Despite the odds, women can overcome all obstacles. In the past, women have desperately struggled because men belittled them. ... In The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, several women were extremely mistreated by men. ... Through the collection of letters that Celie wrote, the reader could see the development of a frightened young woman who had little regard for herself and of another, Shug, who struggled to become a successful woman. ... When she was only a little girl, her stepfather sexually abused her. ...

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Similarly, in Macbeth, {discuss role of Lady Macbeth} The women of Othello also displayed characteristics of strong, modern women. .... ... Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... In a conversation with Emilia, Iago's wife, she is first exposed to the notion that "there be women that do abuse their husbands in such gross kind? ... She is aware of the relationships between women and men, and plays an impor...

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The perception of how men and women see each other from now and before time has changed drastically. ... Even thirty years ago, the women men married were virgins. ... You start arguing at little things such as who gets to sleep on what side of the bed, and where we going to go out to eat. ... It is the same to be said of what a women want in her man she finds the one true love of her life. One thing that is still the same is how women want a man to treat her. ...

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And although the play-acting has subsided a little, she still cannot resist at being over the top and she ends with "Upon your sword sit laurel victory, and smooth success be strewed before your feet!" ... Give me some wine, and let me speak a little." ... Cleopatra is shown to be no ordinary women. ...

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Lawrence uses these women to represent soul, spirit, and flesh; helping Paul pursue his goal of becoming a perfect man. ... Lawrence: "An Intellectual Biography " (1986), wrote "In fact, the three women, mother, Miriam, and Clara all made Paul feel that he was imprisoned"." ... What the three women have in common, however, is a type of control over Paul. ... Morel's tragedy, like all the other women, Lawrence shows her as a sufferer of the Victorian morality. ... Morel who came from a little capitalist class, aloof and cultured, was a Victorian woman who had knowledge like Lawrence&#x...

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Moreover every women and man in the town look up to him and would do anything for him. ... Not to mention, how the men ordered around the women like slaves. ... Similarly to women men in this movie also get a little bit of the short end of the stick in some aspects. ... Also Gustans little servant as you could call him was created in many measures just like Maurice Belle. ... The fact that Disney exploits such ignorance or just pure chauvinistic attitude toward women treated in an equal way as men, and the fact that all the short, stumpy, and ugly men play such insignificant and non respected ...

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This play is about women's need for independence and her obligations to family and society. ... "My little songbird," "my little squirrel," and even "my little featherbrain" - that is what Torvald calls his wife. ... And she answers him, "Millions of women have done it" (Ibsen). ... She brought new ideas of women's freedom in the family, and in society. ... There are a lot of women who are still victims of men. ...

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"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. ... Thomas Strychacz looks at "Coverdale and Women,"" but barely mentions Priscilla. ... Is she, on the one extreme, as Carol Weshoven says, a "prostitute, willing to trade what little she is for the safety of a life of parasitism,"" (153) or is she a sweet, innocent victim? Miles Coverdale says in his narration of the...

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Nora may seem to be deceitful and childish like, but she is a brave women who takes a step towards the real world and toward the rights of women. ... "Is that my little lark twittering out there?" Is that my little squirrel rummaging around?. ... She is his doll, a plaything on display to the world, of little intellectual value and even less utility in his life. ... For a women like Nora taking a step into independence is not only a step towards human rights but for the rights of the women....

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She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no being and no end."" ... "Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor. ... Edna's husband, Leonce, and the rest of society, consider women who are married possessions of their husbands. ... "Without even waiting for an answer from her husband regarding his opinion or wishes in the matter, Edna hastened her preparations for quitting her home on Esplanade Street and moving into the little house around the block."" ... Edna's clot...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... Similarly, in Macbeth, {discuss role of Lady Macbeth} The women of Othello also displayed characteristics of strong, modern women. .... ... Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... She is aware of ...

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Al, the husband, is a women's shoe salesmen who makes very little money. ... Al's views are very barbaric as far as what women are to men and what men are to women. ... If food is needed she prefers spending the little money they have on fast food. ...

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For many decades, women have had these same questions and thoughts. ... These women had no choice, no voice, and no rights. Now, women have a choice, voice, and rights. ... The reason that these women followed THE OLD RULES, back then, was to accomplish one goal that had been instilled in them since they were little girls. ... This is the rule that most women, of today, still follow. ...

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The two words surround, Septimius misellus, poor little Septimius. ... Also in that, line Catullus describes Septimius with misellus, or "poor little Septimius". ... He may feel sorry for him because, unam Acmen mavult quam Syrias Britanniasque, he prefers Acme alone rather than Syrian and British women. ...

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They both had an interest in women, to say the least. ... Krebs would enjoy sitting on his porch at home and watching the young women walk down the street. ... Darling seemed to have advanced a little farther in life than Krebs. ... Darling wishes he could be more of a cosmopolite like his wife, or that he was still back on the football field where he was adored by men and women. ...

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Wide Sargasso Sea Set in Jamaica during the 1930's, Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, a beautiful Creole heiress living on a decaying plantation. Her father had many children by Negro women. She can be accepted neither by the Negro community nor by the representatives o...

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His belief that women are below him causes Anson to be arrogant and conclusive about the women he meets. ... In short, Anson only likes the idea of women. ... Paula represents all women, because how Anson treats her is how he feels about women in general. ... When they separate and Paula tours around the East she writes him letters, "When he saw a man's name in her letters he felt more sure of her and a little disdainful- he was always superior to such things."" ... Anson's character and background effects the way he treats women. ...

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Explore the presentation of the women in ""Much Ado About Nothing"". ... She is the only strong women but unmarried until the last Act. ... Beatrice who is the only strong and brave among the other women. ... The women were always talking about the men, they mock the men in the dance they often have little conflict among each other. ... Among the women, the character I admire most was Beatrice. ...

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One good example is how they respect the women of their culture. Most cultures around their time treated women fairly, but never as well as a man. ... But in medieval culture it seems that it was possible for some women to be treated a lot better than the men, especially if they had a higher ranking over the men. ... It seems that any common man willing to learn and had a little bit of courage back then could have become a knight, but for some reason they were to be made much more than that. ... I understand this thinking a little better than with the knights because I think of the saints b...

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Ironically the little Nightingale is taken for granted and eventually caves into individual destruction. ... Wilde uses Mrs Erlynne to represent the women that are capable of being strong and independent. ... I am afraid of the women. ... This indicates that Oscar Wilde's view is that women are inferior to men. ... Wilde portrays little signs of satire in this short story, but like most of his work it produces a satirical aspect to his story. ...

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Even the men's own love for the women couldn't win over their former partners" hearts. ... It left the two women as unscathed as when they first popped their heads out of the hole in the wall, only hoping to get a nibble of the cheese that the cats had brought them. ... After coming to these conclusions, the two love struck men thought that if they were to then build up fortunes of their own, combined with the "love" shared between them and their former partners it would be more than enough to succeed in getting the women back. ... Unfortunately, their loves didn't share in...

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"And to give me a little scarlet bud, that was dying of frost, to wear" (801). ... Women's poetry in the nineteenth century wasn't just about love, death, and expression. This was a time between the start of women's conventions and women finally earning the right to vote. The women at this time knew a great change was coming, it was only a matter of when. ... Thirty years before women were given the right to vote, Ella Wheeler Wilcox knew that women would have to break free from the Christian view of man as the provider and women as the servant to move on to the liberation of th...

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He has the mind of a teenage boy who thinks of women as sex symbols who are on this earth to please men. ... Michael knows that he is not in the happiest time of his life right now, he is a little bored of his wife and he wants to be free. ... But at the end of the story she gains a little backbone by telling him, "Keep it to yourself. ... The last impression left on the reader about Frances was that she became part of the battalions of beautiful women that Michael fell in love with. ...

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If, by chance, a woman does enter a marriage knowing a little about sex, she is considered wicked. ... women often accept an emotional lacking in men that they would find unacceptable in women. ... However, these independent women will see this theory as a lie. ... Women do not receive credit for much of their work regardless of their talent. ... Basically, these "other women- mean nothing to men or society. ...

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The story, "White Heron" relates to how humanity in general has in some ways evolved and in some ways stood still when referring to women's rights. It describes a child coming into women hood before her time when advanced upon by an older male stranger. This story takes place in the late 1800's when women were looked down upon and treated as objects by men. ... In literary works the reference to shadows represents the prediction of death and the west signifies death, which in turn symbolizes Sylvia's dying as a little girl and being resurrected as a woman. ... The author, Sarah ...

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