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Ralph Waldo Emerson Literature Essay
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On 8th September, 1836, the day prior to the publication of Emerson’s most famous book, Nature, he met with George Putnam, Frederic Henry Hedge and George Ripley, to Plan Periodic Meetings of Other Concurring Intellectuals.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Essay
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This paper mainly focuses on the first part of the poem set in King Arthur’s court and features the lavish celebration of the New Year disturbed by the arrival of the mysterious Green Knight. The poem exposes very important themes about the political heritage of Britain but also raises critical issues of honor and chivalry.
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Cathy Songs Poem The Youngest Daughter Literature Essay
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This paper tells that the aging process is something that everyone must eventually contend with, and it can be hard on one’s self and one’s family.  It is inherently ripe for conflict, which is one of the reasons it is so frequently used in the artistic sphere; it involves conflict between people, dependency, changing relationships and even conflict between the mind, the soul and the body itself.
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The tragedy of Macbeth Literature Coursework
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According to the paper, the three witches heighten the element of drama in the very first scene of Act 1, and give an over view of the mood of the play: ‘darkness, thunder, lightning, battle lost and won’- everything prepares the reader for a Shakespearean tragic drama. He thus employs such elements to enhance the imagery and symbolism in the play.
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Symbols in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Literature Essay
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Puritan people and their community leaders used to consider these celestial symbols as messages from God. They believed that these explosions at sky are warnings about future and various issues that affect their community. The meteor in the Scarlet Letter shows communal reaction as well as individual reaction (Baym, 1986).
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Fiction Analysis Battle Royal Literature Essay
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Ellison, through the protagonist of his fiction, communicates the very message that the notion might is right certainly prevails everywhere in the world, escaping from which is mere the fool’s dream. The novel also indicates the secret activities performed by the so called human rights activists in the name of justice and equality for all.
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Literature Essay
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The story essentially begins by the show of valour and strength by Okonkyo in a wrestling match. However the villagers are accommodative in nature, as they even have place for people like his father irrespective of his material failures and debts.
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Homer's Iliad as an Anti-War Statement Literature Essay
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They are both strong men who are dedicated to the concept of honor. They are also both leaders of their people and consider battle to be the best way to demonstrate their leadership qualities. Because of this, it is easily argued that the Iliad is a story that illustrates how battle is the maker of men.
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Getting Past the Preservation of Our Own Self-Image. Krakauers Into the Wild and Sieberts An Elephant Crackup Literature Essay
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The essays written by Job Krakauer and Charles Siebert provide valuable insights on how man should treat the other animal species. Krakauer’s Into the Wild, may actually be the real story of Chris McCandless as he tries to survive the Alaskan wild but it also highlights his realizations about man’s relationship with animals.
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Discussing the Article on Visual Representation of Women Literature Research Paper
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De Valdes has clearly stated that she wants to discuss the visual and verbal imagery used to build the portrayal of the women in the novel and subsequently the film, which was based on the novel. The critic takes a review of the Mexican society to find relevant customs, traditions, societal structure to fill the color in the portrayals in the novel.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Literature Book Report/Review
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The 19th century witnessed the emergence of naturalism in art and literature. This artistic approach attempted to depict the reality of existence in its most pure forms, generally involving the depiction of non-aristocratic laborers. One notices in the naturalistic impulse a rejection of the encroaching mechanized world and industrial values.
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Book Report on The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton Literature Book Report/Review
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The theme is demonstrated throughout the poem through the events and the characters. King Alfred is defeated by the Danish army who does not believe in the existence of God. They have won so many battles yet there is no evidence of fulfillment or Joy for them.
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Duty and Responsibility in Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Literature Research Paper
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Throughout the epic poem, the writer has explored the significance of observing ones duty by accepting the responsibility which one has been called for. Just like the leaders in the current world, the epic is straightforward in the way it handles issues of adherence and dereliction of duty.
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King Lear and Doctor Faustus: similarities and differences Literature Essay
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This research is the best example of comparison of two plays. There are many similarities between King Lear and Gloucester in King Lear to Dr. Faustus, in Doctor Faustus. The similarities regard how all the men are seduced. The difference is in the nature of their tragic flaw. All the men are seduced by evil, and all the men have good at their fingertips, but are unable to capitalize on the good.
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The Animosities of Being a Man Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Mollie feels empowered by being a man, through enjoying economic, social, and political freedoms. However, she also feels the animosity of men against women. She tries to defend women’s abilities and sensibilities. Most especially, in the ending, Mollie questions how religion attacks women.
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How Americans Interpreted the Concepts of Freedom and Equality from the End of the Civil War until 1906 Literature Essay
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The first book, Ragged Dick, written in 1868 by Horatio Alger, Jr., reflects the events in the life of a young man, Ragged Dick; moved from being a poor street boy to a respectable person. Despite being a minor, Ragged Dick drank alcohol and smoked cigarette occasionally.
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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Literature Essay
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George Tesman is absolutely incompatible as Hedda Gabler’s husband. He is dull, slow and content with routine. He has no conception of Hedda’s character and the subtle, devious working of her clever mind. She remains an absolutely unknown entity to him.
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On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein Literature Essay
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The main argument in the article was that people, who were left with the death of a loved one, usually have feelings of bitterness, contempt or anxiety due to the fact that they really do not know more about what happened in each other’s’ life from the time that the person common to them left or died, in the process.
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Native American literature. A Worn Path'' by Eudora Welty Literature Essay
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"A Worn Path" is finally a simple story, though. The authors’ short tale of an old woman's journey to get medicine for her grandson is valuable simply as that and the starkness of its simplicity often lay undervalued.
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World Literature I: From the Ancient World to the Middle Ages Literature Essay
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From the Ancient World to the Middle Ages. The Odyssey and The Song of Roland are two epic and respected works of art, both written in the form of long and memorable poems and passed down from generation to generation, depicting the heroic acts and lives of mythical characters.
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Feminist literary criticism Gullivers Travel Literature Essay
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Feminist literary criticism involves various forms and aspects to analyze the literature. Certain feminist authors are incline to discuss the masculinity and challenge it with women, some authors aims to discuss the role of women and analyze work with women’s perspective and attitude (Eagleton).
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Themes in Shakespeares Macbeth Literature Essay
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Characters put up a front that is different from their real self to conceal their evil and murderous intention or in some cases noble ones. Through this theme, Shakespeare developed his characters and the events in the plot as well as created suspense since the audience is often confused about the motives of the characters until they are revealed.
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Comparative analysis of the stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Gillman and Hoffman Literature Essay
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Poe in “William Wilson” uses the doppelganger character to explain the narrator’s mind. Gillman in “the yellow wallpaper” uses the same technique but in the form of an imaginary woman on a wallpaper. Hoffman, on the other hand, uses “the sandman to trouble the reader’s mind in trying to understand the protagonist. This essay gives a comparative analysis of the three stories by focusing on the theme of identity and symbolism used.
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Analyzing literary works: drama Literature Essay
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This essay aims at analyzing the similarities between comic plays, tragic plays, and realist plays in terms of characters, the themes, how the plots are built. In order to better understand these similarities and differences in terms of type of play, the characters, the development of the plots, and the climaxes, the essay uses “Sure Thing”, “Othello”, and “Twilight: Los Angeles”.
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Euripedes, Medea- Desert Flower- Woman At point Zero Literature Essay
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This paper finds a common theme of the suffering of women, particularly in the hands of men, in these readings in order to achieve their life goals. The paper will thoroughly compare and contrast this topic with regards to the three readings.
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Minutes of Glory by Ngugi Wa Thiongo Literature Book Report/Review
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In the book, there is nearly any attractive presentation and the story moves fast to its final conflict and conclusion with a few lines of dialogue. The reason behind this is to make the reader come up with their own suggestion of inspiration, as the storyteller keeps a distance from the excruciating implications of the story detailing only the events.
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Story of the Stone Literature Essay
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He was born with a piece of brilliant jade in his mouth, the only valued male heir in Jia’s family. The formation of his rebellious character was not accidental; his living environment in all aspects reveals the reasons for the growth of his character.
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Cats Cradle, Bokoninism, and Thinking Literature Essay
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In Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of a man called John and his attempt to write a book about the creaetion of the atomic bomb. However, mixed through this story is that of a made-up religion known as Bokononism.
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The Disintegration and Re-integration of the Family. Don DeLillos novel White Noise Literature Term Paper
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It is a family lost in a world of confusion and "white noise," and, especially, in the material things of modern consumerism. God and all spiritual hope have disappeared for all intents and purposes, replaced by a faith in the products of the consumerist culture.
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A Lethal Lack of Industry. Walden by Henry David Thoreau Literature Essay
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One can glean some redeeming arguments from Thoreau’s overall philosophy, even though it condemns industrial progress. Literary criticism of Thoreau’s Walden elaborates on his ideals: “Simplicity is good for the soul, for the right relation with God,” (McKibben 20).
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Poem Arise by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Literature Essay
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People would want to spend the remaining moments of their lives, it would all boil down to how they “seize the day.” Otherwise known as “carpe diem,” this theme is addressed differently by several authors – Wilcox, Herrick, Baudelaire, Frost, and Longfellow – in their poems, in order to show that humans deal with their own mortality in many different ways.
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Comparison of The Song of Roland and Beowulf Literature Research Paper
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Unlike parallelism, the tools that are used by the poet in ‘Beowulf’ for making the reader understand the context of the line are Kennings. Kennings are poetic descriptions of normal things, for example, a poet might call the sea the ‘whale road’. There is extensive use of the kennings in ‘Beowulf’. There is also extensive use of elided metaphors in the poem (Eliot, 2010).
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The Nature of Humor and Laughter in Don Quixote Literature Essay
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“The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” or popularly titled as “Don Quixote” is one of the most brilliant, impeccable and aesthetic outputs of the Spanish Golden Age. Very outstanding and spectacular work of the Spanish literary canon, the novel was written in two separate decades in two volumes by Miguel De Cervantes.
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Is Indian Modernity a Journey Towards Alienation Literature Essay
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The Indian literary modernity origins are linked to western literary modernity. When Indian intellectuals, fiction writers, and leaders are thinking about their history, they are required to explore basic investigation. The necessity for asking the means by which Indian modernity surfaced and its alienation interference has to be addressed by the Indians.
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The Fall of Man. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Marriage of Heaven and Hell Literature Essay
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One of the poets that have talked on the fall of man is William Blake in his poem Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His poem is unique on the revolutionary perspective that it takes regarding the fall of man.
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The Deeds of Divine Augustus or Res Gestae Divi Augusti Literature Essay
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In the first 14 paragraphs Augustus has presented a detailed account of his political achievements and the honors he received from the Senate as well as the public. While telling about his great leadership abilities Augustus mentions the number of times he was made triumvir for the settling of the state.
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Ralph Ellisons The Invisible Man Literature Essay
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The confrontation that happened between Dr. A. Herbert Bledsoe and the main character in Ellison’s novel proved how ambition could be blinding for people of the same race that one would rather ignore and waste the dreams of the other than allow him to remain in school and threaten the power he claimed he has had over the white people who founded the school.
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Fight Club Book Review Literature Book Report/Review
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Tyler Durden’s brain child is fight club through which he thinks that a way out can be found and his friends as well who live beyond their stultifying and also confining lives. The book talks about the character of Tyler whose world is made without rules, brakes and limits.
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Oneness and Spiritual Healing and Growth in Winthrops A Model of Christian Charity Literature Essay
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Winthrop uses the Body of Christ as a model for perceiving others by answering questions that help them understand human oneness through their oneness with God. The context of Winthrop’s sermon is Christian charity and he answers several questions about charity and lending.
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Beowulf: the Connection between Christian and Pagan Literature Essay
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It must be understood that a great deal of the storyline and plot motive can be interpreted with regards to the way in which Grendel’s mother is viewed as the source of the problems. This menacing creature is most certainly not unlike the Devil that is defined by the Hebrew Old Testament as having existed long before the formation of the world.
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Phillip Sydneys Poem Speaks about the Love Literature Essay
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Trochee helps the reader determine the important word that could express much of the author’s feelings like ‘love’ in the first line of the first paragraph, similar to the effects of the iambic meter, emphasizing the word ‘true’. Successively using the two meters, the words ‘true love’ are greatly stressed, pointing the reader’s attention to it.
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Fathers and Children by Turgenev Literature Essay
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Because the story opens with Arkady's father waiting for him to arrive, it is easy to follow the college student Arkady as the main character, but his friend Bazarov is actually the character the author follows most through the book.
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Understanding the core txt No Name Woman through using a political issue Literature Essay
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How they are being expected to be mere chattels of men that they cannot seem to complain about their lot. In this story, the pregnant aunt was forced to have sex, threatened into silence that when she got pregnant, the man who violated her even organized to raid her home breaking and taking everything in her house.
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Time Will Run Back Literature Book Report/Review
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The author divided this work, which originated in the early 1950s, into three parts. Only three decades earlier, 1919-1920, America was in the midst of a progressive period known as the “red scare.” The Red Scare was the fear that America would be taken over by communistic practices, principles, and ideas.
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Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparison and Contrast Literature Essay
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Two stories, Henry James' “The Turn of the Screw” and Shakespeare's “Hamlet” both deal with the themes of the supernatural and madness. However, these themes are given different treatments in each of these stories. While the themes of the supernatural and madness have negative effects for the characters of novel, they have positive effects for the characters of the play.
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House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Literature Essay
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This paper deals with the novel “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton and setting of the novel was around the Belle Epoch period. This was a time when people were extremely conscious and very particular about their mannerism, especially when in public.
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Fate in God's or Human's Terms Literature Essay
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“The Epic of Gilgamesh,” “The Odyssey,” “Oedipus the King,” and “The Ramayana of Valmiki” have different definitions of fate. Some of these stories stress that fate comes from human will, while others emphasize that God has a plan, a plan that structures the essence of their fates.
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Comparison in the Voice Presentation in The River God, My Last Duchess and The Hunchback in the Park Literature Essay
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My Last Duchess is a poem by Robert Browning in narrative form in which a Duke talks about his wife, the Duchess. This poem also starts out quite innocently enough but, like the River God, the tale thickens towards the end with suggestions of murder. The Hunchback in the Park, by Dylan Thomas, tells the tale of a hunchback from an observer’s point of view, and how his deformity has condemned him to a life of outcast solitude.
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Katherine Mansfields Miss Brill: The Mask over Loneliness Literature Research Paper
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“Miss Brill” is one of Katherine Mansfield’s most acclaimed short stories. In the middle of a bright picture of a park, with its lively band music and milling crowd of pleasure seekers, the author paints a picture of loneliness. The protagonist’s character is delineated with great subtlety and, at the same time, in a wealth of detail.
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Portrayal of Women as a Plaything in the Hands of Their Male Counterparts Literature Essay
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A comprehensive feminist interpretation of William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” will reveal that all these texts portray women as the playthings in the hands of their male counterparts. Though “Othello” and “A Doll’s House” show clear evidence in support of this thesis.
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