In the play, Gwendolen sets the image for a typical Victorian woman, along with her mother, Lady Bracknell. She has her personal values and ideals, and exhibits self- confidence. This can be proven by some of her lines in Act 1, like her first line “I am always right!” or “In fact, I am never wrong.” However, sometimes her over-confidence makes her look foolish. When she meets Cecily for the first time, she declares that they were going to be “great friends” and she has “likes her more than she can say”. Then when she suspects that Cecily is going to steal her fiancé, Gwendolen immediately switches her tone to saying that she “distrusted” Cecily from the first moment she saw her and that her “first impressions of people are invariably right”.
I would of thought Ziegfield was loosing it, don't fix what's not broken. Although this was a bold decision, it turned out Fanny could in fact do it all. She had the audience in the palm of her hands with her long lagatto song about her man. This song has made her the unbelievable superstar she is today. Written by Maurice Yvain and lyrics by Channing Pollack, the song is about her man, that doesn't seem to be the best guy around but he's hers to keep and she loves him so.
The roles of women in Much Ado About Nothing and the Odyssey are quite similar in many regards. The gender theme in Much Ado About Nothing like many of the works of that can be seen as a loaded concept. The female characters portrayed by Shakespeare in the majority of his work are often seen as submissive and easy to control. The daughters and nieces submit to the patriarchal society and repression of the time with no obvious complaint. Characters are subject to limitations and expectations because of their gender.
‘Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don’t want no trouble’ this shows that the workers were cautious of being caught with Curley’s wife and sent her on her way to avoid conflict. Curley treasures his wife and if she were caught in any trouble, even if it was her fault, she’d be seen as innocent. Finally, Steinbeck also presents women as attractive and confident. The quotes ‘If he ain’t, I better look someplace else, she said playfully’ and ‘Hi, Good-lookin’.’ These show all the workers think Curley’s wife is attractive and she knows this, so she’s being confident with them.
Ryan Cho Per 1 12/13/11 Women as Objects In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, women are perceived as mere objects rather than human beings. They are treated like property, having marriages arranged for them and being adopted as either potential wives or servants. Compared with today’s society, people throughout the novel definitely treasure women just as much as we do now but from a different approach. This causes women in the novel, especially Elizabeth, to become dependent on the people around them. In the novel, women play an important role being highly valued as objects but become passive as a result.
Kolby McNeal Harrington English B4 October 5, 2012 The Story of Odysseus Although Odysseus meets many of the epic hero, there are also distinctions which make Odysseus seem less than heroic. They say that because he seems just like any other hero although he was one of the greatest. The things I will be talking about in this essay is Odysseus accomplishments and highlights. Odysseus didn’t really have any troubles at birth, but he left home for the war at a young age. It is kind of cool because he left at a young age it doesn’t mean I want to leave at a young age, but it’s cool for him.
Seemingly is the show gender neutral and more, the cast is multicultural and - racial. Women have seemingly been thrust into positions of power and equality with their male counterparts. Actually it’s far from that. While the women on the show possessing superpowers equal to that of their male counterparts, Heroes is far from being shamelessly sexist. Everything seems to be contemporary, where gender issues would not be a problem, but when the viewer should peel back the layers of the show, it would not take long to see that Heroes relies on traditional stereotypes in terms of the gender lines of protection.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: The thematic relationship between Lenina and Bernard Lenina Crowne is one of the main protagonists in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. She is stunningly beautiful and is routinely described as "pneumatic". Lenina can also be seen as the subject in the novel that every male desires. This may be due to her amazing looks or the way that she can be used for emotionless sex. Lenina is also described to be “uncommonly pretty”, this view of her is completely out of her sphere of influence as she is one of the characters who follows the ideology “Everyone belongs to everyone else”.
Often perceived as being submissive and without a voice, Desdemona has proved that she is in fact no victim to her husband, but more assertive in his presence. When Desdemona defends her marriage to Othello, it may not seem strange to anyone reading the play today, unless the role of women during the Renaissance period is taken into account. Because Desdemona is significantly younger than Othello, she is automatically stereotyped as being naïve, gullible, and sexually driven, all characteristics of a passive nature. However, Desdemona is arguably one of the most sane and loyal characters in Othello, and is less subservient than most of the women in that time period. The role of women in the Renaissance was not that of assertiveness, and certainly not that of equality, when it came to men.
Medea is alienated by society because she is an intelligent, foreign, powerful woman. The first reason Medea is shunned is her gender. In the patriarchal society of Ancient Greece, femininity is a faux pas on its own. On top of being a woman, though, she is clever and intelligent; these qualities were not admirable in a woman of her time. King Creon states that “a sharp tempered woman, or for that matter a man, is easier to deal with than the clever type who hold her tongue.” Medea is, in fact, clever enough to hold her tongue and stay quiet.