The male characters seem to agree with Harding, who complains, "We are victims of matriarchy here." ... Finally, near the end of the novel, after McMurphy has already received three shock treatments that do not seem to have had an effect on him, Nurse Ratched suggests taking more drastic measures: "an operation." ...
Receivers observe the behavior of characters in the media and then internalize these behaviors as norms. ... It is very heartening to know that some women use these representations of women in the media as means to measure their self worth. ... Men will continue to have unrealistic expectations of their female counterparts as they will expect them to act exactly like the characters seen on TV. ...
The Footprint of Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller could well be remembered as either a Feminist matriarch or, as Nathaniel Hawthore described her, "A great humbug defective and evil in nature" (McQuade 1305). In Fuller's essay "The Great Lawsuit" which she later expanded into Woman in t...
Through masculine male characters such as Pedro Romero and Liu Kanghi, these stories reveal that often times, only outsiders to society actually possess masculinity. ... In a powerful assertion of her hatred for James, Minnie cries, "For all your[James] six feet of grossness, your small soul cannot measure up to his[Liu] great one-(76-7). ... This age gap between James and Liu creates an important difference in their characters. ...
