Gender Relations
Essays

¶ … Chaucer in favor of the Church or opposed to it? Be sure you provide proof.

James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) and "The Story of an Hour" (1894) by Kate Chopin depict marriage as a prison for both men and women from which the main characters fantasize about escaping. Louise Mallard is similar to the unnamed narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is that they are literally imprisoned in a domestic world from which there is no escape but death or insanity.

Prompt One: Consider the main characters in Oedipus Rex and Othello

During the eighteenth century, China would undergo a transformation. Part of the reason for this was because different innovations (such as the invention of gun powder), would allow both the European Monarchs and the…

The character Emilia reveals the feminist subtext that underlies Shakespeare's Othello. The audience first meets Emilia in Act II, scene one of Shakespeare's Othello, when the whole crew reaches Cyprus on the ship.

Multiculturalism as a backdrop for culturally-based learning styles in Australia

Why did the U.S.S.R. succeed in building its "empire" from 1945 to 1990?

The mid-19th century is characterized by periods of slavery, poverty, and turmoil. But where are women situated amidst all these? This article attempts to take a look at different kinds of women during this notable…

Girls and their Guns -- Phallic violence and female autonomy in "Thelma and Louise"

At first reading, Things They Carried appears to be a book about the Viet Nam War, especially the negative aspects of this war or conflict. However, Tim O'Brien is going further and actually using this vehicle as a…