UNT Libraries - 3 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 3
open access

A Foreshadowing of Women's Liberation as Seen in Selected Plays of Molière

Description: The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of revealing certain liberated female traits that are to be found as early as the seventeenth century in certain plays of Moliere. A study of the major events in Moliere's life and of the social climate and salons of his time, together with a close analysis of the plays themselves, is necessary to understand this important aspect of his works. In essence, this study attempts to show how Moliere's women emerge as independent individu… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Owen, Jacqueline
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
open access

The Treatment of the Heroines in Representative Novels of François Mauriac

Description: This study analyzes specific scenes in the novels dealt with in order to determine the type of women characters Mauriac has created. This study covers Mauriac's early, middle, and late periods as a novelist. The heroines are nearly all examined in relation to each other chronologically. The study shows that Mauriac first portrays a religious and simple heroine. The heroines become agnostic, if not atheistic in several of the subsequent novels. Through Therese, they become progressively more psy… more
Date: May 1974
Creator: Hendry, Linda Ruth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
open access

The Theme of Purity in Certain Plays by Jean Anouilh

Description: The problem dealt with in this discussion is the various aspects of the theme of purity in Le Voyageur sans bagage, Antigone, L'Alouette and Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu, by the French playwright, Jean Anouilh. The purpose of this discussion is to clarify Anouilh's concept of the search for purity and to shed light upon the various interpretations of the theme of purity in these four plays.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Lowery, Norman E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Back to Top of Screen