It shows how advice being passed down from mother to daughter is supposed to be beneficial to the daughter's life, and help her with shaping a better future. ... Also, by telling her daughter to not eat fruit on the streets because flies will follow, it's reasonable to presume that she wants to let her daughter know that trailing flies will make her seem like she is dirty and not bathing properly. The mother warns the daughter to, "be sure to wash everyday, even if it with your own spit.... Throughout the story, the mother scolds her daughter on how to and how not to act around ...

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Clytemnestra is introduced in the play, following the death of her daughter, Iphigenia. ... Therefore we can feel her pain and at the same time she doesn't seem like she is insane. ... He does not have the courage to challenge society and protect his own daughter. ... At the time, women of the society never got a chance to voice their opinions and were forced to follow the male dominant ways of life. Even her daughter had to accept her death silently. ...

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Parents, realized or not, differentiate the methods of upbringing and raising their son to their daughter. ... On the other hand, their daughter is disallowed to play with gun toys for it is so-not-a-girl-type-of-toy. ... Parents tend to overprotect their daughter than their son. For example, I am not allowed to leave the house after 9 pm and must go back safely to the house at 12 pm, at most, whilst my brother, younger than me, has a free and unlimited curfew time. ... When a father cannot spare his time for his children, society still thinks that it is okay because the father is already tire...

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In Mansfield's, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," two daughters, Josephine and Constantia, are living behind the ghost of their father. ... It [ glares] at them a moment and then . . . [ goes] out (Daughters 467). ... (Daughters 469). ... In Katherine Mansfield's, "Miss Brill," on this very special day Miss Brill takes out her fur for the first time this year and decides to wear it. ... When Miss Brill overhears the children talking she realizes what she has been trying to ignore for a long time; she is old just like her fur. ...

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As being in a long-term submissive position in their relationship, Yeats's depiction of Gonne became more critical and rational overt time. ... At that time, he was 24 years old and had never realized how much pain and torture this "apple-blossom" would bring him. ... Therefore, in "A Prayer for my Daughter," Yeats expressed his doubts and negative attitude about Gonne's such astuteness of manipulating men in order to participate in public, as he wished his daughter to "[became] a hidden tree" (41) without "intellectual hatred" (57) that could ...

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She felt that her son should marry a woman of royalty, unlike Assouoite who was the daughter of a goldsmith and was poor as a child. Once the time was right she present young Nabou to him stating that if he did not wed her it would bring great disgrace to her and the family. ... Lastly, what really tested her views on the lowering of traditional standards was her daughter Rama becoming pregnant. ... Instead of disowning her daughter, she accepts that her daughter is pregnant and decides to help her devise a plan to hide the pregnancy. She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou a...

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Her daughter is also forced to suffer because of her decision. ... She also designs decorative outfits for her daughter as well. ... Many women at this time would not have the strength to be so rebellious, but Hester is not every woman. ... Chillingworth, Hester's husband, has disguised himself as a doctor and if putting all his time and effort towards hurting Dimmesdale. ... The community shunned her and all she had was her daughter. ...

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In which, he impregnates her mentally-retarded daughter only so Yasuko could have the closest thing to an heir that her deceased husband Akio, could not give her. ... Yasuko, the daughter-in-law and muse of Mieko, is the key pond in the novel. ... Harume, the mentally handicapped daughter of Mieko, is used in the worse way. ... To worsen matters, she is sent away to live as someone else's daughter, to protect Akio from leading a hard life. Mieko, makes the choice to ruin her daughter to save her son. " Harume's departure to live with her maternal grandparents had been due less to...

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She feels like girls (particularly her daughter) should be concerned with how they dress and look. Many times we hear her telling her daughter to put something more feminine on. ... There is only one time I recall in the movie that Roy, after the transition began, was really aloud to do anything around the house, and that was when he was talking to his daughter, Patty Ann, while hanging laundry. ... Only in one case does Roy stand up for her, which I found strange, because of what he is going through you would think he would be more understanding of his daughter, however, Irma tells him t...

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In the Victorian era, wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. ... Even though this would make her daughter unhappy, she is still willing to follow it as it is the way it is expected to be done by society. ... This is a major gender reversal, as women of Gwendoline's class at this time were expected to be proposed to, not take charge and offer it themselves. ... This gives Lady Bracknell the upper hand as many mothers of this time would be ordinarily not be as involved in their daughter's mar...

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In order to enforce a safeguard against this threat is by manipulating women into believing a consistently reinforced idea: "Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing and play/ Are the accomplishments we should desire;/ To write, or read, or think, or to enquire/ Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time;/ And interrupt the conquests of our prime; - (14-8). ... In accordance with the concept of "contentedness, - for a woman to lead a satisfying life, it was necessary for her to have a family and a home toward which she could focus all of her time. ... This time that Mary spends writing, wh...

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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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Even its "First Constitution- begins with, "In the name of God in the second year of the reign of our lord the most glorious king Gundobad, this book concerning laws past and present, and to be preserved throughout all future time- ("First Constitution,"" 106) This relationship between God and state is important for two reasons: First, it illustrates that the Burgundians are a religious people; secondly, it reveals the source of power for the Burgundian rulers. ... Under the laws pertaining to "Of Succession- woman take clear inferiority to man in terms of inheritance, "Among Burgundians w...

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She examines the interior decorations of the house and complains to her daughter. ... During Antonia's struggle to raise her daughter alone, she did not show shame in having an illegitimate child. ... She takes her daughter to get pictures and insists on a frame worthy of her. ... Women did not usually own their own businesses at the time and still do not own many big businesses today. ... The town girls were the ones to marry well, while the hired girls were a way to pass the time. ...

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Despite sharing a similar fate, the protagonists' unique approach to racism demonstrates the changing values of contexts across time and culture. ... Under a different time period, Desi is granted much more power and rights than Desdemona as a woman. ... The dehumanizing statements such as "she is stolen from me" and "I won her daughter" further evokes the Elizabethan paradigm. ... Empowerment of woman individuality and rising concerns towards racism are beneficial values which ascended through time. ... Despite her father's strong denial against her relationship,...

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However the plays of that time do not reflect the evidence that we have about the women in classical Athens. ... In Euripides" Medea, Medea is constantly talking about the conditions that women face in her time. ... Medea is married to Jason, who has decided to leave her to marry King Creons daughter. ... In the beginning of the Trojan War, Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to please the gods. Clytemnestra had never forgotten or forgiven Agamemnon for killing her daughter and has been waiting ten years for her revenge. ...

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Millie wants the best for her daughter but this desire turns into greed. It becomes obvious into the film that the reason she is driven to exploit her daughter, Florence's talents, as a tennis player is to live vicariously through her instead of helping Florence achieve the happiness she deserves. ... Will, Millie's husband notices and hates the way Millie exploits her own daughter for money. He remains silent throughout the entire story, only speaking to Florence, his daughter when he feels like she needs his support. ... Rather than helping his wife Millie to realize the injuri...

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They had freedom to do whatever they wanted, but this freedom was severely inhibited by maniacs who could strike at any time. ... (p. 32) The children of the handmaids were to become the daughters and be married off to the soldiers and begin reproducing as soon as possible. Once more daughters were born and raised, it was planned that there would no longer be any need for the handmaids. ... People spent their whole lives striving to be the best and have the most, giving no thought to others, and having no time or money for children. ... I thought it was an isolated incident, at the time..."...

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A father could sell his daughters into marriages and only a husband had the right to seek divorce. ... Your only ornament, the kind of beauty that time does not tarnish, is the great honor of modesty (Motto 94). ... Jewish tradition at the time did not allow women to be taught. ... Metzger also mentioned Jesus called a woman he cured the daughter of Abraham, thus implying that she had equal status with sons of Abraham (818). ... That is why since the emergence of Christianity women have been draw to it because it gives them unparallel equality unlike any time before in history. ...

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Because of this many artists have favored female subjects and many things they represent since the beginning of time. ... One artist of this time, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, portrays a scene of a mother and her two daughters in the home, in his painting called Benediction (1740). http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=85097&item=126293 In this painting, it shows a mother who has just prepared a meal and her two young daughters are sitting at the table, waiting. The older daughter watches as her younger sister pray. ...

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Browne tells why she named her daughter Melanie (after her grandmother), and tells the story of her grandmother's strengthwhen facing a group of angry white men. ... Serena, their daughter was electrocuted when she used a fork to chase a roach into a socket. ... For example, in the time this book was set it was wrong to have homosexual relationships. ... The Time period of the novel is between the 1930s and 1940s. ... After the death of her daughter she doesn"t want to speak, move, or even live. ...

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The Greeks had arranged marriages and often times the daughters, without a brother, would be married to a close relative such as a cousin or uncle. ... His daughters played no significant role in the play but he was worried about them and who would take care of them after he was gone. ... The author makes it known that during this time period male superiority and suppression of females was acceptable. ... In the time Chaucer was writing these stories, a questionable social standing for a woman could taint her. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and r...

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The family was consisted of twelve members; eleven of which lived under one roof, at one time. ... Johnson was eleven years old at this time. ... When she started college she was a single mother and working full-time. ... A mother's influence has a significant impact on particularly daughters in regards to gender role. Research has shown that a mother's child rearing style as well as her own beliefs on gender roles has a major influence on daughters. ...

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There were four cardinal virtues-piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity that were the most important for women during this time except for Edna. ... "The true woman's place was unquestionably her own fireside-as daughter, sister, but most of all as wife and mother, therefore, domesticity was among the virtues most prized by women's magazines" (Welter 5). ... In other words, "put them all together and they spelled mother, daughter, sister, wife – woman" (Welter 1). ... "Another time she would have gone in at his request. ... That being said, Edna...

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It requires that she reject Pedro's, the man she is deeply in love with, marriage proposal so she can stay at home and take care of her widowed mother for the rest of her life since she is the youngest daughter. Rosaura, Tita's older sister, impose this tradition upon her daughter, Esperanza in which she conceived with Pedro, later in the film. The problem is if she turns her back on this tradition, she would not live up to what societies considers her responsibility to her mother, but at the same time Tita recognizes, however, that the tradition is unfair. Although Tita is repress...

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