... access to public space because of their suppression by the dominant male patriarch. In The Blot the representation of transport depicts important elements in the main narrative, and at the same time reveals a patriarchal control over public space. In The Blot cars are used as a symbol to reinforce the main narratives of the film of poverty, wealth and class status. Throughout the film Weber compares the poor College professor's family with the sufficiently wealthy "foreign-born ... , emphasizing a females place is beside her husband, the homemaker. However this relationship is overshadow...

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... by Ferdinand's comment "O, if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth, I'll make you the Queen of Naples."" In association with Miranda's character, the other female characters within the play are used to illustrate the desirability of Miranda. Submission and obedience further epitomize the ideal woman, as demonstrated in Sebastian's reference to Claribel, the daughter of the King, Alonso "weighed between loathness and obedience-. Miranda is both submissive and obedient, as ... women within Elizabethan society. Miranda represents the ideal woman of this time, but she, the other fema...

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... highly unanticipated in this era. This would be a shock to the original 19th Century audience of the play, as Gwendoline's father is absent whilst his daughter's suitor is chosen, would be seen as very peculiar. This gives Lady Bracknell the upper hand as many mothers of this time would be ordinarily not be as involved in their daughter's marriage, but this way she gets to personally test whether ... Jack is a worthy suitor for Gwendoline, and is able to give her own opinion of ... him, without her husband getting in the way. As she says "You can take ... ...

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... 202). Parent-child relations also go through a transformation as a consequence of daughters who work the night shift in order to provide a 24/7 service to the American citizens (Patel, 2008). For younger girls, the shift in parent-daughter relations also rejects the foreseen climb in the familial status. As Patel states: "The call center industry in India with its upscale office environment and night shift ... etiquette" associated with less valued professions. Women are needed for customers-services type of jobs as they are patient and nurturing, however, men have more facilities climbi...

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... his power and control over her, as she feels it's unfair that 'the will of a living daughter is curbed by the will of a dead father'. The blunt, straightforward tone Portia uses, emphasises her anger on the inequality she must experience.These quotes demonstrate how women had no choice over their future and the idea of freedom to Portia was not a possibility, as she was demanded to follow whatever ... , have lasted throughout history and still are widely discussed topics in the modern society. In conclusion, the relevant values and ideas of religious discrimination and gender equali...

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... virtue are portrayed as weak and ignorant of the world around them, most noticeably portrayed through the actions of a young girl named Antonia. Throughout the novel Antonia's virtue causes others to see her as helpless individual who cannot take care of herself, or make decisions that will greatly affect her personal life. Elvira, Antonia's mother, views her daughter as, "young and artless, ... uninstructed in the world's perfidy and with charms sufficient to render her an object of seduction" and takes control over matters of Antonia's heart and sends away a man that Antonia has strong...

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... has personal flaws, which make her easier to relate to than other characters. These flaws are ones such as outspokenness and hubris, which could cost her honour and the future of her family, given the restraints of Chinese culture. Mulan also achieves nearly everything on her own. Although Mushu (a dragon sent to help Mulan) provides her with self-confidence and companionship he is no ... /or ridiculous, and there is no "competing- feminine figure to suggest that the heroine needs any support or guidance. The one non-absent mother is Mulan's, but she only plays an inoperative role in the...

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... female independence in a difficult environment and fighting discrimination shown by some males against women. The women in Antonia's family are all portrayed as having an unusual degree of independence for the time. Antonia especially defies the particular traditions by performing roles traditionally done by males, such as farming and being the head of a household. She also does not depend upon males to survive like many women did ... , shows how he tries to suppress Deedee's independence through physical and emotional abuse, and the referring to his daughter as an item of livestock rath...

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... about one another, all of the power is given to him without much of a chance for either woman. This representation of bigamy is one of the highest forms of a patriarchal way of life because of their helplessness. On the other hand, in Hard, Fast, and Beautiful the men in the film are more morally uplifted than the women. Will, Millie's husband notices and hates the way Millie exploits her own daughter for money. He remains ... unique about Lupino's use of realism is that while she wanted her audience to understand and relate to the characters it did not necessarily mean she wanted them ...

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... turn to evil. In the play 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. It is evident that Clytemnestra is not the typical Greek woman of 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 ... stained upon him?" (1419-1420) Clytemnest...

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... importantly his perspective to the value and intended purpose of women. In the letter Mr. Adams talks about the experience that he and one of young Abigail's brothers is having in Paris and discusses the importance of the formal education that all his sons will have but he only encourages his daughter to increase her knowledge through reading the history books of the time. The most disheartening statement he ... makes is about what he sees the greatest ... accomplishment that a women can every have supporting a husband as well as giving birth to and raising a son. John Adams shares wit...

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... once distances him from being within the family but instead held above it and above the wife. The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. Furthermore, there is no doubt that the husband is a large man. All of the descriptions surrounding him are both loud ... them for support. Thus, woman's oppression by woman was an inevitable extension of woman's oppression by man. The story provides the reader with a vignette, a period of time entailin...

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... her his wife. Essentially, Caroline is transformed from dutiful daughter, to dutiful wife and mother; subsequently, without the freedom to control her life, Caroline's only role in society is the one she serves to men. Shelley was well aware of a woman's evident role in 19th Century European society. Caroline symbolises female society at the time, exemplifying the patriarchal ideologies of an "ideal" female: passive and dutiful, ultimately a slave ... , Shelley presents Caroline as a victim of her society in order to challenge its patriarchal beliefs. In conclusion, the characters of Mar...

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... control as he comes at his call to serve his "will." Petruchio controls all aspects of his environment using the masculine representation of power and mastery. Baptista also exerts power in his dealings with his daughter's suitors as he in the end makes the choice if a suitor is appropriate or not. His daughters are his possessions until they ... of the holder of power. Baptista and Petruchio display ownership over their surroundings through the representation of masculinity in use of power, which can be perceived by the audience as accepted behaviour for a male. Shakespeare also has his...

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... and marginalised in society. Men viewed females as property, illustrated in the opening scene where Brabantio describes that he has been 'robb(ed)' when he realises that his daughter Desdemona has run off with Othello, exclaiming that she has been 'stol'n from me.' The roles of a woman during the 1600s was to follow her husband or father's commanding orders ( ... 'I am obedient') and were often caught between their own desires and the dominating male's demands. Wives were seen by their ... soliloquy, further reinforcing the view of women as objects without emotions. Likewi...

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... [he] drank [himself] into a stupor, watching crusty people through leaded glass," (110). He matches the extremity of his shame to the way he separates himself from the people of Vietnam. The worse he feels, the further he removes himself. It is in the beginning and middle of his journey that he tells of spending time with prostitutes. One night he stays in a hotel, hears a knock at his door, and it ... grandfather all used violence as a way to exert gender roles. The men use violence to assert their masculinity while Andrew's father used it to force his daughter into her feminine gender e...

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... illiteracy, ignorance and so on. It is likely a great number of women benefited from such legislation and began to enjoy a superior standard of living; certainly the policies were unprecedented in any other country at this time. Yet it is also possible to argue that for the vast number of women in Russia the era of emancipation only served to increase suffering. Russian women still spent innumerable hours ... daughter and protect her from this fate-. She had sex with about four men a week, enduring their "poor treatment, beatings and perverse demands- . Thus it can be seen that there wer...

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