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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western myths are largely the derivatives of the Greek and Roman mythologies. In India‚ we have our very own Ramayana and Mahabharata‚ tales from Vedas‚ Upanishads‚ etc.‚ which are introduced to us even from our early ages. The problem is we do 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
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Wasting our time Diagnostic Essay Victoria Johnston English 102 spring 2014 January 30‚ 2014 In society today‚ everyone is worried they do not have enough time. Humans think they do not have enough time because they convince themselves so. Most of us humans waste our time away doing nothing‚ or nothing productive when we could be doing new exciting things‚ getting things done and accomplished‚ so that everything you ever wanted to do could be done. We don’t
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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 so so females who
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Alex Leen 9/5/12 English 110‚ 11:00 Final Draft of paper 1 In the essay “Our Time” by John Edgar Wideman he often takes a break from the narrative to address that he has many problems as a writer. He does this to try to consciously address these problems and hopefully solve these problems. He believes that if these problems are not rectified he would destroy any chance he has at telling a truthful account of his brother’s story. To rectify these problems he employs a variety of unique techniques
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The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. Characters: Jason Grace is the brother of Thalia and son of Zeus/ Jupiter. Thalia Grace is the sister of Jason‚ daughter of Zeus/ Jupiter‚ and Hunter of Artemis. Piper McLean is the daughter of Aphrodite/Venus. Tristan McLean is the father of Piper‚ a famous actor and member of Cherokee tribe. Leo Valdez is the son of Hephaestus/ Vulcan.Dylan is a student from Camp Wilderness who is a venti (Roman version) or an anemoi thuellai (Greek version) which are storm spirits
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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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The last paragraph on pg.477 in Solzhenitsyn’s The Evolution of Our Character it has a very deep focus with betrayal and lying. “An overpowering plume of betrayal. It was unavoidable. If you wanted to survive‚ lie. Lie and Pretend.” That is a quote I will be focusing and elaborating in the essay as well as tying that quote down from the reading of Our Muzzled Freedom from The Gulag Archipelago. During the ruling period of the Bolsheviks‚ which were‚ led by Stalin there was a lot to fear in the government
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502: NATIONAL CHARACTER OF PAKISTAN (2006-7) Abdul Rauf ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COURSE DESCRIPTION: THERE ARE MANY FACETS OF CHARACTER. THE EMPHASIS IN THIS COURSE WILL BE ON THE IDEA THAT CERTAIN CONCEPTS OF IDEALS AND TRADITIONS ARE LIKELY TO GIVE RISE TO PARTICULAR BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO HOLD IT. THE ISLAMIC CONCEPTS AND TRADITIONS AND THE WESTERN CONCEPTS AND WESTERN IMPERIAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE SUB-CONTINENT INFLUENCED PAKISTAN’S NATIONAL CHARACTER. THE CHARACTER BASED ON ISLAMIC
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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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