Essays about: "Female protagonist"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 52 essays containing the words Female protagonist.

  1. 16. Female Resistance in a World of Epic Heroes and Legendary Adventures : A feminist reading of Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero, inspired by Luce Irigaray’s “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine”

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Cecilia Lovela; [2019]
    Keywords : Literature; Fantasy; The Lost Hero; Feminism; Resistance; English; Teaching;

    Abstract : Literature is an important part of the curriculum of Swedish secondary school and The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is a popular novel among teenagers in Stockholm. This creates an opportunity to look closer at the novel, and to investigate the narrative’s discussion of the female, and in this particular case, its depictions of the female characters. READ MORE

  3. 17. Gender Performativity and Motherhood in Coraline

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Nina Nilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Mothers; gender norms; children’s literature; schema theory; performativity;

    Abstract : Coraline by Neil Gaiman has several characters who in many ways break gender norms. The main protagonist of the novel, Coraline, acts more in accordance with masculine gender norms, and the mother figures are mothers who do not fully conform to the traditional mother role. READ MORE

  4. 18. SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Agnese Boffano; [2018-01-19]
    Keywords : engelska; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; Feminist Criticism; sexuality; sexual hierarchy;

    Abstract : Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, while also criticising how sex is used to limit women’s success but used to enhance men’s success. READ MORE

  5. 19. “To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Lisa James; [2018]
    Keywords : Butler; human body; space; society; Contemporary America; literature; dystopia; Los Angeles; Southern California; ecology; global warming; sociopolitics; gender; stereotypes; race; ethnicity; stagnation; patriarchy; female voice; hysteria; feminist studies; social reform; movement; migration; nomadology; Octavia Butler; empathy; sympathy; Parable of the Sower; hyperempathy;

    Abstract : This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. READ MORE

  6. 20. Patriarchal Princesses and Wicked Witches : A Feminist Reading of the Depiction of Women in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Marlene Lindberg; [2018]
    Keywords : feminist criticism; gender; Arthur Miller; binary oppositions; dichotomies; patriarchy; feminism; witch trials; feministisk teori; kön; Arthur Miller; binära motsatser; dikotomier; patriarkat; feminism; häxprocesser;

    Abstract : Based on the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible treats a historical event that could be considered overflowing with patriarchal oppression. Despite the author’s clear disapproval of the historical cruelty, the play continuously reveals patriarchal structures and shows misogynist tendencies in its depiction of women. READ MORE