Seeming it would do just fine to ask her friend, she went and returned with a stunning diamond necklace. ... Her husband and good friend provided her with the attire she needed. ... "She was the prettiest of all, elegant, gracious, smiling, and full of joy." (34) But, she was not true to herself. ... Her husband and good friend provided her with the attire she needed. ... "She was the prettiest of all, elegant, gracious, smiling, and full of joy." (34) But, she was not true to herself. ...

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Once her husband loses, Charles takes Brominade into his protection and has her instructed in what he sees as the true faith, to which she converts. ... Iseult is committed determined to see Brangien, her best friend, killed. Yet when the hunters return and tell that the deed is done and her friend is dead, her anger with herself pours forth and she projects her feelings onto the serfs, declaring them murders and wanting to bring her friend back. ...

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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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Throughout the play, Heidi is revealed as a woman concerned about the discrimination suffered by women along history, and she, together with her friend Susan, is determined to fight in order to revert their social situation. ... However, Heidi is reprimanded by her friend Susan who tells her that she is supposed to be interested in boys. In addition, when she meets Scoop three years later, he tells her that "(she) will be one of those true believers who didn't understand it was all just a phase- (172), meaning that she will keep on believing that her position is the only one valid, and co...

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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. ...

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Being a thin, blonde, twelve year old, when a family friend suggested a pageant, I wasn't too aghast. ... What if I don't answer it at all, will they think I can't make up my mind, will they think I"m too chicken to reveal my true feelings? ... Are fake eyelashes, silicone breasts, and bleach blonde hair indicants of true natural beauty? ...

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The audience and the readers are the only people who recognize Iago's full characteristics because Iago's soliloquys, which reveal his true image, are only shown to the audience. ... Iago knows this theme very well - for example, when Iago states, " I am not what I am." in the beginning of the play, he already shows how he has managed to found favor among people based on lying and deceit, and not by actually being a true, honest person (Shakespeare 1.1.71). ... The following passage shows how he uses wit and deception to fool everyone into believing that he is protecting Cassio as a ...

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Unable to demonstrate their true emotions, the ladies of Japan would metaphorically wear masks. ... Not only that but while playing with Ibuki, she amuses herself with his friend Mikame. ... They often lay sarcastic comments about the two's relationship, slightly giving way to their true feelings of jealousy and pushing them harder to not only compete with each other but also to win the favor of Mieko as well. ...

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Edna's character was slowly awakened to being pulled in four archetypical directions: these archetypes include the marriage of the work-orientated and "bread-winning" husband and the ideal mother, the outcast "quasi-intellectual" feminist, the high-class society, and the true love. ... Robert writes to his friend Mademoiselle Reisz regularly, sometimes mentions Edna. ... Robert Lebrun, Edna's true love, is a young Creole man who pays attention to Edna all summer. ... Robert's deviation from his prescribed role is perhaps why he is chosen by Chopin as Edna's true love int...

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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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Duke Pirithous, a friend of both Duke Theseus and Arcite, visits Athens. ... They decide to find the treasure in their friend's memory. ... The Wife of Bath even indicates that it is only in a marriage where the wife has control over her husband that true happiness can be attained. ...

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Betty shuns the promiscuity of her friend Giselle who was previously involved with one of the teachers at Wellesley and at the end involved with and psychoanalyst. ... Betty on the other hand has to become the feminist that is her true role. ... Betty decided to get an apartment with her overly sexual active friend Giselle and maybe get a job and go to law school. ...

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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. ...

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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...

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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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It was an accidental love affair; if it had been a female friend that had awoken Edna, I don't think she would have fallen in love with her in quite the same way. ... True, she still would have been miserable, but in the beginning I don't think she had yet realized that she was unhappy at all. ...

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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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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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Earlier in the play, Hortensio, a man in Padua, being a friend, tries to offer warning to Petruchio about Kate's unlikable and socially unacceptable ways. ... True to his word, when Petruchio calls for Kate she comes immediately. ...

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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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Playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Doll's House" in 1879 as a way to creatively, yet powerfully, make a critique of 19th century society. At the time it was written, the play was considered controversial due to its subject matter; the advocation of women's rights. The play opens with Nora in her ho...

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This statement embraces all that is true about how a woman in the early 1800's should have behaved from her childhood until her death. ... Lady Elliot is certainly "the preserver of his happiness, his chief counselor, and, to sum up all, the chosen friend of his bosom" (Wakefield, 287). ...

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"So Long a Letter," was a story written in the form of a letter, that discussed the trails and tribulations that Ramatoulaye and her friend Assioute encountered after their husband wedded for a second time. ... On the other hand Ramatoulaye decided to stay with her husband of 25 years, and stay true to Islamic religious beliefs of marriage, after her husband abounded her and her 12 kids for a younger wife. ...

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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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This quote, said by Suhlamith Firestone, is very true in regards to the women's liberation movement and abortion. ... For example, she describes how her "friend's abortion had been a safe, positive and educational experience", and was the reason she joined Jane in 1971(Kaplan 479). ...

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