Catfish and Mandela is a memoir of a Vietnamese American man's return to Vietnam. In the book, the author, a recently divorced engineer, quits his job and sets out on a bike tour of places in Vietnam that are important to his family's history. In doing so, he weaves together a history of his family'...
Women in Ancient Art Women are the foundations of life. For centuries, they have been worshipped, adored, treasured and admired. Women are the birth givers, the nurturers, and the teachers. They are wives, mothers, doctors, writers, artists, inventors, leaders, business owners, laborers, and sold...
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 oth...
De Haven's character is a personification of the first level of analysis of realism; the film adapts prevailing assumptions of the male dominated system and negates them by having a woman, who still makes sure her hair is perfect and maintains her elegance, fill an effective role in that very system. ...
Imagine wanting to go to school. Getting an education and a job was a dream or having a family was the best thing possible; imagine knowing that one of these things is not attainable because of gender. What sex someone is cannot be controlled or decided before birth, yet in the Victorian time period, a person's life was altered based on their reproductive organs. Not only were unrealistic goals forced on people due to their gender but also because of the social class they were born into. These uncontrollable factors were in the Victorian time period inhibited people from reaching their fu...
Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. Her movies Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Bigamist are no exceptions. Rather than focusing on gender issues, Lupino chooses to investigate the delicate balance that common people walk between decent and outrageous morals. As a female director in an otherwise male-dominated 1950s Hollywood, perhaps Lupino's most arduous task was to make her films stand out from the classic Hollywood mode and her ambiguity and subject matter both aid in achieving this goal. Feminist critics ca...
However, this also highlights masculinity as men are usually associated with drugs and alcohol as it helps maintain their high status in society because it can help differentiate the type of class you are in; liquor as upper-class, beer as lower-class.13The theme of escapism is significant for both plays as they equally use alcohol and drugs to escape from the realism of society by using it as a haven, which is common and accepted in both eras of the plays. ...
Frightening Stories as Entertainment Throughout many years, frightening stories were told and passed down in order to keep people entertained and amused. In the past, before television and radio were invented, telling stories and myths was a form of entertainment, which never seemed to have disap...
The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. ...
