The economic, as well as many others, context of northern landscapes is suitable for creating what Higson refers to as Moral realism. "This we can name as moral realism, in that it involves a moral commitment to a set of particular set of social problems and solutions inevitably, the claim for moral realism is in part bound up with the claim for surface realism- there is a moral thrust to iconographic commitment to the representation of "ordinary people"" (Higson, 1996, Pg136). The North is as I have mentioned before the established center of the "ordinary man" in Britain and as such this i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. ... First, it is important to point out that both Olivia and Viola are women who enjoy certain social privileges relative to other women as a benefit of their social class, an issue that is important, particularly in the context of Twelfth Night, and which is often overlooked throughout the body of Shakespeare criticism. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Celia and Rosalind, for instance, are extremely close friends, almost sisters, and the profound intimacy of their relationship seems at times more intense than that of ordinary friends. ... In the context of the play, her choice of an alter ego contributes to a continuum of sexual possibilities. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

World is made of men and women. They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. What is it exactly that makes the division between men and women? Scientifically, one responsible factor is a proper chromosome. But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of...

• Word Count: 3294
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• Grade Level: High School