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- 401: Importance Of Being Earnest
- ... of the Upper Class were still considered unequal of men even at this stage in history, even though the monarch was a woman. Yet, towards the end of the 19th Century, Women rebelled against their stereotypes. They began to seek smaller families so as to escape the child-breeding, household running typecast. Women became active in the social scene with charities, churches, local politics and the arts. Colleges became open to ...
- 402: Hedda Gabler
- ... Gabler and the social mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military status, his daughter Hedda is not tolerated due to her non-conformity to the accepted gender stereotypes. Hedda's gender-inverted marriage to Jorgan Tesman, her desire for power and her use of General Gabler's pistols are unacceptable in her society and motif of "One doesn't do such a thing ...
- 403: Hedda Gabler
- ... Gabler and the social mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military status, his daughter Hedda is not tolerated due to her non-conformity to the accepted gender stereotypes. Hedda's gender-inverted marriage to Jorgan Tesman, her desire for power and her use of General Gabler's pistols are unacceptable in her society and motif of "One doesn't do such a thing ...
- 404: Chaucer
- ... services, and their eyes cannot oversee the wealth that is due to them. The Doctor then is the same as a witch doctor now, with their appearances different, but their intentions and thoughts the same. Stereotypes are seen only in the imagination. And it is in the imagination from which a television evangelist is characteristically similar to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Summoner. The evangelist is a deceiver to many. He quotes scripture ...
- 405: Catcher In The Rye - Holden
- ... myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam dead and bloody." (201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school. Holden believed that children were innocent because they viewed the world and society without any bias. When Phoebe asked him to ...
- 406: Canterbury Tales - In And Out
- ... his examination. But the work seems to remain no more than a study; the poet does not clearly indicate the direction of his humor. He appears to riducule everyone more or less evenly depending upon stereotypes which fit the characters’ station. Chaucer’s knight appears too straight and boring, his Wife too whorish and calculating, and his Summoner too evil. Perhaps he fancied himself as something of a relativist—he believed ...
- 407: Black And White Women Of The Old South
- ... that the black women understood that the white women completely hated the black women for being raped and wanted only pain for the them. This is how the black women of that time got the stereotypes of being very sexual beings and hated by there oppressors. You can see evidence of this when Gwin discussed the realities of such hatred in the book Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner. The main character ...
- 408: Battle Royal
- ... not due solely to the color of his skin. There is a level of invisibility that does directly result from the prejudice of the white men. The white community is unwilling to look beyond their stereotypes of the role and place of black men. The school superintendent that had requested IM's appearance at the ballroom to give his speech was also the same man that brought the black men into ...
- 409: A Dolls House - The Transformation Of Nora Helmer
- ... example of childishness. Once both Torvald and Nora return home after the masquerade, Torvald reads the 1st letter that was written by Krogstad explaining the events between both him and Nora. All of the social stereotypes and beliefs of society towards women are spilled forth by Torvald in this scene. Prior to Torvald’s reading of the mail, he refers to Nora as: "young beauty" (1542), "songbird" (1544), and "my darling ...
- 410: Huckleberry Finn Internal Conf
- ... demonstrates numerous themes. Courage and friendship are two of the most important. In today's world, it is often true that people are quick to judge and slow to make reason out of their judgements. Stereotypes and generalizations are based upon the actions of the relatively few, causing many to suffer. This relates very much to southern society of the 1800's. Most people did not comprehend the pain they were ...
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