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Sula by Toni Morrison and the Shadrack Character

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shadrack is affected by patriarchal and racial issues throughout the course ...

The Love of Women Presenting A Different Kind of World

become well-known on stage in the time and place in which both of these works took place were no better than they had been a hundr...

The Goddess vs. Christianity

Many modern feminists have embraced the worship of the Goddess as more liberating and less patriarchal than most mainstream monoth...

An Analysis of A Rose for Emily

common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...

Patriarchy, Women, and Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines the patriarchal oppression Desdemona experiences in the tragic play Othello by William Shakespear...

Subtle Rebellion in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages the ways in which Bronte reflects patriarchal opposition through Bertha's obvious struggles and Jane's more subtle r...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Quest for Identity, Love, and Liberation

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

Role of Women in Three Norse Sagas

This paper discusses the role of women in three Norse sagas. The writer argues that "Njal's Saga" and "Laxdaela's S...

Male Gender Role Definition and Understanding

In five pages this paper examines how male gender roles are defined in a consideration of The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarc...

Judaism and Feminism

In six pages conservative and liberal Judaism sects are examined in a discussion that considers the impact of the feminist movemen...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Patriarchy

In twelve pages this paper examines how patriarchal concepts are expressed by characters featured in Hard Times, a novel by Charle...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and a Tyrannical Patriarchy

will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...

Gender Roles and Bureaucracies

the claims of equality it may be in the name of efficiency that sex is driven out of the workplace (Schultz, 2003). The associat...

India Honor Crimes and U.S. Domestic Violence

pp. 96-97) and the likelihood she will endure some level of domestic abuse. In association with this finding, it has come to ligh...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Feminist Heroines Antigone in Sophocles' Play of the Same Name and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

Taiwan and Women's Changing Role

in the equation that supported the ideal that women are inferior. Based on a conviction of inferiority, male authorities were the...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Feminist Critique/Disney Films

also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...

Sex as Power in Relationships in 'The Wife of Bath' and 'Lysistrata'

condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body. Three of my husbands were good an...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...

Jane Eyre's Relationship with Rochester: Freud's Unconscious

be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Ageism In America

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...

Catherine the Great's Political Perspectives

into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...

Alexander the Great's Artistic and Cultural Innovations

were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...

Alexander the Great's Military Strategies

PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...