In Oedipus the King, Othello, Tartuffe, The Father and even the absence of women in Waiting for Godot all have an impact in the story and on the audience. ... She is almost like a child vying for a father's affections in every aspect of her actions towards Iago. ... Tartuffe is a comedy and the other two plays are tragedies, so the characters in this play have a different motivation throughout the story line. ... Mariane plays the daughter of Elmire in Tartuffe; she is a submissive girl willing to do whatever it takes to please her father even if it breaks her heart. ... One such woman...

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The Frau calls him "The Father", which at once distances him from being within the family but instead held above it and above the wife. The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in ...

• Word Count: 1523
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The Greeks had arranged marriages and often times the daughters, without a brother, would be married to a close relative such as a cousin or uncle. She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... His daughters played no significant role in the play but he was worried about them and who would take care of them after he was gone. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ... The role and subjection of women in Chaucer's stories have changed greatly from Beowulf and King Oedipus. ...

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When I was young, my father was my hero. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... This fact alone largely contributes to the void that grows between fathers and daughters and sons and mothers. ... This may cause young boys to demand freedom from their mothers and young daughters to grow distant and indifferent towards their fathers. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. ...

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Henrietta is Sofia's youngest daughter, whose father is not Harpo, but who is nevertheless Harpo's favorite. ... His father Mr. ________ explains to Harpo that Sofia is making him less of a man and that he needs to beat her. ... Mr. ______ thinks that way because his father had treated his mother that way. ... Celie and the other women in the novel talk to each other and tell each other stories that allow them to fight back oppression and dominance. ... The men in the story are very cautious about their masculinity. ...

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Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... This can bee shown by looking at Maggie and her impetuous and violent behaviour has been likened to that of her fathers- stressing the theme of heredity and her anomalies as a woman with masculine character traits. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images ...

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Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... This can bee shown by looking at Maggie and her impetuous and violent behaviour has been likened to that of her fathers- stressing the theme of heredity and her anomalies as a woman with masculine character traits. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images ...

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In this particular insert the author tells a somewhat amusing story of a father who is hesitant to allow his daughter to play with a Barbie doll. The father, in this case, is worried that his daughter might start to assume that the Barbie image is the image women are supposed to possess. ...

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Millie wants the best for her daughter but this desire turns into greed. ... Will, Millie's husband notices and hates the way Millie exploits her own daughter for money. He remains silent throughout the entire story, only speaking to Florence, his daughter when he feels like she needs his support. He is a wonderful father, and as far as the audience can tell a good husband who is under appreciated. ... Florence does not reach this conclusion immediately but feels conflicted through the course of the entire film, wanting to travel yet feeling remorse leaving behind her sick father a...

• Word Count: 1886
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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... Stories of ice cream" (Hosseini 7). ... At the possibility of a daughter he recoil. ... Cheryl Benard highlights how the importance of having a son in the Afghani society is, when women are punished for giving birth to a daughter. ...

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In Ortiz Cofer's essay, "The Story of My Body," she illustrates the hardships she dealt with growing up as a "white" person in Puerto Rico, and a "dark" person in America, being the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Caucasian father. ... Ecstatic about the dance, she spends a whole week preparing for that night, only to be dumped by the boy because his father has pointed out that she was Puerto Rican and they live "like rats." ...

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Since wives are essentially betrothed to a man through their mothers, any siblings that the mother conceives will also belong to the same man: "At the time of the girl's puberty ritual, her father selects a man and gives him a ceremonial spear, as a sign that any girls his daughter may be delivered of later will eventually become wives of that man" (Potts 89). ... Women tend to be disgusted my sex, as there is no interest in this society for the women to have any pleasure: "Mothers do not teach their daughters about sex, except with an aura of pain and disgust . ... The bible is filled wi...

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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. ... The reason that Juanita is represented driving a car is because of her class status, something that the poor professor's daughter Amelia has no right to. ... Through this narrative she brings into the story the poor professor and clergymen who are both male, the wealthy shoemaker, tailor and butcher who are also all male and the University students who appear in the first scene, whom of which are a...

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She instead charges off to join the army in the place of her father and takes her life in her own hands, rather than sitting around dreaming of romance. ... The story of Mulan is a unique. ... Mothers are absent in far greater numbers than either fathers or mothers of the pre-Little Mermaid era. ... Significantly, it's the heroines " Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Jane " who are almost invariably being raised by single fathers with no sign or mention of a mother or mother figure, ever. ... The one non-absent mother is Mulan's, but she only plays an inoperat...

• Word Count: 2236
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate