... Bernice Kanner address these gender oriented issues from the point of view of a male and female, for whom gender heightens the distortion and its consequences. In Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Tale," and Bernice Kanner's "Big Boys Don't Cry: Returning the Macho Message," each author's uses a legion of literary devices to identify the reader with the moral message he or she has ... such as structure, tone and perspective. In Lois Gould's article the author uses the structure of a fictitious story to create the proper mood and tone. In Gould's story she tells a tale of a young X tha...

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... . At first glance and with the most shallowness of analysis it can be assumed that these women are "bad women ", especially when set up against the woman of "The Clerk's Tale " whose submissiveness was often celebrated and elevated as something all women should strive to emulate. The standard set to consider the "goodness " of a woman in this time period, then, must ... looks at Noah's wife in "Noah's Flood ", one cannot help but observe her initial defiance and write her off as an opposition to the ideal woman. Similar to the biblical tale of the ark of Noah, God has, with much detail, ...

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... those times. However, after reading The Plantation Mistress, I have come to realize that the leisure status of the planter's lady is a fairy tale that I scooped up. Darn that Hollywood. Hollywood has also portrayed the plantation mistress as a romantic fairy tale. However, Clinton dispels this by using correspondence from women of the time, and summarizing the dilemmas and problems faced by these ladies ... ...

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Male dominance and female complicity in "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" Katherine Mansfield's "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" is a short tale dealing with the relationships between husband and wife in late 19th Century German society. This is achieved by viewing the attitudes of people in various stages of their relationship: A newly ... afterwards, which, if read by itself, would not intimate anything sinister or unhappy about the idea. However, the theme of suppression and domestic violence is developed very soon within the tale. Frau Brechenmacher's husband, from the first, ...

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... education of an aristocrat, while remaining poor and powerless in her own domestic sphere as a woman governess. In quoting the character Jane, "To open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended, a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence." Jane is hurting at this ... ...

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... feels prostitution is disgraceful if the women within his family engage as participants. The Vietnamese's respectful opinion of the magnanimity of prostitution is grounded in the country's literary cultural epic, Tale of Kieu. As Andrew learns of this ancient text, his professor states that Kieu, '"says everything about the Vietnamese She is a prostitute, The things she has done are ... ...

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... lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. It is with this type of reading perhaps that a lesbian narrative space is created by Cather in "My Antonia." Cather illustrates a story of Jim Burden and his relationship with Antonia ... ...

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Aphra Behn's genre-blending tale "Oroonoko" melds travel narrative with fictional biography to tell the story of Prince Oroonoko, "the royal slave. Although Behn writes of Oroonoko's honor as unique among men, her admiration for ... ...

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... 's views of this aspect throughout her novel. In doing so, the reader is forced to confront the reality of Middle Eastern cultures and lifestyles. In conclusion, Soueif parallels her romantic tale to that of nineteenth and early twentieth century female novelists. In turn, commanding readers of now to confront the same issues of then, via another culture's "looking glass.""...

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Medea is an epic tale of a struggle between two characters, an opportunistic, deceitful man and a barbaric sorceress, opposed by gender and capabilities. As such, this play highlights the importance of Medea's character through interpretation of ... ...

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... women should do out with the old and resort to drastic methods to break away from their male imposed roles. Ford's explanation can surely help the reader understand that Gilman's tale of a woman's descent into madness is a story with deep feminist undertones. These undertones encourage women to change the paradigm because until the sexes are equal, there can be no respite ... ...

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... Ithaca, reinstating honor to his kingdom and love in his life. His character applauded and imitated, Odysseus realizes the alpha male stereotype. Continuing the 2,500 year old tradition, this epic tale is taught to children and its hero is preserved as a role model for young men in America. In addition to influencing Western interpretations of science, design, politics and social structure ... ...

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... less being able to exert any sort of meaningful political influence. But again, Aristophanes is following the great dramatic tradition of asking the audience "what if?" Although presented as a humorous tale, the play on the whole is quite sad. The story still gives voice to the constant male versus female battle of ideologies and sensibilities. Athens was not simply a democracy, as ... ...

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