Upon the careful of examination and analysis of Bradstreet's first literary work, The Prologue, there are several different quotes that should be discussed due to the fact that they give the impression that they are challenging the Puritan ideals. ... The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst by my side remain (Bradstreet 119). ... This quote is the ending of the poem, and through these words it appears that Bradstreet is actually downing her work, and accepting the fact that she is ...

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The play, she argues is told in the rhetoric of the commercial world, even, she notes, in Belmont where life is generally free of direct commercial involvement, but the love alliances forged there are a representation of exchange in the commodity of women. ... Newman goes on to quote Gayle Rubin who argues that the "traffic of women- (p. 23) is only a component of a system of patriarchy based on sexual access, patrilineal issues and economic arrangement. ...

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In paragraph 13 Ruskin then goes on to represent the woman as a "Queen" in her household, to rule in her own home and to care for, "feed and clothe" and to morally guide, "direct and teach" her husband and sons. ... Ruskin explains that the woman could use her power to make all in her garden right, to flower and blossom with a quote from the Song of Solomon, 4:16, "Come, though south, and breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out". ... He then quotes from chapter 2, verse 15 of the Song of Solomon again to confirm the woman's role in life, and that is for her to pro...

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Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. Her movies Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Bigamist are no exceptions. Rather than focusing on gender issues, Lupino chooses to investigate the delicate balance that common people walk between...

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