In "A Streetcar Named Desire," the men are seen as cruel and bitter through their harsh use of force to achieve what they want. ... In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley fulfils the duty of carrying the traditional patriarchal role of the breadwinner in the society of the 1950's era. ... Stanley's physical sovereignty is embedded throughout the play due to way he behaves and his innermost desire to control everyone around him. ... Mitch is desperate to find someone to marry as his mother is dying and without her, he would be alone and fears what he might do. ... In A Streetcar Named D...

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Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... Eventually, this longing and need for escape becomes a destructive desire for oblivion, as increasingly the social pressures and Maggie's own sense of what is morally right prevent the fulfilment of her desires and ambitions. ... For her desire such an education is seen as an aberration and a defiance of her femininity. ... This image conveys the extent of Maggie's affront to soc...

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Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... Eventually, this longing and need for escape becomes a destructive desire for oblivion, as increasingly the social pressures and Maggie's own sense of what is morally right prevent the fulfilment of her desires and ambitions. ... For her desire such an education is seen as an aberration and a defiance of her femininity. ... This image conveys the extent of Maggie's affront to soc...

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This means the women have all rights to the property that the family owns and when she dies the property becomes her daughters. ... Also, coupled with the fact that more income was desired, women started to work part time jobs. ...

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Chaucer creates a tremendous example of all the things women desired at the time that men would not allow them with Dame Alice. ... The Wife of Bath has married five times, all rich men, and then when her husbands died she inherited their wealth and fortune. ... However the Wife still desires to be married. ... And yet he was to me most brutal, too; My ribs yet feel as they were black and blue, And ever shall, until my dying day." ... She no longer can have them wait on her and do as she desires. ...

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Rich eagerly awaits the day where women will all have the desire and ability to choose any profession they so desire. ... Or, they were beautiful and died young, like Lucy and Lenore. ... Therefore, Rich emphasizes that women need not wait for the feminist movement, to set them free, but to take it upon themselves to do as they please to satisfy inner desires to write and work in an equal society. ... (Rich 632) In this statement, we find that Rich's desire to have equal roles in society and especially literature is flawed. ... Rich's desire could be seen as a political leader c...

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But the body of Polynices, who died miserably- why, a city-wide proclamation, rumor has it, forbids anyone to bury him, even mourn him. ... Die I must" (509-512). ... She goes on to say that, "And if I am to die before my time I consider that a gain" (514-515). ... Antigone's speech and rebellion toward customary gender roles boldly shows her desire for gender equality-a sign, maybe a first, of feminism. Antigone begins the play by stating her defiance towards men's authority and later through her actions completes her desire to disobey Creon and his rigid rule. ...

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Her father died of a train accident when she was only five years old. ... They illustrate topics such as the "caged" feeling a woman may have in a marriage, or the need to express female sexuality and desire. ... The story about a sexual affair, expresses passion and sexual desire. ... After her husband died, Chopin had a short relation with another man. ... Chopin's father died of a train accident when she was only five years old (Deter 1). ...

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Edna's experiences on Grand Isle "awaken" desires and urges for music, sexual satisfaction, art, and freedom that New Orleans society deemed unacceptable. ... The conclusion of the book ended with Edna walking into the ocean to die, symbolizing that essentialism does in fact exist in this instance, as women roles were assumed correctly and Edna could in no way conform. ...

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So we do not really know this character, since she died long before the story begins. ... The most interesting thing in the evolution of this character is that once she becomes the Linton's wife starts a progressive mental disorder and physical disability that ends with numerous instances of confinement until she dies. ... Besides, the Heathcliff's reappearance months after her wedding aggravate the symptoms of depression, since he represents the return of her true self's desire. ... In this way, as Emily Brontë suggests, 'perhaps with Heathcliff's death, they fi...

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So we do not really know this character, since she died long before the story begins. ... The most interesting thing in the evolution of this character is that once she becomes the Linton's wife starts a progressive mental disorder and physical disability that ends with numerous instances of confinement until she dies. ... Besides, the Heathcliff's reappearance months after her wedding aggravate the symptoms of depression, since he represents the return of her true self's desire. ... In this way, as Emily Brontë suggests, 'perhaps with Heathcliff's death, they fi...

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The core of most of the works of the women of these times, lies the desire to unite with the Deity and the expression of this union, more often than not, is perceived to be an erotic one. In the Virasaivite tradition of the Kannada region, the Lingayat women, speak fearlessly of this union, of their physical desire, and the underpinning separation from the God- Shiva in this case. ... "I pine and languish but he cares not whether I live or die--- If I see that thief of Govardhana that looting robber, that plunderer I shall pluck out by their roots these breasts that have known no gain I ...

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This aspect exemplifies her desire to be involved in the social activities of the outside world as well as her dependency on the outside environment. ... It is apparent that it is the social institution of marriage that incites in the lady a desire to attain love and move away from the life of shadows. ... The lady actions appear to be progressive but have a greater motive of desire to find marriage. ... Consequently, her journey to the social life of public life remains incomplete due to her premature death: "For ere, she reached upon the tide/The first house by the water-side/Singing ...

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These advertisements can put a lot of pressure on young girls at such a young age to look beautiful that it can make them feel depressed about not being able to have the sexual attractiveness they desire or that the media and society desires. ... Girls and women are trying to lose weight until they literally cannot loose anymore weigh and sometimes dying from anorexia may be the major result of ones eating disorder. ...

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I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, a small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and marked" (84). ... I shall remember how you thrust me back---roughly and violently thrust me back--- into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, "Have mercy! ... Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is ...

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As a result of such repression, many of the characters in Alias Grace were fueled to act out of desire and not love. There's a noticeable contrast between desire and love in this novel. ... "Once led astray, she was the fallen woman, and nothing could reconcile that till she died" (Lee). ...

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In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. Through her deployment of the stream of consciousness style, Woolf dives into the inner world of her characters and expresses these themes through their though...

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Every culture, race, and society has traits specific to itself and to the people who embody it. The Latino American culture portrayed by this book is no different having prominent themes and traits seen in the characters and repeated throughout the novel. Much underlying plot can be taken and inte...

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Women In Marriage Rebellion, opposition to one in authority or dominance. During the late nineteenth century, patriarchal societies dominated various cultures. Many authors during these patriarchal times wrote about subjects of freedom and rebellion. Famous author, Kate Chopin, wrote on rebe...

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"My theory is the reptilian always wins,' he said, 'If there's a crash, I want the other guy to die. ... "For Rapaille, the archetype of a sport utility vehicle reflects the reptilian desire for survival. ...

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"The lesbian subject, variously defined, appears in a number of coded, indirect, and subversive as well as literal ways. Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." Marilyn Farwell offers a detailed respo...

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This movie is funny in some parts, but really, isn't it all about the Barbie doll body, and Moore's desire to have it at any cost? ... Now, these princesses are also, beautiful, and have bodies to die for, have you seen Ariel's seashells? ...

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Although Marian and Lily have both given up some of their needs and desires by playing non-active roles in their own lives there is still something to be admired about both of them. ... "...but all her womanly skills she would keep away from me, keep to herself until she died"(Choy, 35). ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... This implicit cultural desire to obtain an entirely male constituted society was strongly opposed by Mary Shelley. ...

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They were not only subjected to racism and colonial subordination but were also subjected to misogyny by the male members of the society who looked down upon them and would exploit them to fulfil their sexual desires and would also use them as means of earning income due to their own incompetency. ... She learns that a man can do anything and everything to fulfil his desires and at any cost, what the woman feels is of no importance. ...

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