... myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). While Lady Macbeth possessed the darkest traits of the most wicked villain, Antigone stands out with ... of burying Polynices, Antigone remains staunch in her position. She still retains her courage against Creon's death penalty and her confidence that serving the dead was more important than serving the living. In fact, the only thing stopping her from burying Polynices at this point is Ismene's constant rem...

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... the town does not want: old- fashioned and reliant on men. When the townspeople try to collect taxes from Emily, she turns them over to Colonel Sartoris, though he is dead; she cannot defend herself without a man for backup. Because her father controlled her whole life, she cannot hand over the body for three days after his death. When she finally ... be under another man's dominance, and, when he would leave Emily like her father did, Emily keeps him by poisoning him. Even after Homer's death, she sleeps next to his dead body and leaves an "indentation of [her] head-(81) next to his. E...

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... the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. Like the eavesdropper pictures, the whole scene is a study in doubles. There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down ... area out the window and the room at the back - are split vertically into two sections, one with a pitcher, one without. In particular, the doubling of the pitchers catches the eye: the nearer one, delicately patterned and playin...

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... with particular emphasis on the training of girls. The ideas in these essays are later developed greatly in her most famous novel. which would not become famous until she is dead. As her career as a professional writer is being enhanced, Mary Wollstonecraft feels that the role of professional writer is a promise that offers independence and a means to fulfill the traditional responsibilities ... goes on to say, "An author, especially a woman, should be cautious lest she too hastily swallows the crude praises which partial friend and polite acquaintance bestow thoughtlessly when the supp...

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... catch is that a dark, digitally-placed line exists down the center of her nose; on one side is the unappealing "before" eye-color (dark and brown and unsexy), especially in comparison to the "after" eye-color (blue and bright and vastly more attractive) found on the other side of that dark line. "You change your style. Why ... not your eye color?" reads right off the side of this demonstration. The most apparent symbol on display in this ad is the all-too familiar "before and after" technique ... but concise: a sexy, blonde, blue-eyed Paris Hilton, perfume in hand, leans seductively a...

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... in recognizing the gender representation of female that is portrayed to the target audience. The picture of Courtney Thorne-Smith, an actress, is taken at a normal eye level which suggests equality and that all female can be just like her if they use the product from Almay. A close up shot of Courtney is taken ... with the magazine the woman is holding being given an emphasis on. The brightly lit magazine assists in creating a centre of interest and draws the viewer's eye to it. That the magazine is about the product shows stereotypical female and how they are obsessed with beauty. Thr...

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... maids, or in Charlotte's case, governesses- an occupation echoed throughout her novels as a testament of her girlhood. Women were objects of attraction; existing to serve the purpose of the male eye alone, and in a time of blonde haired and blue eyed beauty ideals, her often plain protagonists found themselves tested by society in more ways than one. Beauty was the foundation ... social solidarity, the roles are now reversed: "For I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand. Literally, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye. He saw nature- he saw books through me."...

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... windows to the soul, then the subject's eyes reflect a woman's heart, though brimming with aberrant power. Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). For one's eyes to be "bright" suggests one is free-spirited, lively and jubilant, unhindered by pain or hatred ... that might cloud the eyes. However, the word also connotes a quality of fairness and delicacy more often used to described women. Furthermore, it has advantage over the female eye in that it does not "roll", as if with madn...

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... anticipation as they wait for the worlds "pop princess- to take center stage and explode into dance. Raised in the suburbs of Louisiana former Mouseketeer, Britney Spears appears accompanied with eye catching flashing lights and dazzling high tech special effects. Sporting a brightly colored halter and a perfectly fitted pair of leather pants, showing off her hard earned abs and well known "Britney ... short they have come to be known as "Britney skirts."" Parents wait for the day that Britney Spears goes too far, and as a result will be taken out of the eye of media. Britney has defini...

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... devoted to really young kids, and there are some fairly predictable suggestions and points raised. He says, for example, that merchandise oriented towards kids has got to be placed at eye level for those kids - that is, about three feet off the floor. He also makes the point that retailers have got to provide for parents who are shopping with kids ... have altered the way supermarkets are laid out and why the person in charge at a branch bank sits at the desk farthest from the front door. I will now keep an eye out for the shelf placement of certain products, the location of baskets, th...

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... anticipation as they wait for the worlds "pop princess- to take center stage and explode into dance. Raised in the suburbs of Louisiana former Mouseketeer, Britney Spears appears accompanied with eye catching flashing lights and dazzling high tech special effects. Sporting a brightly colored halter and a perfectly fitted pair of leather pants, showing off her hard earned abs and well known "Britney ... short they have come to be known as "Britney skirts."" Parents wait for the day that Britney Spears goes too far, and as a result will be taken out of the eye of media. Britney has defini...

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... to mean that they are not in fact listening. Another important point is the manner in which men and women make eye contact, which tends to serve as a multi-functional factor in communication. (Pearson, 1985, p.247) Women tend to make eye contact more often then men, and are likely to value it more. One possible explanation, as suggested in Gender and Communication ... ...

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... ; Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is't gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax'd us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. (Bradstreet 44) These lines betray the subtle sarcasm apparent in several of Bradstreet's poems. She uses a respected political figure as her defense, saying that even though ... she is dead, she will still be proof in history that women have worth even in stereotypical masculine roles. Similarly, Murray defended Eve posthumously in one of her letters saying, "A laudable ambition ... ...

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... her tender feelings: she was so charitable and so full of pity that she would weep if she saw a mouse caught in a trap and dead or bleeding. Here Chaucer criticizes her foolish sentimentality over the sight of a dead mouse. This behavior contradicts the sophisticated and polished way the Prioress behaves when eating or drinking, which is clearly not her true nature, but ... ...

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... comments about that she is "so glad that [the Rosenbergs are] going to die," Esther uses her knowledge of Jewish folklore to compare Hilda's voice to a "dybbuk," (the soul of a dead sinner) which Esther experienced in a play (100). Esther appears intellectual, serious and passionate compared to Hilda, "a mindless mannequin for ... stylish hats ... and accessories" (Bundtzen 130). An important point is made ... if all this were a bad dream," is evidence of the lack of understanding that contributes to Esther's problem. To Esther, "the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead b...

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... the name of their religion. Religion is present all the time, and its rules also prevail in people´s lives, especially in women lives, where they seem to be in the eye of the hurricane. Each religion has its rules and its taboos. There are taboos about sex, food, and clothing. But the most important part is to understand the meaning of ... ...

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... the end of their study they concluded that women are more focused on their physical appearance than men. Spending hundreds of dollars on plastic surgery. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" meaning beauty is the key of attraction to everybody. According to the article woman has more anxiety about their appearance than man. Making women wanting to ... ...

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... roles they occupy in society. The advertising industry does not take enough of an ethical approach in representing women and the diversity of women. Overtly sexualized women in the public eye has a detrimental effect on the development of woman and expectations of, 'what women should be' in the eyes of both genders. The sex sells mentality is a cheap advertising trick ... ...

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... King and absolute monarchy [ CITATION Gor80 l 1033 ]. Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of fiction [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. Throughout the novel, Aphra gives extreme detail to legitimatize the notion that she speaks nothing but ... ...

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... patriarchy (as in the Brahmanical tradition). The woman's struggle in the denouncing of all social ties and the superfluous lines imposed on the world, requires the study of the keener eye, for her story is different from that of the man's. She is noticed to be fighting separate battles, within and without. She is also bound by the natural and inbuilt ... ...

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... for being strongly patriarchal. By portraying women as the background source for all that is tame, civilized and powerful, the author shows that there may be more than meets the eye in both the story and the society as to the power of woman and their civilizing abilities. Also, the congruencies between the religion of the time and the story of ... ...

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... degradation of women, but the plain exclusion of homosexuals. Looking through the five magazines, I found only one ad that was aimed at a homosexual audience. It was an ad for "Queer Eye for The Straight Guy", showing all of the cast members playing dress up. The ad was only for a television show they host, not a product geared toward the homosexual consumer. The ... ...

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... and promote women and men to believe that the culture's standards for body image are ideal. Hence, the phrases, "thin is in" and "the perfect body" are two examples of "eye-catching" headlines that I observed in many women magazines. I learned that the media influences us through television, fashion and health magazines, music videos, film, commercials, and various other advertisements. Sadly, as ... ...

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... pleasure of eating. It is the "'"mad' self engrossed Duncan, the young man who stands in opposition to the stolid Peter, who can swallow with no qualms at all, one eye after another, one chocolate curl after another, and declare unashamedly: 'It was delicious."'" ...

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... and promote women and men to believe that the culture's standards for body image are ideal. Hence, the phrases, "thin is in" and "the perfect body" are two examples of "eye-catching" headlines that I observed in many women magazines. I learned that the media influences us through television, fashion and health magazines, music videos, film, commercials, and various other advertisements. Sadly, as ... ...

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