... Agamemnon, Clytemnestra is more powerful and intelligent than any of the men in the play. Clytemnestra is portrayed as a strong willed woman seeking revenge on her husband for the murder of Iphigenia, a crime that is less of a concern than the regain of Helen and punishment Troy. ... her time as she is described by the watchman as "male strength of heart" (11). The Queen's main motive is a mother's revenge overcoming "wifely loyalty and womanly shame".1 The sacrifice of Iphigenia to Clytemnestra cannot be justified since she possesses traditional female values and this drives ... The r...

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... know the opinion of those who are engaged in the public administration but not on the high ranks. The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to ... .4% male, 71.7% female). The 36.6% of male and 41.3% of female respondents think that their political rights are infringed. But 47% of male and 39.9% of female respondents feel that it is possible to perform in political sphere. About 20% of respondent could not answer at least one question. Most of ......

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... whether Athenian society was strongly patriarchal. This play is not a man-versus-woman struggle with one side or the other as morally right. It is more of a disapproval of passion, revenge and arrogant pride. Euripides explores these ideas in his play. At the start of the play Medea Euripides gives Medea an opening speech to the chorus in which she reminds ... women as "wretched creatures" and by stating that they do anything for their men. The chorus strengthen this unequal gender position by agreeing for Medea to get her revenge by saying "you will be right to exact vengeance from you...

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... after a home, so it is plausible that a large proportion of these "new" workers were indeed those women returning to employment in the absence of their husbands. Therefore the chance of employment cannot be said to have greatly altered women's attitudes towards work, as it was not a relatively new experience for many. ... indeed the result of the war, as many women concluded in the survey that a women's place was at home. This is further augmented by the 39% of women who concluded in the survey that men should be given first priority for jobs. Therefore "The post war aspirations of the v...

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... two women, Helen and Clytemnestra who are perceived as violent, unfeminine women and disrespectful to the king. Women are often expected to be non-aggressive, feminine, and submissive to their husbands, but they failed to respect their roles. The portrayal of Clytemnestra as a lion illustrates the unnatural power changes in the relationship she has with Aegisthus. This role also reduces Aegisthus ... roles of either being a wife or a mother. Portraying Clytemnestra as neither a wife nor a mother serves to distance her from her family and human nature. This gives Orestes the room to reve...

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... Wanley stepped out of the men's club at night to stare into the window and look at the portrait of the attractive woman. In Lang's other works such as M and Scarlet Street, there are recurrent images of radiant shop windows. The shop windows are displays of seductive commodity and are thus commonly depicted as a symbol of forbidden desires. While Wanley never ... why Wanley ran off hysterically when a woman innocently asked him to light her a cigarette. (63) Lang could have decided to kill off the main characters, just as he did in Scarlet Street. Instead, Lang made a deliberate decisio...

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... found to be relatively weak, Women created an "informal trade union" which largely excluded men. Willmott & Young claim that "Husbands were often squeezed out of the warmth of the female circle and took to the pub as their defence". Therefore with ... husbands spending little time at home the conjugal roles really were segregated with husbands having little to do with any household tasks or childcare. However these segregated roles did begin to change over ... Metropolitan area. The results of this survey formed the basis of their book "The Symmetrical Family". Willmott & Young argue t...

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... as 'maata (mother) or Devi (goddess)', denoting worth and preciousness for women.1 It was male responsibility to look after women, brothers and husbands would look after their women by any means. Numerous scholars also attribute women as being intellectuals, with vast females being educated. Ancient Indian Grammarians, such ... disproportionately more affected. 6 This simply ends any personal opportunities for the women, as from a young age they are to look after and support there husbands by all means. It was a changing mindset that led to such atrocities; as having a girl became a ...

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... into the past American societies. However, the fact that they were both women who found themselves next to highly public lives of their husbands provides for interesting insight into roles and limitations of females in the past. And while Abigail Adams passed the very year that Mary ... . (Baker 131) Nevertheless, unlike majority of females, these two women both retained the power of self-expression in their marriages and greatly influenced their husbands. Mary in particular, had complete control and supervision of the household as well as of her husband's manners, social behavior and ev...

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... ). This notion reinforces Aristotle's idea that illicit generalizations, though not necessarily true, can still elicit anger from the audience. Aristotle's claim that all anger is incited by a desire for revenge has valuable repercussions when considering how anger incites social change. In "Rhetoric and Anger" authors Zagacki and Boleyn-Fitzgerald differentiate between evoking justified anger versus unjustified anger, and ... or idea," but unjustified if it incites violent actions in listeners (Zagacki and Boleyn-Fitzgerald 295). Considering Aristotle's thoughts on anger, it can be deduc...

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... their claim on the fruit trading business because they were "unable to do anything else to eke out the means of their husbands" (Mayhew, 105). Although prior to the famine these street women relied on the economic stability of their husbands and families, the inconsistency of the poor street life forced the women to depend on themselves for what little financial support ... he more resilient than men to the effects of the Famine" (Kinnealy 8). Often these women had children to feed so the incentive to continue the strife was much greater than husbands who had abandoned their wives, were...

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... a skilled manipulator in the area of male-female relationships. The wife, being married five times " which already has her viewed upon as strange " admits that her first three husbands, all of whom she considered good, were old, rich, and submissive. One can argue that she is financially parasitic and shame her as a, in modern language, gold digger. However, one ... , with sex or lip, to give her money, she actually loved her fifth husband. "The wife's love for him ", as Anne McTaggart offered, "makes her vulnerable just as her previous husbands were vulnerable to her " (McTaggart 49). T...

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... not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons (Koran 24:31). Society in western culture might view veiling as an oppressive, degrading act, however it is not seen as oppressive in ... ...

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... not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons (Koran 24:31). Society in western culture might view veiling as an oppressive, degrading act, however it is not seen as oppressive in ... ...

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... the man in a marriage is to be in charge of his wife and to show his authority and firmness to ultimately control her actions, as demonstrated by the conduct of husbands in the play. A husband's desire to be dominant in a marriage is implicitly presented by Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew. The men of Padua dismiss Katherina as too rough ... home, secure and safe" Act 5, scene 2, 152. To account for his work, she offers her subservience. The speech carries the message in the play's view of marital harmony, in which husbands provide peace, security and comfort to their wives, who, ...

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... and thus be a "home for fallen women would be another total world for him to control. Here he could create and run everything according to his rules." (Hartley 39) The fallen woman shows defiance by making the transition from the private and feminine space to the public and masculine space. The punishment of death is Tennyson's stern warning to ... ...

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... no time for them to pursue their dreams and they were forced to be selfless. In the context of A Gathering Light women were expected to be selfless and put their husbands and children before themselves and their wants. In early twenty- first century New York City, Andy has many choices open to her compared to the women living in the Adirondacks ... ...

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... part, a function of the form of marriage transaction. In a similar manner in cultures with an orthodox practice of Islamic Religion, it is observed the subservient role of women about their husbands was purity and obedience exemplify the characteristic ascribed to the "good wife." These are two examples that reflect how religious systems impose a set of rules that primarily affect ... ...

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... change their destiny. Additionally, at the end of the Perrault's version, Cinderella immediately forgives her sisters for this mistreatment and rewards them with a home in the palace and lords as husbands, whereas Aschenputtel punishes them for their wickedness. This furthers Perrault's portrayal of the good Cinderella taking no action against those who mistreat her. The portrayal of Cinderella's stepmother also extends ... ...

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... nothing but some bedding between you and the earth. Huddled on the cold ground with your family, or what is left of it, as most of the men (fathers and husbands) had either perished on the voyage to America or had been a victim of some other accident. But the most common reason for a fatherless/husbandless home was abandonment; women in the ... ...

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... children from any harm, "real or imaginary" (13). She also describes them as being completely content to erase their individuality to, "[idolize] their children, [and] worshiped their husbands" (13). Whereas Edna's motherly behavior leaves much to be desired, especially by her husband Leonce Pontellier: "He reproached his wife with her inattention [and] neglect of the children ... ...

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... progress of improvement is only showing a full stop to the women of whole rest of the world progressing economically. Women who have the potential to gather more income than their husbands quit because their earnings potential is used to a lower degree which is dreadful for the economy. This seems to happen because the standards of women who work less affect the ... ...

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... over to present day where in some religions do not allow women to have the same rights as men. Their role is society is only to reproduce and please their husbands, which is by far the most insensitive, cruel, and self-centered role to ever place upon a human. Women have the same mental capacity and ability to succeed in life as ... ...

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... reject their lives as widows (Mira) as firm statements against conventions, made in their dedicated pursuit of the lord. Akka Mahadevi riles in rage against her marriage-"Take these husbands who die/ decay, and feed the/ to your kitchen fires!" She rejects the carnal approaches of her mortal husband, talks of cuckolding him with the Lord, white as jasmine ... ...

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... western civilization today. As one article states, "women own all of the property and they pass it on to their daughters. Ede women are expected to propose to their husbands; the husband then takes the name of the woman's family and lives in the family's longhouse" [Cor12]. For this reason, it would be beneficial for archaeology's sake that more ... ...

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