... , and governmental power that they hold. In these books we see a broad range of male characters that have power. Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Don Apolinar Moscote are prime examples of physical and governmental dominance in One Hundred Years of Solitude, while Torvald Helmer is the character chosen by Ibsen to display the economic aspect of power associated with masculinity. As for the women, their role in military, economics, and ... gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo- which characterizes the Colonel as obsessive and solitary. The success of the social order pr...

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... with poverty and ignorance, which are dark garments of the female sex; better to leave the discipline of the world to the others; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly describes if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the spirits, which are contemplation, solitude, love."(p113) Obviously Orlando is satisfied with her ... new identity-a female, in spite of the fact that she will lose privilege of the male and bear the unfair ... some very pleasant, witty verses and characters in prose. She also has courage to directly fa...

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