The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. ... The pain has such power over her that its colonizes her. ... She fears this may affect how Leonard sees her, which is an example of a certain power struggle between the two. ... This therefore illustrates a power struggle between characters. ... This is evident from the quote above, she fought the urge to retreat back upstairs, and she overcame it. ...

• Word Count: 3710
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

"This quote from Wollstonecraft beautifully argues exactly for what women needed. ... "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing." ... This quote shows how men can deceive women and woo them into a manipulative relationship only to just keep them put away and not treat them with a mind and opinions of their own. ...

• Word Count: 2740
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1475. The Canterbury Tales, as a whole, exhibit different social conventions of the Fourteenth Century and exploit them for being a kind of facade. The Clerk's Tale and The Franklin's Tale address the social convention of marriage with reference to the role of obedient women and conventional versus unconventional marriage. Furthermore, how obedience affects the quality and outcome of a marriage. Obedience will be defined as; "Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another&#...

• Word Count: 3668
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humor when they pleased, nor in power of being agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited. ... That is to say, good fame and exceeding power would certainly come to a person as long as he/she has money and is in high social position. ... This is quote from charlotte Lucas, one of the female characters in the novel, and a quote which very well exemplify the general feelings against marriage for the period and the people in upperclass England. ...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

As a result of this behavior, WB may be seen as a threat to the medieval hierarchy of power relations between the sexes because she violates the conception of what woman should be according to medieval tradition (Biebel 64). ... The Wife describes her verbal violence to her husbands, questions what she has been told, argues with authority and tells a tale in which victory is won by a woman's power of discourse. ... WB quotes scriptures to support her remarriages. ... She quotes the Christian principles to be fruitful and multiply. ...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God," is a quote Max Lucado had said when writing about marriage (Reference 3). ... A wife is known to act as the church when compared to God's marriage, but she is also referred to as the Little Christ because she still has some power and say-so in the marriage (Reference 12 pg. 61). ... "For the love among Christians should be the same kind of love as that of every member of the body for every other one each one accepting the faults of the other, sympathizing them, and doing everything possible to help him," is a quote said b...

• Word Count: 4288
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As the deity for the Hebrews came to be a "He", this led to the exclusion of women from power in the family, the state, and public worship. ... Jezebel represented a woman with political and religious power not a seductress. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainmen...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. Coketown "was a town of red brick, or of some brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like a painted face of a savage. It was a t...

• Word Count: 3472
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School