This extract gives the reader an insight on how some men view women. ... For the woman, it brings warmth and heat that will give her a glowing and better complexion. ... For instance, without taking into consideration Doris Lessing, we can give her story a multitude of interpretations. ... It may as well symbolise her ferociousness .The description we are given about the woman and her gestures possibly gives rise to the issue of sex. ... This is a very vivid and well portrayed picture of the sensuality of the woman which gives rise to full-fledged desire and sexual passion in the male. ...

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It is not the first quote in which a husband gives credit to his wife for making him a better man; a better person. ... They were men who had wives depending on them at home, cheering them on, sending them provisions, and giving advice; sometimes unwanted advice. ... But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and by rising very early I find I can go through much business"" (Roberts (1), p.2). ...

• Word Count: 3378
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• Grade Level: High School

Boys are considered to be the center of the universe which explains the fact that a woman reaches ultimate fulfillment and becomes a real woman only when she gives birth to a boy. ... The good wife saves her husband from death, follows him anywhere, proves her virtue, remains under his control and gives him her power. ... He had known her not once but twice; he had gone back to give her a second son. ... These are the vicissitudes of life just as a good harvest follows a drought to give us another chance of belief in His mercy. ...

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The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not until the 1890's that women in the southern states joined the bandwagon. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, set in the coastal region of Louisiana, was written and published during this time. Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great i...

• Word Count: 3206
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a c...

• Word Count: 5174
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

The only insight of Claude's childhood that Cather gives the reader is the story with the cherry tree and Claude's father. ... Wheeler eventually comes back to the kitchen and instructs his wife and Claude that "Cherries won't give you any trouble. ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. Chaucer takes the woman out of the shadows and into the spotlight in the Canterbury Tales, especially in the case of the outspoken Wife of Bath (WB). The apostle Paul writes to Timothy, "Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness" (1 Tim. 2:11). ...

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A closer look at how Honrby accomplishes this will give readers a better grasp of the writing style of a contemporary author whose works may be considered classics in due time. ... And giving yourself to me could never be wrong if the love is true. ... This shift in economic power gives Laura a certain preeminence in their relationship. ...

• Word Count: 2791
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens and stirred the ocean and created the land and the kami of the sun, Amaterasu, who later gives birth to the first emperor (117). ... Martinez explains the social differences between genders very well when he describes a fishing households roles: "it was the job of the women in the house to prepare the food and go to the shrines and give thanks on the other hand it was the job of the men to treat the other fishermen to a drink of sake (189.)- However, Women weren&#x...

• Word Count: 3406
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For years women have tried to overcome the sexist barriers of society. The industrialization of the United States opened a window of opportunity for women. The increased availability of jobs required fulfillment. Men could no longer fill all of the jobs available. Women became the answers. Fema...

• Word Count: 3534
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

This gives men in the narrative an enormous amount of power in film and their women are either glamorized or tamed. ... "4 This implies that an awareness of the way pleasure and beauty elicits a scopophilic gaze gives the power to surpass or subvert these patriarchal tendencies. ... " The scene segues into a montage of different women being sexualized for the camera in cinema: a woman being sexually dominated by a man on a rock by the ocean, a woman disrobing before entering a bathtub four times, a woman taking off her bra, another her pants, and a final scene of a woman refusing to ...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" gives an honest account of the divide that existed between men and women in terms of their roles during the Victorian Age. ... The second half of Tennyson gives a precise description of his views about the roles of Victorian women. ...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America which is regarded as the land of the "free" but still does not give women the equal rights they deserve. ... Her efforts in giving social awareness regarding sexism, equality, the power of sisterhood and the empowerment of women is part of the reason why women in today's society have a platform to express their issues regarding lack of equality. ... In the song Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur he raps "And since we all came from a woman, Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women, Why we rape our women, do we hate our women&q...

• Word Count: 2997
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Hawthorne wrote in a biography of Anne Hutchinson that "Woman's intellect should never give the tone to that of man; and even her morality is not exactly the material for masculine virtue" (qtd. in Murfin, 275). ... Despite being troublesome and quite a handful, Hester manages to give Pearl what most girls at her time never caught a glimpse of the freedom to be herself. ...

• Word Count: 3565
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the Tale of Genji, we meet a Japanese prince by the name of Genji who over time, developed several relationships with the women of his village. These relationships were developed through his use of charm, his royal status and his good looks to pry into their hearts. These three characteristics he...

• Word Count: 2745
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women in The Winter's Tale The winter's tale was one of Shakespeare's last plays. As a typical tragicomic, the whole play is shaped into a two-part structure. The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. It is completely tragic ...

• Word Count: 2824
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Friendship is defined as " a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard, a person who gives assistance, and a supporter- (Random House, 2000: 525). ... This is not only the power that it gives one person over another, but also the power that it has in changing the mentality of the possessor. ... She is deeply depressed about the loss of the money that J.D. stole; she looks at herself unhappily in the mirror, makes an attempt to put on some lipstick and then gives up and throws it in the dirt- (Sturken, 2000: 55). ...

• Word Count: 2628
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• Grade Level: High School

In Act 1, Scene 1 of Shrew, we learn that Baptista is trying to find a husband for Kate, so he can "give" Bianca to one of her many suitors (hopefully the one with the most money). ... Petruchio demands that it is the moon, and Kate gives in saying, "I know it is the moon" (4.5, 17). ...

• Word Count: 2533
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• Grade Level: High School

This is supported when deceived into thinking Hero has been unfaithful He feels more betrayed by Leonato than by Hero, saying, "Give not this rotten orange to your friend" (IV.i.30). ... When giving her husband the handkerchief, it is unclear whether she does this out of loyalty or out of fear. ...

• Word Count: 4511
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• Grade Level: High School

"She", a song of Tommy James (1966), compared to "Woman", a song of John Lennon (1978) - and its relevance towards the position of women in the society. The 1966 song of Tommy James pictures a subservient woman who loves her man unequivocally. She serves her man, telling how much she loves him ...

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Through sublimation, Cisneros fulfills her desire to free herself from the limitations of traditional gender roles, which allows her to give a voice to all the women who cannot speak up for themselves. ... Cisneros' search for her literary identity caused her phantasies to give birth to Esperanza. ...

• Word Count: 2834
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Witchcraft thus was perceived primarily as a female offense [and] [l]aws favored men: for example, women, unable by law to give legal testimony, did not traditionally know how to use the courts [t]herefore, appeals to the Parliament at Paris, which greatly moderated the force of the witchcraze in France, helped fewer women. ...

• Word Count: 3282
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• Grade Level: High School

Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...

• Word Count: 3026
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• Grade Level: High School

Women are often seen to be subjective, emotional beings, are usually associated with the private sphere of life and tend to be the care-givers. ... More and more women are recognized as active, participating members of the public sphere, while men are increasingly assuming care-giving roles. ...

• Word Count: 3294
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School