The aim of this thesis is to prove that despite the fact that the stories of the adventure fiction genre usually focus on the male characters and their power1, the female characters in Haggard's novels turn out to be the very opposite of passive. They are a threat to the masculinity of the male characters by showing their power, beauty, or cruelty. ... This analysis is going to demonstrate that the threat of the female takes two different forms: the threat of the heroine and the threat of the female body. ... King Solomon's Mines show the characters' journey inside a female body...

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The film The Truman Show challenges and extends much of the issues and concerns of the feminist analysis made by Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. ... Truman is a male character, but is placed as the object of cinematic gaze. ... He is not the stereotypical male character of the common Hollywood cinema; rather, a female character takes on this role. ... While Sylvia's character challenges Mulvey and the other authors' assumption that women are the objects of men, the character of Meryl extends these authors' ideas. ... The various assumptions and concerns of the writers, in rela...

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The feminist analysis allows us, as current readers, to judge, contrast and to compare the different social values and status of women in the Elizabethan times. ... The racist characters include Iago, Roderigo, Brabantio and Emilia. ... Brabantio: " to the sooty bosom / Of such a thing as thou" Another character who is racist towards Othello is Emilia. ... Throughout the play, the male characters are the ones which help feminists identify the values and beliefs towards women in Elizabethan times. Each male character's speech at one point of the play or another submitted certain vie...

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The feminist reader should identify with female characters and their concerns. The object is to provide a critique of phallocentric assumptions and an analysis of patriarchal visions or ideologies inscribed in a literature that is male-centered and male-dominated. ... (i) "Feminist critique," - examining how women characters are portrayed, exposing the patriarchal ideology implicit in the so-called classics, and demonstrating that attitudes and traditions reinforcing systematic masculine dominance are inscribed in the literary canon. ... The Socio-Political Approach of what is sometimes term...

• Word Count: 1975
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another manner in which the gay stereotype is reinforced is through television characters. Today, there is a multitude of television shows that showcase the lives of gay characters, but this can often be both detrimental and beneficial. For example, the television show Glee has housed a vast amount of gay characters, but at the beginning, it had only one, and he was a stereotypical feminine gay man. It showed him, among other characters, getting bullied due to their resist to conformity which, although relatable to many, reemphasizes the notion that being gay must come with a struggle. However...

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It was through the critical analysis of these elements that I find the argument of my essay; That the female characters in these films did not have equal access to public space because of their suppression by the dominant male patriarch. ... This is also true in the character of Phil West, the wealthy University student, who by being his father's son not only has a car, but a more prestigious one than that of the Olsens. ... In The Blot female relationships over shadow the importance of heterosexual relationships through characters sacrifice, however ultimately it is the male discourse...

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The advertisement coordinates her outfit with the green theme of the brand's packaging and looks very similar to the familiar female character from Kill Bill. ... By using a female character, similar to the Bride in Kill Bill, the ad is depicting a strong individual in a weak position. ... It could let woman see that, if such a strong powerful character can use this mop to defeat the dirt, so can they. ...

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At first glance and with the most shallowness of analysis it can be assumed that these women are "bad women ", especially when set up against the woman of "The Clerk's Tale " whose submissiveness was often celebrated and elevated as something all women should strive to emulate. ... All three of these characters and women like them, despite modern reader's issues with their behaviors, have represented "good women " well in Middle English literature and have even redefined, through their actions, what it means to be a good woman without that gaze of the sexist men who surrounded them ...

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All of these women portray many insights into feminist theory, some putting forth a more realistic position, others presenting a weaker analysis of female oppression. ... In Smith's words, " Issues are formulated because they are administratively relevant, not because they are significant first in the experience of those who live them...The kinds of facts...that matter to sociologists have already been shaped and given their character and substance by the methods and practice[s] of [these governing institutions]. ...

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The setting, irony, character motives and Glaspell's message to the female readers gave insight on what came really came of Mr. ... Their analysis of Minnie Foster provided enough evidence that she did committed the crime. ...

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When you think of the picture-perfect family, what comes to mind? Is it a mother and father where the father makes an income while the mother is at home? Or is it the realistic family that either both parents work hard for an income or the mother is taking on more the aspects of being the provider and the father is the housewife? Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the breadwinners and responsibilities for men and women are flip-flopping. Then why does the media still portray this perfect housewife image that the mother stays home, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the k...

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Masculinity in the Media The discussion of masculinity encounters a paradox: some behaviors are clearly aimed at dominance showing off, physical aggression, etc but no man is only dominant, some men are not dominant at all, yet somehow on the whole a systematic dominance of men over any person deemed as feminine seems to get reaffirmed. It helps to remember that dominance, just like any identity is a practice. Therefore only some of an individual man's identity practices can be relations of dominance; not all men in a society view themselves in this way, but through the repeated recons...

• Word Count: 2296
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