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Portrayal of Women in Much Ado About Nothing and Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

case, claiming that she has done no wrong to her husband. But, it is to say that she is constantly doing as her husband orders, ev...

Feminist Perspectives and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

Mysterious Book of Judith

the Victory of the Jews. The unknown author seems to have drawn on the Exodus narrative, especially Exodus 14:31 as well as from ...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and an Evaluation of Minor Female Characters

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 ...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

An Article on Jane Eyre and Feminism Theories Evaluated

my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...

Workplace and Gender Wage Disparities

pay in the workplace can be aided both from an employment of the so-called radical feminist approach and an employment of the stru...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

The Wife of Bath Examined Critically

which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

Santa Maria della Salute and Portrayals by Joseph William Mallord Turner and Atonio Canale

through brightness and shadows. With Turners painting we see a much more subtle and allusive. His forms are not concrete nor ar...

Women and Multiculturalism's Disadvantages

support rigid and inhumane practices toward women. Celebrating diversity should not extend to an embracing of those ideologies, no...

Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Reasons Why Men Commit Rape

They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...

Analyzing Kate Chopin's Male Characters in 'The Awakening'

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

A Comparison of Various Feminist Movements

forth but this time it was with broader generational appeal; it was more interesting and expressed female sexual desire for the f...

Review of Flora Nwapa's Efuru

Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Jean Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Film Amelie from Montmartre, Feminism, and Postmodernism

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

Antigone Character Analysis

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

Feminist Themes and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

Feminist Perspective on Religion

ostensibly, the use of the masculine pronoun is suppose to encompass both men and women, Johnson argues that to consistently use t...