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"Dune" and the Question of Female Empowerment

most revolutionary of all science fiction novels when it first appeared in the 1960s. In fact, its appearance on the literary scen...

Self Discovery Journey in The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown

In four pages this essay examines the female protagonist's journey towards self discovery in The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown. The...

Feminist Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...

Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Sexuality and Death

In ten pages this paper considers how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...

Legal Memorandum on an NJ Sexual Assault Case

In eight pages this paper discusses rape charges in New Jersey in a legal memorandum that considers case specifics and the female ...

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...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In seven pages this paper discusses the 'Female Quixote' aspects of Emma Bovary and the romantic illusions she prefers to reality....

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...

Beatrice's Character in 'Inferno' by Dante

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

Heroism in the Myths of Diana and Hercules

In five pages this paper compares these male and female myths in a consideration of heroism resulting from ideal based behavioral ...

Antigone's Childish Defiance and Pointless Death in the Play by Sophocles

In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...

Homer's Penelope and Sophocles' Antigone

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Contrast and Comparison of Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare

In five pages these female protagonists are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Discussing Catherine Morland's and Jane Austen's Heroines

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Jane Eyre'

This paper is 9 pages in length and emphasizes the use of characterizations in terms of emotion, passion, and intellect not as ste...

Adrienne Rich and Susan Fraiman's Perspectives on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages the feminist and Marxist positions reflected in the views of these female authors are contrasted and compared in ter...

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...

Women and Chaucer's Attitudes in The Canterbury Tales

In three pages this essay considers how Chaucer offered an insightful commentary regarding medieval society's view of women in the...

Gender Relationships in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

In five pages this paper examines how male and female relationships are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these two literary ...

Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Women's Fortitude and Morale

In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...

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...

Men and Women in the Texts In Love and Trouble and The Color Purple

Celie and Mr.______. Although his first name is Andrew Celie titles him thus therefore he will remain Mr. _______ for the analysis...

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...

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...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Homage to My Hips by Lucille Clifton

In four pages this essay discusses the implications of the female body changes as addressed in Lucille Clifton's Homage to My Hips...

John Donne's Feminist Poetry

This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...

Self Esteem in Female Adolescents

notions of the men they are dating. However, even Winik appears to realize that this can be damaging to the self-esteem of the w...