He does not seem to worry much about his future and quite enjoys the fact that his younger sister Maggie looks up to him as a friend and "protector". ... However, at first it is not a true love for Phillip. ... Her actions show that she has begun to embrace her true self and not just act in a way to please the "society" in Garum Firs. In the end of the novel, Maggie stays true to herself and becomes Tom's rescuer when the flooding of the Floss destroys the mill. ... Eliot is trying to tell the reader that being true to one's inner self is the most important part of life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is also true in the character of Phil West, the wealthy University student, who by being his father's son not only has a car, but a more prestigious one than that of the Olsens. The only female in the film that is depicted driving a car is Juanita, a wealthy friend of Phil West who is said to have "first mortgage on his affections". ... She suggests to Helen (her good friend who she is sharing a bunk with) that they sleep spoon fashion, only to be shocked to hear a male voice ask, "Who invited you in?"... Stella (the new women) is traveling on the train quite independently with her...

• Word Count: 2149
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The men keep numerous wives, but do not share a friendship with any because "a woman cannot really have a man for a friend without the worst kind of ostracism and gossip" (172). ... She finds strength in Shug, which keeps her from going back to Mr. ___ as his wife, but instead returns as his equal friend. ... Only in the company of women do their true personalities show. ...

• Word Count: 1257
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She goes to any length to try and win his affections and in so doing unwittingly causes the death of her friend in the attempts to please him. Once Iago's fiendish plot is discovered she has one stitch of bravery and stands up to him, defending her friend's honor, which costs her her life. ... Understandably that without explicit instruction in every detail from the playwright some elements will be filled in by whoever has decided to produce the play, but the meat of a piece, its essence, its very spirit if you will, should always remain true to what the artist originally intended. ...

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The prevailing culture of the time that deemed women to be inferior and as a result the male political power that was driving the concept of revolution for independence held true to this standard belief. ... The first is a correspondence that she writes to her friend Mercy Otis Warren. ... Abigail shares with her friend the idea that they should sign a petition in support of the equality movement and that she even threatened Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1671
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature often holds a mirror to the social, political and economic milieu in which it was created; this could not be truer in Elizabethan times. ... Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is highly evident in Cleophila's speech. ... His friend Philanax illuminates the lunacy of Basilius's plan: "Why should you deprive yourself of governing your dukedom for fear of loosing your dukedom, like one that should kill himself for fear of death?" ...

• Word Count: 1452
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The first, his marriage to Philippa, was thought by George Williams, in A New View of Chaucer, to be a favor to his friend John of Guant. ... I mentioned this rape here, because of Cannon's convincing argument and if true, it gives us some idea of how Chaucer might have conceived woman. ... It is easy to focus on Chaucer's true intentions, we the reader center our attention still on the dangerous male (poet or rapist): he is the one we care to condemn or save, while the woman in the picture (the Wife or the maiden) fades into the background. ...

• Word Count: 1773
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In both "Cloud Nine" and "The Crying Game" femininity and the gender of characters play a large part when analysing the narrative. The quote originates from "Cloud Nine", which is said by the character Betty. The female gendered characters relate to this quote at the start of the storyline of both p...

• Word Count: 1265
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" (Gilgamesh 76) Upon refusal, the power of this feminine God is seen, for she causes the death of Gilgamesh's only friend on Earth, Enkidu, putting women in the front seat for one of the few times during the story. ... Men are continually portrayed as rough, thoughtless, and often cruel beings in this setting, with only the women to show them the true path of organized civilization and more examples support this fact the deeper one reads into iit. ...

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Even though it has been so long, some of the points Wollstonecraft makes still hold true today. ... "Weakness [in women] may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man," and "the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practicing various, become the friend, and not the humble dependent of her husband." ...

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We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, and of vulnerability in order to mask their true selves. ... Adicchie shares a story of when she got money out of her bag to tip the valet, the man thanked her male friend Louis because it is assumed that any money the women has had to have come from the man. ...

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Estelle wants to have someone in her life, maybe as a friend to talk to, or maybe as a sexual partner. ... Margaret Atwood believes that woman are very powerful human beings and that these stories that we create are for ourselves and to show others how woman interpret the true meaning of sex. ...

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So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist" (Stoker 303) In Dracula, the female vampires represent women liberated sexuality while the vampirism merely masks the man's forbidden fantasies. ... When we consider Lucy's best friend, Mina, she's almost opposite of Lucy and yet still equally as feminine. ...

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When Desdemona defends her friend and fellow woman, Iago responds, "Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,/Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,/Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,/Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds" (2.1.109). ... This leads us to Cohen's third thesis of category crisis, "[Desdemona's] refusal to participate in the classificatory 'order of things' is true of monsters generally: they are disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any ...

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The first male character to voice his opinion about a woman's true purpose was George Henderson, County Attorney, who believes women's job is housework. ... Hale feels responsible for not being there for her friend and fellow housewife, knowing how stressful attending to a household can be. ...

• Word Count: 1590
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She has the courage to break all conventions of society and to discover her true self, to discover that she is more than just a wife and a mother, roles that society had given her. ... Edna admires her friend with an almost sexual interest. ...

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Most girls do not have much of a problem talking to other girls they just met and that is why girls tend have very large friend circles. Although they really only open up to a couple of close " true friends, " most men are friendly too but when it comes to a friends group men prefer to keep it limited to only a few buddies that have been around each other for a long period of their lives. ...

• Word Count: 1453
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"In vain did I solicit to share, in those instructions, which were so liberally allowed to him," she wrote in a letter to a friend (Harris 176). ... I believe the reverse is generally observes to be true" (Murray 876). ...

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What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone's life when they get one? ...

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Whether at church, on college campuses, or at your friend's house hanging out, African American male homosexuals are constantly reminded of their precarious position in the African American Community. ... If that were true then polio is God's punishment for children and Sickle Cell Anemia is God's judgment on African American. ...

• Word Count: 1889
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Men and Women What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone's life when they get one? ...

• Word Count: 2280
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• Grade Level: High School