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APHRA BEHN  

In "The Golden Age"; Aphra Behn advocates the preference for a world in which procreation is achieved without the "aids of men" (34), suggesting that there is something more pure and less violent in a conception of a child accomplished without the use of penis.

Aphra Behn's two poetic masterpieces The Disappointment and the Golden Age are both obsessed with the false important of honor upon women.

Aphra Behn's novel--for lack of a better term--Oroonoko struggles valiantly to be an indictment of racism and for an 18th century work it succeeds better than it should, but it also is hopelessly hindered by its own curiously oblivious racist elements.

An essay

This is a study of two famous 18th century poems, "The Disappointment" and "The Imperfect Enjoyment".

Aphra Behn attempts to justify sexual non-conformity while concurrently advocating for the restoration of English social norms.

This paper is an examination of the overlying themes in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In it, I discuss the accusations of racism and imperialism that have come to be associated with the novel.

The cavalier, cruel and charismatic, hero and villain, was the standard protagonist of Restoration and 18th Century drama. He was the popular guy whom the audience could fall in love with, but the playwrights also knew that they could be vicious bullies as well.

An essay on the personal story preferences of Samuel Johnson.

Feminism has negative connotations, it is exclusive, and it is vague. For these reasons, feminism needs a new name that accurately represents the struggle beneath the name.

Playwright William Wycherley can be considered the embodiment of the rake in the successes of his personal life as well as those in his literature. Wycherley was well-known for embracing the once prohibited lifestyle of a care-free playboy..