Essays about: "heroines"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word heroines.
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1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber through the Female Gaze
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. READ MORE
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2. Being An Agent In Your Own Narrative Of [In]Securities:Creating Safe Spaces : Interpreting the life stories of Afghan women, a qualitative study
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : With the recent take back of the country by the Taliban, Afghan women’s experiences of[in]security have again become top-of mind for many. Yet, this renewed focus perpetuates anexisting imagery of Afghan women as powerless victims, with a few rebellious heroines. READ MORE
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3. The Moral of the Story: Growing up in A Gossip’s Story, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre and Little Women
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In nineteenth-century literature, the heroine is often a young woman growing up and learning about the restrictions of gender and society. If she learns from the mistakes she is inevitably going to make, she may be rewarded … with a suitor? How does this correlate, who are the heroines and who are the suitors? This essay aims to answer these questions, along with evaluating parents in literature and assessing their relationships with their daughters to see if that has any effects on their marital outcomes. READ MORE
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4. Passive and Active Romantic Heroines and their Patriarchs : A Comparative Feminist Study of Gender Portrayal with a Focus on Romantic Love in Jane Eyre and Bridget Jones’s Diary
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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5. Fallible Fathers in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : Using Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, this essay will show how Sir Thomas and Mr Bennet fail in their role as fathers, related to expectations in the social context, and how their failure is necessary for the eventual marriages of the heroines, Fanny Price and Elizabeth Bennet. The fathers’ failure also leads to the elopement of Maria Bertram and Lydia Bennet. READ MORE
