Essays about: "A Woman of No Importance"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words A Woman of No Importance.
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6. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE
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7. Midwives' experience of perineal rupture prevention : a Minor Field Study in Indonesia
University essay from Sophiahemmet HögskolaAbstract : Background The complications of getting affected by perineal ruptures by giving birth can cause anxiety and consequences that affect the daily life of the woman. Over ninety percent of Indonesian midwives had neither acquired any basic skills nor received any further professional development training in this area during the three years following their graduation. READ MORE
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8. Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. READ MORE
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9. Citizen participation in development of public spaces- A case study in Nepal looking at Minecraft as a tool in urban planning
University essay from Lunds universitet/FastighetsvetenskapAbstract : Public space are open spaces and areas where people in the city move around, get together and play, regardless of background, age, ethnicity, gender and income. This is particularly important in poor neighborhoods where people have no access to places where to socialize. READ MORE
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10. Yo ban? Rape rap and limits of free speech in India : An argument analysis of the debate about banning the artist Honey Singh
University essay from Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis consists of an argument analysis of three columns published in the Indian newspaper The Indian Express in the aftermath of the gangrape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December 2012, and the following debate about glorification of rape in Indian popular culture. One of the columnists is arguing in favour of including gender as a category in the Indian law on hate speech, thereby banning an artist called Honey Singh and his lyrics about rape. READ MORE
