Essays Tagged: "female character"
CHARACTER TRAITS IN THE ANTIGONE.
nd their strengths and weaknesses. the antigone is an especially powerful story because of the main female character which is an unusual focus point in that time. it also takls a bit about weather or ... ant in terms of the actors in Greek theatre because it was in this way that it was possible to play female parts as well as different characters. Because the audience was so incredibly large, the poet ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
A short analysis of the 1950's film, Sunset Boulevard
de in Hollywood that is about making movies in Hollywood, in that, it is self referential. The main female character of the film plays a washed up actress from the silent age of Hollywood. And the act ... mous silent film actress who had very few roles in speaking films other than this one. In this main female character the movie exposes a sad picture of the dark side of the star system. The star syste ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
The portrayal of women in novels written hundreds of years ago. Speaks of "The Medea" and King Arthur
characters' actions and words. However, each author used different arrangements to subordinate the female character.According to written documentation, Euripides' attitude towards women was not favor ... all that is best and noblest turns to gall.If only children could be got some other way,Without the female sex! If women didn't exist,Human life would be rid of all its miseries. (Euripides p. 34)Jaso ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The portrayal of women in novels written hundreds of years ago. Speaks of "The Medea" and King Arthur
characters' actions and words. However, each author used different arrangements to subordinate the female character.According to written documentation, Euripides' attitude towards women was not favor ... all that is best and noblest turns to gall.If only children could be got some other way,Without the female sex! If women didn't exist,Human life would be rid of all its miseries. (Euripides p. 34)Jaso ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Subjectivity of the Character "Safie" in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
ion to the differences between Safie's development as a foreign character and her subjectivity as a female character in relation to those of the other female characters of the book. While the other fe ... iously mentioned, Safie was 'almost' a feminist in that she was merely more feminist than the other female characters. Both Justine and especially Elizabeth were typically feminine, meaning that they ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Fight Club: The repression of masculinity and its effects on society.
volution, has something to do with a girl named Marla Singer." - Narrator. Marla Singer is the main female character is this film. She is his match. She reflects the Narrator. They are both people who ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Taming of the Shrew.
eare, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, and Measure for Measure, there was a very strong female character. However, by the end of the play, the three females conformed to society's norms to ... not to me. I will go sit and weep Till I can find occasion of revenge. (Shakespeare, 75) She is the female that nobody wants. All the men talk about sweet Bianca that is so unlike her sister, who is k ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
"Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.
end. Both Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw feature a female character who experiences several turns of unfortunate events. Tess Durbeyfield and Eliza Doo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Goddess Athena is the main female Character in the Odyssey.
The Goddess AthenaThe Goddess Athena is the main female Character in the Odyssey. She is the main female character because she is the female that app ... can get back home to Ithaca with his family that needs him.In conclusion, Athena has to be the main female character because she is the female character in the epic. Athena is very important because s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
The Roll of minor female characters in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Thomas hardy employs minor female characters much akin to the way Bob Ross uses background to accentuate the main focus of his ... h akin to the way Bob Ross uses background to accentuate the main focus of his paintings. The minor female character of Joan Durbeyfield consistently reveals herself as a somewhat simple-minded and na ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The Important Roles Of Women In The Odyssey"
people often overlook the important roles that women play in the Odyssey. While there are not many female characters in the Odyssey, the few that there are, play pivotal roles in the story and one ca ... ry and one can gain a lot of insight by analyzing how those women are portrayed. Homer portrays the females in contradictory ways: the characters of Athena and Eurykleia are given strong, admirable ro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Smurfettes, cant smurf with them, cant smurf without them (this essay is about sexism in childrens television, specifically the smurfs)
and less naive, I look back on that show only to find sexist messages. "The Smurfs'" have only one female character, Smurfette, which creates many subtle problems. Smurfette's stereotypical physical ... teristics, personality, and anonymity role in the Smurf community promote inaccurate stereotypes of females.The very first time you see Smurfette and her physical features, long blond flowing hair, at ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Comparing the Shojo character of Chihiro (Sen) from Miyazaki's Spirited Away with the character Alice from Disney's Alice in Wonderland
Shojo character, whichtends to be passive or dreamy with ultrafemininity. However, Disney's typicalfemale character is usually not nearly as forthright as a Miyazaki character andthey tend to be more ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Comparing the Shojo character of Chihiro (Sen) from Miyazaki's Spirited Away with the character Alice from Disney's Alice in Wonderland
Shojo character, which tends to be passive or dreamy with ultrafemininity. However, Disney's typicalfemale character is usually not nearly as forthright as a Miyazaki character and they tend to be mor ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Victorian Femininity (A close reading of Thomas Gray's "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat")
oem describes the adventure and eventual death of Gray's tabby cat, who is frequently regarded as a female character. It appears that throughout the ode, Gray is addressing the cat, but the first line ... erely a suggestion, but the opening of the stanza clearly shows that this warning is limited to the female gender.The rest of the verse articulates that all desirable things are not necessarily author ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Discussion of the presentation of women in "Much Ado About Nothing" - How might different audiences react to this presentation?
Therefore she has more freedom as she is not expected to honour her family name. Beatrice, another female character in the play, does not fit into either of these categories.Life for women in Elizabe ... rie whereas women are expected to maintain chastity until marriage.In the play there are much fewer female parts. This was done entirely for practical reasons as women were not allowed to act on the s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Hamlet and Shadow of a Man for a Feminist Point of View
words and the actionsof these two stories only. Often overlooked and unappreciated are the stories femalescharacters such as Queen Gertrude of Denmark, Ophelia both of Hamlet and Hortensia,Rosario, L ... ticism, gender is not indissolvably fixed in Shakespeare. Male characters canprofitably incorporate female characters and women characters can assume masculineones"(Kolin 5)In the Shadow of a Man, Hor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Representation of female character: To what extent can Disney be said to have moved with the times?
nimations. Two feature long cartoons, Snow White (1937) and Mulan (1999), are good examples where a female character takes the central role, Snow White being from the first half of the 20th century an ... imes when these films were made, one might expect the representation of women may have changed, (as female equality has improved) as well as some of the stereotypes of women that Disney has been criti ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Sophocles- "The Women of Trachis" -How feminism was a concept that did not exist. However a strong female character took center stage in "The Women of Trachis"
d the only gender, while women were relegated to being nonentities in that world. However, a strong female character takes center stage in The Women of Trachis, also published as The Trachiniae. Deian ... he combination of willfulness and assertiveness the women display is completely uncharacteristic of females of that time, and illustrates a portrait of women that sets standards for the earliest study ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Explore the varying ways in which Bronte and Hardy present the idea of freedom in the societies they create.
e.One way in which Victorian society affects people's freedom is through marriage. In both novels a female character chooses to marry a man not so much for love but for social reasons. In 'Wuthering H ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature