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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....

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...

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...

Comparing Antigone, Medea, and Nora Helmer

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

4 Multicultural Literary Works and the 'Feminine Principle'

and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Arab...

Irish Saga Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, Medea Women, and Suffering

In six pages this comparative analysis examines the suffering and fate of female protagonists Dredriu and Medea in these works. T...

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...

Body Image and Perception Among American Women

which represented "wealth, an abundance of food and a refined indoor lifestyle" (Region of Peel, 2004). In the early 1900s the loo...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

United Kingdom Women's Magazines

of Womans Own has a woman on the front who is not runway model glamorous, but neither is she overweight or flawed in any way. The ...

Questions Regarding Miscarriage

condition of the cervix; ultrasound can confirm or deny whether the fetus has died. "In some cases the ultrasound may show that t...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Early Industrialization and the Theories of Goldin and Sokoloff

that the closer a firm was to a city, the smaller the opportunity for women and children (Goldin and Sokoloff, 1982). Still, when ...

Male and Female Circumcision

Female circumcision, almost unknown in Western cultures, is mainly found...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

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...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Female Canon Defined

obvious that Beauvoir had developed a distinctly feminist philosophy and outlook on history, which startled the reading audience i...

The Pluralist Family and Feminism

This paper examines the ideals of the pluralist family as they relate to the feminist agenda. The author discusses the industrial...

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

last comment is an example of Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with...

Ape Species Bonobos

(1997), the bonobo remained little more than a curiosity, however, until the 1970s, when Japanese and Western scientists traveled ...

1890 to 1920 New York Factories and Women

were leaving the confines and moral strictures of their families and elders and venturing forth to the large industrial cities suc...

Female Sexuality from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper examines different views of female sexuality as presented in Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys and Good...