A Heroine in Hiding Historically, throughout literature, there has been a genre in the way that authors portray the roles of women, a genre that has almost no association with women playing the role of the hero. Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's T...
Lady Macbeth is a controversial figure. She is seen by some as a woman of strong will who is ambitious for herself and who is astute enough to recognise her husband's strenghts and weaknesses, and ruthless enough to exploit them. They see her in her commitment to evil and in her realisation that the...
"A Clean Well Lighted Place" and "Hills Like White Elephants" Two of Ernest Hemingway's most famously short, short stories are "A Clean Well Lighted Place" and "Hills Like White Elephants." These stories readily lend themselves to joint treatment because of their symbolism, dialogue, and sett...
Women were expected to possess "charity, courage, tenancy, and unquestioning acceptance of the prevailing hierarchy - unto death if necessary" (p. 100). ... Her actions contradicted the moral a wife was expected to have for that time period. ...
Human Nature in Antigone Human nature plays an essential role in all of Greek drama. It is usually the backbone of most plots and also the basis behind the moral lessons taught in each play. Human nature is an especially significant aspect of the Greek drama Antigone, by Sophocles. In this dr...
She also said to Sam, "Your brave, your strong, you can spare me some of that courage surely." ... Some of the male characters were able to control their feelings and did not allow their emotions to come in the way of their moral decisions while some couldn't restrain themselves from the lustful feelings they had inside. ...
Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). ... Perhaps this is another function of didactic fiction that Barrie is relaying to his readers: that growing up, and learning, oftentimes involves distinguishing between what is moral, and what is not, and that parents are usually the ones to provide us with the answer to such a question "yet another trademark of children's literature within the overall Literary Canon. ...
