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The Women Warrior is a book by Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior talks about stories about women. The theme of this story is about gender roles. It is gender roles, because it shouldn’t define who you are and what you can do. This memoir finds its way onto many women for the gender issues it raises, especially regarding the role of women in traditional Chinese society. The Women Warrior talks about stories of women. One of very few themes are gender roles. The story…

Kingston struggles to express her ideas and beliefs rationally because she never had a teacher, which in turn makes her feel weak and powerless in comparison to the knowledge and self control of the Woman Warrior. While the Woman Warrior lives with the old people they teach her many lessons. One of those lessons is on self control and how to make the right decision that is beneficial to the majority of people. Kingston describes the Woman Warrior’s struggle to control her emotions when her…

Also, she was a hero to blacks,slaves,and women. Sojourner motivated her people and women by writing that speech to let voices apprehend.Sojourner Truth delivered her most famous speech at a Women's Convention on May 29,1851.Truth was a powerful and independent woman. First, Sojourner Truth originated in seventeen-ninety seven,she originated inslavery.At nine years old, she was sold in a slave auction, during that time she was beaten with rods,and one time during the winter she did not have any…

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery, but she later became a leading activist for women’s rights and racial equality after being freed in 1827. She performed her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the 1851 Akron Ohio Women’s Convention. Today, multiple versions of this speech exist because the original was never officially recorded. Each of these interpretations manipulate the wording and presentation differently to alter the overall effect of the speech. Two of these interpretations by…

childhood. After being introduced, Kingston fleshes them out through their dialogue and manner of speaking, and develops them through their interactions with others and changes to their surroundings. Through the stream of consciousness technique she employs, character insight on events and their motivations are steadily revealed. The end result is a cast of multilayered characters who change based on the circumstances surrounding them. Throughout the novel, Kingston utilizes a character’s…

Benjy Compson is the narrator of the first part of the novel entitled “On April 7, 1928” this date represents Benjy's thirty-third birthday. Throughout this section reader discover Benjy’s world and his innermost thoughts from the morning until night. The section reports only one day. Because of Benjy’s limited cognitive skills which render him unable to distinguish time, readers are guided throughout his narrative by the change of his servants: each one represents a particular moment in his…

Shakespeare composed the majority of his great works in around a twenty-five-year span and he died relatively young at fifty-two. He penned comedies, tragedies, and lyric poems ; and his dominance of dialect, character psychology and emotion combined to make him one of the best authors in the English dialect. These are typically isolated into four classifications: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. He composed histories, for example, Julius Caesar. He composed romantic tales, most…

The Author Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) was born into a samurai family and was originaly named Sugimore Nobumori. After his father abandoned his Samuria duties, the family feld to to Kyoto where they attached themselves to an aristicracy for protection. It was there where he was exposed to the theatre and grew up to write over a hundred plays. In 1705, he moved to Osake to write strictly for Takemoto Gidayu's Puppet Theatre until his death in 1725. He is still known as one of Japan's most…

William Shakespeare had a way with words, unlike any other person that stepped foot on this earth. He is known for creating a lot of the words that we still use today. This helped Shakespeare when expressing his love since he would often express his love through his writings. One can see examples of this in “Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” and “Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun.” As one can tell from the titles, these are drastically different poems. Just…

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt (A discussion on the similarities and differences in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing) When renting movies nowadays, the movies are often organized according to their genres. There are thrillers, comedies, rom coms, action/adventure, horror, etc. The list goes on for ages. Before there were movies, there were plays. Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in history. He often wrote plays in three genres. Comedies, tragedies, and…