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    this there are still many powerful female characters. Additionally, most female characters play large roles. This differs greatly from Homeric times, in which women would not have as much power as female characters in the epic possess. Ordinarily, Greek women were represented as docile and obedient creatures who would not leave the trappings of the household. Although women in the Odyssey do show tendencies to conform in these expected, submissive ways, female characters exercise a large amount

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    Actress Rebecca Hall once complained, "It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box." What she is saying is that often in a lot of cases readers will receive a female lead who is nothing but predictable and stereotypical. The female often gives off essential qualities of a cartoon or princess like damsel in distress. When it comes to classical literature, female characters have predictable nature. In Scarlet Pimpernel, the women carry charismatic personalities and feelings

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    work of literature, without, for example, such female characters as Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz? In this case the novel will have no meaning. All the women help to develop the plot, and without them Frankenstein will lose its spirit. Although these heroines have a lot in common in their characters: they are all strong-willed, kind, careful, and selfless, at the same time, each of them is unique, and each plays her own role in the novel. Mrs. Margaret Saville is the

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    will discuss the female roles in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. The females in Ibsen and Chekhov’s plays depict societies view of females during the late 1800s and early 1900s, a time when women’s fight for equality and social reform began to emerge. The prejudice against women is demonstrated through the way in which they are portrayed and how they are at the mercy of their male counterparts. Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler centers on the obsessed female protagonist who

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    through one sided letters of correspondence. A majority of the letters presented in this novel are written by the two male narrators of the story, leaving the rest of the space for the female narrators. While the male narrators of Jery Melford and Matthew Bramble are used to offer most of the detail to the novel, the female narrators help to offer portions of substance. The narrators of Tabitha Bramble, Lydia Melford, and Winifred Jenkins are used to offer a deeper analysis and differing perspective of

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    Females in Combat Female roles over past generations have changed drastically. Women have went from simple house wives to complex engineers and so much more. They have proven themselves worthy of great and important tasks along the way, including participating in politics and new world problems. Females are more equal to men now a days then they have ever been. Women can vote, go to college, get their own job, and raise a family by themselves. Women have come a long ways from being so called “weak”

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    Suzanne Del Gizzo November 17, 2014 Research Paper Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was a writer in America, during the late 1800s. Chopin has written two novellas that have a female character that has a strong disbelief in the traditional roles that a patriarchal society would have presented them with during that period. The traditional role of a woman in the late nineteenth century was like a “stay-at-home-mother” in today’s society. The only difference is that a woman has more freedom in today’s society

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    It is believed by some that the Qur’an does not describe women as being inferior but instead states that Allah created men and women in different ways so they are better suited to different roles and have different traits (Al-Mannai 2010). As mentioned previously, recent debates surrounding men and women’s positions in society now usually focus on gender equality and women’s rights (Bilge 2010). The early twentieth centuries were when the first major debates surrounding women’s rights began and when

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    From the post-2000s to today, gender roles still remain as one of the big topics. Compared to society’s ideologies of women in 1930s, women are shown to be intelligent, active, and most importantly, independent. The portrayal of female characters with such characteristics is apparent in Disney’s contemporary film, Frozen (2013). The film portrays two female protagonists, Princess Anna and Queen Elsa. The theme of the film is family; the film starts out with childish, sisterly relationships, which

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    identified as either clearly male or female. When children are born with ambiguous genitals, medical professionals often advise parents to opt for genital-normalization surgery. This procedure is used in an attempt to “resolve” some of the ambiguity and reconstruct the genitalia to more closely resemble the common features associated with male and female sexuality. After the surgery, the intersex individuals are raised in a manner consistent with the gender roles associated with their genitals. However

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