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Essays
Written for a third-year Old English class, this short piece examines Grendel's mother's ability to operate in both male and female roles during her fight with Beowulf.
This essay was written for a fourth-year class on nineteenth-century novels. It examines the changing nature of work following the Industrial Revolution (women were becoming breadwinners) through the characters of Mary Barton and Tess Durbeyfield.
This essay was written for a third-year Shakespeare class. While this essay doesn't deal specifically with the women of Hamlet and Henry V, it does examine how Hamlet and Henry are burdened by toxic masculinity, and how that affects them and those around them through an expectation of violence.