The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become "Americanized," at the same time, casting off their heritage while their mothers watch in dismay. ... She explains, " 'Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!' ... She means that any daughter should follow her parent's request without questions, not like the American daughter who follows her own mind. ... A simple misunderstanding of their parent's love for them would in time influence the children's behavior and attitude. ...

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At the time the play was written anti-Semitism was rife due to myth and the infamous trial of the Queen's physician, Roderigo Lopez who was accused of treason. ... Actor's interpretations changed over time however, as have critics. ... O my daughter!" ... Through this Shakespeare was playing on the myths surrounding Jews at the time such as blood libel, which would have excited a negative Elizabethan response. ... "All your money shall be left to your daughter." ...

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Menander, an ancient Greek playwright, was an influential playwright of his time, focusing his plays on what critics call "New Comedy." ... He is afraid to ask Knemon for his daughters hand in marriage. ... Sostratos represents the moral ambiguity of the upper class during this time period. ... In an article by University Press Inc about Culture and Society in ancient Greece it said that women in this time period were not involved "public life or in politics.... In this scene Sostratos spends as much time in his asides speaking to the audience as he does speaking to the girl. ...

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As a women, she has very little value, and as the third daughter, even less. ... The language between the two, calling each other "boy, lad, and Numncle" indicates they have known each other for a very long time. ... Lear comes to a painful realization about his daughter's selfish greed. ... To save Lear from himself, the fool had to save him from his daughters. ... The reason he could isn't about love or loyalty; Cordelia was Lear's daughter. ...

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Proposing a test of his daughters' adoration, King Lear asks them each to describe how much they truly love him. ... Goneril, Lear's eldest daughter, is the first female character to speak in the play. ... In time, however, her true character becomes apparent, and could not be in further opposition from her response. ... Regan, the King's middle daughter, proves to be the most fierce and brutish of all Shakespeare's female characters. ... Because of this honest and pure daughter, Lear realizes his past mistakes. ...

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Catherine Sloper, a simple minded daughter II. ... He believes time and distance will open his daughter's eyes to Morris" true character. ... Austin Sloper shows a great deal of avoidance to his daughter Catherine. ... Catherine greatly admires her father but at the same time is afraid of him. ... In a short amount of time Mr. ...

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This moral blindness condemns his relationship with his most beloved daughter Cordelia, at the start of the play. ... On disowning Cordelia, he utters, "We have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again". Lear shows himself to be a vindictive man in pride, as in a few sentences he unravels all his love for his most beloved daughter, publicly and absolutely. ... Cordelia has good insight, and understanding her sisters for truly what they are, she knows what they are capable of and says, "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides". ... He discovers that Cord...

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And with her, she brought 2 horrid, ugly daughters, because like they always say, like mother like daughter. ... All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving touches were for her own daughters. ... All this was laid on for her daughters. ... But this time to her surprise, there was a large poof of smoke. ... He told her what to do all the time, and never listened to her. ...

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During his stay at 124 Bluestone Rd, Paul D becomes Sethe's lover and the object of Denver's, Sethe's daughter, and Beloved's jealousy. ... Only her third child, her older daughter, dies, her throat having been cut with a handsaw by Sethe. ... She devotes all of her time making Beloved understand why she reacted to schoolteacher's arrival the way she did. ... Sethe's daughter Denver is the most dynamic character in Beloved. Being sheltered by her mothers past makes her shy, sensitive, and inclined to spend time in her emerald closet. ...

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Diane and Terry have a beautiful daughter, a beautiful home and successful careers. ... Terry often stresses to his wife that they need to spend more time with each other and he wants to have another child. ... In the movie, the secret that Terry got a DNA test done on their daughter is revealed. He felt they only had sex once when she got pregnant, causing him to question whether his daughter was actually his. ... She never took the time to communicate her feelings with her husband or anyone. ...

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One time Clifford brought Anna a glass eye, and "It was too much for Joyce. ... Joyce had been married for several years by that time and was already a mother, but she was jealous"(412). ... At this point, I almost think of Joyce as being evil because not one time does she apologize for her actions or for the loss of Chaske. ... Although Joyce is a ditz and she did not show her daughter love when she was alive, in the end, her love for Dina, is demonstrated. ... She falls apart when her daughter dies, and her motherly love is shown to be powerful. ...

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Usually, the mother and daughter eat dinner together. Mother and daughter have a very close relationship with each other. The daughter tells the mother everything and isn't scared to talk to her about her problems. The daughter can go to the mother with any problem, big or small, and mother understands. ... They always manage to spend some alone time with each other. ...

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In 1984, Toni left her publishing job to fully devote her time to writing and teaching. ... Her only joy is spending time with her best friend, Nel Wright. ... Sula resents her mother because of her lack of emotion towards her daughter; as a result, when her mother catches on fire, Sula watches with detachment as she burns to death. ... Nel lives with her mother, Helene, a proper and respectable woman who has tried to shield her daughter from anything shameful or improper. ... Sula, Hannah's daughter, overhears her mother say that she loves Sula but does not like Sula. ...

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Later, his love triangle with King Lear's daughters, Regan and Goneril, touches upon the sisters' own absence of love for their father. ... Although, at this point, we may be little inclined to empathize with Edmund, we are less inclined to do so with Lear's daughters. ... "O Regan, Goneril / Your kind father whose frank hear gave all-" (III.iv.16-17, 20-21) This father is closer to one who might bring unexpected presents to his daughters and spoil them with clothes and jewels in an outward showing of affection. ... The next time we meet up with Edmund, he is exchanging seemin...

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Only daughter of Brabantio, a very important man in the Venetian high society of the day. Brabantio tried to find a suitor for his daughter like any father of the time but she rejected them all. ... Desdemona is Brabantio's only daughter and his last link to his wife, who died. ... I am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband ; " My first impression of Desdemona is that she is strong willed and a very passionate person. ... If she did not press Othello about Cassio when he was clearly upset maybe there would have been time for the truth to emerge. ...

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" (Kidd 148) In a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a white young female that is living with black women during time of racial oppression, who has ran away from home, and also a miscreant. ... "His chin quivered slightly, and for the first time it hit me how much he must've loved her, how it had split him open when she left." ( Kidd 293) In a sense, Lily and T.Ray shared a similarity of anger towards Deborah for the same reason as one another. ... August Boatwright had the wisdom and patience of a mother that Lily had desired, she passed down the process of making hone...

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Rosalind, the vivacious and witty daughter of Duke Senior , attempts to obtain love by acting as Ganymede in hopes of teaching her object of affection , Orlando, the correct way to court a woman. ... The spirited Rosalind , daughter of Duke Senior, displays her quest for love through a complex manner and numerous encounters with Orlando and Celia . After Orlando graces Rosalind and her dear friend Celia ( daughter of Duke Fredrick) the two women discuss Rosalind's new infatuation . ... During Shakespeare's time , the word was commonly used to refer to young men who engaged in homos...

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Shakespeare presents the women in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" according to their role and in time of the past time. ... She was descried as "Leanato's short daughter" this shows hero's appearance in height and Don Pedro described her as "well worthy" and "pleasant spirited lady and gentle". Hero is the sweet and graceful daughter of the Leonato. ... But unfortunately for Hero her father believed Claudio and Don Pedro false accusation about his daughter and out of the bitterness in him, he wished that Hero should die. ...

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During Act One Scene Three, we are presented with the growing attraction between the young Hamlet, and Polonius" daughter, Ophelia. ... It is also possible that Laertes is worried because he knows that Hamlet is not going back to college and therefore will have more free time. ... Polonius is under the impression that Hamlet's advances towards his daughter have no true meaning and are not fuelled by real love. Polonius advises his daughter that Hamlet could not possibly be serious, though he knows "when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows." ... They each assume a ...

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She almost lets herself fall back into romantic love with her husband, and perhaps given time she would have, unfortunately she could not let go of her desire to be perfect in time. Carolyn's need for perfection had an even more profound affect on her daughter, Jane. ... Suddenly his happiness was more important than his wife's opinion, or his boss's, or even his daughter's. ... In this moment he realizes Agape love- not only for Angela but also his daughter and his wife. So by the time that Frank kills him, Lester has a healthy love for his family, and for himself. ...

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The only real surprise, that Indiana is Sealand's daughter. ... As time moved forward, the emphasis changed from one on cuckoldry and the aristocracy to one on marriage as a contractual agreement and eventually progressed to the sentimental comedy, which seemed more interested in uplifting morals than anything else. ...

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He begs Theseus for the ancient Athenian right to either make his daughter marry Demetrius or have the power to kill her. ... In this early beginning of the play the first conflict is between father and daughter and the battle against arranged marriage and for passionate love. ... Titania has stolen a young boy whom she keeps with her and spends her time caring for. ... At the same time Hermia and Lysander are going to rest in the woods. ... He tells the puck that Titania gave him the boy earlier in the woods, and so it is time for him to remove the spell from her eyes. ...

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Some time after Wilde introduces them the plot thickens as we realize that they both have alternate identities. ... Ernest (Jack) falls in love with Algernon's cousin Gwendolen, who is the daughter of Lord and Lady Bracknell. ... For instance, Lady Bracknell's liking Cecily because she hears that Cecily has a large personal fortune in her name, and she does lies directly to her face and puts on the act of how much she likes the girl because she has money just proves the she is just trying to hide her obvious materialistic ways, which is the way most aristocratic woman of this time ...

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It is very evident that Jack thinks very highly of his eldest daughter, and that he may not be very open to the idea of letting her marry a man, who in his mind may replace his spot in Pam's life. ... Another example of how strongly Pam feels about Greg is when you compare the amount of time she was dating Kevin (her boyfriend before Greg), to the amount of time she has been currently dating Greg. ... Greg buys Jack a rare flower, the best champagne he can find at the Oyster Bay Druggery, attempts to go find Jinx (the family cat), abstains from sex, and several time he tries to tell Jack...

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After Hester's ignominy the first time she had a chance to properly talked to Dimmesdale was in the forest where not prying eyes could see them. ... She endured years of social rejection and derogatory treatment yet she maintains a strong front which her daughter and Dimmesdale can rely on. ... Instead, she had to beg another man, who had power, to save her daughter for her. ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School