The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. ... Matthew Lewis portrays female sexuality as a form of power throughout "The Monk" to advocate that a woman is only able to obtain the power to make her own decisions after she has shed her virtue and becomes aware of the position she holds. ... The women in this novel are raised in a masculine world, and their personal lives and ambitions are controlled by those around them. ... A woman becomes sexually empowered ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Still, she was fortunate with her class status and generous father to learn under eight different tutors and to further her own educational horizons by extensive reading. ... It's possible that it was that very education that drove the creative desire to write their own publications. ... Similarly, Murray defended Eve posthumously in one of her letters saying, "A laudable ambition fired her soul and a thirst for knowledge impelled the predilection so fatal in it's consequences. ... Furthermore, it is interesting that Murray chose to defend Eve based on her ambition and did not u...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women value prospective male suitors on a cluster of characteristics related to resource potential: good financial prospects, ambition, industriousness, older age, and emotional maturity. ... Each gender has its own set of mating strategies that remain unchanged since the dawn of time, and work to guarantee the survival of the species. ...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 dedicated their work's ambition to. ... The authors examine the history, the present situation, and the future effects of gender bias in society in order to establish each of their arguments as told with his or her own unique style. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This shows us that Goneril is a character who proves to be as strong as any before her with aggression and selfish ambition. ... When Regan later drinks the poison placed by her elder sister, Goneril's final scheme proves successful, ending Regan's life with jealous murder before taking her own. ... Her initial introduction comes as she comments on her sister's lies; she knows there is no way to make her own affection appear more prominent and truthful than her siblings, although it is so. ...

• Word Count: 1537
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mead found the Samoan culture to contain much more freedom than our own culture. ... Children in the Samoan culture are reared very differently than in our own culture. ... These cultural rules are similar to our own. ... In our own culture, an example could be the behavior displayed at almost any Thanksgiving meal. ... Speaking of the Samoans, Mead says, "adolescence represented no period of stress or crisis the girls" minds were perplexed by no conflicts, troubled by no philosophical queries, beset by no remote ambitions" (2001; 109). ...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School