This essay is about the female characters in the books of Hemingway. Are they as simple as some critics say, or are they more complex beings, and which ones of the women in the life of Hemingway, can be noticed in his female characters? In the work with this essay, biographies of Hemingway as well as a few of his novels have been studied. The selected novels are Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, The Sun also rises and the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The selection was based on the fact that these stories contain good female characters. The result of the essay is that I don´t think that it is possible to divide the female characters in the works of Hemingway, in two categories. I think that they are more complex beings and a reflection of their time.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Literatures in English." Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-329).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 12, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Arthur A. Raney, Florida State University, College of Communication. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 1, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong.

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The subject of this thesis is the female characters' way of seeing in the works of Colette. Colette helps liberate women from an oppressive concept of femininity, this being the ultimate goal of the postmodern feminists (Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray). In Colette's works we find several characteristics that show her resistance to the dominant ideology, the most important being an emphasis placed elsewhere than upon things considered important in patriarchal culture. / Renee Nere of La Vagabonde, novelist and music-hall mime, is examined in the second chapter. For Renee, liberty is more important than the security of the established identity which marriage offers. The pain associated with her choice to remain alone underscores the oppression that she must bear. / "Colette" in La Naissance du jour is studied in Chapter Three. There we discuss the importance of "Sido" in the construction of "Colette's" life model, a construction that never ends. The differences between mother (poet) and daughter (novelist) are studied along with their similarities. Again, reflection and writing are found to be more noble than love.

This thesis examines the nature of the heroes in four of Christopher Marlowe’s plays and concludes that Marlovian heroes are transitional men who embody both medieval and Renaissance concepts and who are tempted to pursue the Renaissance dream, but are continually haunted by the Christian dogma concerning the destiny of man. They resemble Adam and Lucifer in multiple ways as they strive, suffer, and fall in their attempts to gain power, wealth, knowledge, and godlike omnipotence. The attainment of power corrupts Marlovian heroes, and they reveal characteristics of the Machiavel as the term was understood in Elizabethan times. Their moment of death is significantly magnified as they rage, curse, stoically accept, or philosophize in poetic terror as their doom approaches. The plays included in this study are Tamburlaine: Part One and Part Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus.