Representation of gender through female characters

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  • Rep. of gender through female characters
  • Tam o' Shanter. A Tale.
    • ...fou and unco happy
    • ...left poor Maggie scarce a stump
    • ...hard upon noble Maggie presst
    • ...sullen dame...gathering brows like gathering storm
    • ...remember Tam o' Shanter's mare
    • The landlady and Tam grew gracious
    • A bletherin, blusterin, drunken bellum...
    • ...Lowping and flinging on a crummock. I wonder didna turn thy stomach
    • In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin! Kate soon will be a woefu' woman!
    • ...roars out, "weel done, Cutty Sark!"
  • Mrs Sisyphus
    • That's him pushing the stone up the hill, the jerk. I call it a stone - it's nearer the size of a kirk
    • What use is a perk, I shriek, when you haven't got time to pop open a cork
    • ...he is giving one hundred per cent and more to his work
    • A load of old b*llocks...
    • But I lie alone in the dark
    • Keen as a hawk, lean as a shark...
    • I could do something vicious to him with a dirk
    • ...that feckin' stone's...
    • Think of the perks he says
    • Her voice reduced to a squawk, my smile to a twisted smirk...

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