It is the voice that calls to Edna. ... The reality of the Romanticism comes when she tells Adele that the summer spent on Grand Isle made her feel like that free-spirited child again. This clearly marks Edna's return to her true self "the child heart. ... Her romantic journey had brought back Edna's child heart which is full of love and desire. ... Chopin calls his belongings "household gods- signifying that he worshipped them as th...

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For example, in most current and known historical cultures, martial combat has been seen as mostly (or only) appropriate for men, while child-rearing has been seen as mostly (or only) the domain of women. ... The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically...

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He loves his child, Florizel. ... (I. 19-20) From his child, Polinexs finds the childish self and the boyhood innocence which he wants to hold. ... Only the "varying childness" can cure in him. ... His child devotes all himself to loving Perdita instead of him. ... He expels Perdita from his male society and tries to seize his child, his innocence. ...

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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. ... Through a Freudian lens, the adolescent experiences Cisneros suppresses as a child resurface in her phantasies. ... Sandra Cisneros is described as an "adolescent playing at being an adult" because as a creative writer her mentality is similar to that of a child (McCay 1). Since only Cisneros hears this voice, it demonstrates how, similar to a child, she "ha[s] created a phantasy [s]he takes ver...

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She fulfills the ideal suffering devotion, which Meera Shirdwadkar calls the Pativrata tradition in Image of Woman in Indo-Anglian Novel. ... She can truly be callled the ardhagini of Nathan, that she is his partner in joys and sorrows. ...

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The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. ... On the night of her death, Maxim had demanded a divorce, and she had refused, and told him that she was pregnant with Favell's child. ... He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. ... Danvers, and a man called Favell, and wonders where they are now. ...

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Another reference to the virginity of the girl child in the poem - "green" as in not ripe, not mature, not ready young girl and "girlwood" instead of piece of wood being split open - the girl's young body was split open like a piece of wood. ... A man is king in his own castle, he can still say, having got what he wanted: in a lifetime of used ones, second-hand, one girl he could spill like a shot of whiskey, the whore only he could call daughter. ... She is "one girl he could spill like a shot of whiskey" who perceives herself as he sees her "the whore only he could call daughte...

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Bianca is obviously upset by Cassio's injuries, but immediately responds to being called a strumpet. ... She gives the handkerchief even after Iago calls her "a foolish wife" and "a good wench....

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In his apartment there are pictures of naked women, he even objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

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