Medea, the main character in Euripides play "Medea," has been separated from her culture and society because of her gender and also her race. The time in which this play is based is ancient Greece, a time where women weren't allowed simple rights because they were women. Medea is persecuted duly h...
The Parade: a Summary and What it Meant to Me The play The Parade is a story about a Jewish man, Leo Frank native of Brooklyn New York, who marries a southern Jewish woman who lives in Atlanta in 1913. Leo moves to Atlanta because Lucille, his wife, has an uncle who will provide Leo with a v...
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...
Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" is centered around a wife and mother who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child, and withdraws from them. Gradually, she completely shuts them out of her life. Dissatisfied with being in and her ability to fulfill the role as dutiful mother a...
Theresa D. Cinalli #1 Some people may question the end of the novel. Did she really drown herself in the sea, if s why? Why was she leaving her husband and children behind? Is it possible for one person to be so selfish? The problem though, is that these questions are actually the answers. Th...
Othello's character in "Othello" is viewed in many different ways. Each character has a different personal view of the Moor. Before anybody finds out about his marriage to Desdemona he is seen to most as a great warrior although he is considered an outsider to the Venetian society. He is a trusted s...
After reading The Woman Warrior, you get the impression that she worked hard to put together her book. Her memories come from myths and anecdotes told to her by her mother. She bounces from the old family tales, to the tales of her mother and then to tales of her aunt, Moon Orchid. Kingston was t...
Women over many centuries have played biggest role in our society. In the early times they were mostly mothers, house wives, and care takers. Women were not allowed to have equal rights as men. Today, women are equal as men. Women are given equal choices, the right to be free, right to work, rig...
Babel, a movie with four different plots, four different languages and three different families, but connected by one thing. This movie takes places in Morocco, North America, Mexico and Tokyo. The first storyline is about a young married couple, Richard and Susan, who went to Morocco on vacation a...
This millennial generation has many different values and opinions than previous generations, including that on same-sex marriage. The right for marriage equality is a fight that has been brought to the public because of this generation's growing voice. They stand together to be heard; same-sex marri...
Jane Eyre, an orphan girl raised by her aunt, Sarah Reed was considered as an outsider in her family. Her aunt made it obvious to everyone that she was the child of the devil, but could there be more to her life then what it was? At the age of ten, Jane was taken away from Gateshed and sent to Lowoo...
Every character has a flaw; Lady Macbeth and Jane Eyre are no exceptions. Lady Macbeth's flaw is ambitious greed. This flaw can influence Jane's which is her enduring desire to be loved and accepted. Lady Macbeth seems to have harsh control over her people and their emotions, like that of her husban...
A relationship between a man and a woman can last long when they both can reach the integrity between love and sexual pleasure. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence is an amazingly well-crafted piece of fiction. The fabric of this work is carefully weaved; everything from the characterization, ...
Are Gay Marriages a Question of Conservatism or Liberalism? Today the perception of family life consists of a picturesque scene with a white picket fence surrounding a house with a Golden Retriever playing with the children in the backyard. This setting has quite a bit changed, and accordi...
