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Gender RolesWhile I was growing up, gender roles were highly defined by my parents and teachers as well as all other societal influences. Boys were taught to do “boy” things and girls were taught to do “girly” things. The toys that children play with and the activities that are encouraged by adults demonstrate the influence…

Actor: Gavin KaneCharacter: EddiePlay: Fool for Love by Sam ShepardSuper Objective:Eddie wants May to understand just how much hes gone through to come and seeher. He wants her realize his love for her even though he has done somethings that wouldcause her to doubt him. Eddie needs to be with May, she is a security…

Trifles by: Tammy Wallick Mention the word feminist and most people think of the modern women’s movement. Long before the bra burning of the 60s, however, writers were writing about the lives and concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, was written in 1916, long before the modern women’s…

nishmentThere are many links between Crime and Punishment, by FyodorDostoyevsky and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Isben. Each charactergoes through many ironic situations. Throughout both of the worksall three types of irony are used. In this essay irony is going tobe used to link the two works together. Dramatic, situational, andverbal irony are going to…

?Class Distinctions in PygmalionPygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, is a thrilling dramain which a scientist of phonetics tries to transform acockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl into a woman aspoised and well-spoken as a duchess. The play considerssome of the illusions of the class distinctions. This isrepresented by the characters, their situations, and theirEliza Doolittle…

Women Have Come A Long WayA Doll House is no more about womens rights than Shakespeares Richard II is about the divine right of kings, or Ghosts about syphilis. . . . Its theme is the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she is and to strive to…

Sometime after the publication of “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen spokeat a meeting of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights. He explained tothe group, “I must decline the honor of being said to have worked for theWomen’s Rights movement. I am not even very sure what Women’s Rights are. Tome it has been a question…

eir ThemesComparing Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion and theThemes They Represent In J. D. Salingers novel TheCatcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield,muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from theworld of confusion and phonies while George BernardShaws main character of Pygmalion, Eliza Dolittle,struggles to become a phony. The possible…

It’s Homecoming night, and the football team is scrambling on the wet locker room floor. The air is packed with steam from the hot showers colliding into the cool fall air. It smells like — well it smells like a football locker room. Talk of whose date is the hottest, and who played the best…

William Shakespeare was a supreme English poet and playwright,universally recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare’s life is lacking;much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth istraditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. Hewas the third of eight children, and…