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- 391: Act One Of Othello
- ... that he shall use to split the lovers in an act of serious deception. The first act of Othello signals to the audience the coming themes of love and war, deception and trust and arguably; stereotypes. The issues Shakespeare brings to light, create thought and internal debate, this leads to the pleasure that Aristotle described; and achieves Shakespeare’s primary aim – to entertain.
- 392: A New England Nun
- ... of this story. The man’s influence is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a threat to the serenity and security of a spinster’s life. Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married yet, lived a life of chores and piousness. They learned their domestic chores and other things that would make them presentable ...
- 393: Madame Bovary 5
- ... role reversal"? And while quite willful, she proves incapable of action on her own (until her suicide). She manipulates, then lives vicareously through others--which looks a lot to me like a take on conservative stereotypes, a quite UNreversed woman who can't gone amuck. She *fantasizes* male creative action, and identifies with it (though she can't even manage that--her fantasy is of herself mirrored in the glory of ...
- 394: Huckleberry Finn 7
- ... by putting on shows that appeal to the public s attraction to humor. Another piece of irony is that the two most intelligent people in the novel are the two that, uder the time s stereotypes, were supposed to have been the most ignorant Huck Fin a runaway, and Jim, a slave. A third illusion that is demonstrated throughout the novel is the difference between what is thought to be good ...
- 395: Shiloh
- ... the relationship and it would appear that he is adopting the feminist role without even realizing it. He spends much of his time at home sitting around watching Donahue and making needlepoint pillow cases. Two stereotypes that are indignant to most housewives. I believe that this marriage was doomed from the very beginning. They conceived a child out of wedlock when they were both eighteen years of age, and married, more ...
- 396: Woman In The 19th Century
- ... Margaret Fuller discusses the state of marriage in America during the 1800‘s. She is a victim of her own knowledge, and is literally considered ugly because of her wisdom. She feels that if certain stereotypes can be broken down, women can have the respect of men intellectually, physically, and emotionally. She explains why some of the inequalities exist in marriages around her. Fuller feels that once women are accepted as ...
- 397: Sympathy
- ... The blood is also ambiguous because it symbolizes the bird and African Americans identity. The African American society lives feeling that they are trapped in a cage; however, instead of bars there are racists and stereotypes. Once the bird realizes that he has lost yet another battle for freedom he then must "fly back to his perch and cling"(10). However, the bird would much rather be happily swinging on a ...
- 398: Rocking The Boat
- ... Ada Monroe, in Frazier’s book, will relinquish the roles that are expected of them to achieve their ideals. Set in the Civil War Era, society, in the days of Inman and Ada Monroe, many stereotypes and societal standards were pressured upon people. As a woman, Ada Monroe is envisioned as a prim and proper Southern woman. Even Inman states that he envisions how she should look. "Ada would step out ...
- 399: Remains Of The Day
- ... more dignified than the showy American landscape, in its "lack of obvious drama or spectacle" (28). Obviously, most regular people in England did not act like the butlers. The behavior of the old butlers represents stereotypes which persist today in our conception of the people of England. After all, "butlers only…exist in England" (43). Indeed, Farraday judges the worth of Stevens, and Darlington Hall, according to stereotypical ideals of genuine ...
- 400: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... mentioned to the class "Somewhere in there you have to define who you are since you are neither a Sicilian born Italian nor of the White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture that is the basis for stereotypes of Australians and American. Our culture lies in between and it is appropriate that it be defined as something in between as well." Her words shared with our class showed that she like Josephine discovered ...
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