With Medea possessing these intellectual powers and violent heart, she plays a role in the deaths of so many people around her. ... "Children of a hateful mother. I curse you And your father. ... Her plan to kill the princess is made tangible through the obedience of her children. ... Medea sees only one way out, and that is to kill them all, leaving Jason alone to deal with his grief. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Young girls watch their mothers take care of their fathers only to later on pursue the same role to their husbands. ... The need to fulfill herself becomes overbearingly oppressive as she struggles to maintain what little sanity she still possesses. ... There are many places throughout the novel that Esther makes note of being a mother. ...

• Word Count: 2257
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The Nupe witch is always a woman, and as Nadel (1952) observes, the only way men are ever associated with witchcraft is in the fight against it as, "[c]ertain individuals [men] are said to possess a power similar to witchcraft, which enables them to see and deal with witches. ... Thus husbands are often heavily in debt to their wives, and the latter assume many of the financial responsibilities which should rightly belong to the men as fathers and family heads, such as finding bride-price for sons, paying for the children's educations, bearing the expenses of family fests, and the like. ...

• Word Count: 3282
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School