Essays about: "Female protagonist"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 52 essays containing the words Female protagonist.

1. 11. A Contemporary Victorian Patriarchy : A Gender Studies Approach to Gender Nonconformity as a Response to Patriarchal Oppression in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2021]
   Keywords : hegemony; gender nonconformity; bildungsroman; Victorian society;

   Abstract : This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. READ MORE

3. 12. Male nostalgia is a dead teenage girl : The romantic nostalgia of idealized traumatic female adolescence in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Tova Hirsch; [2020]
   Keywords : Teenage girls; female adolescence; nostalgia; perfect femininity; Sofia Coppola; girlhood; female trauma;

   Abstract : The historic portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema as a mythical, sexual, hyper feminine and contemporary creature makes way for a specific but fairly common trope. Namely a trope where the teenage girl is used to elicit nostalgia and romance for the male protagonist, specifically because of her trauma and pain. READ MORE

4. 13. The Hidden Femininity of The Hobbit : the Gendering of Bilbo Baggins

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

   Author : Josefina Hansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender; gender roles; gender norms; Bilbo; The Hobbit; femininity; masculinity;

   Abstract : This essay argues that the protagonist of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins can be considered to be a female character in a male form. By applying feminist literary criticism this essay map out the traditional gender roles in society along with the traditional gender roles in Middle Earth in order to investigate Bilbo’s female characteristics, the similarities between him and women in patriarchal society as well as the female imagery present in The Hobbit. READ MORE

5. 14. Narrative and Gender: Similarities and differences in written narratives produced from same- and opposite-gender perspective in Modern Greek

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Grekiska (nygrekiska)

   Author : Lambrini Kokkali; [2020]
   Keywords : discourse analysis; gender representation; males; females; Greek language; Greek society; narrative text; picture-story; stereotypes; story-grammars; storytelling; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Narrative and gender are both notions closely connected to culture and society. Narrative, on the one hand, is not just the art of telling stories, it carries deeper meanings, evokes feelings, and even affects our actions and interactions with one another. READ MORE

6. 15. A feminist reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Mikael Hillerström; [2019]
   Keywords : Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; feminist reading; gender roles;

   Abstract : This essay is a feminist analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) that shows how Shelley criticizes society through presenting feminist viewpoints. I argue that Shelley critiques traditional gender roles by punishing characters subscribing to them. Most of the characters conform to traditional gender stereotypes. READ MORE