... plots separately [] the Athenian court characters, the fairies and the Mechanicals do maintain remarkably independent existence for much of the action," (Trevor R. Griffiths, 2). The fairies have an identity independent of and different from that of the human world, which makes it hard to reconcile them with the human world. Michael Hoffman, director of the 1999 film adaptation of ... late twentieth century beliefs about magic were associated with "a desire for greater individual self-expression and self-fulfilment" (viii). Humanizing occult creatures and thus giving them an identity exp...

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• Grade Level: High School

... : families and the placement of familial power in the father; law and the desire for public order; religion; and the social importance placed on masculine honor. These institutions often come into conflict with each other. The importance of honor, for example, time and again results in brawls that disturb the ... economy, descriptive power, and excitement. The origin of the brawl, rife as it is with sexual and physical bravado, introduces the important theme of masculine honor. Masculine honor does not function in the play as some sort of stoic indifference to pain or insult. In Verona, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. Through masculine male characters such as Pedro Romero and Liu Kanghi, these stories reveal that often times, only outsiders to society actually possess masculinity. Ironically, the text suggests these males attain manhood ... will pay her "what it is worth-(73). One can argue that "worth- symbolically refers to Minnie's worth as a person because her embroidery represents her own creation, a symbol of her identity. T...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... saying that Asia is very submissive, weak, and a place that wants to be dominated. Hwang shows that the East could be very similar to the West, a "masculine, big gun, big industry and big money place" (pg. 1712). Hwang hopes to break the old butterfly myth of Asian submissiveness to western dominance. This is why ... dresses up as a woman and acts like the typical needy oriental woman, to lure Rene Gallimard into her trap. This ties into another theme of the story, sexual identity. For twenty years Gallimard was deeply in love with Song, whom he only thought to be a submissive, innocent...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Sex is way of expressing that love, just as it is for heterosexuals. Being gay is much more profound than simply a sexual relationship; being gay is part of that person's identity. It's like being black in a society of whites, or a blonde European in a nation of black-haired Asians. This is something that few heterosexuals can understand unless they are a minority themselves ... other through marriage. Some of the major concerns are that people are afraid to face the reality of a constantly changing society, making love to another man betrays everything that is masculine, and it offend...

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• Grade Level: High School