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Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Deaths of Cleopatra and Juliet in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet

In eight pages the deaths of these female characters are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Islamic Culture and Women in So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

focus in the Islamic groupings of Senegal. The two friends describe their lives in complicity and state things like "our lives de...

Colonialism and Feminism as Seen in Ngugi and Head

This paper examines the Twentieth Century authors, Ngugi and head. The author specifically addresses the contributions of the fem...

Social Struggles and Women in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron

Jewetts Sylvia is not far removed from the oppressive social structure Louisa is forced to endure. For Sylvia, the white heron ex...

Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City

In five pages the novel's three female characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and significance. On...

The View of Women in Jane Austen's Society

This paper examines the roles played by male and female characters in the society created within Jane Austen's literature. This f...

Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Sophia's Characterization

In five pages this paper examines the duality of Sophia's character as both a position and an independent female in this novel by ...

Female Oppression and Self Liberation in Mother Courage and Her Children, Tartuffe, and The Rover

reason for the rather wimpy Mariane. Dorine appeals to Orgon to preserve his daughters happiness and when he refuses to listen, s...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Central Characters, the Ideals of Strength and Devotion in Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves Films by Lars von Trier

are based on a childrens story which made an impression on him when he was a child. The childrens story is a tale in which "a litt...

Conflict Between Antigone and Creon in Antigone by Sophocles

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

Roman Polanski's Film Chinatown and Characters Katherine Cross and Evelyn Mulwray

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

Charles Dickens' Estella and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

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...

Spirituality and Storytelling in Beloved by Toni Morrison

was painful or lost" (69). Beloved wants to hear about the diamond earrings that Mrs. Garner gave Sethe to mark her marital union...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair and The Great Gatsby

certain light. The narrator to tells us that, "Ive heard it said that Daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an ir...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Women Rising Above Oppression in The Color Purple

she is sent to live with another family and then goes off to Africa on missionary work with them. In essence, Celie is not only ut...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

The Plays Sure Thing and Trifles and What They Say about Women’s Issues

its difficult to find true love, and that women are sometimes willing to take a chance unless they have a substantial chance of be...