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Essays 211 - 240

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

Analyzing 'The Joys of Motherhood' by Buchi Emecheta

find "something she was good at" (Holmes PG). Much of the young Buchi Emecheta can be found in the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, i...

Women in Three Hardy Novels

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

A Traditional Hawaiian 'Talk' Story

After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Slave Narratives

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

Wendy Darling in Peter Pan and Alice in Alice in Wonderland

equally strong reluctance to leave the comforts of childhood behind. Her childishness is seen in the fact that she seems powerles...

Gender Narrative in "Midnight's Children"

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

Eighteenth Century Novel Characters Pamela and Fantomina

In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...

How America's Schools Cheat Girls

The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Female Protagonists in God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousbane

In five pages this novel is examined in an overview that focuses upon the women's roles in the Senegal railway workers strike as w...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Challenges and Problems

In five pages this paper examines the problems and challenges associated with women's roles within the context of Achebe's novel. ...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

The Memoir of Author Nahid Rachlin

she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

Umuofian Women in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

In six pages this essay discusses how women's positioning in Umuofian society reveals much about its culture as represented in Ach...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

Alice's Neverland and Wonderland

are guards, and nothing is what it seems: "Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...