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    to understand how an Elizabethan audience might have understood the play and its ideas. It will also help you assess the textual integrity of the play. Remember‚ that in the HSC you will be required to write about your own understanding of the play. Of the resources mentioned below‚ the “Elsinore” site is the one you should focus on for today’s lesson. Your task this week is to research several key elements of the play in order to gain an understanding of how Elizabethans would have responded

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    Elizabethan Witchcraft and Witches Elizabethan Superstitions The Elizabethan Period - Elizabethan Witchcraft and Witches The Elizabethan Period and the intellectual era of the Renaissance introduced English persecution of Elizabethan Witches and Witchcraft. Ironically‚ this period of great learning brought with it a renewed belief in the supernatural including a belief in the powers of witchcraft‚ witches and witch hunts! Ironically the introduction of the printing press‚ one of the greatest tools

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    Gender Roles in Early Modern Period Writings The early modern period writing concerning gender roles have a real relation to the thinking and debate that is seen going on in today’s world. Throughout time‚ women have been held responsible‚ demeaned‚ and used to further the agendas of their male counterparts. It is interesting to discover that women initially began the women’s rights movement as early as the 1500s. The woman’s suffrage movement was what won the right to vote in the 1900s. Which opened

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    The Social Role of Women in the Iron Age Jarod Bleibdrey‚ M.S.C.J Hist510: Graduate Seminar in World History Dr. Steve Kreis‚ Ph.D December 1‚ 2012 The Social Role of Women in the Iron Age Introduction Throughout time‚ the social role of women has been varied‚ especially throughout the Paleolithic‚ Neolithic‚ Bronze and Iron ages. Taking a snap shot of this diversity during the same time period will demonstrate the vast differences of women’s social roles. While some societies considered

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    Changing Roles Of Men and Women 1950s In the years that followed the second world war‚ a golden age in history was set out. There was a surge in business‚ and after mourning their lost ones‚ people had grown to accept this new life. However‚ this new age also led to the social hierarchy‚ placing men at the top and their women at their feet. Men at the time were more than likely soldiers‚ adjusting to peace time once more. For most men‚ the idea was that they would start a family‚ get

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    status and role of women in classical Indian society. Ancient India was less than a sanctuary for women. Women were generally considered inferior to men. Ancient India was a patriarchal system where women were relegated to a subservient to men role in the society. This made them vulnerable to abuses by their spouses in their youth and under the control of their sons in their old age. Freedom‚ a right that we have grown accustomed to taking for granted‚ was a concept alien to those women. The Indian

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    until this day firmly believe that Women should stand to their old traditional roles as stay at home wife or mother. By that being said‚ cleaning and no say in the political‚ economic or geographic views. Over the years of establishing new constitutions amendments‚ civil rights‚ and approving movement acts women played a huge role since the beginning of the era but they were never accredited for any accomplishments. Throughout the years of the U.S History‚ women were invisible and did not have a

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    their ineffectual monarchy‚ which they saw as tyrannical. WOMEN The experiences of women during the American Revolution were as varied and dynamic as the women themselves. While the individual experiences of women differed‚ depending on various factors such as level of education‚ socioeconomic status and physical location‚ the revolution affected women from all walks of life. Women remained separate from the institutions of political life at a time when Americans proclaimed

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    For many years in history women played very smalls roles in society socially‚ economically and politically. And because of this history many authors and screen play writers reflect on the role of women during their time. The role of women in William Shakespeare play Hamlet‚ shows women to rely on the men‚ Shows that the women were dominated and inferior to the men. Queen Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother whose husband dies and a few months later she remarries her husband’s brother‚ and as expected hamlet

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    Exploring their Rights and Encountering Change: Women of the 1920s World War I and the 1920s play a very important role for the rights and independence of women. Now‚ many of you may be thinking "how?". It was a major role changing event for the lives of the women. Women began to grow independent‚ they got a right to work and vote. They got freedom. But what were the events that led to the freedom and independence of the women? During World War I many men had to leave their jobs in order to serve

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