Because of this lack of acknowledgment by the literary establishment, the critic P. Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. ... Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. ... When Barrie teaches his readers about childhood, he does so through the ch...

• Word Count: 1473
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story focus shifts and highlights the importance of the characters thoughts. ... This constant censorship begins to build inside the character and consequently takes over the characters whole being. Gilman is very clever in the way she builds up the characters internal state of mind leading to her insanity. ... These constant interruptions lead Woolf to consider why many women of her time wrote novels as oppose to poetry or other literary works. ... Obstacles such as these affect everything in a women's life essentially affecting the type of literary work she is able to produce, if sh...

• Word Count: 1227
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Ibsen's "A Doll's House-: Dramatic Conflict in the Male/Female Relationship In any narrative, the development of the plot and the creation of compelling characters depends on a single literary element: the presence of conflict. ... The interplay between Stanley and Stella, between Stanley and Blanche, and between Mitch and Blanche provide the dramatic conflict for the story, driving the plot and structuring the development of the characters. ... This moment of conflict is fueled by contradictory emotions and motivations in both cha...

• Word Count: 2278
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. ... A woman, deemed as a fallen one, showed signs of disregard of the set norms, expressed sexual aggressiveness, and ignored the need to be submissive to the men in her life (Gilmour 18).The theme of a fallen woman became a popular topic in literary circles during this age. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. ... Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the ...

• Word Count: 3387
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The Taming of the Shrew is a literary exploration of marital issues presented explicitly and implicitly by Shakespeare's characters. The characters demonstrate and allow insight into the preferred behaviour of men and women in marriage, their appropriate roles and duties, and each person's expectations in a partnership. These messages of accepted and traditional understandings are explicitly expressed and easily understood through the characters" statements and speeches. The implied meanings in dialogue, character development and outcomes allow insight into the underlying messages...

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Diane Di Prima presents a female character that contorts the patriarchal female gender role. ... Diane Di Prima presents feminism through the use of her female character living out the unique, atypical female life of a bachelor in her autobiographical short story "Dinners and Nightmares" and "What I Ate Where". ... Di Prima goes against the traditional female position as a housewife by enveloping a bachelor's lifestyle yet placing this role upon the main female character. ... Di Prima uses her average character to show a life that is not traditionally suited for a twen...

• Word Count: 2160
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For me, such a segment of the novel was the variety of characters of women depicted by Allende throughout the story. ... La Senora's character fascinates me with its strength of survival instincts, eternal youth, creativity, and restlessness. ... No matter what character I try to analyze, Eva Luna's presence is felt in all of their lives. Above I was examining struggles of individual female characters from the novel, but in the light of Eva's character they all become stages and steps that she has to take to go all the way from a poor " rebellious orphan - climbing " the social ...

• Word Count: 2213
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cisneros suppresses the milieu she witnesses as a child; therefore, when searching for her literary identity, she uses phantasies to channel those experiences onto Esperanza Cordero. ... Despite being a fictionalized character, Esperanza's life greatly resembles Cisneros' upbringing. ... Cisneros' search for her literary identity caused her phantasies to give birth to Esperanza. ... However, Cisneros still lacked a literary voice so she turned to her phantasies for aid. ... As the author, Cisneros, "sits inside the mind of the hero[ine] . . . and looks at the other characters fr...

• Word Count: 2834
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aphra Behn is a complicated figure within English theatrical history. As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. She was a commoner among royals...

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" Aside from degrading a depiction of women with vulgar language and aggressive tones, much of this genre's content implies that, depending on the women, different women deserve different amounts of respect and value depending on their character; however, all women deserve respect because every woman is valuable. ... Similarly, in Virginia Woolf's excerpt from A Room of One's Own, Woolf explains how the Elizabethan woman is not notably mentioned as a an accomplished literary writer, although her time called upon many accomplished writers (the only accomplished authors durin...

• Word Count: 1035
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hemingway also uses various hidden examples of symbolism in "Hills Like White Elephants" to concur with the themes and outlooks of the characters. ... As we eavesdrop on the ongoing conversation between the two characters, power shifts back and forth in the verbal tug-of-war, and towards the end, seems that the woman has not only gained control but also ultimately made her decision. ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate