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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

This essay pertains to Marguerite Duras's "The Lover," a novel that is highly autobiographical in nature. The writer discusses the...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Cisneros/”Loose Woman”

called a "beast," when she all along she thought she was a woman. This humorous beginning not only shows two diametrically opposed...

Yorick's Interaction with Women in "A Sentimental Journey"

the others live, and he "did it with so simple a grace-and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and ...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Salih: Season of Migration to the North

where he is given the nickname "the black Englishman" (Salih, 1970, p. 54). In London, however, Saeed becomes something dangerous ...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

"own kind" in terms of the patients she serves, meaning donors who were raised, as she was, at Hailsham or one of the other estate...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

Relationships in Denise Chong's 'The Concubine's Children'

to insure a good life back in China. The strain between the two begins to show, however, as May-ying criticizes Chan Sam when he ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Victorian Women's Fallen Status in the Works of Charles Dickens

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

Feminist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in Boccaccio's Decameron

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

Depiction of Women in Cercas' The Soldiers of Salamina

is perhaps ready to face. What the journalist finds out is that the escape of a right wing leader does not result in the leaders...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Catherine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie'

In five pages this paper considers the contents of this novel in terms of the topical issues it covers and the ways in which Nativ...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Book Review of Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

In three pages this paper analyzes the bittersweet novel that describes a summer fling between a wealthy and pampered sexually act...

A Feminist Perspective on Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...

Feminist Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

Islamic Culture and Women in So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

focus in the Islamic groupings of Senegal. The two friends describe their lives in complicity and state things like "our lives de...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

Stylistic elements in Jane Eyre

This paper looks at the use of particular stylistic elements in Bronte's novel which underpin her use of character development and...

Women in Frank Norris's McTeague and Willa Cather's My Antonia

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the depiction of women in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliogra...