Essays Tagged: "Femininity"
The Rise and Fall of Lady MacBeth
uously changing throughout the play. What begins as a struggle for power and a longing to shred her femininity turns Lady Macbeth into what she fears most - a guilt ridden weakling.In the beginning ( ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
About gender roles and feminism
r. According to Holly Devor, "masculinity is usually characterized by dominance and aggression, and femininity by passivity and submission"(415). Every move they make in their daily lives will be base ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
This essay is about the metaphorical use of mathmatics in "The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sharon Olds
The Emergence of Femininity in "The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sharon Olds."The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sh ... phorically to describe the girls new found sexuality.The girl attempts to deny the emergence of her femininity though the impersonal use ofmathematics in order to intellectually repress her true sexua ... provocative yet her look is innocent. This also goes to pointout how the boys do not recognize her femininity. Although the girl is beginning torecognize her attraction to the boys when she looks at ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Antigone vs Ismene by Sophocles
ld have been a strong, successful90's type woman with her liberated and strong attitude towards her femininity, whileIsmene seems to be a more dependent 1950's style woman. Antigone acts as a freespir ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Review of Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid"
s. mind. This theme is developed throughout the play into smaller themes such as masculinity versus femininity, greed versus love, and death versus life.Two of the major changes from the text to the p ... symbolize the themes of the play. Pink is a colour usually associated with life, love, health, and femininity. Blue is associated with sickness, death, unhappiness, and (oddly enough) masculinity. I ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Evil of Isolation. Essay on "The Scarlet letter"
t stands as a constant reminder of her malfeasance. Shame and isolationstrip her of all passion and femininity, leaving her a shell of her former self. ThoughArthur's mark of shame is not visible, it ... e [departs] from[Hester], which had been essential to keep her a woman.' Stripped of her passion andfemininity, Hester is left as an iron character with a solemn manner. Hester's shameremains to haunt ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Analysis on William Ahakespeare's "As You Like It"
s many philosophical ideas. He introduced various conflicts about love, wealth and power, identity, femininity and the real world that were not completely resolved at the end of the play. He showed th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Power of the Feminine in Macbeth. This essay explores the roles of Lady Macbeth and the witches in the original play, the Kurosawa film entitled Throne of Blood, and the Polanski film version.
y enough, the women control not only their own destiny, but also that of our hero himself, Macbeth. Femininity, particularly that of the maternal, is a very widely used theme in the play and films. Ho ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Shakespeare's Macbeth.
y strong subjects or emotions. These emotions are ambition for power and fear, dictated by standard femininity. The diction and action of this play clarify Lady Macbeth's internal struggle. In turn, t ... an in a world were wars are frequent and customary for men. Thus, the struggle between ambition and femininity that takes place in Lady Macbeth's soul becomes even more evident though words spoken by ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
Women's bodies throughout advertising.
patriarchy.In Susan Bordo's anthology titled Unbearable Weight, she examines the body as a text of femininity. Bordo writes that we learn what femininity consists of and how to achieve it directly th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Construction of Femininity in Popular Modern Film (Legally Blonde).
ome a top lawyer.Colour is very important for the formation and connoted meaning of the character's femininity. The poster is designed using typically feminine colours of bubblegum pink and sunshine y ... e. Her clothes, accessories and general appearance do the same for the paradigm of upheld 'girlish' femininity. 'Girlish' femininity can be easily associated with childhood toys like Barbie dolls. The ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Sporting Diversity: The politics of difference and identity.
a profile that reflects appropriate behaviors and appearances based on characteristics of hegemonic femininity. However, the world of sport is based on the ideals of strength, power and aggressiveness ... )Women's sport is constructed and maintained by white, powerful, men. The organization of hegemonic femininity in sport is a result of masculine values and ideals. "On one hand, men denigrated (women) ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Georgia O'Keefe's life and artistic interests.
of emotion and from which deeper meanings could be interpreted, such as sexuality and statements of femininity (which she subsequently denied). She worked on two different but inter-related subjects: ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Te Gender Roles in Society
relationship of gender. Gender is best described the construction of what is culturally assumed as "femininity" as well as "masculinity". Lesbian and gay male theory of a feminist is beyond the logic ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Wuthering heights: What do we learn about Hindley in the first half of the novel? What do you think about his character and role in the whole novel?
and how is he presented.II) Some readers see Hindley as an odd mixture of strength and weakness, of femininity and masculinity. What do you think about his character and role in the whole novel?Hindle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Character sketch for atticus in "to kill a mockingbird"
bling of the Finch family would be Alexandra who's main responsibility is to instill the virtues of femininity in Scout. Atticus's younger brother is Jimmy who occasionally visits the family during Ch ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Victorian Femininity (A close reading of Thomas Gray's "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat")
Victorian FemininityOde on the Death of a Favorite CatFrom hence, ye beauties, undeceived,Know, one false step ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Macbeth and Feminism
figures of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and the witches, the play gives us images of a masculinity and a femininity that are terribly disturbed." At the same time, critics have tended to discuss the relati ... he society in which Macbeth is living and the effects that traditional labels of "masculinity" and "femininity" have on that society.The nature of gender roles in Macbeth--a play which is ostensibly a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
Analyse the representation of masculinity and femininity in one genre or body of work and discuss the portrial of black actros in Hollywood
n film and how they are portrayed by Hollywood. The way masculinity is portrayed by men in film and femininity by women, the structure of Film Noir and its transformation into Film Neo-Noir, and how t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
Freud's View on Women
In Freud's time, and since his death, his views of women and femininity have stirred much controversy. Psychoanalysis has been categorized as "...patriarchal and ... beth Young-Bruehl states that the general feminist critique launched against Freud is that he views femininity as failed masculinity: "Females start out like males and then - disappointed in their mot ... iliated over their lack of a penis, self-deprived of their masturbatory pleasure - take a fall into femininity." (Young-Bruehl, 1990, p. 41).She asserts that this general criticism has been used for t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors