In "Fences" by August Wilson, Rose Maxson proves that a woman in the 1950's can have the upper hand. Rose is the heart of the Maxson family and the peacemaker. Her husband, Troy, is a bully which only makes Rose stronger. Living in the 1950's was difficult time for an African-A...

"Trifles" takes place in 1916 where the rights of women are yet to be stated, a place that is ruled by the paterfamiliae, the men. Only men know what is right, only men know what is best for their family. Men criticize women a lot and make fun of them. Men do not understand the difficulty...

What does Harwood say about change and changing self in her poems "In the Park", "Prize-giving" and "The Glass Jar"? How does she communicate her ideas?Change is just and ordinary event that every individual encounters many times over throughout their life's journey. Whether this change is as drama...

Dealing with reality is a profound and difficult obstacle to overcome, but in life everyone is faced with it. Although it may come in any shape or form such as death or a breakup in a relationship, it has an important theme in many stories throughout literature. Katherine Porter's short story...

Topic: Compare Sethe to other fictional (or real) mothers who murdered their children or were responsible for their deaths (Medea, Mother Courage, or examples from the media that you are aware of). Euripides' Medea and Morrison's Beloved are related to two mothers one of whom murdere...

Babe In Total Control of Herself One day when I was surfing the Internet, I came across this quote from "What is a Bitch?": "When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a bitch. When I stand up for those I love, they call me a bitch. When I speak my mind, think my own tho...

"Fences", is a unique drama play written by August Wilson. The play was during the 1950s involving an African American family. This play presents barriers crossed in father-son and husband-wife relationships. Wilson made the title very symbolic to the plot of the play. Throughout the pla...

Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, is a one-act play that clings to its old-fashioned notions, yet still is in tune with the more modern times. It tells of the investigators of a murder and their wives. A silent battle of the sexes is waged while the men look condescendingly upon the woman and thei...

Medea's character is one of great complexity. It has many layers that can fuel other aspects of her behavior. She is a woman that is courageous, powerful, reckless, passionate, and especially vengeful. In this story she shows that the quote "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned" i...

The events begin to succeed each other more and more rapidly and the 'circle' begins to spin around her. We find that, for saving her husband's life, Nora has committed forgery and Krogstad is ready to use this information in order achieve his goals : ''(...)if I produce th...

L. A. Confidential The Bad Cop I was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. It's rare to see a movie with great actin...

The nineteenth-century American poet, Emily Dickinson, is best known for her short, cynical lyrics riddled with death and her personal reclusion from the outside world and even her family. Of course, as a recluse, Dickinson never married or had any significant romantic relationships, often wearing w...

Males and Females face gender stereotypes everyday of their lives. As we are brought up into this world we are taught to be unique individuals with our own ideas of how things should be, but society breaks down the uniqueness of each and every one of us and seems to blend us all as one. Emotional ro...

"If the fabric of Cane is the life essence and its meaning behind absurdity, then Jean Toomer's women characters are the threads which weave cane together....perhaps they are all the same women archetypal women, all wearing different faces, but each possessing an identifiable aspect of w...

WOMEN IN SOCIETY IN HENRICK IBSEN\'S \" A DOLL\'S HOUSE \" Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 at Skien in Norway. He was from a wealthy family who soon after his birth lost their money. Ibsen worked as a pharmacist\'s apprentice, but at the age of twenty-two he had written his first play, a pro...

The dramatic and thematic concerns presented in scene five of, Box the Pony, by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell, are important to the overall structure of the play. In scene five, we learn about the main character Steff, the fictional retrospect who plays Leah, who yearns for physical and spiritual es...

A Doll House Rabbi Hillel quote "If not now, when?" is what Nora basically said to Torvald when she finally said enough and decided to leave him. Even though he couldn't understand or believe that she was going he also asked "If not now, when?" will there ever b...

Two Can Play That GameM (15+)STARRING: Vivica .A. Fox, Morris ChestnutDIRECTOR: Mark BrownCRITICS WARNING: Sexual References, little offensive language, but great storyline. Colour 123 minutesIs your man playing up? Showing signs of infidelity or as Shante Smith (Vivica. A. Fox) would say... "Is You...

This article is of a fictional matinee performance of the 'Doll's House', in the West End Theatres, London, late 1893, post the period where the play was drumming up quite as much scandal due to Ibsens other contributions, such as 'Ghosts', which provided fresher objects for the public's ire. T...

When considering the fairy tale "Cinderella" and the film Pretty Woman, one can conclude the main theme of the two is taking life by the horns and doing whatever is necessary in order to succeed. Both girls are considerably motivated individuals who go beyond the norm to get themselves out of unfor...

Trifles was a play based on a real life tragedy. A tragedy in which a man was found strangled in his bed while the wife unknowingly sleeps. The author, Susan Glaspell, was on staff at the Des Moines Daily News when the murdered occurred. The play is said to draw upon a detective's story. However...

Gender Roles in TriflesThroughout history, there has been many works of literature that used the concept of gender roles. An example of one of these literary works is Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Glaspell uses the story of a murderess to demonstrate the roles of women in the early n...

Medea's character is one of great complexity. It has many layers that can fuel other aspects of her behavior. She is a woman that is courageous, powerful, reckless, passionate, and especially vengeful. In this story she shows that the quote "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned" is indeed true. ...

1.DefinitionSexism, set of attitudes and behaviors towards people that judge or belittle them in the basis of their gender, or that perpetuate stereotypical assumptions about gender roles.Nowadays, the term is most often used to refer to men's attitude towards women.2. HistoryTraditionally, rights t...

1) What was the play about? (brief synopsis) Mr. Kipps, the protagonist, has engaged a professional actor to help him learn to act out and reveal his play onstage to his family and friends. By the second act, a shy, timid, and nervous Kipps transforms into the superior actor. At this point, t...