This shows how in Elizabethan times women were thought of as little more than possessions. ... This shows how angry he is at Hero. ... Later on, when Leonato gives his speech, he talks about the shame and tells Hero to die " "Do not live, Hero, do not open thine eyes ". ... Through this, Shakespeare has shown how important virginity was. Leonato telling Hero to die and saying that he will "strike at thy life " is perhaps the best example of the importance of virginity in Elizabethan society as it is where we see a father defy all paternal instincts and order his daughter to die. ...

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Although Behn writes of Oroonoko's honor as unique among men, her admiration for him seems to derive directly from how closely he mirrors the prime model of a nobly descended, Christian Englander. ... Furthermore, this paper will analyze the texts of Oroonoko and Addison and Steele's The Spectator to demonstrate how certain writers of the time dealt with "the other " via subjective cultural standards. ... However, from Trefry's account we can derive that she spent the majority of her time warding off admirers (including Trefry) and retaining the purity of her body. ... He fear...

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He also talks about how we see her go down a vicious of path of self-destruction and self induced vomiting or bulimia, which ultimately leads to her demise. The article closes to say that in her last dying moment she proceeds to utter a bittersweet reflection on all that she has suffered: "I felt it. ... Naomi Wolf also quite accurately depicts how this female rivalry exists in pop culture and how it wrongly aimed more towards very young female audiences. ... It thoroughly analyzes the relationships we share with our close confidantes and friends. ... She hopes that women can better learn h...

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How can we possibly live a normal life when we think there is always a need for improvement, whether it be to be skinnier, prettier, or just a completely different person? ... I had people sit me down and say, 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself.' ... We care about you too much, and we've seen too many people do this,' and I just started bawling. ... Objectification of women is obviously common in mainstream media, we see it in advertising, in pin-ups, calendars, "girlie pictures;" in Hollywood movies, in magazines, we see it everywhere. ... W...

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And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! ... She arranges how King Duncan will be killed, how his guards will be distracted, and how even the knives used will be from the guards. All of a sudden, we see a challenge of authority between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. ... We again see this contradiction of the conventional biases of women submitting to authority in Sophocles' Antigone. ... When questioned how she had the gall to break the law, Antigone replied, "These laws - I was not about to break them, not out of fear of some man's wo...

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It's safe to say that if "Red" has her way, the wolf would die on the first page, but the story goes into detail how the young girl began hunting the wounded animal. We can relate back to the "coming out" example stated previously with the phrase, those who are different are often "hunted down" by the community. For instance, if a person with tarots entered a church and the people within the church did not understand the disorder, the church goers would quickly deal with the situation hastily and without a care of how the situation was presented. ... She distinctly hates the wolf for she ...

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"We ought to fly away from Earth to Heaven as quickly as we can, and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible, and to become like him is to become holy, just and wise.... There shall be the use of verses from major figures in these traditions to augment the arguments put forth and some time shall also be spent in understanding how spirituality, or the quest for release, was and continues to be different for women than for men. ... Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and th...

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"The way societies think about and treat women is often considered a means of measuring how civilised they are"– Dusinberre, 2003 William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer and poet of the English language. ... Therefore, within this paper I intend to explore the issues of gender as it is portrayed in the film whilst depicting the confines of the 'female character' and how it is 'stipulated' within specific works of Shakespeare. ... The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the ...

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In the first scene of La Senora's appearance we see her " stirring the air with the flutter of her nylon negligee and the scent of overpowering perfume- (Allende 117). ... Here we see a person consciously volunteering to take on "unrespectable- means of making a living, but still trying to remain a respectable person. ... Melesio's obsession with becoming a woman is remarkable, his discovery of a woman within himself reminds me of how powerful a woman can be if she knows how to use the gifts of her body and intelligence. ... Melesio's devotion to the idea of looking, livin...

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This time period is extremely important to the birth of American Literature, and it was thanks to many settlers coming to this New Land, now the United States, that we have great literary works to refer back to when speaking about the beginning of our nation. ... As she grew up, her father placed a great emphasis on her ability to read, and encouraged her to not only learn how, but to excel at it. ... In simpler terms it can be concluded that in this stanza of her poem, Bradstreet is stating how she is obnoxious to those who believe she should be doing the simple duties of a common woman. ... ...

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Aphra returned to England after Surinam was surrendered to Holland and shortly thereafter possibly married a Dutch merchant, Hans Behn, who died about a year later around 1665. ... No matter how wrong or senseless the world women of the Restoration resided in may have been, Behn utilizes The Rover to serve as a warning to women of the time who push the boundaries too much. ...

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In many ways they are similar to Snow White and became examples of how to act, what to do, and what was accepted and expected as a role model or just a woman. ... It is still clear that men have control over Mulans life, and whether she is to live or die, which could be said to make her conform to being a traditional heroine, still at the mercy of a mans world. ... They do not communicate with each other throughout the film, and it seems the entire relationship is based on appearance, and how sexually attracted to each other they are. ... I would therefore argue that Disney has not moved wi...

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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 would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ... Moreover, the essay would illustrate how these two poems represent the fallen women of the Victorian society who deviated from the feminine virtue of their society. ... "The Lady of Shalott"...

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