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    Reedie Garrett Professor Andrade English 1302 WS6 14 February 2015 The Little Things Feminist criticism is the way that literature portrays the oppression of women. Therefore‚ many women rose to fight patriarchy society‚ which gave roles to each of its members. Women were only briefly part of the social role and were mainly given the reproductive role that confined them to raising children and taking care of their households and husbands. Susan Glaspell‚ a writer in the early twentieth century‚

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    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Copyright Notice ©2009 eNotes.com Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic‚ electronic‚ or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ taping‚ Web distribution or information storage retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher. All or part of the content in these eNotes comes from MAXnotes® for Twelfth Night‚ and is copyrighted by Research

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    education‚ being widely used as a subject for academic study and literary criticism. A close analysis of Twelfth Night‚ which is considered to be a reference to the twelfth night of the Christmas celebration‚ shows how Shakespeare is able to manipulate the form‚ structure‚ and language of a play in order to contribute to the meaning of it‚ which in the case of Twelfth Night is that of deception. Also‚ Shakespeare uses Twelfth Night to examine the patterns of love and courtship through the twisting of

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    Gabriela Rasuk English Composition II Melissa Juchniewicz Feminist Criticism 2/23/13 Hide the Hood Little Girl Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault is a story every child learns that is about a young girl with a red riding hood who goes into the woods to deliver some food to her very ill grandmother and in her journey she encounters a wolf who in the end wants to trick her into believing he is her grandmother. However children only enjoy a simple fairy tale for the fact of being

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    Twelfth Night‚ or What You Will Art and Culture Quotes How we cite the quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition. VIOLA And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown’d: what think you‚ sailors? (1.2.2) | Twelfth Night is full of literary references‚ including allusions to Shakespeare’s own dramatic works. For example‚ the play’s shipwreck plot involving the separation of twins echoes the

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    Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a play completely focused on the notions of performance‚ disguise‚ and deception. The characters are all acting in roles to meet their own goals‚ performing for the on-stage audience and deceiving everyone but the live audience off the stage. The use of dramatic irony is prevalent in order to engage and involve the audience‚ making them part of the play. Dramatic irony is a literary device wherein the audience is aware of pivotal information that the characters in

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    Twelfth Night "Twelfth Night is a comedy of light and shade. Its characters are not unreservedly happy and the events are not unreservedly humorous." Discuss. As a comedy‚ Twelfth Night is obviously intending to not only entertain its audience but also point out problems in society. It is imperative to entire merit of the play not to be realistic but to allow for empathy. Therefor to have a comedy of complete lightheartedness there would be no balance

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    Twelfth Night The Twelfth Night production was indeed very detailed with their props and characters. The floral scene background and beach funky music caught me by surprise because of the Shakesphere vibe the play was written in. I have observed that the play was a comedic play and it caught the audience’s attention with laughter and fun. As the first scene comes out‚ the characters that came on stage gave me a sure vibe that they knew whom they were portraying themselves as and their motives

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    William Shakespeare’s multidimensional comedy Twelfth Night dismantles and obliterates socially constructed limitations regarding biological and assumed gender and identity‚ thus emphasising that nothing is certain‚ rather‚ a matter of perspective. The reader to an emphatic extent becomes an integral part of the way language forms and shapes the reality of the play. Therefore‚ language instructs initial perceptions and the foundational reality of the reader but not final perceptions and ultimate

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    destiny? The gender roles again are interesting in Twelfth Night because of the cross-dressing that occurs. Viola is a woman who dresses as Cesario‚ a man‚ yet Olivia is madly in love with her. What stands out in the Twelfth Night is how acceptable this love between Olivia and Viola (Cesario) is‚ yet Antonio’s homosexual love for Sebastian is socially unacceptable. Like in Marie de France‚ tokens are used as symbols of love in the Twelfth Night as well. Olivia sends Cesario (Viola) a ring when

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