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Gender and Shelley's Frankenstein
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A 3 page paper which examines the presence of gender issues in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Gender Characterization
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To say that gender roles are merely the subjugation of women as 'irrational' would not be true. However, oftentimes women are depicted in literature as irrational and powerless. This 5 page paper explores the characterization of Desiree in Kate Chopin's story of Desiree's Baby; for the grandmother in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find and the woman, Jig, in Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants in terms of these factors. No additional sources are listed.
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Gender Conflict in "To The Lighthouse" and "Waterland":
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This 4 page paper examines Virginia Woolfe's, "To the Lighthouse" and Graham Swift's, "Waterland" in order to examine the way in which gender conflicts are handled in these works. This paper furthermore provides insight into the basic plot of each story in order to illustrate how the issue of gender manifests in each instance. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Gender Conflict in Hesiod’s “Theogony” and “The Works and Days”
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A 7 page paper which examines the gender conflicts present in “Theogony” and “The Works and Days” by Hesiod. No additional sources cited.
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Gender Conflict in Thurber and Hemingway
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A five page look at the way tension between the sexes is depicted in James Thurber's two stories "The Catbird Seat" and "The Unicorn in the Garden", as well as in Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." The paper suggests that Thurber tends to subvert traditional stereotypes about men and women, while Hemingway tends to support them. No additional sources.
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Gender Controls in "A Rose For Emily"
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A 5 page paper which discusses how the character of Emily was severely controlled by the gender conditions inherently possessed in the time period and the region of the South. Mention is made of Judith Fetterly's essay titled "A Rose for "A Rose For Emily." Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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Gender in “Don Quixote”
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A 4 page paper which examines how gender is constructed in the classic “Don Quixote.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Gender in All Quiet on the Western Front
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This 4 page paper examines this book by Remarque. Quotes are included. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Gender in American Literature: “The Great Gatsby” and “The Sun Also Rises”
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A 5 page paper which examines how gender is presented, in “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway, as it relates to American identity. No additional sources cited.
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Gender in Beowulf
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A 3 page essay that discusses the role of women and gender in Beowulf, the Old English epic, is reflective the culture of Germanic tribes that invaded England during the early middle ages. A close examination of this poem shows that gender and women play a distinctive role in this tale of heroism. While Beowulf's focus is on the warrior ethos and what this entails, there is also the fact that the poem implies fear of female power, along with an overarching societal need to keep women in a properly subjugated role. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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