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    For what seems like forever females have been getting oppressed television‚ music‚ commercials are telling them how to look‚ dress and act and sadly video-games aren’t making the problem better as shown by the girls in BlazBlue. Most if not all these girls have an hourglass figure a big chest and seem to do whatever they can to act sexual wither it is how they react to getting hit or how their idle animation has them moving making their chest bounce. Now all these are extremely fit by unrealistically

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    Female Characters in Gothic Texts Gothic fiction has become a popular area for feminist studies. Many commentators have noticed how females in Gothic fiction often fall into one of two categories: the trembling and innocent victim or the shameless and dangerous predator. However‚ others have noticed how women writers have often used the Gothic to explore aspects of femininity and sexuality. The mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre has become a key symbol of Gothic feminism. The persecuted maiden

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    Topic: Lawrence’s portrayal of Female characters D.H Lawrence‚ one of the most eminent writers of 20th century portrayed three women characters in ‘Sons and lovers’ whose tragedies lie in the fact that they only function as stones in Paul’s life. In the novel we see Mrs. Morel is pitifully diagnosed with Oedipus complex‚ which enables her to be a powerful hermaphrodite and gains access to power. Miriam we see is imprisoned by Victorian morality‚ but her world is not purely spiritual. Paul just

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    not understand them completely as we are not told the entire story but only certain parts of it. Indian myths are largely patriarchal‚ where we find the female characters playing marginal roles even though the entire epic centres on the actions caused by these women. Modern retellings of the mythologies offer a fresh take on the women characters of these epics. One such powerful revisiting of Ramayana is Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series. The first novel in the series is titled Scion of Ikshvaku

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    While male characters found throughout texts in world literature are frequently recognized as being the most significant‚ their underestimated female counterparts are often more influential in the progression of the narrative‚ and also aid in providing an analysis of the role of women in their social environments. Examples of narratives in which women play significant roles are One Thousand and One Nights‚ the book of “Genesis" found in the Bible‚ and The Ramayana of Valmiki. The women found in these

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    Who are Mildred Montag and Clarisse McClellan? Mildred and Clarisse are the main female characters in Fahrenheit 451. These two women both represent the two sides of society. Clarisse represent the feared and unspoken. She is extremely anti-social to the outside world. While Mildred is more outspoken. Mildred is a social able person that falls in with the crowd. She does everything everyone else does. She honestly does not care about anything or anyone. (Besides her TV family) Everything about Mildred

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    Burk e  1    Omar Burke  World Lit  Mrs. Bregeth  th​ December 11​ ‚ 2014  In the novel‚ ​ Like Water for Chocolate​ ‚ Esquivel “represented the written  counterpart to women’s socialization” (de Valdes 1). Esquivel wrote ​ Like Water for  Chocolate​  with women as the head of the household. Esquivel “playfully appropriates  resources from the Spanish American canon” (Ibsen 3). Although Esquivel had written  this novel as a parody of a genre‚ it is also a love story that follows Tita‚ Esquivel’s 

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    The Highest Good Is Like Water In the eighth chapter of Laozi’s Daodejing‚ there is a famous saying‚ “The highest good is like water.” In my opinion‚ water has three main characteristics: flowing downhill‚ purifying dirt and benefiting everything without contending‚ which are also possessed by the highest good. Water always flows downhill and so does the highest good. Water is always in accordance with its natural tendency—flowing downhill by gravity. During the flowing period‚ it evaporates

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    ’Life is like a box of chocolates...’ At first glance the quote ’life is like a box of chocolates seems’ rather silly. How could such a large and complicated concept such as life be compared to something as small and simple as a box of chocolates? There have been two opposing viewpoints in regards to the meaning of this quote‚ and each viewpoint comes about by a different analysis of what life and chocolates represent as well as what they mean in today’s world. The conclusion to the question can

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    Empowerment in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende IB A1 English HL World Literature Comparative Essay Word Count: 1496 Keri-Anne Murray Candidate #: 003072-058 World Literature Comparative Essay 1 In Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits‚ respective authors Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende use a connection with the supernatural to empower the protagonists in three ways. Firstly‚ the central characters in each story

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