Essays about: "kristianstad essay"

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  1. 1. Where Are the Sows? : A Feminist Reading of George Orwell's Animal Farm

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Andre Persson; [2021]
    Keywords : George Orwell; Animal Farm; patriarchy; traditional gender roles; toxic masculinity.;

    Abstract : This essay argues that the patriarchy is pervasive throughout George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm. By providing examples of narrative events and character actions, the essay aims to make evident the ways in which the patriarchy is represented throughout the novella. READ MORE

  3. 2. Rational Femininity and Emotional Masculinity in Golding’s Lord of the Flies  

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Stefanos Mavromatis; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; traditional gender roles; feminine thinking; masculine thinking; patriarchy; William Golding; Lord of the Flies;

    Abstract : This paper argues that in Golding’s Lord of the Flies feminine thinking is rational and masculine thinking is emotional. This essay provides historical background that presents the general patriarchal view of femininity during 20th century England of being seen as the inferior-emotional gender with intellectual limitations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

  5. 4. Misogyny in the Marshlands : female Characterization in Seamus Heaney’s “Bog Queen” and “Punishment”

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Olivia Signe Afrodite Gränglid; [2021]
    Keywords : The Male Gaze; Stereotypical Characterization; Sexual Objectification; Ecofeminism; Seamus Heaney; Bog-poems;

    Abstract : This essay argues that the depiction of women in Seamus Heaney’s poems “Bog Queen” and “Punishment” results from the male gaze in three ways: the narrative viewpoint, stereotypical characterization, and the objectification of the female body. The following essay analyses the poems through an ecofeminist perspective that enables examination of the female characters as personifications of nature – “Bog Queen” as Mother Earth and the victim of “Punishment” as Nerthus, the fertility goddess. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Father's Son and the Muvi Star : construction of Identity and Positioning in Call Me by Your Name

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Jette Strohschneider; [2020]
    Keywords : Call Me by Your Name; identity; poststructuralist criticism; positioning; critical discourse analysis; André Aciman;

    Abstract : The aim of the essay is to problematize the main characters' conception of identity in André Aciman's novel Call Me by Your Name. Due to Elio's inability to see himself and Oliver as continuously constructing and shifting bodies, the essay claims that the end of their relationship as they knew it during their summer in Italy was inevitable. READ MORE