It was also the war itself which helped to pull the U.S. from the Great Depression due to the emergency war-time measures boosting the economy. ... The play revolves around the circumstances and actions behind four characters: Blanch Dubois, Harold Mitchell, as well as Stella and Stanley Kowalski. ... For the viewers themselves, Stanley is a character who is easily empathized with at this time when memories of the Great Depression are still fresh. ... But as the play progresses further and further, Stanley's character becomes more volatile and suspicious. ... It is prudent to cover both ...

• Word Count: 607
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In a second text we have studied, Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, this concept of women standing out and claiming their rights is also mentioned. ... In Measure for Measure, Mariana successfully lured Angelo in her bed by pretending to be Isabella. ... This new behavior was also characterized in the world of decadent literature, in which the characters underwent the effects of this significant change, if not improvement. ...

• Word Count: 1170
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. ... It is only with the introduction of the witty Petruchio as her suitor, that one begins to see an evolution in her character. ... In direct contrast to Shrew, is Twelfth Night, whose main female protagonist is by far the strongest character in the play. ... Both plays portray female characters unwilling to accept the female role of passivity. ... Lacking anyone to provide for her, she is forced to take measures to protect herself and her estate. ...

• Word Count: 1095
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The male characters seem to agree with Harding, who complains, "We are victims of matriarchy here." ... Finally, near the end of the novel, after McMurphy has already received three shock treatments that do not seem to have had an effect on him, Nurse Ratched suggests taking more drastic measures: "an operation." ...

• Word Count: 825
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• Grade Level: High School

As for the Wife of Bath, we need to decide whether we are going to view her as a character developed by a man living in a misogynistic age or as a personality all her own completely separate from her creator. ... (Diamond 69) However, when we talk about someone like this, we view a fictional character as if she might be real. ... This measure of doubt freed Chaucer in many scholars" minds and as Cannon writes, "they have repeatedly tried to protect Chaucer's reputation from any association with so repugnant a crime as rape" (92). ... (Hansen 275) I believe that once again Chaucer is ...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To Walter money has become his social rank, his happiness, his role model status to his son, and worst of all the measuring tool of his manhood towards his family. ... He has now become a role model to his son not because of money but for his character. ...

• Word Count: 947
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• Grade Level: High School

The beauty myth that women place themselves in, thinking that they need to measure themselves by their physical appearance, is what is keeping them in this category. ... Slowly but surely, each sex is learning to take on certain character traits of the opposite sex. ...

• Word Count: 1221
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School