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Essays 181 - 210

Women in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...

Hollywood Cinema, False Depiction of Women and the Subtle Sexism

sexually aggressive. In my own opinion, Mildred Pierce, Jezebel, The Postman Always Rings Twice-these were great tragedies about w...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

Concepts of Honor and Virtue in Literary Works 'Henry IV Part I,' 'The Canterbury Tales,' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

In five pages virtue and honor are examined in a comparative analysis of these three classics of Medieval and English literature. ...

Medieval Literature and the Portrayals of Kingship

In seven pages this paper discusses how the relationship between warriors and their king is symbolically depicted as that of sons ...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Issues Surrounding Breast Implants

In eight pages popular literature is reviewed in this discussion of breast implants and examines why women opt for this procedure ...

Barbara Walters and a Theoretical TV Symposium on Women

In three pages this paper discusses a theoretical TV symposium regarded on the presentation of women in literature and thoughts on...

Meditations

controlling his temper, modesty, and manliness, he learned piety, abstinence, and how to live simply "far removed from the habits ...

Analyzing 'Death of a Salesman' from a Feminist Perspective

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Satire in Candide by Voltaire and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

this particular case emphasized the role of the hero. Sancho is reminiscent of the modern world that cannot conceive or begin to f...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Cultures

power in many ways. The more titles the greater the power. And, in a social perspective as it involves the government system, this...

Daisy and Nora

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

'Recipe' by Janice Mirikitani

the eye takes looses its Asian fold and looks more Western. Then Mirikitani tells how to use eyeliner and false eyelashes to hide ...

Music and the Sexualization of Women

The number and diversity of those involved in the debate surrounding the sexualization of women is overwhelming. Research abounds...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Iranian Women

were enjoying these achievements, those who were from the traditional sector of society reacted negatively, saying in public that ...

Power in Correspondence Relationships

itself is set up to favor men. There is nothing new in this and to a large extent its true. Women still earn significantly less th...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

Conservative Muslim Women and the Difficulties Encountered When Living in Western Countries

and those who resist equality are vilified. In a culture where gender is a key determinant of the role in society equality is not ...

Western Monasticism's Rise and Spread

In five pages this paper examines a period from the earliest days of Christianity to the Reformation period in a consideration of ...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

Western English Society and Male and Female Suicidal Behavior

and other obligations, as well as having a higher level of courage to commit such an act, men reflect a significantly higher suici...

Western Hemisphere and Violence Directed Towards Women

entrenched within social dictates that they have automatically applied to virtually every other area of public life. It can...

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

veil to designate between "respectable" and "disreputable" women. However, Ahmed emphasizes the fact that "Mesopotamian, Persian...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

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...