«While considering the time period and by closely evaluating how events and people play against each other, Shakespeare’s Othello can be considered a full bodied and consummate feminist work. In fact, Shakespeare’s close and dramatic critique of a...» Document abstract
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SummaryWhile considering the time period and by closely evaluating how events and people play against each other, Shakespeare’s Othello can be considered a full bodied and consummate feminist work. In fact, Shakespeare’s close and dramatic critique of a system of absolutes in a patriarchal military society makes this work a template or preceding influence on what is known as feminist ethics, or care ethics today. While reading this play again I could not help but evaluate it under a feminist lens, and by scrutinizing how each character reacts in a system of events I feel that Shakespeare moves closer and closer toward an ethic of care, or one based on a personal relationships, individuality, and communal responsibility. This sharply opposes the existing system in the play that is military, justice-based, and overwhelmingly focused on honor.
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- Iago is undoubtedly one of the most finely hewn and crafted characters.
- It would obviously be bombastic to call Iago a care ethicist.
- The play can be considered a richly feminist work.
- Othello's tragic failure to break from the absolute ideas of the importance of chastity, honor, and the military.
- The essential goal of feminism is to destroy all limiting doctrines and templates.
«Being an adult usually implies that you have a power of perspective, that is, to see things in a larger system and then to understand these things as being symptomatic of this system. Naturally, children lack this ability and their sense of reality...» Document abstract
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SummaryBeing an adult usually implies that you have a power of perspective, that is, to see things in a larger system and then to understand these things as being symptomatic of this system. Naturally, children lack this ability and their sense of reality is tenuous and fragmented, and many times their only frame of reference is a shadowy emotional memory itself. Richard Wilbur in the poem “The Writer” and Margaret Atwood in her poem “A Sad Child” both recognize the violence of childhood consciousness and both have written poems suggesting where the child’s line of self and perspective will be or may be under certain conditions. Both poets recognize the severe circumstances, the conceptual intensity, and the wavering devastation of being either too close or far away from the ego.
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- Richard Wilbur begins his poem about his daughter writing a short story in her room.
- Perhaps the most poignant strength of the poem is the subsequent parallelism that he draws between the experience of his daughter to one of a bird that once got caught in her room.
- The poem 'A Sad Child' by Margaret Atwood.
- Atwood is ostensibly less compassionate.
- Though the voice of each poem distinctively carries its own spiritual energy
Uncontrollable Urges: Women’s Frightening Presence in Classical Athenian Drama and it’s Reflection on Athenian Society
«In classical Athenian society, anxiety about gender roles abounded, as women were regarded dichotomously as pillars of purity as well as receptacles and originators of filth, both moral and physical. Many ancient sources, often funerary monuments or...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn classical Athenian society, anxiety about gender roles abounded, as women were regarded dichotomously as pillars of purity as well as receptacles and originators of filth, both moral and physical. Many ancient sources, often funerary monuments or epitaphs, praise individual women for their virtue, chastity, and obedience, but beneath these affectionate words lurks a darker perception of women. In addition to ideals of what a good woman and wife should aspire to be, ancient literature offers a laundry list of traits and habits that betray women’s inferiorities and inherent dangers. The strict control that men maintained over their wives and daughters was only secondarily aimed at representing their legal interests; more importantly, men wanted to ensure that women could not break out of their boundaries and destroy the existing social structure: “it did always seem a terribly dangerous possibility to the Greeks that their women might get out of hand and become a threat, endangering male order, life, and sanity.” Athenian drama often addressed these topics of female nature and female boundaries in both tragic and comedic forms
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- Moral virtue belongs to [all humans];
- For Aristotle, women are capable of virtue.
- Although they had virtually no political clout or social control, women were viewed warily by men.
- The great contradiction with women is that they cannot be divorced from men's primary concern.
- At the heart of man's ambivalent feelings about women was the concept of sophrosyne.
- In her most well-known monologue, Medea leaves her home, enters the public space, and speaks out in her own defense.
- As the play opens, Lysistrata, an Athenian housewife, paces outside her front door, waiting for other women to arrive.
- Women, although often portrayed as weak and helpless, become extraordinarily puissant and powerful.
«Viewed in a certain light, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offers a realistic slice of life from a diverse cross section of fourteenth century English society. Represented among the travelers are members of all three estates, the church, nobility and...» Document abstract
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SummaryViewed in a certain light, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offers a realistic slice of life from a diverse cross section of fourteenth century English society. Represented among the travelers are members of all three estates, the church, nobility and peasantry, as well as the middle class, bourgeoisie, and various professionals . Yet, upon close reading of the tales, one sees that life as these medievals would have lived is warped when read through Chaucer’s lens. In the Miller’s Tale and the Reeve’s Tale, sentiments of piety one would expect of a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury are nowhere to be found; rather, the prevailing attitude of the characters within these two tales is one of total amorality. As Derek Pearsall argues, In religious tales and saints’ legends, [a] self-transcending system of values operates, in this case proving the significance of life through the demonstration of its ultimate insignificance in relation to life eternal. Comedy sets all this aside, and asserts that there are no values, secular or religious, more important than survival and the satisfaction of appetite.
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- The comedic theme virtually ignores the value systems accepted by both the pious.
- In the Miller's tale, the fabliau plot is at its peak.
- The lover's role, especially for Nicholas, is to successfully outwit John and win Alison.
- Nicholas makes use of his alleged astrological education and his religious knowledge to fool John into handing Alison over.
- The two clerks seek lodging in the miller's house for a night.
- The Reeve ends his tale with the final blow 'Thus have I quyt the Miller in my tale".
«The Great Gatsby relates Nick Carraway's experiences with a disillusioned assortment of wealthy individuals following his move to West Egg, the "less fashionable" counterpart to East egg, the home of antiquated affluence (5). In this harsh region of...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Great Gatsby relates Nick Carraway's experiences with a disillusioned assortment of wealthy individuals following his move to West Egg, the "less fashionable" counterpart to East egg, the home of antiquated affluence (5). In this harsh region of unlikely opposites, the 1915 Yale graduate encounters Tom Buchanan, a rich W.A.S.P who contently lives with a prideful lack of conscience; Daisy, his flighty wife; Jordan Baker, a low-down golfing champion; and, most importantly, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who possesses a talented "gift for hope," which ultimately leads to his destruction. Through these characters, Fitzgerald criticizes the American Dream, which is founded on the material principle of wealth instead of inner success. The disastrous effects of such an aspiration in life are shown to come at a heavy cost to the individual, demanding for remuneration the loss of essence, worth, and substance- all the distinctive features which make us unique, significant, and human.
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- Often criticized in this novel is the inhibition of honest expression.
- Her luster comes from a life imbued in carelessness.
- The unbelievable extent to which materialism is pursued is astounding.
- The American Dream, swallowed wholeheartedly, also leads to spiritual decay.
- Gatsby's purpose is ultimately empty and he could have seen this if he took time to look ahead.
«If a producer was to make an adaptation of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird and wanted to extricate Miss Maudie’s role from the film, not only would the dynamic of the characters be irreparably damaged, but the film would also be excluding one of...» Document abstract
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SummaryIf a producer was to make an adaptation of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird and wanted to extricate Miss Maudie’s role from the film, not only would the dynamic of the characters be irreparably damaged, but the film would also be excluding one of the most powerful humanizing forces in the novel. The novel is fundamentally about perspectives within a whole interconnected system of personal and societal forces, and Miss Maudie offers one of the only sensitive voices in the novel that enables Jem and Scout to develop this skill. Additionally, Miss Maudie is one of the only progressive female voices in the novel and her very presence can be used to counterpoint the other oppressive doctrines in the novel, adding an entirely singular and rich layer to the theme of the novel.
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- Miss Maudie plays an important role in introducing different traits and facts about the other characters.
- The fact that there is a woman as progressive as Miss Maudie to explain the ironies of Christianity to Scout is incredibly important.
- Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace.
- Flowers themselves play a pervasive symbolic role throughout the novel.
- The female perspective in To Kill a Mockingbird would not have been possible without Miss Maudie.
«American literature reveals a counter-culture of identity which undermines and even contradicts the popular optimism of national identity. Part of this undermining takes place in the ideologies of American literary characters, or in their “imaginary...» Document abstract
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SummaryAmerican literature reveals a counter-culture of identity which undermines and even contradicts the popular optimism of national identity. Part of this undermining takes place in the ideologies of American literary characters, or in their “imaginary relationships…to the real conditions of existence,” as defined by Althusser. These ideologies, rather than confirming the identities of the characters to which they belong, serve as a means of warping their perception of reality. I believe that this void of understanding (of the self, of the nation) can be attributed to an undercurrent of racism, solipsism, and immaturity, as seen in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.
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- As Sal and Dean take on America, their reactions to the world around them are filtered through a lens given to them by the romantic fictions of Hollywood.
- Feeling the pull of her own life calling her back is a luxury that Terry simply never has.
- Dean's nostalgia is much more personal than Sal?s.
- Sal loses himself in Blackness.
- Pausing would also mean becoming familiar with the agency accessible to him in his time and place.
- Sal, unlike Dean, is able through his role as narrator to offer, the saddened wisdom of hindsight.
«Dialect is a variety of language used by people from a particular geographic area. This language is a complete system of verbal communication with its own vocabulary and grammar (“Dialect”).In America today, the common language is English. But...» Document abstract
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SummaryDialect is a variety of language used by people from a particular geographic area. This language is a complete system of verbal communication with its own vocabulary and grammar (“Dialect”).In America today, the common language is English. But what does English mean? While Standard English is still the most commonly accepted language, there are many dialects within the English language. There exists American English, British English, and Indian English (“Dialect”). Within American English, there exists southern English, northeastern English, Californian English, and even Hoosier English. So, if in American there is a large amount of dialects throughout the country, how is each dialect to communicate with the others?
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- There are two dialects in the United States that are widely prejudiced against.
- Linguists, according to a PBS article entitled 'Do You Speak American??
- Ebonics, at the most literal level, means 'black speech.?
- Dr. Taylor recognizes that although there are many forms of dialect, it is necessary to be able to speak Standard English.
- Earley felt a strong tie to his Appalachian roots and understood the importance of preserving his family's history and culture.
«“ ‘To speak behind others’ backs is the ventilator of the heart…’ and in this way we began a long session of ventilation of the heart” (Satrapi). With these words, Marjane Satrapi sets the stage for Embroideries and her intimate insight into the...» Document abstract
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Summary“ ‘To speak behind others’ backs is the ventilator of the heart…’ and in this way we began a long session of ventilation of the heart” (Satrapi). With these words, Marjane Satrapi sets the stage for Embroideries and her intimate insight into the lives of women in an Iranian family, specifically her family. Over tea, these women, young and old, open up and reveal personal stories in an attempt to bond and to discover what it truly is not only to be an Iranian woman but also to be “woman.” In this sense, feminist theory found in Simone de Beauvior’s “The Second Sex” can be applied to the accounts of the women in the novel to demonstrate how women often depend upon men for their identity.
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- Theorizing in The Second Sex Simone de Beauvior.
- The application of de Beauvoir's theory to Satrapi's book.
- Finally, Azzi's tragic tale of her Swiss lover reveals that the One can neglect or consciously violate decency in dealing with the Other.
- Separated from her family at the age of thirteen, one married (arranged) a man who was sixty-nine years old.
- The entire book Embroideries acts an exercise in feminist separation by itself.
- The feminist theories of Simone de Beauvior and Marilyn Frye apply to Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries.
«Rife with evil, the town needed to be destroyed. Piety had built Phrygia, but gluttony, unfaithfulness, and greed had razed the now repugnant country. Disgusted by the drinking orgies, sexual perversions, and absence of worship, Jupiter and Mercury...» Document abstract
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SummaryRife with evil, the town needed to be destroyed. Piety had built Phrygia, but gluttony, unfaithfulness, and greed had razed the now repugnant country. Disgusted by the drinking orgies, sexual perversions, and absence of worship, Jupiter and Mercury watched from the Heavens. Phrygia’s time had come. Jupiter set out to destroy the city and all its people immediately, but Mercury, his son, held him back.
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- Shocked by his boy's sympathy, Jupiter paused for a moment and considered his son's advice.
- Jupiter prepared to turn the town to ashes.
- Baucis and Philemon caught a glimpse of Jupiter and Mercury climbing the hill.
- Baucis set the table hurriedly and placed some fruit and olives on the table to keep the guests occupied.
- Realizing not the exact identity but rather the importance of their guests, Baucis and Philemon spared nothing in their house.
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