This argument in itself can be easily argued, but the facts are there to back up the theory. ... Wheeler to go down to the orchard and pick cherries from the tree when she "persisted rather complainingly, saying that the cherries were too high for her to reach, and that even if she had a ladder it would hurt her back. ... Wheeler was always annoyed if his wife referred to any physical weakness, especially if she complained about her back" (Cather 963). ... Wheeler eventually comes back to the kitchen and instructs his wife and Claude that "Cherries won't give you any trouble. ... He was a...

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The first sign comes on a trip to the beach with Robert. She surprises herself when she initially declines Robert's invitation despite the fact that she really wanted to go. ... The reality of the Romanticism comes when she tells Adele that the summer spent on Grand Isle made her feel like that free-spirited child again. ... Her romantic journey had brought back Edna's child heart which is full of love and desire. ... Back at home, the extent to which his materialism exists is more obvious. ...

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This only goes to show that Stanley was a male chauvinist totally selfish and felt that women ought not be independent but to be domineered by men! ... She was on her back, fully visible, glistening with oil". ... Again their chauvinistic narrow-mindedness comes into play here. ... She could be a decent, conservative, sweet woman whom he had loved and come to know. ... Just after this imagination, he and Stanley whistles at her but all she does was to look up at them coolly and remotely and gets back to her reading. ...

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Both women come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and through the help of their male counterparts, in the text, achieve confidence and self worth. ... Both Professor Higgins and Edward Lewis come from affluent and high-ranking social classes, where respect and power is earned through their education and high socio-economic status. ... Edward earns Vivian the reverence of the store managers by telling them that he was going "to spend an obscene amount of money, so we are going to need a lot more help sucking up to us". In comparison, Eliza and Vivian come from poorer, almost poverty-stricken...

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She accepts, and he marries her and takes her back to his ancestral estate of Manderley. ... He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. ... During their travels, the two women come to Monte Carlo, a resort city in the south of France. ... "We can never go back again, that much is certain," the heroine says. ... "We have come through our crisis," she asserts, and exile is the price they must pay for their triumph over the forces that once oppressed them. ...

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People believed Hawthorne to be against feminism, but then he goes and creates "a powerful woman character, a character that feminist critics cannot help admiring" (Murfin, 275). ... Hester proves her strength and love for her child again as she puts her hair back in her cap and puts the scarlet letter back on. Only a selfless hero can resort back to a life of solitude and confinement for the sake of her child's wants and needs. ... The reason why I feel empowered by Hester after reading The Scarlet Letter comes from the chapter titled "The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter". As Dim...

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Even though women have gone through a lot, they have gotten to a point where choices and opportunities have to come. ... However, with the development of increased opportunities comes an increase of level of expectations. ... To take a trip back into time, in 1972 only 295,000 girls competed in high school sports compared to 3.67 million boys did (The Next Generation of Title IX: Athletics). ... Nice, beautiful, serious pictures of female athletes are hard to come by" (Conniff 199). ... Men are said to be very strict and rough, while women are considered very laid back and do not seem to ...

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Back in the 19th century a male suitor actually went a-wooing at the home of the young woman he sought as his wife. ... If a couple were to live in the city, a couple may go out for dinner and dancing. ... Whyte Rather, through dating, which provides an opportunity for explorations into romantic intimacy without requiring rapid escalation toward marriage, you can acquire knowledge of what sort of person you are attracted to and what sort of person you might be suited to when it comes time to eventually choose a martial partner. ... Instead of spending time in the home, dating was going ou...

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These harsh words are prevalent in Kate, and she holds nothing back when expressing her feelings. ... This back and forth battle of wits informs the reader early on that Kate is, indeed, a strong character, unlike most women of this era. ... Although Kat is eventually carried off, she tries to stay strong, telling him, "I will not go today, / No, nor tomorrow - not till I please myself" (3.2, 208-209). ... Kate's transformation into an obedient wife can first be seen in Act 4, Scene 5, as the couple is heading back to Padua. ... However, I believe she simply comes to understand th...

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Women back in the 17th-19th centuries were raised in a manner that is very shocking to how females are raised in the present day. ... It leads back to the idea that men really do not want women to have an education because they do not want their women to either appear as a threat or to not obey them because of the knowledge they have attained. ... The Pairing Family is simply where one man lives with one woman, but the relationship stands where polygamy and a few infidelity moments remain part of the man's rights; relating back to men believing they are superior to women and not strictly...

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Her simplest definition of poetry is "heightened speech"; she believes that truly inspired poetry is "extraordinary speech that at times comes through a poet with extraordinary power" (Moyers p. 272). ... The length of the sentence forces the reader to keep going to the end. ... This causes the reader to come to a full stop. ... In the following stanza the poet uses sturdy sounding words repetitiously (back to, back to), and words that sound like what they do (pleading, sobbing) you can feel the rhythm of the rape that is occurring (voice-over body over hers). ... " "back to her pl...

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What is it that is holding women back from their hard earned equality to men? ... Why would a woman want to struggle for years only for a man to come along and snatch her job away?... Many people find it hard to go where no one like them has gone before. ... "Whatever kind of people populate the heart of the business . . . they"re going to have a better chance at becoming the company's president".19 Plus, the "syndrome" employers tend to encompass makes them feel most comfortable hiring people who look similar to their own selves.20 A large retail corporation who primarily employs wom...

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Because according to the habits, woman must go out when man counted money in the room. ... Morel's tools to make her dream and ambition come true. ... Its however important for the mother to know when to let go of her son and allow him into the world. ... Morel's support, Paul's dream could not come true. ... Paul's attitude towards Miriam was mainly due to the strong power holding him back, his mother. ...

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Hence, in an interview with Martha Satz, Cisneros admits "I was going through some traumatic experiences at the time, I chose to write about my past-my childhood experiences, my mother, and especially the women in the community" (3). ... Esperanza's adolescent voice enables Cisneros to regress back to her childhood where the satisfaction of playing was plentiful. ... Esperanza you go to school. ...

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While men were able to go about their business and indulge in politics in public, women faced exclusion from any social and public participation. ... The fate of "The Lady of Shalott" comes to fruition when she touches land. ...

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I am not going to discuss to much about the gender roles of males in the traditions of Japan because it is the roles of women I find to be much more important to the continuation of certain traditions along with being much more intriguing. ... However, I had never before realized what a pivotal role women played in the traditions, even though they are often seen as part of the back burner in most of the traditions. ... This obviously would come in handy for the newly married woman who knows nobody when she arrives to the village, sometimes that also includes her husband, it is an action she ...

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They kept them together, kept them going during times when their husbands were hard at work. ... But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and by rising very early I find I can go through much business"" (Roberts (1), p.2). ... John Adams showed how truly thickheaded he could be when he wrote from Paris to his wife running his business and raising his children back in Braintree, Massachusetts. ...

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(http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) This comes into play when in the text it says: "When the war broke out, Mother Savage's son, who was then thirty three years old, volunteered, leaving his mother all alone. ... Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... As she was preparing dinner, the soldiers were able to bring back a rabbit so they could have something good to eat for dinner. ... Gwyn page 67 paragraph 6) She then states "Now I'm going to do something for you- (Fictio...

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Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. ... She succeeded in many of the things she believed in and she helped to set a stage for women to come. ... Macphail went back to the House of Commons and "lashed out on the government and embarrassed them to action."" ...

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Moreover, the Indian girl is still raised to believe submissiveness goes hand in glove with her sex. ... The story of Savitri is held up as a prime example of the lengths to which a wife should go in aiding her husband. ... He had known her not once but twice; he had gone back to give her a second son. ...

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The World Book Encyclopedia (2002) describes some of the history as follows: The term witch comes from the Old English word wicca, which is derived from the Germanic root wic, meaning to bend or to turn."" ... Barstow (1994) also describes the stereotype of a witch as an extremely poor woman, usually over fifty and as being old and a nuisance because normally they would no longer have children or possibly a husband, and would often be very quick to speak up or back at men. ... If a woman could be cried out a witch for telling someone's fortune or speaking back to a neighbor one had b...

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In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or havi...

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ANALYSE Doris Lessing's A WOMAN ON A ROOF IN LIGHT OF STRUCTURALISM Structuralism concentrates on elements within work of literature without focusing on historical, social and biographical influences. The term structuralism' contains the crucial word structure', which refers to the units that m...

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In the Tale of Genji, we meet a Japanese prince by the name of Genji who over time, developed several relationships with the women of his village. These relationships were developed through his use of charm, his royal status and his good looks to pry into their hearts. These three characteristics he...

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The act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and the ability to live independently without a man in one's life are definitions that society has come to know feminism by (Humm, 1997). ... When Louise witnesses a man attempting to rape her friend, the past rushes back to her and she reacts unlike she normally would, shooting the man. ... Also, even though the audience agrees with Thelma in the beginning that they should just go to the cops, it is difficult for audience members to know what exactly they would do in that situation. ... Going against her mother's ...

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