"The Metamorphosis", "The Thousand and One Nights", and "Decameron" all tell stories within stories which demonstrate a woman's love, deception, and virtue. In "The Metamorphosis" and "Decameron", Ovid and Boccaccio devised stories within stories to demonstrate that women will transform themselves to protect their innocence and love when her faithfulness is cruelly tested by her spouse. ... In "The Metamorphosis", the frame narrative allows Ovid to include many different stories to make his point. ... It is a story within the story of book ten of Metamorphosis. ...

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Is it not ironic how we so often find ourselves pondering the manner in which we have always believed our lives to be led, our system of morals practiced, then due to some unexpected event we are suddenly thrust into a completely different way of thinking? Such is the case of the central character i...

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In the beginning of "The Taming of the Shrew", some say Shakespeare portrays Katherina as a very shrewish figure. Others may argue that she is not shrewish but just a very strong willed person. At the end of the play some people say she is transformed into a very kind and gentle person, while again ...

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The birth of the female rebellion does not go back to today. In fact women have always fought for their rights, even famous men fought for them. In A Doll House, a dramatic play written by Henrik Ibsen at a time where men where seen superior to women, the main character, Nora, is seen as a symbol of...

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Much Ado About Nothing From the first line of Much Ado About Nothing until the very end, a reader will discover interesting, comedic, memorable characters. Leonato, the governor of Messina, is a gullible and easily swayed person. Leonato realizes that Hero was not lying when she says she was loy...

• Word Count: 1363
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• Grade Level: High School