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Erica Jong's Fear of Flying

This paper provides a reading of Jong's novel, Fear of Flying. The author raises questions on a variety of Jong's assertions and ...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Society

In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, William Shakespeare's Othello and Social Issues

In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....

Historical English Plays and Marginalization

In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...

Sexuality and Language in Candide by Voltaire

"lesson in experimental physics" with the young man. She exhibits no hesitation in obtaining what she desires, which may also serv...

Historians on Political Conflicts and Sexuality

such larger societal issues also had a profound impact on more intimate sexual issues and determinants of sexual behavior and atti...

Controversial Themes in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This paper presents a case study and critical analysis of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The author discusses racism, ge...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and Doe Season by David Kaplan

In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...

Age Appropriate Sexual Behavior Perceptions

In five pages this paper discusses perceptions that are developed by age appropriateness regarding sexuality and considers what pa...

Argument by David M. Halperin 'There Has Only Been 100 Years of Homosexuality' Assessed

nineteenth century, there could not have existed criteria such as homosexuality or heterosexuality. Halperin contended that back ...

Freudian Analysis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

associated with the complexity of the sexual relationship, and its importance as a factor in the lives of human beings, just as Fr...

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

The Status of Women in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as Compared With Hindu, Biblical, and Muslim Women

This research report examines a novel written in 1986 by Margaret Atwood. How it relates in respect to the status of women of vari...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

Jewish Sexuality

In seven pages this paper examines Jewish sexuality in a consideration of some controversial statements on the topic. Four source...

Purity, Childhood, and Sexuality in Colette's The Pure and The Impure and Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters

laps at its literary feet (Gide PG). Throughout Colettes The Pure and the Impure, the reader is forced to determine just wh...

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence and Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is depicted in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Seven sources are cited in the b...

Sexuality in Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Roxana herself has done," presenting us with a story that is informing the reader about realities as they concern many conditions,...

Salome and Beardsley's Illustrations by Wilde

in the play, but works such as Beardsleys Peacock Woman depict a woman of culture, one who appears to be above the baseness that t...

From Arousal to Orgasm in Human Sexuality

In five pages this paper examines what a man and woman's physiological and biological processes are as they become sexually arouse...

'My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson Analyzed Psychologically

In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

Works of Tennessee Williams and the Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Storm' and Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

Social Work Practice and Theory

In addition, she makes the point that when considering any social phenomenon, there will invariably be a diversity of interpretati...

Society, Power, Gender and Sexuality

equality. In that sense, womens rights are not a universal good; neither are they timeless" (Luh PG). The 1920s represente...

Media Perception Differences

Okay, a few people noticed that there was symbolism that could be indicative of homosexuality and so forth. Does that make a chara...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...