Symbols used by Eliot in this poem suggest that women are lesser and therefore alienated. ... This challenging of stereotypical gender roles is reflected in "Prufrock" with the use of a range of symbols. ... Eliot expresses these anxieties in both poems through the use of a range of symbols. ... This symbol of the unconscious body suggests that he views himself as weak and powerless, revealing that he is socially inadequate. ... "She has a bowl of lilacs in her room" (Line 41). ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6

Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subject since.... In the absence of this connection with the doctor, she runs to Leo Irving and decides she is in love with him. ... Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ... By contrast, after walking with Anni...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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
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• Grade Level: High School

In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... (p.63) Maes was also experimenting with vistas and adjoining paintings of women at household tasks. ... The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. ... Even the two ancillary spaces - the area out the window and the room at the back - are split vertically into two sections, one with a pitcher, one without. ... The two p...

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

It denotes a dark big room with high sealing and a female sitting on a chair. ... There are two candleholders, one on each side of the room, interaction between human being and animal is symmetrical, as horse stands on the left side and female sits on the left side of the room. ... The cruelty inherent in McQueen's representations of women was part of the designer's wider vision of the cruelty of the world, and although his view was undoubtedly a bleak one it was not, I would argue, a misogynist one. ... To support that thought, from symbolic point of view I presume that there might ...

• Word Count: 2260
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She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ... She proves to readers that "people with authority are given the power to rule even when dressed like a person with no authority" [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however Oroonoko ends with the vicious death of Prince Oroonoko...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate