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Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

“American Women in Flight Since 1940”: Insight into a Woman’s Place in Our Society

Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

The Lais of Marie de France and Erbyggia Saga

In five pages this research paper considers the role of women in Medieval society as depicted within these literary works. Three ...

Viewing Steingerd's Kormac's Saga from the Life and Death of Cormac the Skald

In this paper consistingn of five pages the nature of societies and the roles of women are presented in a consideration of values,...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Husbands and Wives in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines the roles spousal relationships play in this classic poem and Elizabethan tragedy. There are no...

Comparative Analysis of Ancient Greek Women and Contemporary Culture

This paper examines the limitations which continue to exist in terms of women's roles in ancient Greek society and in the present ...

Medieval Women's Role in The Romance of Tristan and Beowulf

In five pages this paper examines the role of women in Medieval society in a literary analysis of The Romance of Tristan and Beowu...

Societal Influence of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt

In eleven pages this paper discusses Nefertiti's influence on society in a consideration of women's roles, politics, religion, and...

Patriarchal Designs of Women's Roles

In a paper consisting of twenty three pages this paper discusses how the English patriarchal society designs women's life roles wi...

The Unvanquished by William Faulkner and Perceptions of Southern Women's Roles

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

Women's Roles in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Renaissance Italy and City Planning

In twelve pages Rome, Florence, and Venice are the central focus of this research paper that considers the Renaissance role in Ita...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

San Marco, Venice's Artistic and Musical Humanism During the Renaissance

of Venice and the notion of Renaissance humanism. The focus of this research study, then, is to consider the notion of humanism i...

Women's Roles in Works by William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

Lessing's To Room Nineteen and Conventionality and Freedom

This research report examines this story and talks about the difficultly of separating in terms of emotional needs and expectation...

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...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Gender Roles and Society

women have taken on more responsibility. There are many reasons for this lack of change on the part of the male species. For on...

Women's Roles As Seen by Woolf and Conrad

size." This, of course, refers to the way that women have, traditionally, bolstered the ego of the man in their lives. The man per...

Ancient Societies' Marital Customs

This paper contrasts and compares the marital customs and women's roles in various ancient societies in 5 pages. Five sources are...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

Patriarchy, Roles of Women, and the Goddess

In five pages this report examines the Goddess global cultural stories and legends in a consideration of what they reflect in term...

Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...