Nevertheless, the careful reader notices a curious trend in many of Shakespeare's plays: many of Shakespeare's female characters exercise a rather great deal of delicate forms of power and influence, and often do so in unusual and even subversive ways that challenge traditional gender roles. ... Theseus, clearly invested in maintaining the prevailing social order because it advances his own interests.In other words, gender roles and expectations are being stated to this strong female character in no uncertain terms. ... First, Hermia contested traditional gender expectations and mad...

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Class plays a great part of children's educational outcomes within a setting. ... Because, it is not the "norm" that children attend school with an unpleasant smell and looking dirty (Reference) argues that, teachers let the pupils do the "bullying" to keep up to the standards of the institutional habitus and expectations, what is more in correspondence to (Mills, 2002), a person who is from a disadvantage background can benefit being in a institutional habitus, as it therefore can change their outcome to the child, by the professionals leading and giving them the right information to the...

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Both of these characters, as well as others such as Helen Burns are all females who are constrained by societal conventions, yet subvert them, and arise with great force. ... Despite punishment, abuse and malnourishment, Helen's passion for religion never wavers and although Bronte is questioning the form of religion she and many others devote themselves to, it is undoubted that she emerges with great force. Bronte subverts the societal expectations of the time by using atypical characters as well as subverting the traditional gothic genre, in the hope that she might inspire change in h...

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