Jennifer Donnelly uses simile in likening words with shining, luxurious pearls and symbolism to represent Mattie's mother's support of Mattie's dreams and her love of learning as a legacy. ... Mattie feels pressure to be selfless and also feels as though she is dishonouring her mother's dying wish. ... In the context of A Gathering Light women were expected to be selfless and put their husbands and children before themselves and their wants. ... However, society still holds firm expectations for women's roles in families and has the belief that women should be selfle...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some contest it is about love. ... Without her mother's unselfish love Pearl may not have lived the life she did. ... Only a selfless hero can resort back to a life of solitude and confinement for the sake of her child's wants and needs. ... Again, she is acting selfless which is what any hero does. ... Hester's selflessness is a quality all people, not just women, should emulate. ...

• Word Count: 3565
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A word used to refer to a mother or to address your own mother It is not the meaning which incorporates the sentiment of a woman but the word that symbolises the affection towards that woman by a human who is forever a child to her assessment of selfless love, devotion and attachment. ...

• Word Count: 346
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

She is the good aspect of an independent woman in this play because she has no other choice and she does it in a completely selfless way. ... Completely selfless acts like this are what make her the good aspect of an independent woman. ... She has to find a way to cover her illegitimate pregnancy and manages to marry Emmanuel whom she does not love at all. ... She realizes Emmanuel's love for her in this quote, "Then his gaze fell on her and his face brightened. ... This is maybe when she realizes that she can use Emmanuel for his love for her. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As Phillip becomes older, he befriends Maggie Tulliver, Tom's sister, and falls in love with her. ... He is repeatedly described as womanly or feminine when pledging his love for Maggie. ... Out of Maggie's mindset of piety comes a love for Phillip Wakem. However, at first it is not a true love for Phillip. Maggie feels more completed by the sense that it is a selfless love because Phillip needs to have her love to fill the void of physical affection in his life. ...

• Word Count: 1400
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The heart of my husband's trust, honesty, and love. ... The virtuous woman in me is one who strives for excellence, balance and self-love. ... I think she is kind, benevolent, and selfless. ... Things such as giving all the time and when I am in need and not given to, my feelings becomes hurt, wishing and hoping that I would be like/love by everyone and when it does happen, I become disappointed. ...

• Word Count: 1215
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Feminism is too often thought of by the men of the younger generation ( as well as some of the women ) mainly as an excuse for male-bashing; as a way for women to take credit for what they didn't work for, to make us, as men, appear evil as well as stupid...

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Myth of the Latin Woman The principal notion about life revealed in this essay is that in Western societies the Latin Women are viewed stereotypically as a sex object or selfless housewives and obsequious workers. ... In her first role she played "a fiery love machine." ...

• Word Count: 1192
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• Grade Level: High School

He considers love to be "merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.... He is a lady's man, and therefore cannot be concerned with such things as true love. Even Othello, the one character who truly loves his wife, mistreats Desdemona. ... He states to Iago "Alas, poor rogue, I think i' faith she loves me." (4.1.128) Cassio essentially uses Bianca's love to his own means. ...

• Word Count: 4504
• Approx Pages: 18

Chopin's stories "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" both express a fresh and unconventional view of love and marriage. ... Through these stories, Chopin reveals women's need to satisfy their wants and desires, which was never thought necessary for women during that time as they were expected to be selfless and self-sacrificing creatures. ... Although Louise did in fact love and care for her husband, the lines of her face " bespoke repression- It was almost as if she was never really alive until her husband died, "Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed ...

• Word Count: 1460
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

., PhD of the Department of Women and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development, and author of the book Love, Rape, and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse, in her feminist study of fictional love letters, rape stories and a feminist text on sexuality, has deduced two male stereotypes. ... The second stereotype is a man who professes unconditional love for a woman while doing away with the sexual dimension of amorous relationships. ... And giving yourself to me could never be wrong if the love is true. ... It s...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. ... It is apparent that it is the social institution of marriage that incites in the lady a desire to attain love and move away from the life of shadows. ...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail and tired. ... Indian womanhood and all its facets are portrayed significantly in Kamala Markandaya's novel 'Nectar in a Sieve'.This image of the unsullied, selfless Indian woman is primary in this novel. ...

• Word Count: 3535
• Approx Pages: 14