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Female Role Role Model
1,566 words"Poetry, Passion, and Power: The Lyrics of Andal-God and the Music of God Andal, " Vasudha Narayanan "Mirabai: Inscribed in Text, Embodied in Life, " Nancy M. Martin-Kershaw This is a summary and reaction to the above articles, both of which have similar foci in that they each discuss different female Hindu saints. These Saints, though women, have life histories that do not exactly fit into the prescribed gender roles of current modern India. Interestingly, in an India where men dominate and fem...
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Act Iii Scene Guildenstern And Rosencrantz
1,070 wordsThe character of Prince Hamlet, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, displays many strong yet justified emotions. For instance, the "To be or Not To Be" soliloquy, perhaps one of the most well known quotes in the English language, Hamlet actually debates suicide. His despair, sorrow, anger, and inner peace are all justifiable emotions for this troubled character. Hamlet's feeling of despair towards his life and to the world develops as the play moves on. In Hamlet's first soliloquy he reveals that his despa...
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Supernatural Powers Ancient Greek
1,177 wordsIn the epic poem Odyssey, Homer delineates the homecoming of a great warrior and the hero of the epic Odysseus from the Trojan War. Though seemingly, it might sound like a male-dominated ancient myth, women pull the strings in the Odyssey, whether it may be Helen of Troy who inflicted upon the spears and arrows thirst for blood or may it be Circumspect Penelope who motivated Odysseus to come home. Also goddess Athene, nymph Kalypso and Circe, mortals Nausikaa and Klytaimestra serve as strings of...
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Gender Roles And Macbeth
1,026 wordsWhat roles and actions should actors of a particular gender portray? Should men be aggressive and have a level of ambition high enough to meet their loftiest goals? Should women always be passive and frail, never using their energy to advance their lot? William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragic tale of one mans deadly and unchecked ambition to be king, and his wifes lust for power and title. By the final act of the play, Macbeth has been consumed by his own drive. The prophecies he once thrived ...
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The House On Mango Street Seeking Independence
1,001 wordsIn the book The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes that involve a young girl, named Esperanza, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from the low expectations and restrictions that Latino society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros draws on her own background to supply the reader with accurate views of Latino society today. In particular, Cisneros provides the chapters Boys and Girls and Beautifu...
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Primal Scene H 2
795 wordsAccording to Kristeva's theory, in order to become a subject in the symbolic realm it is necessary to reject / abject that which gave us our existence - namely, the mother. Moreover, within patriarchal cultures women are reduced to the maternal function and therefore women, maternity and femininity are affected along with the maternal function. This misplaced abjection is one way to account for womens oppression and degradation within patriarchal cultures. For Kristeva, the process is helped alo...
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Type Of Love P 85
1,527 wordsSophie began her childhood like most of the children within the combines of her village in Haiti. She was young and innocent. Her aspirations were simply to enjoy the pleasantries of being a child. Education, love, and a strong family bond were the essence of her sweet beginnings. All that she had ever known was the unconditional love of her Tante Atie. It was an unsettling, but eager sense of unwavering devotion that forced her to leave her almost perfect world in an effort to regain and rekind...
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Jury Of Her Peers True Story
684 wordsThe Characters of A Jury of Her Peers The Characters of 'A Jury of Her Peers'; Based on a true story, ' Jury of Her Peers 'tells of a small town abuse and murder scene. The characters involved show that things are sometimes just as they appear to be, but sometimes we need to make some people not see in order to keep the bonds of sex from the begining of time. The protagonist of this drama is Martha Hale. She is a typical rural housewife that has lived in a little town in Dickson County all of he...
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Du Bois Black Women
965 wordsFamily Du Bois considered being the first American sociologist of religion and one of the first social theorists of race. In his works he concentrated our attention on the right of women, their right to choose for themselves, the life worth living. He spoke in favor of free womanhood and womens economic independence. He thought that treatment to the Black women as nurses and housekeepers effected degradation of the Black women, and hailed the efficiency of her womanhood. Du Bois pointed the role...
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Marilyn Monroe American Artist
1,594 words... art. It was called the Feminist Art Movement, a poignant path that would lead females to rediscover self-consciousness and voice through the expressions of art. Among those women was Audrey Flack, an artist dedicated in asserting the goddess in every woman. Using photorealistic paintings and mythological sculptures in her artwork, Audrey Flack restores the power of both femininity and feminism. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 in New York City, and as far back as she can remember, she had alway...
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Thane Of Cawdor Lady Macbeth
478 wordsMacbeth: Summary Macbeth and Banquo, Scottish generals, are returning after crushing a rebellion against Duncan (King of Scotland), when they are met by three witches. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will become thane of Cawdor, then later on he will become King. Banquo is told that he will never become King, but will be the father of Kings. Macbeth is horrified, for shortly afterwards a messenger arrives to tell him that Duncan has created him Thane of Cawdor as a reward for his services. Mac...
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People Of Maycomb Kill A Mockingbird
931 wordsTO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: THE THEME OF PREJUDICE To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel which can deceive the reader into thinking that it is very simple. However, if the reader delves beneath the surface, she may find that there are a number of complex themes running through the novel. One of the central themes in this novel is the prejudice that was characteristic of southern town in the 1930 s. A variety of prejudices combine to form the character of the town of Maycomb. The three main prejudices enco...
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Kate Chopin Story Of An Hour
1,646 wordsKate Chopin? s? The Story of an Hour? . Written in 1894, ? The Story of an Hour? is a story of a woman who, through the erroneously reported death of her husband, experienced true freedom. Both tragic and ironic, the story deals with the boundaries imposed on women by society in the nineteenth century. The author Kate Chopin, like the character in her story, had first-hand experience with the male-dominated society of that time and had experienced the death of her husband at a young age (Interne...
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Mother Post Modern
1,435 wordsPost Modern Indigo Amber Hutchison Post Modern Fiction Indigo February 23, 2000 People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literar...
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Southeast Asia Women
2,163 wordsEnglish 109 Gates of Ivory In a world surrounded by war, death, and atrocity, it sometimes seems as if there is nowhere positive for the characters in the Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble to turn. In the mist of these bad images Drabble juxtaposes a unique view into the world of women? s reproduction and menstruation that has rarely been revealed in other novels. She shows that menstruation exposes feelings ranging from liberation and empowerment in Alix Bowen, to shame, disgust and sorrow in ...
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Committing Adultery Hawthorne Writes
911 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter, Hester's attitudes toward her adultery are ambivalent. This ambivalence is shown by breaking the book into three different parts. In each part her attitudes change significantly. Hester starts by seeing her act as a sin that she is sorry for committing. She changes and no longer feels sorry for the sin. Finally, Hester sees the act as not sinful, but she regrets committing it. In the first part, covering the first six c...
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Amy Lowell Quot Lowell
3,173 words" Reading Amy Lowells Body (s) " An Essay By Melissa" Reading Amy Lowells Body (s) " An Essay By Melissa Bradshaw Melissa Bradshaw You said, I think, 300 pounds and a charmer... Poor Amy, poor Amy. It is all very distressing and my Arm Chair has never been the same since she bounced with glee over some witticism. No upholsterer can do anything with it, the springs still do such funny things. Ezra Pound, writing to Alice Corbin Henderson In letters and critical memoirs of key ...
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Pride And Prejudice Sense And Sensibility
1,773 wordsThe late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries were eras of momentous change. Diversity became increasingly evident in municipal and social issues as well as in literature. This period marked the cease of the romantic era and the birth of the Victorian era in literature. Such a transition period allowed for a whole new breed of authors and style of writing. One such author who is especially acclaimed for writing during this time is Jane Austen. All six of her illustrious novels craftily comb...
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Sleep Sleep African Religion
1,612 wordsIn order to understand this work better, it is important to have a bit of background information. This story between a man and a woman, a mother and her son, takes place in Cuba in the early to mid nineteen hundreds at a time of carnival. They are both mulatto's. For the Afro-Cubans, and other Cubans alike, this time of carnival is a time of worship and praise. In the Afro-Cuban religion of Lucumi, or Santeria, the gods are worshipped and praised especially at this time of carnival. The Lucumi r...
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Die Quot Song Quot
1,509 wordsHeather Zadra " Three Songs About Lynching" uses the conventions of song, including repeated phrases and lines that work as recurring " bridges, " to enact and reinforce a terrifying depiction of lynching, one that becomes representative of each victim, each instance of death, no matter the varying circumstances of events. Just as traditional songs move from verse to verse, so too does " Three Songs" move from one " stage" of the lynching process to anothe...
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