A Careful Complaint By Elizabeth Cary And Isabella Whitney

Virginia Woolf and Frederick Douglass are two significant writers who suffered from inequalities. Specifically, in, “A Room of One’s Own”, Virginia Woolf focuses on exposing the unequal treatment of women to the eye of the public, and in “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick” Frederick Douglass wrote an autobiography, which revealed the unjust of society toward African Americans and hoped to achieve more rights. Frederick Douglass and Virginia Woolf both lived in a white male dominated society which restricts opportunities for African Americans and women. The severity of their inequities made these two writers dealt with their situations differently. Although, aiming to help two unalike groups of individuals, Frederick Douglass and Virginia Woolf were able to find a way to fight for a similar cause. Therefore, these two influential writers were able to use their talent in literacy to expose inequalities in their society and spread information to their readers in order to create a change in the way people are perceived.

In the passage in the excerpt from “I Am a Woman” (1862) by Mary Abigail Dodge, the use of various rhetorical devices are evident throughout the text. The intended purpose of this text is to display her writing skills for an audience that is not keen on women’s influence in the literary sphere. Through the use of rhetorical strategies such as diction, imagery, and emotional appeal (pathos), Dodge forms her argument by asserting that women are legitimate writers.

Having a boyfriend is great. It’s like having best friend, protector, and someone to talk to all rolled into one. But sometimes, girls become too reliant on the men in their lives and this dependence can lead to negative consequences. In The Aeneid “Book IV: Passion of the Queen,” Virgil shows his readers the love and loss of Queen Dido. She starts as a strong and independant leader of Carthage who graciously takes in a guest named Aeneas. Over a short period of time, she starts to fall in love with him and they get married in secret. When Aeneas sets sail for Italy and leaves his new wife, the reader sees how Queen Dido’s dependance on him drives her to her own demise. Virgil uses Dido’s obsessive love for Aeneas to show the dependance of women on men, even if it drives them to extreme lengths.

Two-hundred years is a sizeable gap of time that allows plenty of room for change. American society had been rapidly changing from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, but despite this, the roles and rights of women have remained locked in place. There were many factors to consider as to why women were not allowed to flourish in their time and exceed these boundaries, and while some accepted it, there were many that opposed and faced these difficulties head on. Two female authors, one from colonial times, and one from nineteenth century America, have written about the obstacles and misogyny they’ve overcome in a male dominated literary career. Despite the two-hundred-year gap between the lives of Margaret Fuller and Anne Bradstreet, they both face issues regarding the static stereotype that women are literarily inferior and subservient handmaids to men.

Finally, literature can create a platform for those who typically are unable to influence society publicly or on a public platform. For example, women in the 17th and 18th centuries possessed very little societal influence and there for had to find a means to still leave their mark on the world and impact it for the better. Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley are two such women who sought out a way to impact the world. These two women, although from extremely different circumstances, both wrote about what life was like for women in these two centuries and both are considered courageous according to the standards of may despite being in the submissive female role that society had categorized and placed them in. For example, Anne Bradstreet

“Women wrote 12 of the 27 best selling novels published between 1850 and 1860. Their stories about heroines who overcame hardships no doubt helped their female readers imagine all kinds of new possibilities.” Their life’s battles they wrote about helped new generation women realize they can overcome anything and new possibilities in life. “Other women found work as launderers, domestic servants, or cooks.”They are doing everything they was told not to do and more. They are taking advantage of their time being. “Others reluctantly found change thrust upon them. Either way, women’s traditional roles and responsibilities were forever changed as many of them adjusted to life during war.” Some just bettered themselves, some

Women have been heroic and courageous throughout history, though not all of these heroic (or courageous) adventures have been shown in any way.  Some of women’s heroic and courageous adventures are portrayed through short stories, books, and movies.  Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path,” Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women, Zora Neale Hurston’s story “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” and the movie “The Piano” all show women going through their own amazing and heroic adventures.  In these stories, the authors and director share with the reader (and watcher) the

Dido is completely taken over by the love that she has for Aeneas that she is not able to look over her land properly. This paints the picture for the reader that women fall madly in love with men and therefore are unable to accomplish anything. She is so overcome by the love that she has for Aeneas that she ends up killing herself when he has to leave Carthage to go to Italy. This is another example of a female character that is extremely reliant, and in love, with a male character that she feels the need to commit suicide because she cannot bear to live without him. A reader cannot help but sympathize with Dido.

Many women have experienced discrimination due to their gender. Society views women as inferior beings that cannot achieve greatness. Furthermore, women have acquired a set of rules and expectations to meet within their role in society. In the 1850 romance novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the beauty and strength of women. Despite society’s strict views of gender roles, women can convert society’s oppression into freedom due to the qualities they possess, which surpass society’s assumed capabilities of them.

Many of the authors that we learned about in this class faced social discrimination because of their sex, and many also because they were not white or not wealthy. Sojourner Truth and Frances E. Willard are two women that are represented in vastly differing ways. Sojourner Truth was born a slave and a fought whole heartedly to get the rights and respect she deserved as a woman. She begins here speech by discussing how men say women should be treated. “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere” (338).

Sophia's struggle to express herself and be recognized by others is not only a true portrayal of the female psyche, but a symbol for men's disregard of the complexities of women. Though interested in the advancement of women's rights, most Enlightenment authors were men and therefore limited in their ability to accurately portray women. Their female characters are often symbols, tragic punchlines whose stories

Throughout the history of storytelling, there have always been storybook characters that inspire and motivate young readers to become more engaged and knowledgeable about the struggles that some people go through. Reading has always been a pastime of mine; while reading I collect new friends in wonderful places that otherwise I could only dream of. Each of these characters that I have befriended and connected with over the years, has shaped my personality in some way or another, and choosing just one seems an impossible task. Although women’s rights have skyrocketed in the past century, overall the world is still predominately male-orientated, but the world of books has no bounds for inspirational women. Countless authors have written

In the late 19th and early 20th century, America had an emergence of female authors. With this came a new style of writing, feminism. They wrote on their own belief and advocating for gender equality. We can see issues, highlighting feminism in several stories. Some in particular like “The Yellow Wallpaper” shows how women are overlooked by men. In the story “April Showers” we see how hard it is to pursue a career as a woman. The last story, “Speech to the American Equal Rights Association" shows the hardship that comes through labor for women. American author of the late 19th century reflected the ideals by showing men’s condescending views toward women, their struggles to have their ambition acknowledged, and the unfairness in the labor system.

During Victorian era novelist had to develop ways to avoid posing as threats to the order of the society . Something which even make the look anti-feminist, but still many of female writers of that period are known today for their early feminist agendas embedded in their works. Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Britain’s best known female writers, She was a conservative women. Although she was not the part of “the women question” a movement started in mid

Many female writers see themselves as advocates for other creative females to help find their voice as a woman. Although this may be true, writer Virginia Woolf made her life mission to help women find their voice as a writer, no gender attached. She believed women had the creativity and power to write, not better than men, but as equals. Yet throughout history, women have been neglected in a sense, and Woolf attempted to find them. In her essay, A Room of One’s Own, she focuses on what is meant by connecting the terms, women and fiction. Woolf divided this thought into three categories: what women are like throughout history, women and the fiction they write, and women and the fiction written about them. When one thinks of women and