While reading this novel, the reader can encounter some features of it which are typical of Victorian novels: the plot is quite realistic, the characters belong to the middle class, and some of them can be described as typical Victorian characters (for instance, Tom's and Maggie's aunts). On the other hand, the fact that the novel was written by a woman is crucial itself, and says a lot. ... In keeping the Victorian mindset, the novel encompasses many stereotypes of gender roles for its main characters. ... Phillip, born with a deformity of the spine, is considered weak throughout th...

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The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. ... Antonia's virtue prevents her from having the knowledge to properly protect herself and causes her to be one of the novels weakest characters. ... The women in this novel are raised in a masculine world, and their personal lives and ambitions are controlled by those around them. ... One of the most significant themes of the gothic novel in this century were the shifts in gender roles and the debate of the role of wome...

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The novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Attwood tells the story of a near future oppressive society governed by an elite group - men. ... The first epigraph, before the story starts, is taken directly from the Old Testament in the Bible, and sets the patriarchal context into which the novel is put. ... The novel challenges how far a woman is prepared to go in order to achieve her freedom. ... The novel is written in a first-person view through the eyes of a German named Paul Baumer. ... The novel is written in a first-person view through the eyes of a German named Paul Baumer. ...

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It is presented in such a way that the novel flows with pace and does not impend on the book. ... Another topic that has importance in the novel is a womans rights. ... Esquivel has tied all these concerns into a novel that questions and challenges the reader. ... Child abuse is often unnoticeable to an observer and Esquivel has imitated this in her novel. ... Esquivel has fashioned a novel that is deeply challenging and explores profound issues in out society. ...

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This battle is delicately illustrated in Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. ... The controversial ending of the novel is Edna's final step on her road to individualism. ... Kate Chopin chose to end her touching novel with death. ... At the same time the novel took place women were expected to marry, even if not for love. ... Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, follows a young woman on her journey to autonomy. ...

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Racism is a main issue in the novel. ... Sexism is also a problem in the novel. ... Sofia always stands up for herself through out the novel. ... There are many female relationships in the novel. ... The men in the novel are given no last name. ...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allende's novels and I have to admit that in the beginning I had to struggle with the stereotype of "romantic pulp novels- to get myself through the first twenty-five - thirty pages (Wilson). I think that a reader, in this case me, starts to appreciate a novel as soon as he or she finds something in thi...

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The female characters of the novel are vindictive, cunning, powerful, and intelligent. ... In this empowering novel about Japanese women, it becomes evident what would become of men when women prevail in a Japanese society. ... She is not only the protagonist of the novel but also the pinnacle example of how a woman would be in a man's position. ... Yasuko, the daughter-in-law and muse of Mieko, is the key pond in the novel. ... It is also key to point out that in this novel the main players are the women, and the men are the ponds. ...

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Margaret Atwood's novel "Alias Grace" is based loosely around the historical character of Grace Marks, a jailed murderess. ... Jordan also finds himself daydreaming about Grace later on in the novel, and he cannot figure out why. ... There's a noticeable contrast between desire and love in this novel. ... In the novel, Mrs. ... Three women in this novel succumb to pregnancy, only one being in wedlock. ...

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In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. ... In the novel, Woolf juxtaposes two images of women, one traditional and the other modern, which are represented by Mrs. ... Right from the beginning of the novel Mrs. ... Lily Briscoe is not the only woman in the novel who subverts the traditional gender role; Three of Mrs. ... As for those women in the novel who accept traditional gender role, they seem to all suffer from ill fate, and misfortune. ...

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In the novel The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender written by Marele Day, distinctive voices are created through the creation of voices depicted through various literary techniques. ... Day plays with this stereotype at the beginning of the novel challenging the traditional beliefs in what people assume a detective would be like: a male figure. ... Lavender's voice within the novel is omniscient, sinister, and overall threatening. ... Throughout the novel Harry is never present; his voice is always in the background, this adds to his voice becoming more threatening and dark. ... In conclu...

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Little Women is first and foremost a girl's novel "it is written by a girl, about girls, and for girls. ... The young women in this novel are shown dealing with the conflict of choosing what is more important in their lives "self-cultivation, or domestic duties. Social constraints on women during the nineteenth-century play an important role in this novel. ... Alcott stresses the virtue of acting humble and genuine throughout her novel. ... In short, both novels, in their respective ways, help to define children's literature as a didactic genre that continues to this d...

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Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. ... Celie, the voice of the novel, is continually oppressed throughout the novel. ... Melde 3 Shug Avery, a famous black singer, is the most independent woman in the novel. ... Men are undoubtedly the evil in this novel. ...

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The novel is a detailed account with vivid depictions of sights and sounds of lives that face hardships. ... This paper is a look at the novel using the feministic perspective. ... I do hope that in some ways this novel gives people a window into Afghanistan, especially into the difficult existence of Afghan women over the last 30 years. Maybe this novel will give some identity to the nameless, faceless women in burqa walking down the street, so that the reader will now sense that these are real people who have dreams and hopes and disappointments. ... The novel depicts the different facets,...

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It is the first English novel to realistically depict the horrors of slavery and bring awareness of the reality of the slave trade [ CITATION Gel12 l 1033 ]. ... She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of fiction [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. Throughout the novel, Aphra gives extreme detail to legitimatize the notion that she speaks nothing but the truth. ... Furthermore, Behn's personal opinions allowed her to reject the idea of a democratic society in the novel. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however...

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Mattie, is the mother in the novel. she gives a source of comfort to the women at Brewster place. ... This page describes the setting of the novel. ... The Time period of the novel is between the 1930s and 1940s. ... Lucielia Louise Turner's story is one of the most powerful in the novel. ... Another significant detail in the novel was the reference to the weather in the chapter of the block party. 6. ...

• Word Count: 1933
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• Grade Level: High School

Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman it will become evident that the females in these two novels are themselves heroes. ... As Norma Lorre Goodrich points out, in her novel entitled Heroines, a heroine must be an individual, a survivor, magnanimous and most of all she must posses and demonstrate an admirable personality(3-8). ... Marian and Lily may have played passive, relatively non-active roles in the novels but they were also strong characters and overcame great triumphs. ...

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Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jane Austen's Persuasion, both advocate the ideal woman, in many ways by contrasting how the protagonists in the novels, Jane and Anne, act to how an "ideal woman" should look and behave. ... In the matter of fact, the nicest thing commented about Anne from her father in either looks or other qualities in the whole novel, is stated in a short paragraph: "less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved" (Austen, 167). ... Reed when she states, "silence and reflection had shown me the madn...

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In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. ... Unlike the earlier romantic 19th century novels of Jane Austen whose characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and th...

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This is the question that troubles Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar." ... In the novel "The Bell Jar," Sylvia Plath's style requests her readers to look inside the distraught mind of Ms. ... Pat Macpherson, the author of Reflecting on The Bell Jar states that rather than predominantly ascribing symbolic meaning to the author's use of language, objects, relationships or attempting to understand Esther's inner turmoil through the chaos of the outside world, the novel can be cleanly outlined in terms of Esther's psychological illness and her skewed p...

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Bronte tackles these ideas in her novel, subverting the stereotypical Victorian gender roles and demonstrating groundbreaking new attitudes towards gender roles in society, making her arguably one of the first proponents of the feminist movement. ... Jane's search for independence from the men in her life is a continuing theme in the novel. ... Interestingly the more likeable women in the novel are in positions of servitude (Mrs Fairfax, Mrs Temple, the Rivers sisters), whilst the women with money and status (Blanche Ingram) are disliked by the protagonist and therefore the audience. .....

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An important part of lesbianism that is portrayed in the novel by Hall is the strong magnetism felt by Stephen to have more manly mannerisms. ... Like many other lesbians in the novel, Stephen feels uncomfortable and out of place when adorned with feminine clothing or styles. ... An important point that is made for the first third of the novel is the contempt that is felt by Stephen for her long feminine hair. ... Many of the lesbians that were not feminine in novel were extremely intelligent. ...

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Joseph Conrad accurately depicts this aspect of colonial history in the novel Heart of Darkness. The series of images of femininity in the novel serve to comment that women are blind to the truth. ... In the novel, the final depiction of the conquerors lying to the oppressed people occurs when Marlow visits Kurtz's "Intended". ...

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Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... I think Stoker showed this as a threat in the novel perhaps because of the society he lived in believed that a woman that embraces her sexuality would have power over a man because she could control and nourish men's greatest sexual desires. ... Although Dracula himself is the embodiment of the horror aspect of the novel, the "hidden horror" lies in the liberation a woman's sexuality. ...

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In 1909, she published her first novel, and in 1913, she married George Cram Cook. ... Glaspell died in 1948, having published many stories, plays, and novels. ... This play differs from a short story or a novel in its layout. ... It is easy to read the stage directions as part of the action, and in some ways makes it easier to visualize the scene than reading a story or novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School