"I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman except for that whole hooker thing." It’s no surprise that Laney‚ the speaker of these words and heroine of 1999’s She’s All That should feel that way. She could have just as easily said that she felt like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady because She’s All That is the latest example of a series of movies based on the Pygmalion myth‚ an occurrence that illustrates Hollywood’s long fascination with this myth. The original Pygmalion story is found in Ovid
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"HoooHaaa!" A few days ago‚ I chose to view and analyze the popular movie Scent of a Woman. I had never seen the movie before but had only heard good things about it. I can now say good things about this movie from personal experience. This film was extraordinary. The movie Scent of a Woman is about Oscar winning actor Al Pacino who plays a retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade‚ an embittered Army veteran who is now blind‚ not to mention alcoholic‚ angry and foul-mouthed. Of course‚ he’s also witty
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The women in the Year of Wonders are stronger than the men. Do you agree? In the novel Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks the internal strength of the women outweighed the strength of the men. It was evident that through the harsh treatment of women at the time they were able to deal with the loss and suffering of the Plague better than the men. Anna Frith a young widow gains her strength through the terrible events in her life and survives the plague because of her determination and will to live
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Buffy Kao Professor Chao-Fang Chen 19th-Century British Novels 16/Jan/2009 How Is She Doomed? The Tragedy of a Working-Class Woman as a Sexuality-Trigger in the Fatalist Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess is absolutely one of Thomas Hardy’s most tragic characters. Her fate being a woman labourer and a sexuality-trigger leads to her tragedy. For all her life‚ she is manipulated by the society and she is hardly given the chance to decide what she wants to be and how she wants
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Oscar Wilde’s presentation of women in ’A Woman of No Importance’ in comparison to John Fowles’ views of women in ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’‚ in light of the view that Oscar Wilde has a more sympathetic view of woman in his time. In this essay I will be comparing Oscar Wilde’s play ’A Woman of No Importance’ to John Fowles’ novel ’The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. I will be exploring their differing views of woman in Victorian society. Generally‚ woman were viewed as inferior to men‚ yet Wilde
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scarlet lips‚ his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust his at once. All the candour of youth was there‚ as well as all youth’s passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the word. ” There’s no wonder that Basil worshipped him and painted him. So the picture of Dorian is not only a simple picture‚ but Basil’s passionate feeling‚ towards Dorian and art. Everything has gone well‚ until Lord Harry‚ Basil’s best friend‚ appeared. Just as Basil has
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Sojourner Truth makes several striking points regarding women’s rights in her argumentative speech‚ "Aren’t I a Woman?" She boldly expresses her opinion on the way society judges the status of women‚ and she explains that she too is a woman‚ so why does she not receive the same treatment as other women do? Throughout her daring speech‚ Sojourner responds audaciously to the implied arguments made by other members present at the women’s rights convention. She proposes questions such as "where did
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of the Woman Question” (1894) and her famous book The Heavenly Twins (1899) wherein she addresses a number of contentious issues concerning the woman question. She focuses on the rise of the New Woman as a newly born phenomenon and she uses the term to describe a new coming trend of women who are brave enough to stand against the patriarchal conventions. Grand challenges both conventional gender roles and chauvinists who objected to women’s public presence‚ according to her‚ the New Woman represents
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Secession had different ways of manifesting their personal attitudes toward women of the time. It could be argued that the artists of the time responded with a split image of women; the split between love and admiration and the threat that an independent woman could create within the identity of men (Natter 74). We could also argue that they created images of emancipated women in their works. To engage us on these concepts we can look at secessionist artists such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and how
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Ain’t I a Woman? Sojourner Truth’s famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman” was an extemporaneous speech given on May 29th‚ 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron‚ Ohio. Truth gave the speech to call attention to the lack of rights held by her as a black woman; she represented a double minority group. The question “Ain’t I a Woman?” is repeated often in the most widely recognized version of Truth’s speech. She begins her speech by listing the actions men take to protect white women‚ such as helping them
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