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    Socialist Feminist Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me‚ Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to "challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry" (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years‚ not only in our society‚ but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed

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    Ironically the movies that were critiqued fall under the horror‚ action‚ and fantasy genres however‚ the resulting criticism opposes their purpose in which they fall respectively under feminist‚ queer‚ and Marxist criticism. Halloween being nationally recognized as a spooky day was the perfect setting for a woman to establish her equality. Likewise‚ an action film was critiqued as being the perfect setting to establish an LGBT presence as opposed to the drama stereotype and fantasy was viewed to

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    didn’t realized that feminist criticism also fit for Trailer Frozen when I wrote my essay. Throughout reading the first and second body paragraph‚ I found that feminist criticism might be the one of the best criticism which is matching Frozen. The story which happened in Princess Anna and Princess Elsa shown women had a low social status in the past several centuries‚ but they never give up to find the true identities. In the movie Halloween‚ I know why you choose the feminist criticism. As the film critic

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    Feminism is a form of criticism used by an author that wishes to expose how dominant men are over women. Feminism came to fruition in the 1960s‚ and is still used today. This form of criticism looks at how society and culture are inherently male dominant‚ another word for patriarchal. Feminist criticism critiques the economic‚ political‚ societal‚ and emotional oppression of women. This form of criticism emphasizes the activities women are prohibited and prevented from participating in. The theory

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    Honors January 29‚ 2012 Frailty; thy name is woman. Hamlet‚ one of Shakespeare’s most well noted plays‚ is also one of his most popular among critics. Shakespeare’s portrayal of characters‚ especially women‚ has evoked much arousal in the feminist category. Ophelia‚ Hamlet’s love interest‚ is characterized with a lack of will‚ an unexplained background‚ a “feminine death”‚ and as a sign of sexuality‚ is a negatively portrayed female character in this play. Ophelia is introduced as a virginal

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    The "Trifles" of Feminism The bone of contention for feminist theory is centered at the treatment of women living in a patriarchal society. Feminists raised questions about why women were being forced into a position of subordination and their affairs looked at with marginal importance. Susan Glaspell’s story “Trifles” depicts the plight of women and their subordination while subversively commenting on the negative effects this had on the female psyche. “Trifles“ begins with an investigation into

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    Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Criticism of The American Dream The American Dream‚ as it arose in the Colonial period and developed in the nineteenth century‚ was based on the assumption that each person‚ no matter what his origins‚ could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. The dream was embodied in the ideal of the self-made man‚ just as it was embodied in Fitzgerald’s own family by his grandfather‚ P. F. McQuillan. Fitzgerald’s novel takes its place among other

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    Female voices in classic literature are rarely allowed to be heard as they should‚ especially in a society like Shakespeare’s‚ where women are expected to make children and hot meals and not much more than that. While Shakespeare does take drastic steps forward in allowing such prominent female characters as Gertrude and Ophelia‚ he fails to make them strong or independent‚ and therefore an example for women everywhere. If it were not for the horrible mistreatment of Ophelia and the horrible misunderstanding

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    This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature‚ fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism‚ leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards‚ and analyses the

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    2010 Feminist Criticism on Revolutionary Road “According to Cheryl Torsney‚ feminist criticism is not a single method‚ but rather a patchwork or “a quilt” of different methods stitched together with common conviction.” (Lynn 235). Feminist criticism was developed in the late 1960’s and its main focus is women in literature. There are two major concerns when dealing with feminist criticism how women are written and how women have been written. (Lynn 235). Michael Meyer defines feminist criticism

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