painting’s subject is about mother’s hope. The pregnant woman who closes her eyes and faces her head toward swelling belly wishes for her healthy birth. Does the painting fit a specific theme? What is the theme or subject about? Yes‚ the painting fits a specific theme. Her big belly and swollen breast indicate that the time to delivery baby is closed. A skull beside to her belly seems like to express her worry about baby’s health. Thus‚ the pregnant woman and three women in the bottom of this painting
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The Woman Warrior‚ Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts‚ combines myths with autobiography in order to explore Kingston’s identify formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. Kingston uses the first person to narrate five distinct short stories. Each of them contains a central female character. The unique feature of this book is the rearrangement of the traditional Chinese myths‚ legend of Fa Mu Lan and Ts’ai Yen. The combination of fact and fiction and the combination of reality and
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In Manuel Puig’s novel Kiss of the Spider Woman‚ Molina and Valentin use fantasy as a way of escapism. Firstly‚ Molina uses the films he tells in the cell to escape his unfavorable and lonely life by creating a preferred reality through the fantasy he creates in them. Secondly‚ the setting of the cell itself provides Molina with a sanctuary from the outside world‚ allowing him to escape from the gender roles in which he is confined in and fantasize about taking on the feminine role with Valentin
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death of woman Wang----a picture of real lives The death of woman Wang is written by Jonathan D. Spence‚ a famous scholar of East Asian studies. This book is focus on the early days of Qing dynasty‚ when Qing dynasty had only been established for about 20 years‚ the government‚ even though the whole society‚ are in their infancies. The author discusses issues of a small county in northeastern China ---T’an-ch’eng‚ which is in the province of Shantung. The genre of this book is difficult to
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What if myths were real? What if I was part of a myth‚ and a myth was part of me? That feels so big to be part of a myth‚ and even bigger to allow mythology to move through me and transform me. When I first moved to Mountain View‚ CA over a decade ago‚ I took up residency on Promethean Way. When I initially moved into the home‚ there was a natural draw to the street‚ the name‚ the lineage‚ and the origin; but at the time I did not know why. According to some mythological stories‚ Prometheus was the
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The Death of Woman Wang‚ by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author’s focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people‚ culture‚ and traditions. Spence’s use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T’an-ch’eng‚ in the province of Shantung‚ brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence‚ such as the Local History of T’an-ch’eng‚ the scholar-official Huang
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Woman Warrior Analysis Woman Warrior is a very unique take on an autobiography‚ fascinating even‚ in that much of it is not necessarily true. It is relayed through talk-stories and accounts from other people. Some is fantasy or openly made up. This occassionally makes Kingston seem fictional. At the same time‚ these stories of all of the women connected to Kingston take us down the road to her personal growth‚ understanding of her Chinese culture‚ and realization of how much a part of her
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character Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) when he tells Julie Nichols (Jessica Lange) that he was "a better man as a woman‚ and I need to learn to do it without the dress." "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?" Dorothy also known as Michael Dustin Hoffman character has great depth to it as I look at it. Dustin’s portrayal as a woman starts out as an effort to prove he can find work and secure a sought after role. The role advances to the point
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a woman in the 1900s. 100 years ago‚ females were known as the weaker gender but more virtuous and were not allowed to do anything unless they had a husband. They didn’t have any rights‚ authority‚ or opinion about ANYTHING! It was illegal for women to do a lot of things‚ and here we are 100 years later‚ we can do whatever we want‚ when we want‚ however we want without anyone’s permission. To sum things up‚ a woman is
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Since the last response to fictional novel‚ The Edible Woman written by Margret Atwood‚ Marian McAlpin’s life and rebellion against (what was formally) the modern role of woman in society‚ becomes more afflictive and more self destructing. We left off Marian’s introduction to her creeping struggle towards eating food when she begins empathizing for a steak that Peter (fiancee) is eating. Shortly after she is unable to eat meat. Ainsley continues her plan to have a child without any sign of father
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