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A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. HERACLES: How many and how fierce and sore to tell The labours I with body and hands have wrought! And such an one not even the Spouse of Jove Set me, or the abhorred…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. DEIANIRA: Friends, while our guest is parleying in the house With the girl-captives, on the point to go, I am come forth to you in private, first Wishing to tell you my devices, next…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. DEIANIRA: You come, having been told, as I suppose, Of my distress; but you are ignorant– And may you never by experience learn– What canker gnaws my heart. For Girlhood feeds In the same…

A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. i. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. ANDROMACHE: Hear, that with pleasure I may touch thy soul Not to be born, I argue, and to die, Are equal: but to die…

There was an exception to this rule, which was for widows who were entitled to a proportion of their husband’s estate. During this time a small number of widowed women had petitioned Parliament in matters that related to their estates, a major problem here was that vast majority of women, had little or no access…

The Colombian society in Marquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ is a predominant character throughout the story; it is the alpha in the novel as it calls all the shots for the people who live in the town. The most distinctive role of society is that of creating labels. Labels are created through memories and…

Mahadevi Varma, in her memoirs Skethces from My Past and A Pilgrimage To The Himalayas, depicts the interesting yet mostly pathetic stories of the people she had interacted with in her life. Varma declared that she never felt the need to create fictional characters for she believed that the stories of the common people and…

Both “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “The Werewolf,” by Angela Carter are the stories concerning about women position; therefore, in this essay, I am going to illustrate the position of women in these two stories according to two points of view: the individual point of view and the social point of view to work out…

In feminist writing, numerous techniques are employed in order to gain liberation from many stereotypical representations of women in their society. Anne Sexton uses the strategy of rewriting fairy tales, which I find most ingenious. The is because fairy tales have been what many of us have held close to our hearts, yet Sexton unveils…

Even before the book, The Odyssey by Homer is created, there are many instances where women are to be believed as people who could not be trusted, and men has many different thoughts on how a woman acts. In The Odyssey, there are many dealings where this major theme of women continually repeats itself in…