Tamed Shrews and Twelfth Nights: The Role of Women In Shakespeare Shrews and Twelfth Nights: The Role of Women In Shakespeare It is curious to note the role of women in Shakespearean literature. ... Two works, Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night, stand out particularly well in regards to Shakespeare's use of female characters. ... For all the praises it has garnered throughout the centuries, it is curious to note that many have considered it to be one of his most controversial in his treatment of women. ... In direct contrast to Shrew, is Twelfth Night, whose main female pr...

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They seem to struggle every other Friday night to fill this immense social void. ... The ritual for both the man and the woman is to go home every night alone and lie in their beds and stare at the same moon, while feeling depressed for the same reason. ... Cisneros uses symbolism in many different instances in the story; in one instance Friday nights appear to symbolize an empty ritual night, the night the characters will go out on their inadequate search for a companion. ... There they are isolated and alone like the lonely blue illumination of the moon on a dark night. ......

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In the Bible, 1 Corinthians notes that a woman's hair is her glory. ... Milton frequently notes how Eve is inferior to Adam. ... After the sleepless night, God even sends down an angel, Raphael, to tell Adam of the great danger he and the woman will endure if she listens to Satan. ... Milton notes Eve as a woman who is solely beautiful but is destined to sin. ...

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Upon deeper inspection the story has strong notes of feminism in the central character Elisa Allen. ... As Elisa retreats into her house to get ready for her night out with her husband she is truly feminized. ...

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It is important to note that, the narrator, being the one for whom the vacation is taken, is not allowed to do what she wants. ... However, she states that "at night it becomes bars!" ... It is at night when the woman has bars over her; this of course, is when John is home. ...

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Milkman goes to the office and writes Hagar a good-bye note, which ends with a "thank you" for all she had done for him. ... It was not really that note that drove her crazy, but it was seeing Milkman at Mary's bar with a woman from the Honore crowd. ... Last time, Milkman was in Guitar's house hiding because he knew that, that night Hagar was coming for him. ...

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The story "The Yellow Wallpaper," written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was interesting with deep symbolic undertones. The story starts out with John and his wife moving to a colonial estate for the summer. Meanwhile, the woman finds the mansion to be "a haunted house" and still she thought it had s...

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Men and Women are Not Equal Ibsen's "A Doll's House- and Sophocles' "Antigone- are both significant in that they avoid the social temptation of using a man as a protagonist. Looking deeper into the stories, one can see that in even more contradiction with the society, the female characters go aga...

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"Louise here is mad because her boyfriend wont call her while he's out on the road'to Harlan, who eventually attempts to rape her that night, and Thelma tells Louise "that wasn't very nice?when she got rid of Harlan, seeing noting no signs of danger ahead of her. ...

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On the night of her death, Maxim had demanded a divorce, and she had refused, and told him that she was pregnant with Favell's child. ... He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. ... Baker - A London doctor who saw Rebecca the day of her death Frith - The butler at Manderley Clarice - The heroine's maid Jasper - One of Maxim's pet spaniels, and the heroine's favorite Chapter 1-4 Summary Rebecca begins with the sentence, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." ... Maxim treats her ...

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As Warren notes, "In the American Dream, woman figures not as the dreamer but as an object in the dream" (6). ... He also revealed his view of Edna when, after inconsiderately waking her on returning home late one night from gambling and socializing at the local hotel, she did not respond favorably to his desire for conversat...

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They also found that men were more likely not to stop at night indicating that men put themselves in risky situations more often than women do. ... Gender and Stop Sign Tabulation Gender 1 2 3 4 Total Female n % 7 6.8% 49 46.6% 21 20.4% 26 25.2% 103 100% Male n % 22 18.8% 37 31.6% 33 38.2% 25 21.4% 117 100% Total 29 32,2% 86 39.1% 54 25.4% 51 23.2% 220 100% Note. 1 = No Stop, 2 = Slow Down, 3 =Stop before or after line, 4= Full Stop...

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Pontellier returns home from his night out and awakens Edna, claiming that one of their sons had a fever. ... This sends Edna out into the night to cry. ... Edna notes that it felt good to wake up in a bed that had a "sweet country odor of laurel."" ...

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In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. However, Claude's personal struggles do not reside strictly within the confines of his household. His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. At times, Cather portrays Claude as man who is crippled in his sexuality and is this act is demonstrated with the way he handles himself with women. ...

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