Since the male protagonist in the story presents a male, mainstream viewpoint, a feminist point of view may lead readers to a more balanced understanding of the character. Apart from this, it is apparent that Hornby has developed a complex character through integrating gender stereotypes into one realistic personality, a technique also seen in his other novels. ... These stereotypes will be analyzed independently and then juxtaposed with corresponding sterotypical female characters in the novel. ... Statement of the Problem Rob, being the unique and well-developed character that he is, al...

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Cossette is placed in the novel as the stereotypical female character; she is typically the character who is looked down upon in feminist critique. ... Hugo gives his female character agency and the ability the make choices for herself. ... Fantine is a character that shows true diversity in the feminine character breaking the stereotypical passive role and taking full control over whatever destiny was left up to her. ... Eponine is used to portray another strong and proactive character within the novel. Eponine can arguably be considered one of the most complex characters in the novel going t...

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In the extract from A Woman on a Roof the conversational device is thus used to provide the reader with a better insight upon the characters. ... lies the character of the man in question. ... Characters are basic elements that make meaning possible. ... Indeed, each of them is painted in such a way that only their actions and words decipher their characters. The woman sunbathing leisurely and the men toiling hard in the sun (and even the men who is relaxing and reading newspapers) all form part of that complex structural system. ...

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But more of an intimate, character driven, emotional roller coaster. ... So they took the natural route and decided to make the women characters wear nothing but some cloth hanging over their breasts. ... GamerGate is an incredibly convoluted and complex issue. ... Gaming is littered with a bunch of very sexual female characters. ... That kind of accomplishes more in the world of gaming where you take the gender roles out of it and they just become characters. ...

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Besides feminism and friendship (which will be dealt with later), the film also shows the "efforts of the two central characters to free themselves from the past- (Pratt, 2001: 29). ... The main characters in both films are women who each personify a certain quality of the female attitude. ...

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Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. ... The reader first meets the pilgrims in the General Prologue (GP), where Chaucer provides subtle indications to the type of character he describes. ... Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... He allows her to express radical ideas on gender theory, demonstrate liberation from gender role restrictions, and defiantly rebuke "auctoritee" by playing with the slippage, ambivalence, and reversal of a female cha...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... She uses Lacanian and Freudian theory to explain her castration complex: the idea that men and women have a fear of lacking a penis as a function of our patriarchal soc...

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Educational institutes such as high schools are a major influence in the construction of idealistic views about gendered identities for adolescences through school educational values, school moral values and complex social hierarchies. ...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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