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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...

Confucianism, Islam, Kinship Responsibilities and Moral Codes

particularly interesting examination of the variation that exists even in the face of a transcending moral code can be made with a...

Freedom Views of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...

3 Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Richard III

most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

Erin Brockovich, Scarlett O'Hara, and Film's Independent Women

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

Mise-en-Scene

and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...

Charisma and Power in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

to vote for them, even though another candidate is more qualified. Suetonius writes in the Twelve Caesars something akin to Pri...

Woody Allen's 1977 Film Annie Hall and Its Ill Fated Love Affair

comedy has been a staple of American movies since movies were first created. There is an undeniable connection that exists betwee...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

Power in Animal Farm by George Orwell, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this report analyzes how power is featured in these respective works and how they influence the featured characters ...

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...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

Equality and Liberty According to Such Social Theorists as Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

Chorus Significance in Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Sophocles' Oedipus

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...

Cinematic Structure and Coding of the Film Gone with the Wind

in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Social Groups and the Characters in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus

social classes clearly defined in the beginning when Neil is first detailing Brendas sister, Julie: "ten, round-faced, bright, who...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Lord of the Flies and the Characters of Jack and Ralph and The Outsiders and the Character of Pony

What we learn by reading this book is that society as a whole is only as good as the individuals which...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...