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Analysis of Female Representation in the Movies Carrie and Mean Girls

Teen films have demonstrated that female youth can be represented as complex, multi-dimensional characters. When analysing this statement through the lens of Carrie (1976) and Mean Girls (2004), we can see that many of the female characters presented have their own unique personalities. Coming out...

CharacterFilm AnalysisMovie Review

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The Role of the Mysterious Demoiselle in Marie De France’s Lanval

In Marie de France’s Lanval, the character of the mysterious demoiselle rises above the patriarchal male-dominated society and stands alone, using her beauty and objectification through the male gaze to assert dominance over any situation and in the end save Lanval from certain death. The...

CharacterGender RolesThe Lais of Marie de France

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Analysis of Creon’s Character in Sophocles’ Antigone

In Sophocles’ “Antigone,” the main character, Antigone, displayed strong determination and loyalty to her family and god. However, I sympathize more with Kreon because he was a man of his words and he refused to break social peace and state laws. Throughout the play, Kreon’s...

AntigoneCharacterSophocles

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Christ Character in Flannery O’connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

In 2018, books that religion in them generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. The text we will be analyzing is Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” This takes place in the present day and the genre of the story is...

A Good Man Is Hard to FindCharacterJesus Christ

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Analysis of Red’s Character in the Shawshank Redemption

In the film The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Barabont, the protagonist Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding attempts to determine his destiny by saying he's never gonna get out of Shawshank and has accepted that as the truth. Later on he realizes that there's more than one...

CharacterMovie ReviewShawshank Redemption

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Analysis of How the Character Medea Captures Euripide’s Stance on Justice

Medea by Euripides challenges the beliefs of the time through the use of his stance on justice, through the female character Medea. Through the use of the strong female character Medea and gradually the setting of the play, Euripides captures his stance on justice to...

CharacterJusticeMedea

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The Fruitless Adventures of Huck Finn

Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered a coming-of-age masterpiece, and an American classic to many literature-enthusiasts. Although most are drawn into the wild journeys the novel takes its readers through and is viewed on the surface level as Huck’s great...

CharacterNovelThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Analysis of the Character Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The character Wife of Bath of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is one of the most memorable characters in the story for her “modern” critical thinking of patriarchal society (Grappe 1). She has often been considered a true feminist figure because of her thoughts and...

CharacterGeoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales

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Analysis of Mr. White’s Character in the Monkey’s Paw by W.w. Jacobs

In numerous aspects, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs studies Mr. White’s remarkably convoluted character, one that transforms from being ultimately happy to one full of fear, guilt, loneliness and doubt. From the dark and stormy night that rages outside the family’s home in the...

Character

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Female Characters in the Taming of the Shrew and the Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath’s, ‘The Bell Jar’ and Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ follow two female protagonists making their way through extremely phallocentric societies. Both female characters are othered from society as they don’t fit the normal social conventions of their era. Even though The Taming...

CharacterThe Taming of The ShrewWilliam Shakespeare

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