the Late Colonel," and "Bliss" In, "Miss Brill," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," and "Bliss," In each story Katherine Mansfield tells the story of different women. ... In Mansfield's, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," two daughters, Josephine and Constantia, are living behind the ghost of their father. ... In, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," Josephine and Constantia are only known because of their father's name and his military status (Smith 1). ... The daughters inability to live has turned them robots, robots their father has made. ... (Daughters 469). ...

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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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Browne tells why she named her daughter Melanie (after her grandmother), and tells the story of her grandmother's strengthwhen facing a group of angry white men. ... Serena, their daughter was electrocuted when she used a fork to chase a roach into a socket. ... After the death of her daughter she doesn"t want to speak, move, or even live. ... How the wall is so significant throughout the story. 3. ... In Mattie's chapter, her father is so strict and never allows her to talk to some guys. 5. ...

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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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The Song of Roland is a story about the bravery and savagery that accompanies war. ... When the reader is first introduced to the character of Iseult, a princess, her father is offering her as a reward to the man who kills a ferocious dragon that had been terrorizing Ireland, the land her father reigns over. Iseult is really reduced to no more than property of her father, and would therefore have no say in the matter of choosing the man to whom she would be wed. ... Iseult's mother had entrusted the fate of her daughter to a female, and it can be interpreted that that act was a mistake l...

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Not long after this story was published, did women start rebelling against their so-called "position" in society. ... Her daughter is also forced to suffer because of her decision. ... She also designs decorative outfits for her daughter as well. ... He is the father of Pearl, but is also a reverend. ... The community shunned her and all she had was her daughter. ...

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He uses words like "little girl" multiple times in the story. By acting as a father figure, it puts her husband in even more control. Daughters are taught to unconditionally respect, honor and obey their fathers because they, in a sense, own them. ... In the story, Jennie represents the perfect model of proper women during the time period. ... Gilman is showing through the narrator of this story, every women's struggle for freedom from oppression. ...

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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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This text deals with this issue in Mama Elena's shocking mistreatment of her youngest daughter Tita. ... A belief and tradition in the De la Garza family was that the youngest daughter should stay at home, never marry and look after her mother until she dies. ... When Pedro and his father came to ask Mama Elena for Tita's hand in marriage, she forbade it, but she offered Rosaura's instead. "But if you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura, who's just two years older than Tita. ... They are not a main plot, yet very intricate in the story...

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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...

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Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself about educating daughters, Mary was equally concerned in obtaining best...

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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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Additionally, Hedda feels empowered as a result of her father's military position and through his manner of raising her. ... Hedda has feelings for Eilert throughout the entire novel, and had them before George, but she did not follow her heart because her instincts, and her father, had told her that men like Eilert were not good enough to have a real relationship with. ... Another aspect of the play that further extenuates the conflict of the story is Mrs. ... My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's d...

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While colorful prose and realistic dialogue may give a play or novel some artistic merit, it is the conflict that gives the fiction its dramatic energy; it is the conflict that draws the audience in, holds their interest, and brings them to care about the characters and the ultimate resolution of the story. ... The interplay between Stanley and Stella, between Stanley and Blanche, and between Mitch and Blanche provide the dramatic conflict for the story, driving the plot and structuring the development of the characters. ... In these two plays, Williams and Ibsen display the universal famili...

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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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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...

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Religion was central to life, and often upper-class families would send an unmarriedor scandalised daughter to a convent, whether or not she felt it was her vocation. ... Such an outlook is a reaction to the traditional view of marriage which is imposed by the church fathers and common law. ... Her prologue and her tale are two versions of one story: both Jankyn and the rapist knight treat women with violence, and both are taught to do better than that; they win the woman's kindness and affection once they come round to her way of thinking. ... No matter how cruel her story might seem, ...

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There should be more story lines depicting a woman president, and how she would handle the likes of Osama Bin Laden and world terrorism, or how she governed the efforts of the latest space shuttle mission that failed, and saved the lives of all of the passengers on board. ... In Jenn Schreve's essay, "Honor Thy Daughter", she brings new light to my issues with Disney. ... Her father was to go, but he was ill, and in order for her father to save face, she posed as a son. ...

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As small girls in our father's house, we live the most delightful life, because ignorance keeps children happy. ... When sons were born, their names were recorded with their father's and their grandfather's name as documentation of their Athenian citizenship. The daughters"/mothers" names were insignificant. ... Herodotus wrote the first story about a woman, Rhodopis, who was credited with funding the building of a pyramid, and also made expensive donations to Delphi. ...

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The first reason why fathers should have more reproductive rights is because it is unjust for a man to pay child support when he has no say over whether or not to keep the child. ... The primary purpose of a paternity proceeding is to protect the welfare of the illegitimate child and, accordingly, the mother's conduct during intimacy should have no bearing on the father's duty of support nor upon the manner in which the parents' respective obligations are determined" (Pope, 1998). ... Arazona officials used information gathered from the mother and found Nick, compelling h...

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Historians have pieced together that she was born in Kent in 1640, and she was the second daughter of a barber, Bartholomew Johnson, and a wet nurse, Elizabeth Denham [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... In her teenage years, Behn and her family allegedly journeyed from England to the British colony of Surinam because of her father's transferal there due to a military appointment [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of ...

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