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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom Cabin
1,260 words"So you " re the lady whose book started this great war. " Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. This quote shows the great influence the novel had on the minds of its readers and on a nation in turmoil. At the height of racial tension in nineteenth century America, Stowe revealed the sufferings and hardships the slave was forced to endure. Stowe used passionate and sometimes exaggerated thoughts and stories in the book in an effort to prompt abolitionist a...
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Values Of Society Mother Woman
1,311 wordsWilla Cather tends to portray static characters with little depth, yet she seems to approach her female characters with an air of liberalism that allows for a more well-rounded exploration of society than is found in the works of other contemporary authors. Cather depicts women as both the classic mother woman and the independent individual. Allowing her to free the female character from heir reliance on men. Her women are not just mothers, daughters, or wives; they are characters of their own -...
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Rear Window And Gentlemen Prefer Blondes On Display
1,486 wordsRear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) have very different plots but still have many striking similarities, such as the manipulation of the spectators gaze. Gaze is the transaction between the screen and a spectator. Two examples of the types of gazes used in these films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie viewing and gender roles during the 1950 s by featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex objects. Rear Window i...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez First Person Narrator
1,522 wordsWhen analyzing Isabel Allende's and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lives, parallels between them become increasingly obvious, thus the rationalization for some of the similarities that are observed between their historically fictional novels The House of the Spirits and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, respectively. One of the most obvious parallels is the influence of women on both of them. Allende dedicates The House of the Spirits "to my mother, my grandmother and all the other extraordinary women of...
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One By One Female Characters
2,316 wordsThe works of writers from India deal with numerous concerns. Postcolonial concerns rank high among writers like Anita Desai, Must Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and other leading authors. These writers express their thoughts and ideologies on the postcolonial situation using concerns like nationhood and nationalism, resistance and representation and feminist post colonialism. This essay titled Subalterned females in Desai's Fasting, Feasting is an analysis of two vital postcolonial concerns, namely fe...
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Arranged Marriages Hindu Religion
2,239 words... ation. During the train journey back, he beat his head with his fists, and moaned aloud about the dowry and the wedding expenses while everyone, all of them strangers-women with babies and baskets of food, men reading newspapers or playing cards or discussing business-turned to listen with the keenest of interest, throwing significant looks at Uma who kept her head wrapped up in her sari in an effort to screen her shame. (Desai: 1998: 94) Papas behaviour is typical of the Indian male whose p...
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Merchant Of Venice Female Characters
1,771 wordsThroughout Mans history, women have always been at a disadvantage socially, economically, and politically. Shakespeare realized this and sought to bring the controversy that comes with Androgynous issues to life. Through strong female characters and the implications of disguises, Shakespeare exposes gender issues. Many critics believe Shakespeare poorly represents women in his plays through intentional exploiting of women with his boy-girl-boy disguises. When in fact, I see Shakespeare as exploi...
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Tale Of Two Cities Lucie Manette
1,141 wordsIn many books and movies, women take a backseat when it comes to being characters of strength or impact. They are most always presented as the weaker of sexes, and can usually be found in a vulnerable position waiting to be rescued by the stronger, more appealing male hero. To find a woman of strength in a book written before the womens rights movements of the 20 th century, it would take a bit of scouring and detective work. Yet Charles Dickens provides multiple unnatural female characters in A...
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Divine Comedy Saint Augustine
1,264 wordsFemale Figures Beatrice is the central figure in Dantes The Divine Comedy. Beatrice (Italian) favoring with beatitude. The semantics of this female character traces back to semantics of Donna in dolce stil nuovo and in courteous lyrics. Dantes poetic style constitutes Beatrice's character as embodiment of supreme beauty and feminist that are, in their turn, the basis of beauty in other female characters. Dante perceives Beatrice's beauty as beauty in its substantial expression. He states that it...
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A Dolls House By Henrik Ibsen
1,352 wordsA Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen History has proven that the holy sanctity of marriage has faltered. Women no longer feel obligated to remain in a union that does not suite her needs or hold her best interest. In the late nineteenth century, it was considered scandalous for a woman to walk out on her family obligations. Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House, " written in 1879, is a direct attack on the values of family and marriage regarded as sacred to many during that time. Through Nora in A Dolls Hous,...
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Women In Society Nineteenth Century
993 wordsHow Writing is Affected by Gender "The average man is a rectangular, square-cut, matter of fact, sober minded animal who does not receive impressions easily, who is not troubled with emotions and has no overmastering desire to communicate his sensations to anybody. But the average woman is just the reverse of all these. She is impressionable, emotional, and communicative. And impressionableness, emotionality, and communicativeness are three very important qualities of mind that make for novel wr...
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The House Of Spirits By Isabelle Allende
1,660 wordsThe House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende Isabel Allende was nearly 40 when she wrote her first novel The House Of Spirits. THE NEW YORK TIMES called the book a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present and future of Latin America. This essay will attempt to uncover the meaning of the irony and allegory in The House Of Spirits in connection with If You Touched My Heart by the same author, Kafka's Report To An Academy and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The...
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Death Of A Salesman Biff And Happy
1,966 wordsMarginalization of Women It s been over 50 years since the release of Arthur Miler s play Death of a Salesman. Written in 1949, Death of a Salesman is widely regarded by many as one of the masterpiece play of 20 th century. It has seen countless reprisal performances spanning across the globe in such unlikely places such as China, and Japan for over 50 years. Its impact on our society has been so great that students, ranging from high school students to university students study Death of a Sales...
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Joseph Conrad 19 Th Century
584 wordsIn Joseph Conrad? s novelette Heart of Darkness, Marlow? s view of women embodies the typical 19 th century view of women as the inferior sex. There are only three relatively minor female characters in Heart of Darkness: Marlow? s aunt, Kurtz? s mistress, and Kurtz? s " Intended. " Marlow mentions these female characters in order to give the literal aspect of his tale more substance. While they definitely play specific roles in the story, they do not relate with the primary theme of th...
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Act 1 Sc Act 4 Sc
1,862 wordsMen dominated Elizabethan times. It was a patriarchal society. Women needed to conform to the social expectations. They were not supposed to show off their bodies. Their dresses had high, choking necklines, a plate that flattened their bosom, and layers of cloth that made them appear larger than they really were on the hips. The ideal picture of beauty was fair-skinned, red hair, high foreheads and very thin eyebrows. They spoke softly and did not express their opinions openly. Women were expect...
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Taming Of The Shrew End Of The Play
1,527 wordsThe Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare is an introduction in the ever present battle of women to be loving and caring wives, while at the same time holding on to our independence. Its plot is derived from the popular war of the sexes theme in which males and females are pitted against one another for dominance in marriage. The play begins with an induction in which a drunkard, Christopher Sly, is fooled into believing he is a king and has a play performed for him. The play he watches is ...
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Avenge His Fathers Death Lady Macbeth
1,494 wordsConsider the role of female characters in Shakespearean tragedy. With particular reference to Hamlet. Are the actions of women central to the downfall of the central protagonist? In Elizabethan England women played a subordinate role in society, economically and politically. As a result, many literary works were reflective of this diminutive role women encapsulated, in many cases gaining little reference at all. In contrast to this trend, Shakespeare's tragedies portrayed the female characters a...
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19 Th Century Heart Of Darkness
565 wordsHeart of Darkness In Joseph Conrad's novelette Heart of Darkness, Marlow's view of women embodies the typical 19 th century view of women as the inferior sex. There are only three relatively minor female characters in Heart of Darkness: Marlow's aunt, Kurtz's mistress, and Kurtz's Intended. Marlow mentions these female characters in order to give the literal aspect of his tale more substance. While they definitely play specific roles in the story, they do not relate with the primary theme of the...
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Bernard Malamud Female Characters
1,344 wordsThe Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in Naked Nude Michael Mc Be English 2420 Dr. Chappell May 24, 1994 Thesis and Outline: Thesis: In his picturesque short story, The Naked Nude, Bernard Malamud uses the female characters to develop, enact, and resolve Fidelman's epiphany and to bring about the protagonists final, artistic self-understanding. I. Introductory paragraph statement of thesis. II. The prostitutes A. in contrast to Fidelman's initial idea of the artistic nude B. maybe too m...
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Soap Operas Female Characters
1,730 wordsPortrayal of Women in Soaps By doing a textual and feminist analysis, the specific issue we examined in our study is how womens characters are portrayed in soap operas, specifically Days of Our Lives, and how their behavior is affected by the patriarchal system. The feminist and textual analysis were done through the viewing of Days of Our Lives on three consecutive Fridays. We also read related articles that gave us a better understanding of our research topic. The combination of our viewing, r...
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