... impact on the lives of many Indian women (Lindio-McGovern, 2007). On one hand, Indian women working in call centers experience a greater freedom of movements as they now work at night in order to provide a 24/7 customer service as "physical mobility and temporal mobility are jobs requirements" are job requirements" (Patel, 2008, p. 3). On the other hand, women's traditional ... children and be homebound" (Patel, 2008, p. 45). Parents usually encourage girls' education as it improves their chances on the marriage market and often disagree with their daughter working the night shift, as a...

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... , growth or thought. She need only be chaste –to exist as a walking emblem of chastity'"[1].


The preservation of a woman's virginity is a recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays; in A Midsummer Night's Dream, we see Helena make known her love for Demetrius, which of itself is a measure executed almost exclusively by men. Whilst she is proclaiming her love, albeit in an unfashionable ... improbable that he would have consented to being claimed as a husband by Hippolyta, perhaps suggesting that matrimony is obtainable exclusively when the one defeated in battle is a woman. 
In A...

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... " as having prepared the "powders to enrich [her] hair" (lines 7 and 8) and that the golden atoms "doth stray" (line 5) to her hair when it becomes night. So, in essence, the light of day never leaves the earth because it is contained within her hair. Similarly Carew, in the third stanza, takes the beautiful song of the ... to the woman. Where stanza two talked about the light of day, stanza four talks about the lights of the night- the lights being the stars. Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there, ...

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... with defining gender, supported more obviously with his presentation of Viola as a man. It should be noted that in Elizabethan times, there would be an all male cast for Twelfth Night, so Viola would be played by a man, even when she is a woman in the play. In Elizabethan times women were seen as the weaker sex, yet Shakespeare portrays both sexes ... marry who they desire. Through the medium of human characteristics, Shakespeare explores how the audience's concept of gender is determined by sexuality, appearance and a person's sense of identity. In Twelfth Night, he confuses gender ste...

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... Camelot. The poem represents the isolated Victorian woman as a submissive person that has agreed to her place in the home by running errands such as weaving: "She weaves by night and day/a magic web with colors gay" (Tennyson Stanza II, Line 45). "The Lady of Shalott" demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and ... of not being married and due to her sexual activities as a single woman. Mariana role as a fallen Victorian woman and her unconventionality had further expression when she made awake at night by a pitch darkness that blackens even the waters. In the Victorian ...

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... her powerful friends did not take away the only stir of feelings that La Senora was to have in her life: imprisonment of Melesio did not let her sleep at night or carry on her revolutionary activity in the sex-care industry during the day. She comes back to the country to save her only friend, a socially rejected homosexual. I see La ... the world of good wine, classical music, art, but the highest sign of Mimi's appreciation of Eva's company, talent, and personality is persuading Eva to start a writing career, " and at night, encouraged by Mimi, she writes stories in her cuaderno de cu...

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... " after returning home from New York accomplishes a statement of a pervasive theme and the title of the book (185). Although irrational, Esther creates a wonderful scene of exhilaration and freedom her last night in New York. As a symbolic gesture, Esther displays "[h]er inability to accept any accepted woman's role" (Magill's 1632), and she "fed [her] wardrobe to the ... night wind" (111). Her attempt to discard her pain by throwing away the artificial trappings of the fashion world does not change the way she feels. On the train ride to ... ...

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... narrative, confusion between whether the woman behind the wallpaper is the narrator or someone else entirely increases. "I suppose I shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night, and that is hard!" (Gilman, 313). In this section of the text, it becomes evident that the wallpaper and woman are both metaphors for her own expression through writing ... ...

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... are overweight or obese (Ogden et al., 2014). If you go to a bookstore for instance, you will find whole sections dedicated to dieting, exercise and weight loss. Even on late night television, there are commercials that promise how a pill will help the target audience lose weight in a short amount of time. In actuality, it is proper diet and exercise that leads ... ...

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... Tom diminishes her validity as an independent being by objectifying her sexually, dreaming, "she [has] been tender with him" (540). The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. Before ... ...

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... inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream" (173). Instead of staying with her and guarding her on his wedding night, he patrols the premises. Elizabeth became a victim to the game of insanity and male-centered mayhem. She has been demeaned to just a tool that can be used as revenge. Though ... ...

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... his expectation of her which are similar to those listed above: "I say to you must be ready with good heart to do my pleasure. . .and never must you grudge it, night or day, neither in words nor frowning countenance. Swear this, and here I swear to our alliance " (Chaucer, 40). Griselda is expected to submit totally and completely to her husband and ... ...

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... underneath, giving a sense of cleanliness. Decorative over-sized white artificial suds fill an unoccupied part of the advertisement to sustain a visual equilibrium. The garden tub sitting on the rooftop, at night, city lights in the background, depicts a high class lifestyle filled with fun and excitement. Her face wears a flirtatious look giving the male reader a sense of sexual interest. She is wearing ... ...

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... her husband than to have her virtue threatened by strangers. In the majority of the narrative, Yarico is portrayed as the provider while Inkle passively waits in his shelter. At night, "Her part was to watch and hold him in her arms, for fear of her countrymen, and wake him on occasions to consult his safety " (2481). Much like Oroonoko, Inkle ... ...

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... with two children, who now is being constantly chastised and put down by her immediate family because of her lifestyle. The mother constantly goes out to late hours of the night trying to meet new men to replace her husband, her children believe that she is working and almost never get to see her because she is out so much. Due ... ...

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... south, and breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out". In paragraph 16 Ruskin keeps up the poetic mode, " sought Him in vain, all through the night; sought Him in vain-. He indicates that man is the gardener in life, sowing his seed; the woman is there to cherish and protect those that he has sown by ... ...

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... the dreadful life of poverty. Even though it takes Madame Loisel and her husband ten years to pay off the debt to replace the necklace, she continues to believe the night of the ball was her moment of glory. In society, individuals often judge people by the role they play and forget they are not always who they appear to be ... ...

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... reader witnesses the conversation between him and his wife we see that such a strong man is in fact controlled and manipulated by his power driven wife, "You shall put this night's great business into my dispatch". This submission to a female is the first obvious transgression from traditional gender roles. Shakespeares next example of Macbeth's unmanly attributes is tendency to let his ... ...

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... ," which signals us about her loneliness and isolation that are usually felt by victims of oppression. Another sign of her feeling of oppression is her hallucinations about the wallpaper, "at night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain ... ...

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... childhood in the novel, such as this passage concerning Neverland: "Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?- (63). In this passage, it seems that Barrie is attempting to strike a bit of fear into the reader ... ...

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... the vaginal orifice, leaving an opening that may be as small as a matchstick for the passage of urine and menstrual blood. The scar is only reopened on the girls wedding night by her husband, then sewn shut once again to ensure her validity. Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries ... ...

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... men, and had to constantly be alert and wary, guarding themselves from any possible danger. While it was considered totally safe and normal for men to go out alone at night, women only belonged in the day, and with darkness were expected to lock themselves away from awaiting threats. This brings across the idea that women should always be protected, and ... ...

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