Mrs Joe's failure as mother creates an environment of abuse from which Pip sees becoming a gentleman would be his escape. ... It is clear that Joe is representative throughout the novel of Pip's conscience a reminder of his roots which he strives to escape. ... Joe inspires feelings of fear and guilt which explains the fact that Pip seeks to escape and become a gentleman. ... Great Expectations explores, through Pip's perception of motherhood his desire to escape his difficult childhood by becoming a gentleman. ... Pip experiences abuse and shame through the relationship wi...

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Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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We believe education and independence are poignant to our success, yet these stories promote women who can't escape their lives without the help of a male. ... When reading this story children will only remember a young girl who was trapped in a tower by a wicked woman and the girls only escape was by male help. The importance of the fact that Rapunzel devised the plan will be forgotten and the fact that the man enabled her escape will be remembered. ... Rapunzel has to wait for others to help her escape and this helps to promote the notion that success only comes from being passive an...

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Her business provided the Pham family with enough stability and money to move to America thus making it a solution to escape their political and monetary oppression. ... Tuon Bunkong, who wrote an essay concerning guilt and the effects of war, writes that Andrew is guilt ridden due to the fact that, "because his parents had money, his family was able to escape the kind of poverty that seems to permeate Viet Nam," (220). ... While his mother operated a business that treats female bodies as a commodity, Andrew is able to praise her strength and courage to escape Vietnam. ... His uncert...

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Being valued by men becomes very important for the women on Mango Street because it means an escape for them. ... (p.26) But if getting married means an escape than why are so many women unhappy in their marriages? ... Instead, these women, like Marin, will not give up this power until they get what they want in life; which is to escape from Mango Street. ...

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" However, the narrator eventually secretly disobeys John by writing a journal, which awakens her realization that she desires escape from her husband and the room. The narrator seeks out escape through the yellow wallpaper on the walls of the room. ... By the end of the story, the narrator finds escape when she becomes the wallpaper woman as she creeps along the floor the narrator states "I've got out at last...and I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (Gilman p387)! ...

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Lisa takes it upon herself to climb up the fire escape, a very unfeminine action, and personally search Thorwald's apartment. ... Now the couple can live happily ever after because he believes Lisa has conformed to his fantasy, which she has, because she would have never climbed the fire escape looking for evidence if she did not believe in Jeff's worthiness to be her partner. ...

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In The Awakening, Chopin questions gender roles at the end of the century, but also shows that, because of years of conditioning, many women are unable to escape those roles by any satisfactory means. ... In the best way she knows how to escape her caged domestic life, Edna chains herself to another man because she is unable to choose freedom in the way later feminists would claim she must. ... In order to have both independence and love with a man, Edna seems to believe, in the end, that her escape can only be through death. ...

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Many Latinos want to escape this way of life but few do because of lack of money for further education or a house in a decent neighborhood. ... Esperanza believes that if she can only escape, everything will be difference for the better. ...

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Catherine's threatened escape [to France with Leo] would leave her dependent upon a man," though she would be abandoning a husband and child in the process (Al-Shamma). However, Catherine doesn't escape to France. Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ...

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In the film "Billy Elliot," the experiences of moving into the world of dance changes Billy's maturity and confidence. Initially, he is restricted by the narrow-minded and myopic society. His father's identity as a miner and ex-champion boxer reverberates the fact that he holds very traditional male...

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La Mariposa In our culture I think masculinity and femininity are clearly set apart. They are very defined. There are physical, emotional, and instinctive characteristics that clearly define the two. If you saw facial hair and a deep voice on a woman you would consider that masculine. If a man ha...

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For instance, on page 262 the given quote is saying that men get in trouble for more harsh things, they try to escape, they don't wear the proper clothes that they are supposed to, they get in fights with one another, and are rowdy compared to the women who abide by the rules and are quite so that they can go home and see their families. ...

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If these woman decided to speak out about their problems, society will look for a escape goat and perhaps blame her. ... (Rich 421) The belief that certain things must be done only because you"re a male or female is wrong, yet we live by the rules in order to escape from been labeled as an outcast. ...

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The reader is left to interpret Edna's departure after Madame Lebrun's continued invitations to stay as a necessary escape from being dragged back into the patriarchal shadow of society. ... Edna sees this act as her only means to escape the obligations of a patriarchal society. ...

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In that way, we understand the Emily Brontë's work as a prison in which Catherine cannot escape. ... Metaphorically, Brontë seems to use the windows as a way of escaping from her body and her marriage, in other words, imprisonment. ...

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In that way, we understand the Emily Brontë's work as a prison in which Catherine cannot escape. ... Metaphorically, Brontë seems to use the windows as a way of escaping from her body and her marriage, in other words, imprisonment. ...

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When the time came for Flora, the spunky female horse to be slaughtered, she managed to escape her captors and run for her life. ... She made it to the gate in time, however, as the horse came running towards her, she swung the gate open and allowed her to escape. ...

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In order to escape from Fonso, she marries Mr. _______, who is an abusive husband that values her only as a sexual object and a caretaker for his children. ... Sofia also escapes her abuse by leaving Harpo. ...

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"The Monk" is a horror-gothic novel written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a man who came from a somewhat scandalous background which influenced his work as an author later in life. Lewis's mother, Frances, left his father for a lover and Frances had to leave her children as a consequence of the ...

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Living In a World of Confusion Many people find themselves right away and some can never find who they really are. When someone finds them self they find a place were they fit in among their peers and the rest of society. The search usually happens during someone's teenage years. How does so...

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An Analysis of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" It is difficult to depict a primary poetic technique within this poem. The reason being that, many devices are used to bring forth the message that Rich has embedded within it. However, symbolism is the most prominent. The poem is set in a traditional ...

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Plaskow, Foh and Al-Hibri all join together to have a dialogue about God and feminism. The three speakers bring diversity and some opposition as they are all from different religions and hold various points of views. The purpose of the dialogue is for the women to talk about their views, experiences...

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Oscar Wilde wrote, "A Woman of No Importance," because of the general ignorance about the Married Women's Property Rights Act, promulgated in 1882, by Queen Victoria. This play was not a big success, surely not for it being of an inferior quality, but more for depicting gender inequalities in the Vi...

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