Essays about: "heroine"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 37 essays containing the word heroine.

1. 21. Wilkie Collins’ Challenge to Traditional Female Roles in The Woman in White

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Lisa Pagander; [2014]
   Keywords : Wilike collins; sisterhood; female roles; education;

   Abstract : This essay is based on the argument that Wilkie Collins, in his novel The Woman in White (1859), the first sensational novel and prequel to the detective genre, challenges stereotypical female roles in his presentation of the two sisters Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe. Through a comparative analysis of the two sisters, it is shown that Laura represents the traditional Victorian woman, while Marian challenges these ideals, and, through her, Collins creates a new type of literary heroine. READ MORE

3. 22. "Oh, Praise the Eternal Justice of Man!" A Feminist Reading of the Monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Lotta Svensson; [2013-06-26]
   Keywords : Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; feminism; Mary Wollstonecraft; the other; Simone de Beauvoir;

   Abstract : This essay studies the monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from a feminist point of view and sheds a new light on the meaning behind the monster. The aim is to show that the monster - in his development from uninformed to liberated - is in fact a feminist heroine figure that strives to attain equality through fighting patriarchy, which in this essay is represented by his creator, Victor Frankenstein. READ MORE

4. 23. Teaching Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games from an Ethical Perspective

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Julia Ström; [2013-03-20]
   Keywords : ethics; The Hunger Games; reading; literature; dystopian novel;

   Abstract : Ethics is something that is difficult to work with in school in an approachable manner. The claim of this study is that the novel The Hunger Games can serve as help when teaching ethics. There are no guidelines in the National Curriculum as of how to approach ethics yet it states the importance of the subject for students. READ MORE

5. 24. 'And then there were none...' - Niobe and her Children

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

   Author : Dafni Margari-Paschali; [2013]
   Keywords : tragedy; mythological example; deconstruction; hubris; Niobids; Niobe; Greek mythology; Attic black-figure pottery; Attic red-figure pottery; Italian red-figure pottery; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : How can a myth for human arrogance and slaughter have a consolatory effect? Niobe, a proud mother of six sons and an equal number of daughters, claimed superiority over Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis. As a consequence for this insolence, she was deprived from her motherhood; the divine archers slaughtered her children one by one. READ MORE

6. 25. The Effects of Revolution Upon the development of Women's Capabilities and Freedom : An Analysis of the Trilogy, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins with a Special Focus on the Protagonist, Katniss Everdeen

   University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Negar Chakoshi; [2013]
   Keywords : Suzanne Collins; Women s studies in the Hunger Games ;

   Abstract : The present essay is the evaluation of women’s conditions and gender equality in the novel, the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Different conditions of women such as the political, physical, marital and financial are analyzed in Panem society before and after the revolution. READ MORE