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A Good Woman in Colonial Times, 2007.
An analysis of "Sovereignty and Goodness of Good" by Mary Rowlandson.
1,410 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 33.95
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The paper discusses how "Sovereignty and Goodness of Good" by Mary Rowlandson is both typical and atypical of captivity narratives of the early American colonial period. The paper examines how the author refers to the Native-Americans as savages. However, as her captivity wore on, and her experiences with the Native-Americans grew more intimate, Mary Rowlandson began to show more compassion and balance in her point of view of the Native-Americans. The paper reveals her morality and culture and maintains that this personal adaptability, combined with a balance and generosity of spirit that marks Mary as a distinct voice, may have garnered Mary's greater acceptance by her captives. The paper adds that it also gains her an additional credit as a historical voice and testimony to early settler and Native conflicts.
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"It is true that Mary's religious language makes itself evident in the narrative early on. Mary paints the Native's conflicts with the settlers in black-and-white moral terms and demonstrates the similarity of her perspective with other captive women in her theological viewpoint. Mary's view of the events of her life as a playing-out of Biblical conflicts, rather than a struggle for amoral natural resources shows how her fundamental perspective is still united with the culture of her original English people, throughout her travels with the Indians."
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Brecht?s 'The Good Woman of Setzuan', 2000.
Bertolt Brecht?s 'The Good Woman of Setzuan' portrays the struggle to be good while living in a corrupt society and the delicate balance needed to survive within it.
2,085 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 46.95
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An analysis of Bertolt Brecht?s play 'The Good Woman of Setzuan'. Throughout the play Shen Te juggles her promise to be good with the necessity to be bad. The author finds through the protagonist and the creation of her doppelganger, 'The Good Woman of Setzuan' portrays the struggle to be good while living in a corrupt society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it as seen in Shen Te's struggle as a good woman leading the life of a prostitute.
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"Shen Te, a good woman, a prostitute, and the only one willing to take three gods into her home is rewarded with 1000 silver dollars, with which she is to ?above all be good?(712). This mission tears her in two. Shen Te and her doppelganger Shui Ta are in a delicate balance of power. Shen Te needs to keep her promise to the gods by being a good woman, helping those around her in need. Because Shen Te is too good, those she helps threaten to ruin her own survival. To remain a good woman Shen Te must create someone to fight for her. Like parents, both Shui Ta and Shen Te make up the whole of one unit. Shen Te is a nurturing, sweet mother-type while Shui Ta becomes a strict, disciplinarian, father-type. Through the protagonist and the creation of her doppelganger, Brecht?s The Good Woman of Setzuan portrays the struggle to be good while living in a corrupt society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it."
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Behind Every Good Man is a Good Woman, 2003.
The following paper presents a detailed examination of women in the confederacy.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 33.95
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The writer discusses the duties and involvement that women had in the way as well as examples of patriotism shown by women. We are also given some examples of female heroines from the war.
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?When we think about a Southern Belle, we envision a pale, fragile wisp of a woman who swoons if it gets to hot. She is delicate and beautiful and must be taken care of by a man. Over the last centuries this is the image that we have adopted when it comes to the way we perceive Southern women. The reality however is much different. Even during the Civil War women of the Confederate side were tough, capable and willing to do what ever it took to win the war effort against the North.?
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The Good Woman of Setzuan: Female Gender Roles, 2008.
An analysis of female gender roles in Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Good Woman of Setzuan."
863 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, £ 21.95
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This paper analyzes Shen Te's character and role as the female protagonist with a male alter ego in Bertolt Brecht's "The Good Woman of Setzuan." The writer discusses the importance of masks in the play and how their significance in Chinese and Japanese drama is skillfully blended by Brecht with their use in the western world. The writer concludes that Brecht makes a valid argument of how women have to adopt masculine characteristics in order to survive as a woman in a man's world.
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"Shen Te's female/male dilemma is completely relevant to modern female roles. Women in current generations are pursuing a different life: that of a career instead of disposable jobs and raising families. Women are now equal providers to most households, but to be a successful leader, or even sometimes, just to be successful in their career; many women are forced to adapt to male personality traits. Aggression and competition are the main traits women have to focus on: they usually have to be more so than men to be taken seriously or treated equally. Women have to choose to be traditionally male (taking a career) or traditionally female (and taking a family)."
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"The Good Woman of Setzuan" and "Pygmalion", 2007.
A comparative analysis of the themes in "The Good Woman of Setzuan" by Bertolt Brecht and "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw.
2,969 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 62.95
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This paper examines how there are two dominant themes as well as a subliminal theme present in "The Good Woman of Setzuan" and "Pygmalion". More specifically, the paper explains that the first dominant theme is evident in that both Brecht and Shaw question the levels of morality in social rankings by proving their low class lead female to be the most honorable character portrayed. The paper then shows how both authors also portray women that have the ability to rise above their lowly upbringing and lifestyle, which defies popular male chauvinist views, but yields a self-identity problem. The paper also discusses how both plays have an underlying theme of man's dominance over women by showing that despite Shen Te and Liza's recent social and personal advancements, their success can only be credited to a man in their lives.
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"Likewise, in The Good Woman of Setzuan, we see how Brecht portrays Shen Te, who comes from the most despicable of the low class, the prostitutes, as a woman of good moral character. She allows the gods to stay with her and kicks out her "appointment", despite her needing money for the rent due the next day (Brecht, 8). Once she has been blessed by the gods, Shen Te allows numerous guests to live in her newly acquired tobacco shop when they have nowhere else to stay (Brecht, 13). Shen Te also shows great compassion on Yang Sun when he is on the brink of suicide, and even gives him money so that he may return to pilot school (Brecht, 35 & 53). Shen Te contradicts her neighboring tenant, the barber, who is known as being extremely wealthy, "The barber is filthy rich (Brecht, 46)." "
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Women in Colonial Latin America, 2004.
Examines the many roles of women in colonial Latin America.
2,067 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper looks at the lives and roles of women in colonial Latin America and discusses how the class and race of the women helped determined their roles and position in society.
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"Evidence also suggests that some variability existed regarding the roles of women in different Latin American countries. In late colonial Brazil for example, women married early, generally by age twenty or twenty one; also many of the households were headed by women in colonial Brazil. This may have resulted from the need for men to be mobile, frequently traveling to find mines or off on exploratory adventures. Though illegitimacy was an area of concern and a threat to honor, as described above in greater detail, in Brazil there were high levels of illegitimacy among all people; Lockhart and Schwartz (1983) suggest that in some areas more than 40 percent of children born were illegitimate."
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"The Good Woman of Bangkok", 2006.
A detailed analysis of the 1991 Dennis O'Rourke film "The Good Woman of Bangkok".
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 75.95
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This paper analyzes the controversial film "The Good Woman of Bangkok", directed by Dennis O'Rourke. Most of the reviews of the film were negative, which the author explains is understandable given the controversial subject matter of the film. In the film, O'Rourke plays a "fictional" filmmaker who comes to Bangkok after his divorce, and then sets out to have sex -- and film it -- with one of the prostitutes who cater to the foreign market. The paper investigates the motivations and actions of the characters, and then considers the various reviews and public responses to this movie. The author also attempts to understand O'Rourke's intention in directing the film and to present his subject honestly.
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"The first major problem with the presentation of the prostitute Aoi is the "reward" she is being offered for her appearance in the film. The filmmaker offers to buy her a rice farm. This might be seen as just another act of prostitution. Aoi gives the filmmaker what he wants in exchange for compensation. This, along with the documentary conventions of nights with a hand-held camera in bars and the attempted elicitation of the cool and ambiguous Aoi, contributes to an effect of what Cynthia Fuchs (2002) calls the film's "lumpy moralizing". Fuchs continues her harsh judment of the film by claiming that the filmmaker used his film and his stated purpose for the film simply as a screen for gratuitous sex."
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"The Good Woman of Bangkok", 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes the semiotic references in Dennis O'Rourke's 1991 film "The Good Woman of Bangkok."
1,734 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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This paper examines the semiotic references that are found in Dennis O'Rourke's film "The Good Woman of Bangkok." The writer defines semiotics as being primarily concerned with how meaning is generated and conveyed and explains how the director used this form of communication to confuse his audience. The film, which is reviewed in this paper, discusses the prostitution industry in Bangkok and the director's goal to find the bond between the banality and the aesthetics of love. The writer also explores the semiotic codes used to define the signifier/signified relationship between prostitution and its meanings which are initially the typical codes of contemporary culture.
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"Of course the code that these men use to interpret themselves and their own behavior is of a mostly deceptive nature. It could be argued that the filmmaker uses his own interpretive code in the same manner to deceive himself. Some argue that the true reason for the film was to indulge in gratutous sex only to justify oneself afterwards. The rice farm is seen as a reward, or a payment, for Aoi to provide her services as a prostitute."
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"The Good Woman of Sezuan", 2002.
An analysis of the style and function of the songs and heightened lyrical passages in Brecht?s Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (The Good Woman of Sezuan).
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 75.95
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This paper shows how the key to understanding Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan" and its place in the development of Epic Theatre is to understand the way in which he uses songs and poetic language throughout the action of the play. At certain significant moments, the actors break into song, or speak in blank verse, a style vastly different from their characteristic mode of expression. The essay?s discussion of these moments, and explanation of their function within Brecht?s dramatic theory, will enable the reader to fully understand the play and its importance. The essay concentrates fully on the text of the work rather than reworking critical literature on the subject.
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"As well as the five songs, on around twenty-five occasions the play is ?interrupted? by excerpts of free verse, lacking rhyme and meter but distinct in style and vocabulary from the character?s normal speech. These interludes form a framework of comment and reflection embracing the action of the play and are usually directed to the audience rather than to the other characters. This commentary intertwined with the action of the play force the audience to consider it immediately whilst still under the direct influence of the playwright instead of reflecting on it later and at a distance. The characters are more perceptive in this altered mood and provide the audience with insight into their behavior, and for this reason as well as because the action of the play is interrupted, the songs and heightened lyrical passages are also an important part of Brecht?s Verfremdungeffekt (estrangement effect). The fact that several of the characters break into song at different points in the play is an anti-naturalistic device and the elevated language is also clearly not spontaneous or believable dialogue. Some of the dialogue and songs also have a persuasive function, serving Brechts interests. Many of them could stand alone, indeed some did before Brecht appropriated them for his work, and are simple and memorable excerpts that the audience could take home from the theatre."
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Status of Women in Colonial America, 1998.
This paper examines the low political economic and social status of the colonial woman.
3,485 words (approx. 13.9 pages), 6 sources, £ 70.95
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This paper examines the role of women in the colonial period of the United States and finds that although the colonial female led a comparatively better life than her English sisters she went virtually uneducated, possessed limited legal status, and was politically nonexistent.
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"Under English common law, married women were unable to contract or sue in tort unless they had their husbands? permission. English women had no contractual capacity because they had no proprietary capacity. Common law also dictated that a husband?s interest in the personal and real property of his wife was absolute and he had an unlimited right over her possessions and chattels.[1] He also had an almost absolute authority over his wife?s person. By law, a husband, as master over his wife, was permitted to restrain her in case of misbehavior, as well as ?chastise? her in the ways he saw fit to correct her wrongdoing. [2] "
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Women In Colonial America, 1999.
Examines their roles in the 17th Century, comparing their status in the middle/southern and New England colonies. Discusses Puritanism, family and gender relations, economic and legal issues.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 33.95
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This paper is an examination of the roles of women in Colonial America during the 17th century, comparing the social position of women in the middle and southern colonies with that of the women of the New England colonies. Women outside of New England during this period were a much more diverse group, and their experiences were influenced by the religious and cultural forces that brought them to the New World, by the local economy and social structures that were being created in their new environment, and by their ability to influence their new surroundings and establish new patterns within them.
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"This paper is an examination of the roles of women in Colonial America during the 17th century, comparing the social position of women in the middle and southern colonies with that of the women of the New England colonies. Women outside of New England during this period were a much more diverse group, and their experiences were influenced by the religious and cultural forces that brought them to the New World, by the local economy and social structures that were being created in their new environment, and by their ability to influence their new surroundings and establish new patterns within them. Most of the social gains that women in these circumstances were able to achieve were driven by economic forces, and many of the obstacles they faced were, ultimately, also rooted in the control of money and property."
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Women In Colonial Latin America, 1999.
Examines women's roles in New Spain, rights, family and social relations, class, portraits in literature of the era and legal aspects.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, £ 45.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the following statement: "The fact that they could file legal suits against men, administer valuable family properties, run small businesses, and become major literary figures, indicates that women in colonial Latin America had as significant economic, social, and political roles as men."
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the following statement: "The fact that they could file legal suits against men, administer valuable family properties, run small businesses, and become major literary figures, indicates that women in colonial Latin America had as significant economic, social, and political roles as men." The plan of the research will be to set forth a comparison of women's and men's roles in Spain's New World colonies during Spain's most significant imperial period, with reference to two books that discuss the behavior of women who resided in the colony of Peru.
In the aftermath of the so-called conquest of Peru, which achieved importance in the Spanish colonial sphere of the New World largely because of its rich precious-mineral deposits, there appears to have been an intent to structure a society that would ..."
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"Legend of Good Women", 2002.
Studies the masochistic bases of female sexuality from a psychoanalytic point of view, as medieval writer Geoffrey Chaucer presents it in his work, "Legend of Good Women".
10,500 words (approx. 42.0 pages), 43 sources, APA, £ 149.95
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The paper looks at the way in which female desire and sexuality as a whole have been presented in the "Legend of Good Women". The paper explores the masochistic bases of female sexuality as a theme in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women". Further questions arise in relation to the portrayal of female sexuality in Chaucer's work. The dissertation explores Chaucer's stance as presented in his piece, relates it to the (misogynist) medieval culture, and evaluates its reliability through a feminist-psychoanalytic reading of the text.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Anatomy as Destiny: Acquiescence and/or Resistance
Pre-oedipal Stages of Development
Phallus
Taking up or Rejecting Gender Roles & Identities
'Women Desiren to have Sovereyntee'
Ambiguities in Female Sexuality
Silence, Secrecy & Suffering
When Sex is Synonymous to Danger & Fear
'Sex Trade'
The Weaker Sex?
Conclusion: Orgasmic Deaths - Masochism at its Peak
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"The tension between sexual danger and sexual pleasure is a powerful one in women's lives. Sexuality is simultaneously a domain of restriction, repression, and danger as well as a domain of exploration, pleasure, and agency. To focus only on pleasure and gratification ignores the patriarchal structure in which women act, yet to speak only of sexual violence and oppression ignores women's experience with sexual agency and choice and unwittingly increases the sexual terror and despair in which women live. ... The juxtaposition of pleasure and danger ... [is] an ongoing subject in the lives of individual women who must weigh the pleasures of sexuality against its cost in their daily calculations, choices, and acts.' Entangled in this web of patriarchal constructs, the woman's taking steps towards the reconciliation of the polarities of Desire is not without pain. Not being able to come to terms with the ambivalent nature of her Desire, of Desire in itself, can be even more agonising. In fact, the assertion of female sexual Desire is itself equivalent to standing against patriarchal society and defying its norms; which is not an effortless act. On the other hand, curtailing one's Desire would be to impose restrictions upon oneself, which can often create tensions and anxiety; as Muriel Dimen puts it, 'constraint of desire leads directly to self-betrayal'. Does this suggest that pain and suffering are not inextricable from the woman's experience of negotiating sexuality? Or rather, are these the very elements that lead to fulfilment of female sexual Desire? If this is so, it will not be irrelevant to suggest that female sexuality is extensively based on masochistic tendencies of 'enjoying pain'.
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Women in the New England Colonies, 2002.
A study of black and white women in the pre-revolutionary New England colonies through a literature review.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 31.95
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This paper will discuss the plight of women in the New England colonies and how they lived in the religious ideals that were present in the societal systems of the period. The books that will be studied in tandem with this study will be: "American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" by G. Nash an J.R. Jeffrey and the book Good Wives Image and "Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650 - 1750" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. By analyzing these studies, we can understand how many women upheld the norms of Puritanical life in the early American colonies.
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