A Women By Helen Cunningham Analysis

When In Rome,” by Mari Evans, is an exceptional poem, demonstrating the struggle of African Americans in a white man’s world. The conflict between the two characters Mattie, the maid, and her boss is greatly enhanced by the strategic structure that Evans uses to mold the poem’s composition. This poem may seem to be a regular rhythmic poem, but this is trickery! One should not simply read this as a normal poem, but as an intelligently arranged, artistic one. Though the poem at first glance seems visually pleasing with an almost sing-song, rhythmic cadence, it is truly irregular with deeper analysis. The structure of the poetic dialogue between an elitist master and her oppressed servant exhibits the struggles of the African American community of the pre-desegregation era of the 1900’s.

Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” illuminates the fact that history has shaped an unfair role for women in today’s society. Boland criticizes the gender bias with regards to the limitations placed on women and their job choices despite their ability to be just as successful in the workplace as men. Regardless of the fact that the bias against women in the workplace is often overlooked, Boland aims to show the shared reaction of women to the gender bias prevalent in our society by using short sentence fragments, repetition, and a fire motif throughout the poem.

There has been an ongoing debate about Austen as a feminist writer and whether Lady Susan is a feminist text, as its characters adhere both to the expectations of women and also oppose them. Lady Susan herself can be seen as taking a feminist role, as she shows independence after the recent death of her husband. Notably, one of the greatest arguments against Austen is that she did not identify as a feminist, as the era of ‘feminism’ had not come about yet. Nevertheless, Austen’s work is littered with feminist perspectives which I will be looking at in this essay.

The two poems I chose to analyze were “Curandera” by Pat Mora and “Loose Woman” by Sandra Cisneros. They were an interesting read and made sure to reread several times to make sure I got everything I could from them. Both poems are so unique from other poems I have read; they are also unique from each other yet share similarities as well.

Viola Hastings, is the protagonist in the film She’s The Man. She is a female soccer player at Cornwall University, until the school cuts her soccer team off from the after school extracurricular activities program. After the sexist coach refuses her suggestion of joining the male soccer team, she impersonates her brother and tryouts for the soccer team at Illyria. She believes the only way to attest her capability is if she is unable to join the male soccer team at Cornwall is to beat them. Viola’s character would be a negative realistic representation of women, because she’s an athletic woman who remains attractive in the male gaze perspective. In the male gaze we would expect her to be fragile, delicate and helpless woman rather than goal-oriented and driven woman in order for her to remain attractive to the male audience and characters in the film.

The Schlegel girls, Margaret and Helen, have progressed from being like-minded, freely enriching themselves with knowledge and cultures, but Mr. Wilcox has spoiled that side of Margaret. Anticipating Henry’s proposal, the narrator notes Margaret’s impression of him, that he is a “stimulus, and banished morbidity.” In reference to Helen’s obsession with traveling abroad, Margaret remarks, “She has not the least balance;” Immediately after the narrator informs us that Margaret is “deeply pained at her sister’s behavior.” This advance in Margaret’s perspective coincides with her acquiescence to Mr. Wilcox’s housing plans. In chapter 18, the two go from one location to the next, while Margaret rejects them. Subsequently, chapter 32 begins with

In "The Woman Question." Harry stated that "by exploring the spiritual and cultural heritage of Africa in his plays, Wilson hope to re-envision and reclaim "lost" history, thereby facilitating collective healing and regeneration for Blacks in America". ( Drama Criticism 218).  It seems Harry implied that Wilson through his works recreated the "lost" culture of African Americans. He used the evidences and arguments throughout this article to prove her assumption, therefore, I thought this is a thesis of this

My Fair Lady and Nickel and Dimed are both great novels focusing in on wealth and money. While these books are unique in their own different ways, they are basically the opposites of one another! My Fair Lady focuses on the young and witty Eliza Doolittle, who is brought up into a high class lady. While in Nickel and Dimed, Barbara is leaving her high class paying job and moving down into a low-class minimum wage paying job. It is very interesting to see how these two books are so similar but have two drastically different situations. Furthermore, I believe that people should respect each class more, we should not scrutinize others based on their education or income level. These novels really look into what it is like to be in another person's shoes, and I honestly feel that in the end of both novels, each character had gone on their own journey and in the end had more respect and outlook on the class system.

I thought, how unpleasant it is to be locked out' ; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ~ Virginia Woolf

In America, items like computers, toys, and fruit are sold a lot, but in countries such as Nepal and India young girls are stolen from their houses, and they are the hot items on the market. Human trafficking is a difficulty sprouting up in more and more often among places across Nepal and India. Young girls are stolen and they are smuggled across borders in the hazardous and deceitful sex trading business. The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick portrays the story of a young Nepalese girl named Lakshmi who experiences events similar to living actual survivors and victims of the sex industry. Brave women have stepped out and told their stories against sex slavery express the bravery that both fictional and real humans contain. Even though Sold is a fictional novel, In the book Sold by Patricia Mccormick, the ideas represented in the book show that the sex slavery and prostitution is representative of real life.

Today we live in a society where the female body has become so sexualized that a girl showing her skin is considered “distracting” or “asking for it”. In The Woman Upstairs, the protagonist Nora is an incredibly interesting character due to the different roles she plays in life and how she models herself and her opinions after those roles. At times Nora is a strong, independent and freethinking artist who applauds the female body, while at other times she becomes yet another victim of the stresses society forces upon women with the sexualization of their bodies and implied shame alongside. Through this almost character split Messud demonstrates both the ideal and real perception of the female body, and in doing so demonstrates an utterly

In Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Laura Brown, one of the novel's protagonists, is trapped by the responsibility of being a housewife and mother. Cunningham's story uses one of Virginia Woolf's works, Mrs. Dalloway, as a template to weave the lives of three women together in a narrative delicately split into three branching tales that echo each other. One branch of the story leads to a fictional account of Virginia Woolf creating the first draft of her famous novel. A second narrative in Cunningham's tale is that of Clarissa Vaughn - a woman whose life mirrors that of Woolf's fictional character Mrs. Dalloway. The final woman in the trio of

The process of an individual’s transitions become transparent through an individual’s knowledge and attitudes towards new experiences and understandings within new worlds. Willy Russell’s play ‘Educating Rita’ and George Cukor’s film ‘My Fair Lady’ follow the transitional processes of the personal and metaphysical or reality, to achieve deeper understandings of self as well as the worlds which surround their protagonists. These transformative transitions prompt shifts in attitudes and beliefs of education and individuality within the 19th century while challenging dispositions of particular ideologies that responders of the time and in modern day periods inherently react to. These challenges appear physically, acting as barriers and are psychologically demonstrated through self esteem issues of confidence experienced by both protagonists.

It had been a long Wednesday. Wendoline had worked that morning and had classes right after that, but she seemed happy. I am not sure if it was from seeing me or being able to tell her and her family’s story. At the start of the conversation she sat in her family’s living room at her desk, her mother speaking Spanish in the background on the phone. I watched through the computer screen as her brother walked behind her. Before the conversation started I spoke with Wendoline’s family, asking how they are doing, not knowing that the information that I know about them is not completely true. The Wendoline Lorenzo that I knew for the past four years had told me a story that she had manufactured in her mind to protect herself and her family.

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical based off of a play called, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle, who lives in London, is not very educated and does not speak very good English. Professor Henry Higgins meets Eliza in a subway and proclaims that he could teach her how to speak properly. Eliza agrees to let him teach her and she is taken to his home and is taught how to be proper and if she convinced Queen Victoria that she belonged in the higher class then in return Professor Higgins would reward her with chocolates. Professor Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak proper English by helping her with her pronunciation of several different phrases that would teach her how to speak properly so that no one would know that she was not actually from a high class family. She goes on to perfect her speaking so that she could attend me the derby for her first test. She does well but at the end she gets involved with the race and she ruins her cover and exposes herself. She goes on to continue working hard to perfect high class tendencies.