SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Feminist Reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Essays 151 - 180

King Lear, Act V

This essay presents an analysis of Act V of King Lear and how it relates to the patterns established previously in the play. Three...

Gertrude in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles Compared

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Comparative Analysis of Rulers in 4 Plays by William Shakespeare

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare and the Relationship Between Prince Hal and King Henry

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

Nothing and Something in “King Lear”

each of them to tell how much she loves him. Goneril goes first and gushes all over the old man, telling him she loves him so much...

Creative Essay on the ‘Revolutionary’ King Lear

could have joined forces with another expatriate, Edmund of Gloucester, much like Fidel Castro did with the revolutionary Che Guev...

The Best and Worst in on Human nature in King Lea

were planning to abdicate in favor of one of the women, that would be different, but hes not-he is dividing the kingdom without na...

Southern Literature and Themes of Communication Lacks and Self Absorption

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

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 ...

Social Commentary in King Lear - Men and Beasts

"King Lear". In the passage, Lear is reacting to the latest treacherous ploy by his daughters Goneril and Regan, who have suggeste...

Shakespeare and Homer - Examining Patriarchal Content

and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

King Claudius and Machiavelli

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

Leontes in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

The Character of Henry V

Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth is discussed along with the protagonist. This five page paper has three sources ...

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

Rewriting History with William Shakespeare's 'Richard the Third'

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

Prince Hal and King Henry

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

Peruvian Racial Prejudice and an Application of Martin Luther King's Theories of Nonviolence

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

A Feminist Reading of Dorothy Allison's, Bastard Out of Carolina

father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...

A Feminist Reading of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

girls. Carlos and Kiki are each others best friend... not ours" (8). The boundaries generated by gender stereotypes is symbolize...

Feminist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

mock romance, a post-modernist parody of a familiar genre" (Oates carter-wise.html). Interestingly enough, even with little, or no...

Feminism in Roald Dahl's, The Witches

takes care of her grandson and loves him. That is her life and she is not sexual, pretty, or threatening in any way. She is the id...