... Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company (LAWSC) with casts plays (not necessarily Shakespearean plays) with all female casts. In 1995 the LAWSC cast Hamlet in an all women ensemble. It has been brought up that a woman playing the role of Hamlet will create a tension between representations of masculinity and femininity. In Elizabethan theatre, males were the only actors on the stage. In 1920 ... a female Hamlet was produced with the belief that Hamlet could never have been a man due to Hamlet's procrastinating tendencies. This comes from a Victorian interpretation of Hamlet that could t...

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... when he is presented with the perfect opportunity because he believes that Claudius is in prayer (although he is actually as unrepentant as ever). What Hamlet thinks is just a simple swordfight turns out to be a climactic murder plot. Everyone believes that Claudius is king due to the unfortunate death ... a plot detail: Gertrude cannot see her husband. This allows her to still doubt the sanity of her son, and it also proves that King Hamlet still does care for her. His business is with Claudius, and he chooses to leave her alone. (That is assuming that the Ghost can choose ... a level ...

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... her as weak-minded. Claudius deceives Gertrude and uses her as a mean to gain power. He marries the Queen to take the throne from Hamlet after the death of his father. Without knowing that it is Claudius responsible for the death of the king, Gertrude trusts Claudius for being the ... after the death of her husband, Gertrude was afraid to take over the kingdom by herself, so she married her bother-in-law. "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/ The memory be green, and that it us befitted/ To bear our hearts in grief..." (1.2.1-4). This proves how the Queen ... natures," (2.1.10...

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... the aspects of women in the household, you find out that they do not have any role in politics and government either. All through out the teaches of Aristotle, you find out they women have no rule at all when it comes to the governing the land and politics that are going on. It states that " ... her. It was hard for women back then and they never got the chance to even if hold power even if they were better then their spouse or son. Aristotle, the Politics, shows a lot in women and how their role was back then, especially when it came to government, the household, and life in general. It...

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... the beneficial effects of consuming adequate amounts of protein, or more specifically, due to the consumption of Detour Protein Bars. The creator of the protein bar, Forward Foods, LLC, is using sexual imagery as a part of their advertising in order to sell their product. The ad infers the argument that by consuming Detour Protein Bars, the target audience, young adult women ... ...

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... one must first understand what feminist criticism is and how it is used in literature. Feminist criticism plays a major role in this play. Specifically, in Hamlet, the reader can understand how Ophelia is exploited or used politically, emotionally, and physically by the male characters in the play. Feminist criticism is the ... , mothers, and housewives". By this, the author means that women are sheltered much more than men are. This is very evident through the play "Hamlet". Ophelia has many key relationships with males throughout this play. One of these relationships is with her father,...

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... : a married woman, a mother, the so-called social life, prostitutes, ageing and the notion of character. It is common knowledge that Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and many others wrote unfavorably or simply incorrectly about women. In the best-known farcical example is probably Aristotle's assertion that the temperature of the woman's body is lower than that of the man's. The question "What does it ... existence of subject and object between men and women because everything men distinguish. Similar to the relationship between men and women, ideas and experience, physics and philosophy, or Plato...

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... common belief that "a woman of a well-ordered life should consider that her husband's wishes are as laws appointed for her by divine will" (Aristotle). A woman's purpose in marriage was referred to as not being a wife to her husband but, to act as a slave would; according to the Greek ... philosopher, "she will serve him more assiduously than if she had been a slave bought and taken home" (Aristotle). In fact, Aristotle sometimes spoke of women in relation to slaves, as if they were in the same category: "...no distinction is made between women and ... slaves because there is no natura...

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... desire is given a new meaning, namely: the desire for sex. In this paper I intend to show how desires new meaning is exaggerated by the playwright to produce a comedy. According to Aristotle (384-322 BCE) "comedy is an imitation of inferior people - not, however, with respect to every kind of defect: the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful."" In Lysistrata the ... . The idea of women ending the war is a disgraceful concept related to the time (as was mentioned above) this play took place, hence alluding to the comedic structure suggested by Aristotle. This whole scheme produces...

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... themselves and not be defined by man. To support her cause, or the reasons that pushed her to write this piece and participate in a feminist movement, were claims made by Aristotle like "the female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities, we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness"(304). Also statements made by St. Thomas ... "(304), and others like Michelet who believes that man is independent of woman whereas women are dependent on men and cannot be without him. She uses these statements made by Aristotle, Michelet, and St. Thomas as evide...

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... of the infants, he meted out to her a larger portion of affection for new-born babes than to the man." A woman in ancient Greek society had to produce children. Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time thought "men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership" of the household. Men, for example ... hardly advanced professional positions, but rather street-venders, midwifery, matchmaking and child-care. Women who had to work were viewed as lesser since they learned low wages for lowly trades. Aristotle reports t...

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... image to be the sheriff's wife. Glaspell in her story: "she didn't seem like a sheriff's wife. She was small and thin and didn't have a strong voice"[CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. In this extract from "A Jury of Her Peers", it can be seen how women are being evaluated or judged according to her husband's position. For a patriarchal society ... man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals. [CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. The woman was being minimized in terms of image and personal...

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... Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between ... ...

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... impotence of women in the 1800s. Cunegonde is the daughter of a wealthy German lord. She is described as "extremely beautiful " (Voltaire. 5) and is repeatedly referred to as "the fair Cunegonde. " (39). She is the typical damsel-in-distress: a woman who is completely reliant on male protection and often fainting at the sight of anything the least bit distressing. She is a vapid ... situation in life better than Candide does. She knows that as a woman in the eighteenth century she has few options if she wishes to survive and she is not above using her beauty to her advantage. She never ...

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"Behind every great man, there is a great woman." This classic saying may as well have been inspired by the role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Arguably the most powerful woman in literature, Lady Macbeth sets all that transpires in the play into motion. Without Lady Macbeth's encouragement, her husband would never have realized his true potential and the evil he is capable of. Because she feels she is unable to commit the atrocities herself, because she is a woman, she persuades her husband to commit them for her. Lady Macbeth wishes to be stripped of her female compassion. Howev...

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... circumstances regarding their behavior. The reason for Katherine's shrewish demeanor is never given in the play, though many directors have interpreted it as an act to discourage suitors, much like Hamlet's feigned madness. Others have attributed it to sibling rivalry between Katherine and her sister Bianca. In any case, no clear rationale is given to the audience as to the reason ... ...

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... taken home. For he has indeed bought her with a great price "with partnership in his life and in the procreation of children -4 This view was written by a famous Philosopher Aristotle in 330 BCE. It carries the notion that a woman should be grateful if any man shows the initiative to marry her. Another point to criticize in Cinderella is the competition ... ...

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... , as a sex, infinitely superior to men." Elizabeth Stanton (prominent woman suffragist) - (excerpted from One Woman, One Vote by Wheeler, pg. 58) "Frailty, thy name is woman." William Shakespeare - (excerpted from Hamlet, Act I, scene 2) This quote made by Stanton in 1890 shows many of the feministic beliefs held by the women of today. And the quote made by Shakespeare holds many of ... ...

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... institution became closely linked to the discussions and events that appeared in the Bema, so both building were used to inform and educate the people of Athens. This according to Aristotle was the main goal of the theatre, to create happiness to the audience while educating it - "Learning is a very great pleasure". The theatre also showed the hierarchical status of the ... ...

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... to be solely maternal figures capable of little strength or rational cerebration; they were basically passive, reactive servants to their husbands. Common perception of women was that they were, as Aristotle put it, no better than slaves. Through Euripides's play, however, Medea proves to be the purest antithesis of these qualities. She does not accept Jason's actions submissively; she resolves to ... ...

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... worth more than the truth. In fact, she even recalls "wanting in those days to appear to have something whether it was true or a lie, [she] didn't care" (39-40). In the end, throughout Sharon Olds poem The Blue Dress, the speaker had held onto a lie where she thought her father loved and acknowledged her, but ultimately realized that ... ...

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... ; (Mirth 7). Lily has all of the markings of what we would now see as a successful woman because she not only beautiful, she is also described as "practical" (Mirth 39), "intelligent" (Mirth 40), and "prudent" (Mirth 41). Unfortunately this is a realistic tale and Lily makes some exceedingly poor choices that directly dispute those three words in ... ...

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... anymore. You can't get the white folks to pick and now you can't get the niggers because they got to be right up there with the white folk" (Paragraph 39). This demonstrates her hypocrisy. She claims the girl has no manners, and yet she is the one who rudely speaks of the very people that allow her to wear the ... ...

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... if it defined men to restrain it", Equality cannot keep his eyes off Liberty and "for the first time did [he] know fear, and then pain" (Rand 39). Equality knows that he cannot look upon her for she is a woman, but he keeps on saying to himself that "the Golden One are not like the others" ... ...

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... thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting I dare not" wait upon I would, " Like the poor cat i' the adage? (1.7.39-45) In this quote she is accusing Macbeth of being a coward and not being a man. She is calling Macbeth feminine, while she acts masculine. Janet Adelman says it perfectly in ... ...

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