WORKING GIRL Summary Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary‚ struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss. Tess McGill is a hard working young woman who is determined to reach
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conflict between Anna‚ an ordinary rebellious teenager and her overworked mother‚ Tess. After encountering a fortune cookie‚ Anna and Tess discover they have swapped in each other’s body and‚ as the flim progresses‚ they are forced to appreciate how hard each other’s life is. The audience is shown that understanding develops from being able to see the world from other points of view. In the film‚ Anna and Tess lead very different lives. This is shown in not only their morals and values‚ but
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It’s Sam leading Charlie to Tess‚ Charlie jumps up‚ thanks Sam and steers the boat toward the island. Once they get close enough they spot Querencia‚ Tess’ boat. Once they rescued Tess and got her to the hospital‚ Charlie never leaves her side. However at first Tess doesn’t recognize Charlie and it really upsets him. He gave up his brother for her and now she doesn’t remember the night they had together. Charlie still never left the hospital‚ and then Tess finally asked fro him‚ she wanted
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Misogynistic Societies Although written in different time periods and in dissimilar settings‚ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy are both feminist novels with main characters who are suppressed by their societies. Misogyny is fully apparent in both novels‚ and both Offred and Tess utilize similar means to endure their harsh societies. A misogynistic society is clearly depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale. In Offred’s society‚ the handmaids’
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characters in their books‚ Jane and Tess‚ respectively‚ face similar tribulations‚ but end up with infinitely distinct outcomes in their lives because of their authors’ vastly different worldviews. Using James Sire’s A Universe Next Door‚ as a key to understanding worldviews‚ and analyzing Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles makes the authors’ worldviews well defined. Comparing Brontë’s and Hardy’s worldviews explains why the stories of Jane and Tess
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How the Nurse Feels is a story of a teenage girl named Tess Powell‚ who during the course of the story goes through some profound changes. Tess plays the role of the Nurse in her school’s current production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” But Tess has a rather bothersome problem. She is not able to play her role correctly‚ because of a failure in fully understanding and thereby expressing the emotions felt by the character. During the story she gets a crush on a boy‚ who has a small role in the
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Girl‚ the star Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a hard working woman who is determined to reach the top of the stock market world by hard work. As she turns 30 she is still stuck in clerical work so when she starts working for Katherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) she is glad that Katherine is willing to accept input and ideas from her. However‚ when Katherine goes on a skiing trip and breaks her leg she asks Tess to look after things. With that responsibility Tess simply takes over
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marriage. The woman not wishing this ’glorified’ role of wifehood‚ while still wishing to express her sexuality and satisfy her desires‚ however‚ is deemed to have ’fallen’ and is equated with a prostitute‚ ’a horrible spectre’(Dijkstra 1986: 13) Tess‚ Hetty and Ruth are ’fallen women’. To ascertain
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How do Pope and Hardy explore responsibility for the downfall of the protagonist? Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Hardy in Tess of the D’Urbervilles both explore the responsibility for the downfall in their female protagonist‚ one losing her virginity and another only a lock of hair. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles it is mainly shown to be the fault of the male aggressors such as Alec and Angel‚ whereas Pope doesn’t explore the Baron in great detail suggesting he is less at fault for Belinda’s
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When Katharine Parker‚ (Tess’ boss) breaks her leg in Europe she tells to house sit. This indicates that the relationship between Katharine and Tess was more of an extended family where they could even share ideas. When Tess finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman‚ she went to live at Katharine’s apartment. In this organization‚ having a romantic relationship with a colleague is seen as obvious. This is parlayed by Oliver Platt (Tess’ first boss) tricking Tess into a date with his lascivious
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