At the time of the play's debut, it was mainly viewed as an advocate to the Women's Rights Movement. ... Once Torvald leaves the room, Nora says, pale with terror, "Hurt my children-! ... At the time of its debut, Ibsen's play was widely viewed as a play dealing with the current issue of woman's rights. ... Nora's exit form her "Doll's House" became a symbol for women everywhere. ... How is that a symbol for women's rights? ...

• Word Count: 1781
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body aflame with sensuousness. ... In fact, all the inessential features of the room, the wallpaper, the suggestion of a door, the armchair and the bath-robe, have been cleared out to make way for a simple, concentrated view of the woman's body and the mirror against a simplified wallpaper design: it is as if the "camera" had zoomed in for a close-up. ... This is to do with the depiction of flesh. ... We have noted how Picasso played around with the texture of his...

• Word Count: 1354
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". ... Mulvey is initially concerned with people's obsession with narrative cinema. ... In Memorias del subdesarollo, Sergio, a 38 year old bourgeois aspiring writer, views the political conditions of Cuba through his various relationships with women. ... Sergio is extremely confident, misogynistic, and condescending, looking down on the women he is involved with as well as the country he lives in, which he often neglects to distinguish between, referring to both...

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

In The Blot cars are used as a symbol to reinforce the main narratives of the film of poverty, wealth and class status. ... This scene is intercut with shots of Mrs Griggs (the professor's wife) on her porch watching the Olsens enviously. ... The audiences first view of Mrs Griggs is set well within the home, "Shots are constructed predominately from Mrs Griggs point of view, so that we get inside Mrs Grigg's consciousness and world view, seeing as she sees, suffering as she suffers."... Mayne captures the moment perfectly when she states " presented in a hilarious shot, in which ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She feels depressed with the society around her. ... When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. She thinks of her experiences with Sally with whom she had been intimately involved. ... She is viewed from many angles. ... He also refers to nature, a typically female symbol as filling the vacuum up with sex and "refined pleasures" (Shaw,2000 P. 8.) ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School