On...

Female Characters in Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...

Conflict Between Antigone and Creon in Antigone by Sophocles

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

Roman Polanski's Film Chinatown and Characters Katherine Cross and Evelyn Mulwray

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Analysis: “Six Characters” Author

writer create something unless it comes at least partly from within? Trying to provider a brief synopsis of the play is impossibl...

Brain Response/Males & Aggression

et al, 2006). In this study, it was found that girls at every age demonstrated "more self-regulated, committed compliance and less...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

A Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton

categorized into four classifications: * "Type I. Excision of the prepuce, with or without excision of part or all of the clitoris...

Hindu Women and Their Female Role

the case in India, however. In fact, many ancient religions, which pre-date Hinduism and even Christianity, place women as the dom...