Analysis of the Tragic Female Images in Eugene O'Neill's Plays

Ruth and Mary are two heroines in Eugene O'Neill's plays Beyond the Horizon, and Long Day's Journey into Night. They have some similarities: when they are young, they are beautiful, native and full of hope towards the future life, but both make wrong choices; in the following years, both suffer a lot from these wrong choices, and feel regretful. This paper tries to explore these two tragic female images.

A Comparison between the Female Images of Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw

Charlotte Brontё and Emily Brontё were two important writers in the 19 thcentury. In their masterpieces Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, the two authors created two classic female images—Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw. Though the Brontёsisters had similar life experience and living circumstances, the two images which are created by them still have many differences in their understanding and attitudes towards social status and love. This paper tries to analyze the differences of the two female images.

A Brief Analysis of the Female Images in The Waste Land

This thesis focuses on the analysis of the female images in T.S.Eliot's masterpiece The Waste Land.They can be classified into two types according to their origins:the women images lent from the literary tradition and those created by Eliot himself.A meticulous study of these female images can enhance the understanding of the theme of the whole poem.

An Analysis of the Female Images in Theft from the Perspective of Feminism

In the field of vision of American Literature in the 20th century,Katherine Anne Porter is highly praised by many readers for her flexible artistic style,accurate and vivid description of characters,profound connotation of her works.As a female writer,Porter is good at creating female characters from a unique female perspective,and reveals the inner activities of female characters in self-development and the female individual consciousness and independent consciousness pursued by women through her works.Although she doesn’t consciously involve feminism,we can see that the heroine’s female consciousness is gradually awakening from her portrayal of female characters and her exploration of female inner world.This paper takes Porter’s short story Theft published in the 1990s as an example to analyze the feminist consciousness in her works from the perspective of feminism.

Reconstruction the Female Image From the Perspective of Eco-Feminism in A Passage Into India

Female have a natural connection with nature.Ecological feminism emphasizes the natural intimate connection between female and nature,and believes that the oppression of female and the plunder of nature are dominated by masculine and anthropocentrism that have dominated for thousands of years.Ecological feminism points out that the oppression of female is directly related to the oppression of nature.This paper analyzes the changes in the attitudes of two women,Adela and Mrs.Moore,during the trip to India from the perspective of ecological feminism,and analyzes their relationship with nature.The connections between nature and female are inextricably linked.Female and nature are like a community of destiny.Mrs.Moore and Adela reconstructed a new female image through the connections with nature.

The Female Images of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is set in Long Island and New York City in the 1920s.It is the novella written by the American writer Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 and established Fitzgerald’s position in the history of modern American literature.However,the researches about The Great Gatsby are almost always confined to the interpretation of the American dream,writing skills and the fate of the characters analysis and the interpretation of the original language style.The papers on female images from the perspective of feminism are comparatively few.This paper firstly introduces The Great Gatsby and domestic and foreign researches on it.The first part analyzes the three main female characters in the novel in detail,the second part tells their final fates in the novel,and the third part analyzes the deep root causes of the tragic fates of these female characters from three aspects.

Polarized Contradiction of the Female Image Created by Cao Yu --A Case Study of Fanyi

Cao Yu is an important and well-known playwright in the modern history of Chinese literature,who shapes many vivid and lively female images in his works,all of them presenting the split personality—on the one hand,they are beautiful and honest,as good as angels;on the other hand,they are crazy and insane.This paper attempts to center on the familiar female image Fanyi to analyze the writing psyche and imagination of the writer and further reveal the deep logic and immanent contradiction of the female image as the intent tool.

Female Ethical Images in The Thorn Birds

Titled as the name of the main characters,the seven parts in The Thorn Birds together tell the story of the three generations of the Cleary family from 1915 to 1969.Fiona and Paddy are the first generation,Meggie and Ralph are the second generation,and Justine and Dane are the third generation.Although they are both thorny birds,they have different personal characteristics and life pursuits.Fiona,Meggie,and Justine,as women,are more and more rebellious from generation to generation.They are more and more daring to fight against the Almighty God and their cruel fates.But at the same time,in the process of pursuing self-happiness,there are also dislocations of ethical identity of these women who inevitably make wrong ethical choices.The author of this thesis tries to analyze the ethical identity of the three generations of women in The Thorn Birds from a relatively comprehensive perspective based on literary ethics,and then analyzes the round ethical image of these female characters.

On Subversion of Traditional Male and Female Images in Angela Cater's Modern Fairy Tales

Angela Carter is a famous contemporary British female writer with a variety of creative styles, famous for Gothic style, magic realism and new feminism. As one of the representatives of feminist writers in the last century, Angela Carter devoted her life to prosecuting patriarchal society from the perspective of women, calling on women to find themselves and realize personality libera-tion. At the same time, she is also a rational feminist, advocating the establishment of harmonious rather than antagonistic social re-lations with men and women.This article will mainly use text analysis and contrast and comparison to study the image of the male and female image in Angela Carter's modern fairy tale, and explore the reasons. On the basis of the text analysis, this paper will study the transformation of female image from the change of female status and personality. The laws of comparison and comparison will be used to explore the differences between men and women in the traditional fairy tale and the modern fairy tale of Angela Cart-er. The study found that in Carter's reconstruction of the fairy tale, the female image dares to break through the inherent status, and constantly launches the impact on the men's rights, seeking individual independence and self-liberation, and the male image is more diversified and more realistic and vivid. Through this study, it is hoped that the reader will have a deeper and more compre-hensive understanding of Angela Carter and his work, and find out the new feminist connotation contained in his work, thus ending the dualistic confrontation of the male and female and establishing a harmonious relationship.

The Female Images in Yaa Gyasi＇s Homegoing

Homegoing is the debut novel of Yaa Gyasi published in 2016.Telling stories of an Asante woman’s seven generations,Homegoing embodies different kinds of female images.By analyzing three types of female images in the novel,this thesis aims to reveal the fact that women are under oppression from social factors,as well as to point out the importance of claiming women’s agency,resisting others’attempts to put limitations on them.

高频超声下老年女性腓肠肌形态参数与身体活动能力的相关性分析

背景:高频超声技术的应用为老年人骨骼肌形态的精准评估提供了有效工具,但获取的骨骼肌形态参数与身体活动能力之间的关联性尚不明确。目的:探究高频超声成像技术下老年女性腓肠肌形态学参数与身体活动能力的相关性,进而发现老年人身体活动能力的有效预测指标。方法:于上海杉达学院周边社区招募年龄>60周岁,具有独立活动能力的老年女性受试者59例,采集受试者腓肠肌高频超声图像,获取相关参数:包括肌肉厚度、肌纤维长度、羽状角和肌纤维长度/肌肉厚度(fiber length/muscle thickness,Lf/Tm)指数;并进行身体活动能力测试:包括10 m步行、计时起立行走、30 s坐站和握力的测试,对各形态参数和身体活动能力测试指标进行相关性分析。结果与结论:①各骨骼肌形态参数间均存在显著相关性(P<0.05);②羽状角与10 m步行测试结果呈负相关(r=-0.35,P<0.05),与计时起立行走测试结果呈正相关(r=0.32,P<0.05);③Lf/Tm指数与10 m步行测试、握力测试结果呈正相关(r=0.39,P<0.01;r=0.30,P<0.05),与计时起立行走测试结果呈负相关(r=-0.32,P<0.05);④结果表明:腓肠肌羽状角和Lf/Tm指数与老年女性身体活动能力表现出了较好的相关性,可作为身体活动能力预测的有效指标。

Biomechanical Mapping of the Female Pelvic Floor: Prolapse versus Normal Conditions

Background: Quantitative biomechanical characterization of pelvic supportive structures and functions in vivo is thought to provide insight into pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). An innovative approach—vaginal tactile imaging—allows biomechanical mapping of the female pelvic floor to quantify tissue elasticity, pelvic support, and pelvic muscle functions. The Vaginal Tactile Imager (VTI) records high definition pressure patterns from vaginal walls under an applied tissue deformation and during pelvic floor muscle contractions. Objective: To explore an extended set of 52 biomechanical parameters for differentiation and characterization of POP relative to normal pelvic floor conditions. Methods: 96 subjects with normal and POP conditions were included in the data analysis from multi-site observational, case-controlled studies;42 subjects had normal pelvic floor conditions and 54 subjects had POP. The VTI, model 2S, was used with an analytical software package to calculate automatically 52 biomechanical parameters for 8 VTI test procedures (probe insertion, elevation, rotation, Valsalva maneuver, voluntary muscle contractions in 2 planes, relaxation, and reflex contraction). The groups were equalized for subject age and parity. Results: The ranges, mean values, and standard deviations for all 52 VTI parameters were established. 33 of 52 parameters were identified as statistically sensitive (p 0.05;t-test) to the POP development. Among these 33 parameters, 11 parameters show changes (decrease) in tissue elasticity, 8 parameters show deteriorations in pelvic support and 14 parameters show weakness in muscle functions for POP versus normal conditions. Conclusions: The biomechanical mapping of the female pelvic floor with the VTI provides a unique set of parameters characterizing POP versus normal conditions. These objectively measurable biomechanical transformations of pelvic tissues, support structures, and functions under POP may be used in future research and practical applications.

Brain activation patterns associated with sexual orientation in homosexual male and female: a case study with 3.0T fMRI

This study was performed to clarify the sexual orien-tation in a 19-year-old homosexual male and a 20-year-old homosexual female by using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with viewing male and female erotic nude pictures. The sex hor-mone levels of the homosexual male and female were in the normal range of healthy heterosexual males and females, respectively. In both homosexuals more significant brain activities were observed while view-ing the nude pictures of the same genetic sex than those of the opposite sex in the frontal cortex, parietal cortex, occipital cortex, anterior cingulate gyrus, amygdala, midbrain, hippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex, parahippocampal gyrus, thalamus, globus pallidus, and putamen, which are known to be re-sponsive to sexual arousal. The homosexual male and female showed a tendency toward higher sexual arousal to the same genetic sex as comparison with the opposite sex. This finding may be useful to un-derstand the different neural mechanisms on sexual arousal in homosexuals.

Imaging presentation of adrenal glands in female pseudohermaphroditism

Objective: To discuss imaging features of the adrenal glands in female pseudo-hermaphroditism. Methods: 11 cases of female pseudohermaphroditism (8-27 years old) were analyzed retrospectively. Results: In 9 of the 11 patients with female pseudohermaphroditism who did no receive hormone replacement therapy, both internal and external branches of bilateral adrenal glands were found to be thickened, prolonged and twisted, and in 2 of the 9 patients they were found to be macronodularly hyperplasic. In one of the remaining two patients who had received long-term hormone replacement therapy, the adrenal glands were not thickened or twisted, though prolonged; and in the other patient imaging presentation of the adrenal glands was the same as that of those who did not receive hormone replacement therapy, but with co-existence of adrenal myelolipoma. Among the 11 patients agenesis of the uterus and the vagina was found in 4 cases. Conclusion: Female pseudohermaphroditism is a hereditary disease, where hyperplasia of the adrenal glands and agenesis of the uterus and the vagina were secondary. Early detection of these abnormalities by imageology would prove to be helpful in early detection and treatment of the condition.

Nursing as a profession:Undergraduate female students’perception

Background and Objective: Nursing profession has a robust educational pathway into the practice and acontinuously growing body of knowledge within programs in higher education. This study aimed to investigate andcompare between first and fourth year nursing students’ perception toward their profession. Method: The studywas conducted at one of the biggest female governmental universities in Saudi Arabia in the college of nursing. Thestudy involved a convenient sample of 300 currently enrolled bachelors nursing students from the first and fourthyears in the college of nursing. Self-administered questionnaire was used in this study. Results: The majority ofstudy sample have joined the faculty of nursing due to grades foundation year and 50% of them have also a nursefriend or relative. Fourth year students were more proud than first year students when they are talking aboutnursing, and their image was changed to better after clinical training, majority of the participants have a positiveperception toward nursing, and no significant differences in perception of nursing profession between first andfourth year students. Conclusion: There are many students of first and fourth year who have no plans regardingchanging their profession. This may be an indication for a possible decreasing in the shortage of Saudi nurses. Butthere is still a need to improve the public image of nursing to attract students into nursing programs, and advisingshould be provided for students to develop positive perception towards nursing profession.

On Women's Images In Vanity Fair

Wililiam Makepeace Thackeray portrayed two female images in his representative work Vanity Fair: Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. Through analyzing the minor status and role of women in the patriarchy society, the feminism represented by Becky who actively tried to change her life and the mild and the kind-hearted traditional female image represented by Amelia,the paper reveals the social status and role of women in the patriarchy society.

Analysis of Female Consciousness in Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a British-American period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by CarnivalFilms and Masterpiece.The series,set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey depicts the lives of the aristocraticCrawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era.The story unfolds with the sinking of Titanic in 1912,a time witnesses asurge of feminism.Traces of the awakening of feminism can be found in the depiction of the Crawley daughters.This paper centers uponthe awakening of feminism through analyzing the images of female characters in the series.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Measured Adductor Muscle Volume and 100 m Sprint Running Performance in Female Sprinters

The purpose of this study was to determine the specific muscles that may contribute to sprint performance. Eleven female 100-m sprinters and nine non-sprinters volunteered. Thigh muscle volume (MV) was measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images obtained from the spina iliaca anterior-superior to below the distal end of the femur. The MV of the adductors, quadriceps and hamstrings was calculated. Evidence for the null/alternative hypothesis was provided thorough the calculation of Bayes Factors (BF10). Differences represented as median &delta;(95% credible interval). Absolute MVs in the quadriceps [1.287 (0.315, 2.39), BF10: 14.3], hamstrings [3.032 (1.886, 4.482), BF10: 9487.4] and adductors [3.22 (1.994, 4.654), BF10: 23,360.2] were greater in sprinters than in non-sprinters. This was also observed when MV was normalized to body mass (cm3/kg). Absolute and relative MVs in the adductor longus, the adductor brevis, the adductor magnus, pectineus, and gracilis were also greater in the sprinters. However, percentage of component adductor relative to total adductors MV appeared similar between the two groups. There was no evidence for a correlation between sprint time and quadriceps, hamstrings and adductors MV relative to body mass. Within the adductors, there was evidence for a correlation between sprint time and adductor brevis MV relative to body mass [r = &minus;0.652, BF10: 3.028, &delta;&minus;0.548 (&minus;0.870, 0.040)]. Although the credible interval was wide, our results suggest that the adductor brevis may contribute to sprint running performance in female sprinters. This may be related, in part, to supporting the flexion and medial rotation of the thigh.

Woman as the Trope:Perceiving the Altering Conceptions of Chinese Modernity from Females’Posters before and during Mao’s Era

Woman as a political trope had been essential to the Chinese Communist Party’s state vision of socialist modernization after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.The Party valued women’s labor and devoted to emancipating it from the domestic realm so that women could be mobilized to actively participate in the collective socialist construction.Associating the figure of women with modernity is not an unprecedented strategy,for during the early twentieth century the“Modern Girl”embodying the essence of Chinese modernity had already become a conspicuous cultural icon in various kinds of visual cultural products.This paper investigates the ways in which females’public visual images were consciously constructed in the two different historical periods in order to cater to particular political or commercial schemes.It argues that while those images objectively capture the reality of social modernity to some extents,they also imply the artists’imaginary of an ideal vision of modernization.By registering female figures as the center for presentation,they were inscribed with males’desires through envisioning desirable female images that would correspond to their expectations of the concreteness of modernity.

A Study of the Influence of Female Self-concept on Elizabeth’s Garment Behavior in Pride and Prejudice

As one of the visual elements in the film, clothing will undoubtedly contribute to strengthening the visual language. Referred to the fashion design, it is conducive to shaping the character characteristics and setting off the atmosphere. We’ll explore the key role of clothing in revealing the story of heroine Elizabeth with multiple perspectives, such as dress design, collocation style and appearance mode in 1995 TV series Pride and Prejudice.