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Women, Men/Relationships in Midsummer Night’s Dream

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Literature Review on Culture, Aging, and Women

This paper examines culture and aging as each relates to women in a review of Figuring Age by Woodward, Mother Time by Walker, and...

Classic Western Literature and the Portrayal of Women

The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Nonconformist Americans in 'Hills Like White Elephants' and 'A Man of the World' by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this report discusses the American nonconformism Hemingway represents in thest 2 short stories. Three sources are c...

How the Stories of Oresteia and Antigone Related to Values and Interests of Men and Women

lie to Antigone because their interests/values lie in their men. While they do not want their men to go to war, they want sex just...

The Relationship of African-American Men to Conflict Theory

The handling of conflict is a major source of interest in American society. This paper discusses affective and cognitive conflict ...

Man and Woman in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

hand, is a model of blunt decorum and steadiness, a man ruled by his class and conventions rather than feeling: basically, a guy ...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

American Literature and the Issue of Class

leaned left. While it is true that the early part of the twentieth century provided an impetus on which authors could expound th...

John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Concepts of Communication

In three pages the three concepts of communication Gray describes in his book are considered. Two other sources are cited in the ...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman Overview and Film Review

depth, grace, and often touching humor with which the story is actually presented. Family, love, and tradition are all presented, ...

Literature and Women of High Society

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...

Human Characteristics and Latin American Literature

Parenting styles differ significantly, therefore, leaving much open to interpretation and inference. Certain aspects, such as nur...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Feminist Utopian Literature Represented by Women on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

destroyed, and that in its place, a society based on equality and not by the limitations imposed by gender. Piercys radical views...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Reviewing an Article on Sociopsychological Differences Between Men and Women

In six pages two reviews each consisting of six pages considers the differences in sociopsychological development between early ma...

Societal Roles and Differences Between Men and Women

In five pages this paper examines how time and culture have defined the social roles of male and female and formed expectations of...

Differences Between Women and Men

In five pages this paper examines gender differences in order to determine that some stereotypes of women as more nurturing as par...

Coping and Relationships Between Women and Men

In eight pages this paper examines gender relationships with the focus being coping mechanisms after a relationship loss. Seven s...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Powerful Women and Literature

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

17th and 19th Century Literature and the Depiction of Women

In five pages this paper discusses how women were depicted in Tartuffe by Moliere, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, and Hedda Ga...