... the protagonist of the play, as the play begins with focus on her. However, by reading the discussion between Julie and Hedda, the reader can also interpret the matter that Hedda will play the role as the antagonist (pinkmonkey). She pokes at Julie's bonnet, saying that it is ugly. She also adheres to George question, in a matter that appeases him and sets his mind at rest. The reader picks up right away that there is conflict between Hedda ... the credibility of such results in the time. It may have been possible for Hedda to kill herself, but the likelihood of another person committin...

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... social problems. A Doll's House was the first in the series investigating the tensions of family life. A common and fascinating characteristic of these plays is that they involve small number of characters unlike his earlier plays but in all three we find community personified to play a vital role. A role very much like the Greek gods used to play in the plays like Oedipus and that is ... confrontation with the reality of a "lawful society" and that is when he becomes aware of the world that she is living in. Thus her first encounter with rules outside of her "doll's house" results in t...

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... is unacceptable, and being too picky is a turn off for most of us. A good attitude and being open-minded increases the chances of being liked and of getting a second date. The look of the woman is very important for us. She has to be neat, meaning her way of dressing and her overall look must fit her body. We don't want ... want someone who will drive us crazy, but someone whom we will feel good with. Therefore, a good sense of humor helps a lot; laughing together is what we are looking for, so this is just perfect. The woman has to be open-minded as well. She must be able to agree to cer...

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... ; trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Eliza's character from the play Pygmalion shows similarities to the six pillars of character. She falls into the descriptions of all six. She did not fit the six pillars until she came in contact with Higgens. Higgens had taught her well and turned her into a sophisticated young lady. Eliza fit the description of trustworthiness because she was always honest and open minded with ... to say which was good, but she always wanted to be the one who had the last word, and say in an agreement. Eliza is a caring young...

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... . This is suppose to make her happy by being a wife, mother and housemaker. This is the image of the American dream for a woman. In reality the author says life is a lot different. The middle-class woman is likely to work until she is pregnant. Whether she works or not the first part of the myth crumbles. Men believe that women do not need anything but a good provider and healthy ... children to make her happy. The traditional American family structure is not good for the wife and can ... be hard the husband ... ...

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In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora and Torvald Helmer show the possible effects of gender conflict in a marriage. When a woman faces the constraining roles of a strict patriarchal society, she may choose to step outside these roles in order to maintain her own individuality. Nora and Torvald play their conventional roles so completely that it results in gender conflict. They are so entrenched in these roles created by society that they have no sense ... of themselves. Through conflict with Torvald, Nora discovers the true depth of ... ...

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... he has shown and eagerly places her seedlings in a pot for the salesman to take. The salesman leaves and Elisa eagerly returns to the house to get ready for her outing with Henry. While Henry and Elisa are making their way into town, she discovers the flower seedlings dumped out on the side of the road. Elisa is devastated by the way the salesman has lied to her and used ... her the way he did. She hides her feelings from her husband, trying to pretend to be interested in their evening plans while crying quietly. I feel sorry for Elisa because she ... chrysanthemums. He makes her feel ...

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... . 21st century women can surpass what men can do. One need to get her own identity because identity is the key of all human beings. Thus, "working women " now step outside of the home to contribute and play a role to society. That's what Mulan did. She tries to imitate males' characteristics, although society raises eyebrow, she never fails to prove that she can be one ... to somewhat women gained respect and should be respected in the society. Gender discrimination is still a huge problem in the society and is noticeable today despite the women's rights movement. This movie is one of th...

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... daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers." To summarize Pollitt's essay, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls," she talks about the cause and effect of why boys take the role of being strong and macho, and the girls play the role of beauty and gentleness. Pollitt claims that males and females" personalities and behaviors are derived from social conditioning, and that there is ... adults around them constantly treat them. Pollitt state that "It's twenty-eight years since the founding of NOW, and boys still like trucks and girls still like dolls...

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... to downfall and maybe even the end of a marriage. I actually feel the same way the author does in this article. Her points are well documented with some good examples, so that the reader can understand just what she is talking about. Most of the examples I can relate to my own life. Children do play with someone of their own gender, very rarely do children voluntarily play with someone of the opposite gender. They almost resent ... that the teacher or person in charge would put ... ...

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THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MISS Y AND MRS. X "When two women, with a past like ours, who loathe each other the way we do things tend to get ugly when they get together." This was said in "made-for-T.V. movie, but it perfectly explains the relationship between Missy and Mrs. X. The two women in this play, "The Stronger" by August Strindberg, (Miss Y, Amelia, and Mrs. X) are two women who were not necessarily friends ... , but more along the lines of acquaintances at one point in their relationship. However, something happened along the way that caused them to be angry with one another. In the beginni...

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... different avenues to try to get inspiration and the littlest things would send him off into a flashback of his childhood or a fantasy. You never really knew where he was headed, even after the scene had been playing for awhile. Music was not a major element in this film. It was constantly in the background and when it had scenes of the director as a boy then you would hear a woman ... singing with a single guitar playing in the background but on the whole music was just for background filler. At times it was ... not playing at all and maybe he used it for dramatic effect to make the mo...

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... , there are many cultural practices that we can easily observe throughout other people. People who adapted themselves to believe in follow these cultural practices think that the best thing to do is to get them involved in these kinds of cultural practices. One of the things that we can say that would be weird from people from other cultures to observe can be people's worryness about ... their weight. For example, nowadays, people care a lot about their weight, may be they are in a good condition but when they ... get to see themselves in a mirror they see more than ... ...

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... back-ally abortions that have been the cause of several deaths among pregnant women. Sever people agree that if abortion was illegalized then that would be discriminating against low-income women that can't afford to travel to other countries to receive a safe and legal abortion. Again they are forced to a back-ally abortion that can result in death. Also others might say that ... a unborn child is not a human being so the result of abortion is not murdering a human(Sykes, Margaret & Ward, Dr. Roy Bowen). In any way a woman is more then a holder for a unborn baby, she is also a human be...

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... possible. While researching I came across many accounts of women who have had abortions and now realize what a horrible mistake it indeed was. One after another describe the horrors of knowing that a child, their child, was being savagely ripped apart inside of their womb, then vacuumed out and left on the edge of a sink to die. They give in detail accounts of the suffering they went through afterwards and plead ... to God to forgive them for the mistake they made. They each go over the alternatives they were given at the time and wonder why they didn't choose to instead give ... up th...

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... bed until very late at night; which meant that he didn't get but a few hours of sleep. A cowboy would sometimes run into some problems. For instance, he might would run into an Indian or other cowboys. Trouble could then be started. A cowboy might get stuck in the middle of a stampede and possibly get killed. He could have to cross a river and could possibly drown ... . A cowboy's herd of cattle could possibly get stolen. Those were just a few problems that a cowboy could have ran into. A cowboy very rarely got to ... got to see his woman again. Cheating was a very common thing back in ...

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... and lust, lies a fuzzy area in which many people often get lost. This can be cause for conflict in anyone's life. In this paper I will be discussing the difference between love and lust as well as how this conflict comes into play in the short stories, Carnal Knowledge, Lust, and The Girls In Their Summer Dresses. It is the folly of youth and the wanderlust of adulthood that occasionally takes us down a wrong path that ... eventually leads straight to the libido instead of love. Although that is no ... ...

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The induction to "The Taming of the Shrew" brings an immediate sense of comedy to the play. It is the only known Shakespeare play to have an induction and this is suggested to be because Shakespeare used the "Spanish Tragedy" to help him. The beginning of the induction starts with the argument between the hostess and the drunken character of Sly. "I"ll pheeze you, in faith." There is dramatic irony when the audience knows that some of the characters such as the "Lord ... " are deceiving the character of "Sly". The audience may see the Lord as being a nasty character to play with someone's feel...

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... look up to, and Ismene is the quiet girl that lets men talk to her like she is dirt. The way that men treated women in the days of ancient Greeks is appalling. Creon is a perfect example of how men treated women so poorly. He is a very sexist man that defines the many characteristics of a typical man in the days of the ancient Greeks. Several examples in the play show that Antigone is a woman ... that is very capable of making moral decisions on her own, although ... Creon does not see it that way. First Antigone opposes Creon's law and buries her slain brother; because in her mind it w...

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... as feminism existed. Women were expected to be glorified domestic servants, serving at their husband's will. However, the main character in "Medea" by Euripides is a representation of feminist feelings and thoughts that are contrary to those that women were expected to have. Medea is shown at the beginning of the play as a disgruntled and depressed alien woman. She feels that women as a whole receive appalling injustices due ... to the necessity of marriage, followed by near enslavement by their husbands. Medea also reveals in her monologue that, "But when a man is vexed with what he fi...

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... for the audience to decide. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is shown to be brave, courageous, honorable, strong-willed, and in control. Macbeth looses these strongly masculine characteristics when he realizes that the witches and their prophecies are now in control of his life and future. From this point in the play, Macbeth expresses extreme emotions, much thought of as a stereotypical feminine characteristic. Other people heavily influence Macbeth's actions throughout the rest of the play as ... some masculine characteristics. How then are we to distinguish between leadership qu...

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... accepted this role that they were to play. Men, on the other hand, loved their role. They got to play the provider and the superior ones. Her reaction to the role she is supposed to play causes the conflict. She did not overtly rebel; she kept it in, and in turn went insane. She has no say in the location or decor of the room she is virtually imprisoned in: "I don't like our room a ... bit. I wanted...But John would not hear of it." Her first impressions of the "nursery" are ... as anyone's would be; very defensive. She later becomes attached to the room. "I'm getting really fond of the...

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... just women; men are subjects to this character as well. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House, quite insipidly displays an image of a woman who is caught up in her own self-interest. Nora is deceptive with her husband and cares less of any other people she encounters. In the beginning of the play, Nora demonstrates her selfishness to Mrs. Linde. "Today I don't want to be selfish. I want to think only ... of you today." Yet, in the same breath, she says, "But there is something I must tell you" (page 1573). And she goes on about her newfound wealth in her husband's promotion at a bank. In Nora and...

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... her friends Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Mir Edwards, and Irene Parlby are down in history. If it wasn't for those six women then today would be a very different place then it is right now. If you were a woman back at the turn of the century you wouldn't have the right to vote or do near as many things as you could do today. As ... as not being real people. When Emily Murphy fought to get a woman appointed to the Senate, The Constitutional act said something different then what they were trying to go. In 1867 (BNA act), affirmed that "the Governor General shall summon qual...

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The birth of a child is a blessed moment in anyone's life. It particularly special for me when I became pregnant with my first child, especially because I was adamant against having children, but I never thought I would have any of my own. i never thought I could ever bear the pain and limitations associated with children. However, all of those thought changed with the birth of my first child. before my child was born, ... , because I knew that would soon be a mother. As I had imagined the pain of childbirth was like on other pain that I had experience before. However, the entire ordeal was we...

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