He talks of Viola's "soft and tender breeding" just after he learns that she is a woman, and has a twin brother, Sebastian. Viola's breeding is therefore exactly the same as Sebastian's, and Orsino associates her with softness and tenderness purely because she is a woman. This is supported by Orsino's previous comment that Viola acts "against the mettle of her sex" whilst she is Cesario, which shows the existence of a stereotyped image of softness and tenderness mentioned previously. ... The persistence of her attentions towards Cesario could be explained by her attracti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Stanley presents the stronger trait of male aggression through violent language and acts, young Tom diminishes her validity as an independent being by objectifying her sexually, dreaming, "she [has] been tender with him" (540). The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... He climbs over to the woman's roof, dreaming she will respond to him with tenderness, but instead she rejects and ignores him. ...

• Word Count: 1168
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Trefry recounts of his attempts that "she disarms me with that modesty and weeping, so tender and so moving that I retire, and thank my stars she overcame me " (33). ... At night, "Her part was to watch and hold him in her arms, for fear of her countrymen, and wake him on occasions to consult his safety " (2481). ...

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Even after the death of his brother William, friend Justine and lifetime companion Clerval, he remains so entirely fixated on himself that he cannot even comprehend the possibility that the monster would not target him when given the threat: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night." ... In the absence of the familial, feminine characteristics in Frankenstein's life, madness, social isolation and physical sickness result - "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree... and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime....

• Word Count: 2624
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Women should be the tenders of the hearth, keepers of the home, rearers of children, and the moral, spiritual members of the family. ... She described the reaction to these responsibilities as "a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States As she [the housewife] made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the question " I...

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The advert 'Mum's Night Off' was created to appeal to men so as "Women can get out of the kitchen and men can get in it"2. ... NZ Pork's 'Mum's Night Off' has gone past the target market of men to plain sexist and is no help to preventing the societal issue of misrepresenting genders. ...

• Word Count: 2056
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate