Using her words, Whitney leaves the city of London and other various situations, something other that material riches being "very weak in purse" ("Wyll", E3), leaving her opinions of the city as a whole and the roles one places in it, in place of her materialist goods traditionally giving as inheritance. ... In Lanyer's poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum", which she says came from divine intuition before she even wrote the poem, she argues the facts that women where looked down upon because of their responsibility of the Fall from Paradise. ... She also declares that Eve should not be held mo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The characters must navigate through black magic, incest, rape, and the supernatural as they fall from grace and are faced with their consequences of their actions. ... Beatrice de las Cisternas is a nun who leaves the convent to fulfill her desires and is described by the narrator as, "a character so depraved, she did not long to confine her characters to one being" (134). ...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate