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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Women Characters"”.
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Social conditioning versus biological determinism : a study of the women characters in the 'minor' novels of Thomas Hardy
… Hardy's eventual active support of the women's suffrage campaign, this thesis seeks to reveal the extent to which he located the potential and need for social change in women's frustrations, and their rebellion against the confines of those laws, conventions and value structures which …
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The Effect of Reading and Discussing Literature with Strong Women Characters on Sixth Grade Students’ Sex Stereotype and Occupational Attitudes
… short stories and novels with female main characters. Literature discussion groups and written journals were used to facilitate response. The clays was racially and socioeconomically mixed as a result of busing through the Voluntary Ethnic Enrollment and Magnet Programs. The class of thirty …
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Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare portrayed women in his plays as people who should be valued. This is an opinion I held in the past, and one I still hold after intense reading of his works and that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of …
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The centrifugal discourse of myth : women and the 'saving illusion' in selected works of Joseph Conrad
… aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the women characters in Joseph Conrad's works function in the narratives to present a 'saving illusion' which is in contrast to masculine existential despair. The women characters are characterised by 'being' not 'becoming'. They are also frequently …
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The Secret Lives of Polygamous Wives: African Feminist Consciousness and Writing in Selected Nigerian Polygamous Narratives
… dissertation considers three novels by Nigerian women writers, which grapple with patriarchy within the context of polygamous marriage. These novels are The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (2010) by Lola Shoneyin, Stay with Me (2017) by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) by …
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Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales
… methods and rhetorical strategies of five women characters found in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales through the lens of Helene Cixous's description of written female language as applied spoken language to examine the dichotomy of "weakness in strength" and "strength in weakness" these …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… Edward Albee—and their dramatic use of childless women characters in Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) respectively. Although the plays of Inge, Williams, and Albee have been analyzed individually by numerous scholars, they …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell, Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne, Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why …
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
… feminist rhetoric in selected novels by African women fiction writers namely The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow, Parched Earth by Elieshi Lema and Meekulu’s Children by Kaleni Hiyalwa. The focus was to …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… repercussions of colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" contexts--Native American, Jamaican, Irish and Mexican American. These novels reflect both the unique historical circumstances of each context and common themes that occur due to …
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Sugar Nine: A Creative thesis
… of short stories explores the different ways women tolerate violence in exchange for some form of validation. The narratives focus on women and the reverberations of small moments which carry violent mass. While the violence occasionally includes physical elements, the collection is more …
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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
… romance, there are multiple roles violent women perform. They can be protagonist, antagonist, and supporting character. They prove to be active characters with strength, skill, intelligence, and power. In early Medieval English poetry, Grendel's mother from Beowulf and Judith from Judith …
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A Comparative Exploration of the Depictions of Punjabi Women in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms Other Wonders and Now We Are Monsters
… the themes and narratives revolving around women’s lives and experiences in Pakistan as depicted in Mueenuddin’s fiction, and how my own fiction builds on as well as resists them. By engaging with multiple research papers by Pakistani scholars such as Fatima Ali, Omama Tanvir and Anila …
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Flawed Feminism: An Exploration of Femininity in Contemporary Domestic Noir
<p>Crime fiction is a genre whose female characters are often misunderstood, weak, powerless victims. Domestic noir, a subgenre of crime fiction, does the opposite. Authors of domestic noir fiction dig into the female experiences, seeking to understand and write women characters who represent …
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Portrayal of women in SiSwati drama
This study looks at the portrayal of women in siSwati drama. The main aim is to reveal how women are portrayed in siSwati drama. In real life women are usually portrayed negatively. This is due to cultural directives that reveal woman as inferior beings. This affects our young children who read …
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The portrayal of women in selected isixhosa creative works: implications for social justice
The study focuses on the portrayal of women in selected isiXhosa creative works and how it relates to social justice. More specifically, this study looks at gender inequality as shown in the way that women are reflected in literature. It appears that it is not only male characters who oppress …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… contradicting the expectations placed on them as women characters.</p> <p>Though women are banned from the quest for the Holy Grail, Perceval’s sister accompanies the Grail knights as an authoritative spiritual guide and a symbol of the Eucharist. Previous critics have not recognized Perceval’s …
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Freed by Ideology, Imprisoned by Reality: the Representation of Women in the Cinemas of The Thaw and Perestroika
… the dynamics present in film representations of women characters during the Thaw, Perestroika, and the ealy 1990s by identifying and analyzing female types appearing on screen as a result of political, economic, and social changes during the two periods. The given periods were purportedly the two …
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Working on my hair: a visual analysis of natural hair and Black women professionals in popular television programming
I examine the representations of Black women characters in professional settings on seven television drama texts. Black features are subjected to Eurocentering—the reduction of racial heritage markers to align with Eurocentric values—to protect hegemonic traditions under the guise of racial …
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