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"Thelma and Louise" and Marxism, 2004.
Analyzes the film "Thelma and Louise" from a Marxist perspective about class and the power men retain over women.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the film "Thelma and Louise" in terms of gender issues and the Marxist perspective on class issues. More specifically, the paper discusses the film's critique of the law and the power of men, as a class, to hold power over women.
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"In the film "Thelma and Louise", Thelma remarks that "law is some tricky shit isn't it?" Thelma's remark comes at the end of a discussion between her and Louise about the advisability of telling the police that Louise has just killed a man who was raping Thelma. Louise decides against going to the police believing they could not get a fair hearing. Thus, the women set out on a journey that will make them outlaws and eventually cost them their lives. Gender issues therefore are..."
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Thelma & Louise and Scarecrow, 2007.
This paper discusses two different films 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Scarecrow'.
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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In this article the writer discusses the two films "Thelma & Louise" and "Scarecrow". The writer points out that these films involve entirely different characters, settings, and outcomes, but notes that they have several themes that connect them in meaningful ways. The writer looks at the similarities and connecting themes. The writer then discusses ways in which the films are dissimilar.
Outline:
Picaresque Theme
Search for a Dream
Episodic 'Road Movie' Theme
Dissimilar Aspects of the Movies
Conclusion
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"In 'Thelma & Louise', the women start out searching for some enlightenment, seeking some fresh moments that will change their boring existences from stale to fresh, from dreary to exciting. When the only thing you have in life that is enjoyable is the company of another woman, going away with her for a spontaneous and impulsive journey is wonderful, even dream like (although that dream turns into a nightmare).
In Scarecrow, the two drifters have a dream of opening up a car wash that actually has real nylon brushes."
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"Thelma and Louise" by Ridley Scott, 1994.
An examination of the film's female protagonists' behavior as deviant and the criminal response to a male-dominated society.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 47.95
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"The recent film Thelma and Louise presents two women who turn to criminal activity as part of their way of dealing with the world of males, and their way of dealing with men can be labeled deviant. Indeed, the film presents the development of this deviant behavior as itself a response to the deviance of males in American society. As presented in the film, this instance of female criminality is a case of crossing over, specifically indicating that these women are using countermeasures to male deviance that will themselves be deviant. This instance of deviant behavior will be used as the subject for the application of the ideas of crossing over and criminal organization and honor to illustrate the nature of, development of, and consequences of this deviant behavior.
It is interesting that the film under discussion is itself..."
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Louise Erdrich's Poetry, 2005.
An analysis of literary techniques in Louise Erdrich's works.
1,587 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that Louise Erdrich is a great example of a Native American author who writes about themes and issues that are very close to her heart and uses many subtle techniques such as symbolism and the functions of non-protagonist characters to enhance her literature and to further convey points that she wants to make to her readers. Her poetry is examined in this paper, to point out these literary techniques.
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""Dear John Wayne" is an absolutely fascinating poem in which Erdrich uses symbolism and imagery masterfully to enhance the story. Early in the poem, Erdrich utilizes her skill with imagery give the reader an image of Native American men lying on the hood of a car at a drive-in movie theater and watching a giant image of John Wayne, the great cowboy, as he dominates a group of Indians. This is an obvious, yet clever display of symbolism, with John Wayne symbolizing the white American culture. John Wayne's image on the screen is described as being gigantic, and this certainly has relevance other than simply his physical appearance.'"
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Louise in "Story of an Hour", 2003.
Louise Mallard's transformation in character in Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour".
1,026 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper examines how Kate Chopin uses different types of imagery to convey the main character, Louise Mallard's, dramatic transformation in personality, which is caused by the untimely death of her husband.
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"Kate Chopin's rather unusual tale, "The Story of an Hour," focuses on a woman named Louise Mallard who has been mistakenly informed of her husband's death. Her sister Josephine and her husband's friend Richards are careful in breaking the news to her, because they fear that her frail heart will be unable to withstand the blow. Interestingly enough, however, Mrs. Mallard is not completely devastated at this news - on the contrary, she feels as if she has been set free. Over the course of the story, Mrs. Mallard grows more and more exuberant at the prospect of life without her husband. We gain more insight into Mrs. Mallard's optimistic condition through Chopin's descriptions of not only her own body and soul, but the world around her. Mrs. Mallard's dramatic change in character, caused by the untimely death of her controlling husband, is revealed through subtle, yet skillful imagery - not only of her settings, but of her slowly strengthening emotional and physical being."
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Louise Erdrich's Poem "Windigo", 2001.
An analysis of how modern writers adapt mythic themes in their poetry, with the specific example of Erdich's poem "Windigo."
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, $ 37.95
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This paper analyzes Louise Erdrich's poem "Windigo". The paper considers the traditional legend of the Windigo and Erdrich's sensualization of the topic of monsters.
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"The windigo is a Native American nightmare, invented by the Cree and Ojibwa peoples of Northern America (Great Lakes Regions) and Canada. The area in which these peoples lived is subarctic, five million square miles of forest and tundra inhabited by fewer than 60,000 people. It is a lonely region with long, dark, cold winters. In times past, the tribes Native to this region spent their winters secluded in their homes, carefully dividing up food supplies, and, in traditional Native American style, telling tales to pass the time. A popular and terrifying one of these stories featured the windigo, a creature that lives alone in the forest. Described as being from ten to thirty feet tall, it has a frozen, grotesque mouth with jagged, icy teeth. Its footprints in the snow are bloody, and its rasping breath can be heard for miles. Its modus operendi? It eats people, but that is not even the worst of it."
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Louise Erdrich's "The Beet Queen", 2005.
Character and plot analysis of this story about familial ties and identity.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper analyzes the characters and the theme in Louise Erdrich's novel, "The Beet Queen," and explains that it is about individual struggle, communal struggle, identity, and family relationships.
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"Mary Adare begins the narrative of Louise Erdrich's 1986 novel The Beet Queen, saying she was "girl in the stiff coat," in 1932. (Erdrich, 1986, p.1) Deprived of her brother Karl, who she cared for she feels weak-for from the beginning she has experienced a sense of disconnection from other members of her immediate family, even her own brother and mother. Her brother is spindly and apt to faint during moments of great distress while his sister is strong as she begs mealy apples when her family is hungry. Early on in the narrative, Karl is lost to Mary when he hears a dog bark, and turns tail, leaving Mary to the mercy of apparent strangers in the form of her aunt and uncle. (Erdrich, 1986, pp.8; 1)"
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Louise Erdrich's Poem, "Dear John Wayne", 2004.
A look at the symbolic and thematic elements of Erdrich's poem about assimilation and immigration into a culture defined by racism.
1,335 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper describes Erdrich's use of diction, image, tone, metaphor, irony, theme, and symbol in her poem, "Dear John Wayne", which describes the white culture's extortion of land and culture from a Native American perspective.
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"The poem begins with a description of group of young Native American men lying on the hood of a Pontiac car, watching the face of John Wayne as he defeats a group of Indians in a spaghetti western. Here, John Wayne, the American cowboy, himself symbolizes the white invasion of the west, and the white man's taking of Native culture and land. Wayne himself is the ultimate fighter against the Indians, the individualistic and rugged cowboy that symbolizes the white desire for land and power. The poem describes "hordes of mosquitoes", which represent the white invasion, and their relentless attacks and numbers that make them largely unstoppable."
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Louise Erdrich, 2001.
Influences on her literary work of her life & career incl. Native American life. Analysis of "Wedge of Shade."
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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"Synopsis
Louise Erdrich, like many of the characters in her novels and short stories, is part Native American, part something else ? in her case, her family is a mixture of a German-American father and a Chippewa mother. Erdrich's parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as teachers on a nearby North Dakota reservation and she recalls that her father regularly recited memorized poetry ? Frost and Byron ? to her and her six siblings. Erdrich started her literary career as a poet, supporting herself by working at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and on road construction crews.
At 28, Erdrich published her first novel Love Medicine ? which had been rejected by numerous publishing houses ? when her husband, the author Michael Dorris, resubmitted it, posing as her literary agent."
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"Love Medicine" ( Louise Erdrich ) and "Winter In The Blood" ( James Welch ), 1995.
Examines fictional treatments of issues of gender and cultural roles among Native American populations.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"Louise Erdrich in her novel Love Medicine and James Welch in his Winter in the Blood each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American populations. Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. In both cases, the writers speaks from a position inside that society. Erdrich shows more concern for feminist issues, as might be expected from a writer of her gender, while both writers express a sense of continuing loss in the Native American community and lay blame for this with the federal government and the institutions it has created for the administration and control of Indian affairs, with the land embodying both the traditions of the past and the tenuous hold ..."
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The Character of Marie in Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine", 2001.
An exploration of the trickster figure in Native American culture and its presence in Erdrich?s fiction, and a general analysis of the story?s two main characters.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 45.95
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"Nanabozho is the trickster hare of Chippewa tribal lore. He represents mischief, both playful and malicious deceit, and all things manipulative. Marie is a trickster. A main player in Louise Erdrich?s Love Medicine and the star of one of the book?s sections, Marie narrates the details of her adolescence with unflinching wit and attention to every graphic detail. Saint Marie (Chapter two in Love Medicine) tells the story of Marie?s experiences as a fourteen year old girl sent to live in a convent, and achieving a much-desired moment of sainthood by the folly of her main rival, the torturous nun Sister Leopolda. The theme of Marie?s seemingly indestructible spirit and wit, compounded by the oppressive atmosphere in which she fights for her individuality (nearly to the death) and emerges victorious is at the story?s heart. Everything in the text: Marie, Sister Leopolda, the convent, the nature of good and evil, all make their appearances as manipulative and deceiving at one point or another. "
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Female Sexuality in the Movies, 2002.
A comparison of female sexuality in three movies - "The Ice Storm", "Boys Don't Cry" and "Thelma and Louise".
2,556 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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Female characters using their sexuality to achieve what they want in Hollywood films is a strategy that is used over and over again by film makers. The paper shows that while many movies use the same basic themes when it comes to female sexuality, there are some variances from the norm. This paper discusses different forms of female sexuality as they appear in three Hollywood films, "The Ice Storm", "Boys Don't Cry" and "Thelma and Louise". From these movies three specific characters are studied: Wendy Hood, Brandon Teena and Thelma, respectively. The paper shows that these three women all represent female sexuality differently. They don't all fit the stereotypes of women that other movies tend to portray. Although there are some similarities between the three characters, the portrayals vary as to how the characters use their sexuality and femininity and it is these differences the paper examines.
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"Another similarity between the movies is that they all portray women who are struggling with something. Whether it's coming of age, sexual identity, or a discovery of who they really are, all three women have something very important going on in their lives that they must deal with. Brandon Teena has the largest problem to handle of the three selected women, but Wendy and Thelma must struggle with their own beliefs and actions as well. The actions of others that directly affect each of the women must also be dealt with."
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Feminist and Anti-Feminist Films, 2005.
An analysis of the themes of male protection against male violence in the films, "Something Wild" and "Thelma and Louise".
742 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines how good outlaws who are on the run from the law are a typical theme of American cinema and how both "Something Wild," directed by Jonathan Demme, and "Thelma and Louise," directed by Ridley Scott, are of the 'road movie' genre, which features the American myth of the open road and free and easy access to changing one's life through motion.
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"Thus, both films deal with a problem-if feminism is about women's rights, what of women's rights if the law, for both men and women, is so often wrong. One reason both films provide different answers is that Something Wild involves a male and a female, while Thelma and Louise involves two females. Something Wild suggests that the female is only capable of full motion and movement on the open road in the presence of a male, while the plot of Thelma and Louise suggests that the road provides a potential means of escape for both men and women, and that the presence of men such as the cowboy/drifter of Brad Pitt can sunder female closeness."
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Women and Road Movies, 2002.
How the movie "Thelma and Louise" (1991) changed the course of the road movie.
1,529 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses how "Thelma and Louise" strayed from the typical "road movie" formula in terms of casting, theme and storyline. It shows how the film not only helped to redefine gender stereotypes but also paved the way for other women, as well as gays, people of color and other traditionally underrepresented groups, to become ?road movie heroes? as well.
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"The conventional road movie twosome, which is usually comprised of either two young males or a male and female with a romantic connection, has permeated the genre since its inception. Thelma and Louise broke that tradition by not only using two female protagonists, but by portraying men in a consistently negative light; essentially as either ?rapists?, ?bullies? or ?boy toys?."
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Different Struggles, 2002.
An analysis of the typical struggles of both men and women by examining two movies - "Thelma and Louise" and "The Fight Club".
2,215 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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An examination of these two movies which highlight the differences of the stereotypical struggles encountered by both men and women. In "Thelma and Louise" the women are struggling and questioning their roles in life, while in "Fight Club" we see how the men struggle for superiority in their society. Critical reviews of both of these movies are examined.
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"To argue about who is more oppressed is pointless because in this society , no matter who we are, no matter what gender we are, we all struggle for a place in society. We can define ?places? as having many different meanings. Places can mean simple survival, a career, or a 'place of honor?, a job, or a status within family or society. Based on this definition, it is logical to say that while men and women struggle, their struggles are different. This struggle is highlighted in two movies. Thelma and Louise is the story of a woman?s struggle, while Fight Club is the story of a man?s struggle. Faludi calls Fight Club ?Thelma and Louise for guys? highlighting the similarity in the theme, arguing that Fight Club shows how men struggle in society just as women do. Stein in his column The Emasculation Proclamation argues instead that Fight Club reveals something very different and especially reveals that the struggle of men is very different to the struggle of women."
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