ferdowsi's shahname is a literary work with many and varied personalities which can be converted to dramatic texts, but it needs to analyze on basis theories of dramatic characterization. characterization of the protagonist of the play, as a key element of the show has a special component such as action and motivation to handle dramatic action, a physical and mental characteristic that dis...

This study intends to evaluate Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale from the viewpoint of feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex, which offers a more nuanced perspective on sexuality and gender. philosophy centres societal systems oppression that designate women as ‘Other’ male reputation. According her, femininity is something society imposes women, feminism cannot be reduced basic...

This study aims to explore the grotesque mode of representing female body and bodily life in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, especially Book IX, which is regarded be key book poem: Man’s Fall. My main purpose display from a Bakhtinian perspective how concept operates as considerable way “monstrous-feminine.” That is, female, character Eve some places, Sin, relation their femininity/maternity, devi...

This PhD thesis deals with how new discourses on femininity and gender developed in Scandinavian literature during the Modern Breakthrough, 1880-1909. Political, economic and demographic changes in the Scandinavian societies put pressures on the existing, conventional gender roles, which literature reflects; however, literature also created and introduced new discourses on gender. The main focu...

simindaneshvar is the first iranian  femalenovelist in persian literature and her famous novel, savushun, gives her a place beside othersuperioriranian writers and novelists. female perspective in savushun caused its eternitybecause it is the first novel that is written and published by a woman. although the woman is victim of patriarchy in iranian novels generally, both simindaneshvarand her h...

Several personality traits, including aggressiveness and sensation seeking, have been hypothesized to be influenced by prenatal androgen exposure, though evidence for this proposition is limited. We investigated whether individual differences in aggressiveness, sensation seeking, and several prosocial personality traits can be predicted from differences in the 2D:4D digit ratio, a putative mark...

the purpose of this study was to analyze selected wolaita proverbs for their reflection of prejudiced negative images of femininity. the subjects used for the current study were 20 theme-relevant proverbs collected by interviewing systematically selected 12 elders and conducting participant-based observation. the qualitative research design was used to conduct this study. the result indicated t...

Brazilian regionalist literature and popular narratives since colonial times have too often depicted the semi-arid environment as being too harsh for femininity. Women have been constructed with masculine traits, as is the case for a myriad of fictional characters and real historical figures. Perhaps the most prominent cases are Maria Bonita, wife and member of the band of Lampião, the most fam...