How can a feminist reading of ’Lady Chatter-ley’s Lover’ illuminate Lawrence’s depiction of men and women? ’Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is renowned for its supposed obscenity and daring nature. Perhaps this obscenity is necessary in exploring Lawrence’s message of female liberation as our protagonist escapes her loveless marriage. Yet‚ through feminist interpretation‚ it may be viewed that this freedom is no more than Lady Chatterley jumping from one gender constraint to another and so women are portrayed
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Browning to portray the two speakers in ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ are both poems about men who appear to have a compulsive need for control over the women in their lives. However‚ the speakers appear to be quite different as we see that the protagonist in ‘My Last Duchess’ is a Duke with a high self-esteem and confidence‚ whereas the protagonist in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ emerges as a depressed man with no apparent intuitions or social life. Browning
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Shakespeare’s great tragedy ’Romeo and Juliet’ tells the tale of two‚ ’star crossed lovers’ who through a series of complex twists‚ come to an ultimately tragic end. However did Shakespeare intend to suggest that the tragic outcome was due entirely to fate‚ as it suggests through the dialogue of the characters? Or otherwise‚ was it due to the personalities of the characters and the unfortunate context of their warring families? I will discuss this in my essay. Shakespeare begins this play with a
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Amongst the three love poems examined in this essay‚ the theme of male or female power in relationships pervades throughout. The views of the speakers are expressed and defined through literary and poetic techniques. This gives the reader an insight into the speaker’s problems and dissatisfaction of a relationship‚ due to an imbalance of power. However there are dissimilarities between the poems - for example where in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" the female displays supernatural power and dominance
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Explore the ways in which Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and Browning presents the speakers in Porphyria’s Lover‚ My Last Duchess and the Laboratory Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in such a way that she is shown as a strong and powerful woman. Her ability to manipulate Macbeth to murder Duncan in order to get more power is a key example of this aspect of her character. Browning also presents his speakers in a similar way to Shakespeare through their need to control. The main way that both
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How would a group of puppeteers portray the emotions felt by Chubei in the final scene of act 1 in the Bunraku performed “The Lovers’ Exile” by Marty Gross? Contents Subject Essay …………………………………………………………………………p. 2-8 Bibliography…………………………………………………...……………………..p. 9 Critique of Sources…………………………………………………………….p. 10-12 “The Lovers’ Exile”‚ a Japanese movie directed by Marty Gross‚ based on the ancient bunraku play “The Courier from Hell” (Meido no kikyaku) a love-suicide play written by Chikamatsu
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How far was the use of terror the most important development in German History 1929-45? The use of terror during the period 1929-45 was an important development in German history due to the speed in which the level of terror escalated once Hitler came to power in 1933. However‚ Anti-Semitism‚ Nationalism and Hitler’s ideologies were also achieved through Propaganda. Resistance against this terror were significant developments during this time as well. It would be fair to argue that terror was a
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Compare Marguerite Duras’ novel Moderato Cantabile‚ with Peter Brook’s version of the film. Which‚ in your view‚ is more successful? Why? Moderato Cantabile tells the story of a bored young wife of a wealthy industrial owner who depends on the only light in her life‚ her young son. Anne Desbarede the central protagonist rushes to the scene of a crime during one of her son’s piano lesson to find a young woman dead in a neighbouring cafe. This is where she encounters the other main protagonist
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the book symbolizes the major separation of opportunity for black and white children. On the second page of the book‚ Marguerite explains how she wished that she would “wake up in a white world‚ with blond hair‚ blue eyes‚ and she would shudder from the nightmare of being black.” Thus‚ from the beginning of the book‚ race relations were one of the major themes. The way that Marguerite was thinking at this point‚ was the same way that other young black children were thinking during this time. They were
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form of various literary works within‚ notably‚ the modern and post-modern tradition. In addition to a significant number of consistent (or nearly consistent) second-person novels and short-stories by‚ for example‚ Albert Camus‚ Michel Butor‚ Marguerite Duras‚ Carlos Fuentes‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the technique of narrative second-person address has been widely employed in shorter or longer intermittent chapters or passages of narratives by William Faulkner‚ Günter Grass‚ Italo Calvino‚ Iain Banks
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