Topic Question: Queen Elizabeth turns up on stage at the end of Shakespeare in Love and says 'I know something of a woman in a man's profession'. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakes...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unlike the earlier romantic 19th century novels of Jane Austen whose characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and the reality and problems of the woman's role in life and their place in society, this is particularly evident in her realist novel Middlemarch. Another example of the way women were represented in the mid-Victorian period is in poetry such as Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" who is bound by the web she weaved within th...

• Word Count: 1599
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One can constantly spot his eyes wandering to a woman's breasts or rear, he spends a whole scene staring at scantily clad women by a pool and talking about their bodies, and he even perverts the baptism of his attractive maid into a romantic sexual fantasy. ...

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

Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. ...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As Maggie Tulliver approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. ...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the Helmers' loveless marriage, marrying without love is shown to be empty' and meaningless', a sham. However, these writers clearly have sympathy for women who married for reasons other than love, portraying them as being victims of circumstance, and of the materialistic society in which they lived. ... Tatiana chooses security, knowing full well the fleetingness of romantic love, and the quickness' with which it can dissipate. ... Linde, however, chooses to marry so that she can have someone to live for', in this action both capitulating to society&#x...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allende's novels and I have to admit that in the beginning I had to struggle with the stereotype of "romantic pulp novels- to get myself through the first twenty-five - thirty pages (Wilson). ...

• Word Count: 2213
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She feels that regardless of the choice she makes, there will be corresponding consequences, and the long-term relationship she and The American could share will fail in the end, crushing her hopes of finding true love and happiness. ... Displaying this side of the man expresses the difference between him and the woman's romantic and emotional personality, which is still applicable to young adults today dealing with the burden of unplanned pregnancy. ...

• Word Count: 1134
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rather than searching for the love of a husband to support her, Behn took to pen and paper in an attempt to provide her own living. ... Comedy flourished in the theatre during the time of the Restoration, ergo most of Behn's plays are recognized as romantic comedies. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Yet in the end, the prostitute does not find love and Florinda and Hellena both agree to be wed. ...

• Word Count: 2238
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The point Alcott is making is that Amy does not love Fred "her heart is not with him "so she must decline his offer, and, in turn, her chance at marrying into money. ... Because Alcott is teaching her young readers what it means to grow up, she must face the question of Jo's fate in the novel: will she remain independent and romantic, or will she conform to custom and marry? ...

• Word Count: 1473
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I pulled the next ad out of another women's magazine, Glamour, and it is a promotion for Paris Hilton's perfume line, "With Love.... [They] are independent and successful; liberated, yet feminine and romantic; modern, yet traditional (Goldman 1992, 107).... "Cultural ideology tells women that they will not be desirable to, or loved by, men unless they are physically perfect," writes Cortese (Cortese 2008, 59). ...

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She "clearly loved to sew a linen seam, not always for use, but for the simple, mild pleasure which she took in it", and has "almost the enthusiasm of an artist over the mere order and cleanliness of her solitary home" (658). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate