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The Modern Relevance of Euripides' Hecuba

was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

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...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Women's Social Status

In eleven pages this paper discusses these plays by William Shakespeare in terms of the social status of women as depicted by the ...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

Observation and Self Definition in Women's Studies

that "ladder of success," or does that mean that they are not on the rung that they would like to be. Since they are the ones who...

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Militarization and How it Affects Women's Lives

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

Gertrude Stein and the Advancement of Women

of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

Greek Theater and Women's Role

has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...

Ancient Greece and Women's Roles

Artemis, and her hair was cut. For the next several months the bride was taught the domestic duties she would perform for the rest...

Self Image of Women in the Works of Kate Chopin and Henrik Ibsen

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

Mythology and Women

represent the important roles of women. The contrast between mythological women and mythological men represents the complexity of...

Procrastination Exemplification Essay

In four pages this exemplification essay presents a first person narrative that considers a young woman's procrastination problems...

Fictional Short Story 'Into Her House, With Flowers'

In seven pages this short story which features a woman's fight to freely live her life despite several mental impairment is presen...

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,...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Pagan and Jewish Women

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Pagan women with Jewish women in ancient Greek and Roman societies in terms of the...

Dying a Slow Death by Blankets - Lysistrata

thing. CLEONICE (wearily) And is it thick too? LYSISTRATA...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

Female Characters in Coriolanus and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...