I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... She still retains her courage against Creon's death penalty and her confidence that serving the dead was more important than serving the living. ... Even her final act-suicide-was supposedly a demonstration of her unwillingness to submit to Creon, to the mortal world, and to serve the dead. ... I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down at her work and the tense, watchful cat. ... Like the coat and sword of the eavesdropper pictures, the hunting rifle propped up against the far wall is a surrogate for a male presence; the dead bird, his hunting trophy, becomes an attribute of masculinity. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the townspeople try to collect taxes from Emily, she turns them over to Colonel Sartoris, though he is dead; she cannot defend herself without a man for backup. ... Even after Homer's death, she sleeps next to his dead body and leaves an "indentation of [her] head-(81) next to his. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. Literature presents insights into many aspects of life but is also a conveyor of values, naturalising certain ways of understanding ourselves and the world. This is especially true of "The Whole Town's Sleeping" by Ray Bradbury. Built on the dominant ideologies of the time, the text through its r...

• Word Count: 604
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Mishnah, a book of legal rules compiled by Jewish sages in the second century Roman Palestine, depicts a society in which the adult Israelite male is the central character. He is the possessor of wives, children, land and other property. The Mishnah's socioeconomic system is rooted within the re...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I have found learning about the history of Mexico is something that has become very interesting to me since the start of this class. Exploring the amazing creation of Mayan society and seeing the horrific actions brought upon by the Europeans conquering native Indian land, an array of emotion has co...

• Word Count: 1217
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the play, "Much Ado About Nothing," the use of both language and interactions between the characters are combined to accurately depict Elizabethan attitudes towards women and the patriarchal society that was once seen as normal. This is shown not only through the cruel way in which Hero i...

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If a woman is dumb enough to get "dead drunk (Paglia, 51)- without girlfriends at her side at a Fraternity party, than she deserves to get raped because she's too ignorant to realize that a fraternity party is full of horny boys that want to become men by having sex with a women. ...

• Word Count: 1211
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nay Masculines, you have thus tax'd us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. ... She uses a respected political figure as her defense, saying that even though she is dead, she will still be proof in history that women have worth even in stereotypical masculine roles. ...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beatrice uses her new distorted powers to exact revenge on those who have wronged her and was able to haunt her murderer until, "his heart burst, and one morning he was found dead in his bed totally deprived of warmth and animation" (136). ...

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

The status, or "place," of women in society has been a well-debated issue that is as old as the earliest civilizations. The inequalities between men and women can be observed throughout society in varying areas such as income level, job opportunity, sexual double standards, and rights to hold office...

• Word Count: 1779
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Treatment of Women in Islamic and Hindu Culture From the beginning of time, women have been looked down upon as inferior to men. Societies have long since been patriarchal, with only men holding positions of authority. Women were excluded from public life and were left to be in charge of home and ...

• Word Count: 1848
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The notion of femininity, along with the idea of the female gender role, has substantially changed in the last century. During the early twentieth century, women were subjected to stay within household and were apart of society to clean, raise children, and prepare meals for their families. Any wom...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• 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. While colorful prose and r...

• Word Count: 2278
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gender roles are a theme which is explored in a number of ways in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." Bertens discusses how gender roles are culturally assigned, with women traditionally portrayed as weak and passive, whilst men are dominant and independent[1]. Bronte tackles these ideas in her novel, subverting the stereotypical Victorian gender roles and demonstrating groundbreaking new attitudes towards gender roles in society, making her arguably one of the first proponents of the feminist movement. Jane Eyre deals with the entrapment of women, both physically and emotionally; and the li...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate