In escaping though the window of her flame engulfed apartment Mrs. ... Hedges" escape from the flaming inferno, Petry utilizes the biblical character Sampson. ... Petry uses this reference as a demonstration of the near subhuman strength that is needed to escape the constraints of society that ravaged women who did not comply with the unattainable ideal of European American femininity. ... Hedges does not escape or transcend classification in order to achieve success as Thomson suggests. ... Hedges does not escape the confines he dictated femininity because although financially stable she does...

• Word Count: 1175
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The woman she sees who is trying to escape from the wallpaper (which symbolizes her life) and her creeping was actually she who is trying to break free from her sickness and lonely life. "But now I am used to it", she finally joins the other women trapped in the wallpaper and found the strength to escape and eventually tore the paper down symbolizing her taking control of her life. ...

• Word Count: 431
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" However, the narrator eventually secretly disobeys John by writing a journal, which awakens her realization that she desires escape from her husband and the room. The narrator seeks out escape through the yellow wallpaper on the walls of the room. ... By the end of the story, the narrator finds escape when she becomes the wallpaper woman as she creeps along the floor the narrator states "I've got out at last...and I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (Gilman p387)! ...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An illusion is the way in which some individuals choose to escape the reality of their lives. ... Nevertheless, some individuals tend to continuously live in a world of fantasy, so they can escape the reality of their lives. ...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1984, Sandra Cisneros published a collection of forty four vignettes titled The House on Mango Street. This Bildungsroman narrates the experiences of growing up in a Hispanic-American neighborhood in Chicago through the eyes of Esperanza Cordero, a fictionalized adolescent girl who is transitioning between childhood and adulthood. Due to parallels between the lives of Cisneros and Esperanza, Esperanza functions as a surrogate for Cisneros. Cisneros suppresses the milieu she witnesses as a child; therefore, when searching for her literary identity, she uses phantasies to channel those experi...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the factors of a misunderstanding husband, lack of sexual fulfillment, and a sense of inequality due to her gender, Elisa finds herself confined within the walls of a depressing foothill ranch on the sunless Salinas Valley and ultimately suffering a breakdown she cannot escape. ... Such a conflict can lead to depression, loneliness, boredom, and for Elisa, a sense of no escape and instead an acceptance and conformity with what is taking place between her and Henry. ...

• Word Count: 1174
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If Anita Hill wanted escape the rape situation, she would have changed jobs or avoided Thomas's sexual innuendo's or put her foot down and told him she didn't like it. Crenshaw make a point of view that Anita Hill was a victim and that she was forced into this rape situation but, on the other hand, rape in general was escapable especially since she was harassed, she had a position under Thomas and she could have spoken up, but instead she did nothing and that increased her chances of being raped. ...

• Word Count: 1211
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Monk" is a horror-gothic novel written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a man who came from a somewhat scandalous background which influenced his work as an author later in life. Lewis's mother, Frances, left his father for a lover and Frances had to leave her children as a consequence of the ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... What Barrie tries to convey, I think, is that for adult readers, we frequently grow-up too quickly, and so he presents to us a fantasy land of sorts that allows us to escape from our reality. ...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

​The representation of women throughout history has always gone unnoticed. It is often misunderstood or disguised as equivalent. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and in Virginia Woolf's, A Room of Ones Own, we get a particular look into women's roles in a patriarchal society. To...

• Word Count: 1227
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cinderella is able to escape the horrible life that she lives under the roof of her stepmother, but it is only because of help from the fairy godmother and because the prince chooses her as his wife because of her beauty. ...

• Word Count: 1149
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Wollstonecraft is recognized as being the first modern feminist. Wollstonecraft asserted the innate rights of all mankind, whom she thought victims of a society that assigned people their roles, comforts, and satisfactions according to the false distinctions of class, age, and gender. Feminis...

• Word Count: 1163
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To add to Woolf's idea of struggle, it is suffice to state that, woman undergoing their struggle, takes in to consideration the forces of double aims, as she must escape the contempt of the world to be just a child bearer or a simple caretaker, versus on the other hand, to achieve sovereignty- as a result of which, she seems to be neither. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Across the world, girls are being stripped of their right to be educated. With the education of the millions of girls out of school not only will many harmful practices, including early marriage and trafficking become less common, whole communities will undergo substantial economic and social change...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and societ...

• Word Count: 1599
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Advertisers bombard their viewers with countless advertisements throughout their lives. An advertisement is a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or a possible job opening. One of the largest mediums of oppression to the genders is advertisement. Those ef...

• Word Count: 1690
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Leadership is erroneously seen as possessing the authority and social charm needed to influence others to reinforce and support the completion of tasks. However, leadership isn't solely a matter of authority or talent, but a requirement to invest and inspire people. A leader's calling inclu...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As an audience, one is not sure whether to be disgusted with him because of his bad judgment calls or to feel sorry for him because circumstances have led him into an unbearable situation that he doesn't have the bravery to escape since he longs to spare the feelings of both women he loves. ...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate