It is arguable that Jane Austenâs very decision to put pen to paper and write Lady Susan was a feminist act. Writing in an epoch prior to the foundations of a female literary canon being established, Austen not only utilised the epistolary form to give her female characters voice and agency, but framed the novel around a central female character...
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The novel, The Handmaidâs Tale, by Margaret Atwood uses the anti-feminist rhetoric of Phyllis Schlafly to create the dystopian society of Gilead, âthe logical extension not only of Puritan government but also of the agenda articulated during the 1980s by Americaâs fundamentalist Christian Rightâ (Neuman 857). Atwood recognizes that the agreement on the oppressive nature of sex by the feminists...
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In the nineteenth century, the society was patriarchal and controlled by men, women were deprived of all rights. The society was constructed and conducted in a way that women made completely dependent on men in all cultural domains, religious, political, and economic. This is the background in which Henrik Ibsenâs play âA Dollâs Houseâ is written. Ibsen created a female...
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Feminism is mostly considered as a Movement. It helps to recover womenâs rights in the society. In the eighteenth century, women had a lot of rules in society. According to the black people, men are always one step ahead of women and believe that they have various privileges. The main theme of feminism is based on women's equality. Mainly, the...
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Feministic values are very prominent in the play The Merchant of Venice, mostly those involving the radical feminist concept of a patriarchal society. The female personas were able to exploit the activity of cross-dressing to accomplish the business they needed so that their lives might be more tolerable while under the control of men within the society. Not all of...
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Daisy Miller, a stepping stone for modern feminism, is about a young American woman traveling in Europe with her mother, who encounters Frederick Winterbourne, an American living abroad. Through his novella, Henry James studies, in detail, his title character. What he discovers is Daisy Miller is unbothered by European preconceptions, whereas Frederick Winterbourne, the protagonist, is consumed by them. The...
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Senseless, inferior, and sensual are words that describe a woman. Marriage inhibits an individual from becoming an influential figure in feminist society. One may seek marital liberation and individuality in a male dominant society. In the novel The Awakening, Kate Chopin illustrates that a sense of freedom and independence come into realization when weak women confront conformist societies. This symbolizes...
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Morals are standards people are given by tradition of what is right and what is unacceptable. Great Expectations is a fictional novel that chronicles a young boy named Pip becoming a man to not only gain wealth and a higher social standing but also a partner. As a boy Pip lives with his sister and her husband, and is a...
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Throughout the early history of writing, primarily men were authors and would depict women in the grasp of authority. In the nineteenth century, feminism began to rise: âSince the beginning of the womenâs movement, there has been a strong rise in the amount of literature that is self-consciously feminist in tone, clearly espousing the ideals of female equality (Amico 1).â...
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Introduction The concept of the sensuous woman has been a topic of intrigue, debate, and exploration across various cultures and epochs. This term, often enveloped in layers of cultural, psychological, and philosophical meanings, evokes images of femininity intertwined with a heightened awareness and appreciation of sensory experiences. Sensuality, in this context, extends beyond mere physicality, encompassing a woman's ability to...
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Introduction In the nineteenth century, male dominated the world of literature. Even so, it is often referred to as the age of the female novelist (Showalter 3). The reason being, that it is characterized by great women writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley and the BrontĂŤ sisters. These women are just some...
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This essay aims to take a look into the play âKing Learâ authored by William Shakespeare, using both the feminist and psychoanalytical critical approach. Like most of Shakespeareâs tragedies, King Lear can be identified on various levels and from a diversity of critical perspectives, due to its complexity. The result of the play not having one particular meaning, it leaves...
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The author of The Awakening was from St. Louis, Missouri. Kate Chopin is known for writing short stories such as âThe Stormâ, âThe Story of an Hourâ and âA Pair of Silk Stockings.â She published two novels in addition to her short stories, At Fault and The Awakening. Her first novel, At Fault, went largely unnoticed after its publication in...
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In a society where sex is consistently consumed in our daily media, itâs hard to conceptualize a time period when sex was a taboo conversation spoken only behind closed doors. From the late 1800s until the mid-1900s, sexual promiscuity was a subject not often spoken aloud. It was considered âdirtyâ and âperverseâ to speak of such things, yet, authors, playwrights,...
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Introduction A Thousand Splendid Suns is a work of realistic fiction based on Khaled Hosseiniâs trip to Afghanistan. The story is set in Afghanistan between the early 1960âs and early 2000âs and features two main protagonists. The first is Mariam, a quite, thoughtful child at the start of the book. Born out of wedlock to a rich and married businessman...
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In all history men were favored and privileged. Men were given freedom, an education, pride, and an opportunity to share their opinion, however women in ancient Greek were not given any of these privileges. The play Medea by Euripides, shows how women were seen by ancient Greek society and how some women did not fall into these expectations. Therefore, âMedeaâ...
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Manifestation of Modern Feminism in Handmaidâs Tale It was in the early nineteen hundreds with the addition of womenâs suffrage when the first waves of modern feminism began. This was one of the first steps in altering womenâs previously thought power, identity, and individualism. These factors continued to be at the crux of later feminist movements especially the second and...
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Charlotte BrontĂŤ created a piece of literary revolutionary work in a world where women were marginalised in a society dominated by men. Powerfully written, she commands a dominating, liberating womanâs voice and using it as her strength we can relate to Janeâs struggles and explore the twists and turns of her turbulent world. Sophie Franklin writes that the âWoman Questionâ...
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This weekâs discussion takes a look into LGBTQ+ and disabled feminism and activism. In the articles written by Abelson and the speech given in the Incite page, we take a look at LGBTQ+ feminism along with black feminism. In the article written by Abelson, we begin by discussing both the inclusion and exclusion of transgender feminists, which begins in the...
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Although the term âfeministâ has only recently come in to use, universally, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte BrontĂŤ, has been acknowledged as a âfeminist novelâ since published. The character of Jane Eyre is looked up to by many, due to her strong nature and ability to bounce back from the mental and physical abuse afflicted by her aunt and teacher from...
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Introduction Many facts say that humans are the most perfect creatures compared to other living creatures. Developing technology and science at the present time are the result of the minds that exist in human. They are able to develop the world thanks to the intelligence given to them. The development of this world may be based on human thinking that...
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Both The Handmaidâs Tale, and The Scarlet Letter written by Margaret Atwood, and Nathaniel Hawthorne respectively are novels that explore self-development within a dystopian society through a feminist lens. They also examine the idea of having self-consciousness under an extremely controlling and oppressive environments. Both of the protagonists, Offred from The Handmaidâs Tale and Hester from The Scarlet Letter derive...
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Abstract Euripides' Medea challenges the dominant views of feminity in the patriarchal society of Greeks. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. By focusing on the character portrayal of Medea, this paper argues to prove Medea a feminist text. And such tragedies represent Euripides feminist and liberal views as well relative...
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The late 1800s to the early 1900s was a time in America where revolutions occurred and where the foundations of feminism were laid. This statement is proven through evidence found in movements, conflicts, politics, and literature of the time period. In particular, when analyzing the author Kate Chopin and her writing, it becomes clear that she played a crucial role...
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Introduction to Feminist Criticism and The Color Purple Feminism in a layman language is giving equal rights and status to women. Unfortunately, women across the world are deprived of their basic rights. The woman is always considered as a âSecondary Sexâ. (Quyoom 2017) âAs a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways in particular women have been suppressed, oppressed,...
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Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a metatextual reference to Jane Eyre, through the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, before her psychological dissent within the attic in Jane Eyre. Initially upon reading Wide Sargasso Sea, not being versed in Jane Eyre, it was taken as a tale of imperialism, and the struggle of wealth and class despite the ending of slavery....
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a timeless classic in feminist literature because it features many crucial themes that deal with issues women of that time and often times even today face such as the importance of self-expression, mental illness being misunderstood or even ignored, and the danger that gender roles pose to womenâs self-identity. Gilman accomplishes this...
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Norway's Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, published in 1879, is a play about Nora Helmer, who has committed a crime of forgery to repair her husband to good health. As a dramatic play, A Doll's House inspects the relationship between Torvald, her husband, and Nora, especially the limited social choices available to women and the roles and expectations placed on...
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel that was written as a response to the text Jane Eyre in 1966. The novel was written by Jean Rhys, who wrote the text to give a voice to Antoinette Cosway, and provide a background to her story before she became âthe mad woman in the atticâ in Jane Eyre. As such, one of...
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In her Prologue of âThe Canterbury Talesâ by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath gives readers a complicated picture of a medieval woman. As it explains how the Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits as she makes use of her sexual power to get what she wishes. In other words, it is a way of doing exactly...
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