... straw" had "long been exposed to the soot of London" and "her hair needed washing badly". This portrays her as having very little wealth and a low socio-economic status as she is not able to dress like or look like a lady. Vivian's apparel also conveys her social standing and to a greater extent her profession as a prostitute. On Hollywood Boulevarde, where she sells ... -girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning" what to do with her "new riches" to better her life. Pinned up on the wall of Eliza's small room is a portrait of a popular actor and a fashion pla...

• Word Count: 3802
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... seems relaxed and sits "esily" on her ambler. Her portrait on the Harvard website shows that she rides her horse astride, against the normalic of sidesaddle for women. We can imagine that WB puts aside the more "lady-like" style of riding at her own convince while traveling the road to ... Canterbury (Biebel 64). How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... radical ideas on gender theory, demonstrate liberation from gender role restrictions, and defiantly rebuke "auctoritee" by playing with the slippage, ambivalence, and reversa...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

... be given, and to those who hath not, such as myself, even that which they have shall be taken away. But more importantly, it is a bitterly satiric' portrait of a society that reinforces, twenty times over, that basic, cosmic unfairness, emphasized because Ruth is at a far bigger disadvantage than the average woman, being much uglier than ... first led to her rebellion. Becoming a she-devil is the first step in showing her new-found defiance. Good' women, such as Lady Bissop, are supposed to be daughters of Eve' and followers of God, not a Devil's advocate. Just being associated with the ...

• Word Count: 3413
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... feminine characteristics when he is still a male. His beauty and innocence deeply strikes Queen Elizabeth, who notices the beauty of his legs. Archduchess Harriet Griselda falls in love with him at the first sight of his portrait because it is the image of a sister of her who is long since dead. Also Orlando does not show strong longing for fame as other males do, instead ... mind raises her above the ordinary human beings. Her consciousness is on much higher strata than the rest, and social indictments and restraints do not figure in her dictionary. When lady of Purity, Modesty and Cha...

• Word Count: 3885
• Approx Pages: 16