Analysis of Top Girls by Laurianne

A well-known essayist with such toughness must probably been minutely mindful of people in general taste while additionally applying significant social impact on readers and authors. Subsequently, much basic talk of Southworth 's sensational fiction in later decades has attempted to clarify away the Southworth sensation by deprecating both her and her crowd. As the novel structure got to be progressively socially respectable, and abstract authenticity turned into the favored novelistic mode, sentimentalists like Southworth were made to connote what wasn 't right with prominent taste and in addition how mainstream essayists were falling flat in their commitment to lift general society to higher social level.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

The writer sits, their fingers lay gently across the lettering of a keyboard. Images and words swirl through their mind, formulating the perfect literary storm. Yet their hands refuse to type. Even with the perfect story in mind, the writer must first choose the most effective mode of discourse to properly communicate their desired message. Every piece of literature, whether it be a poem or a novel, contains either one or various types of this communication. Rachel Lloyd, the author of Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, uses a total of four modes of this dissertation. These include description, narration, exposition and argument, and each contributes to the message of Lloyd’s memoir, some more effectively than

Middleton and Dekker collaborate to write The Roaring Girl, which concentrates on a real-life London woman named Moll Cutpurse. Moll was reputed to be a prostitute, bawd, and thief, but the playwrights present her as a lady of great spirit and virtue whose reputation is misrepresented by a small, convention-bound civilization. In the play, as in reality, Moll dresses in men’s attire, smokes a pipe and bears a sword representing a colorful and in the underworld life of Moll Cutpurse. She stood London on its head with her cross-dressing and gender-bending behavior, and illegal pursuits. Her defiance of women in this play is exceptional. Also, she is perhaps one of the only players to be scrupulously true to herself; some of the other characters display very hypocritical aspects. Such unorthodox and unconventional role, Middleton and Dekker implies, leads to her spotted standing. She is a roaring girl; An audacious and bold woman-about-town. But beneath this absence of femininity, is a courageous, high-principled woman. Moll interposes in the central plots and is associated in skirmishes with many of the characters, consistently showcasing her ability to stand up for the downtrodden and wronged. Therefore, Moll creates a 'third space ' that identifies her as importantly freed in her navigation of space and social relations.

Explore the presentation of femininity and identity in The Great Gatsby and The Color Purple, considering the contexts of their production, reception and the different ways in which these texts have been read.

The selected authors represent this through sexual deviance, alcoholism, and gambling. In particular, this is apparent through the narrative struggle in ‘The Sentimental Bloke’. Bill’s place in a “larrikin” gang establishes anti-social behaviour, which inhibits his upward social mobility within the text (Thompson 178). This results in several incidents, which impact his relationship with Doreen. For example, this includes Bill’s coarse behaviour at the theatre, his relapse into gambling, and his attempts to fight her suitors (Longford 1918). These actions mirror those of Grant’s “brutality” during the “kangaroo hunt”, as they subvert his metropolitan social values (McFarlane 35). The effect of the imposition of these negative masculine values is clear. Authoritative characters, such as Ginger Mick and Crawford, encourage behaviour that excludes men from wider society. The authors symbolise this through the prospect of marriage. In ‘Coonardoo’, Hugh’s refusal to marry for love is the result of his mother’s boundaries. Hugh may only fulfil the role of protector of his station, and by extension, Coonardoo, due to the “sublimation of his sexual desire” (Thomas 238). This suggests that the masculine roles drawn from mateship disregard the possibility of emotional fulfilment. Comparably, Kotcheff also represents this through his depiction of women.

My response has been inspired by a study of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Attwood (Section XIV-Salvaging, Chapter 45 and Section XV- Night, Chapter 46). I shall demonstrate my understanding of the text of these chapters in the form of a memoir by rewriting the chapters from another character’s perspective i.e. Serena Joy’s perspective. Though memoirs are written for non-fiction literature, I noticed the features of memoir in this novel. Serena Joy is one of the important character, of the novel, at the top social level permitted to women. The intended purpose of this Written Task 1 is to know and understand Serena Joy’s perspective (Wife of a Commander), who was a singer and advocate for “traditional values” in the old world before Gilead and now the state took away her power and public recognition. This text starts from the point when Serena Joy comes to know

This essay will be exploring the role of women in the texts ‘DNA’ by Dennis Kelly and ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck. Both texts are quite dissimilar for the most part, with ‘DNA’ being a contemporary play, dealing with problems faced by modern youth groups and ‘Of Mice and Men’ being a classic novella. Set in the 1930’s, the novella tells a story of two migrant workers who flee to Salinas, California, for work. In spite of this, both explore the presentation of female characters similarly and how they are treated in society as inferiors, attention seeking and at times even use violence as a means of expression. The characters of Leah and Cathy in Kelly’s play, and Curley’s Wife in Steinbeck’s novella are closely related in terms of how they are treated by the men who are around them as well as their response to this treatment. In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Curley’s Wife does not conform to the stereotype of a 1930’s woman: to be domesticated and the foundation of the household due to the patriarchal ideals of society during the time. In ‘DNA’, Leah is a character who lives in a contemporary society, but is still forced to conform to some of society’s expectations while Cathy is another female character in the play that resorts to violence to gain power, respect and popularity. Both Steinbeck and Kelly make their audience feel a range of emotions towards these female characters and also criticise society’s treatment of women both in the 1930’s and in modern society.

In order to make a story thoughtful and more alive, authors often make references to other existing literature or historical event. These references within text is called ‘intersexuallity’. This often enriches the reader’s experience and appreciation, and provides a deeper meaning to the text. This effect can be clearly seen in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, with her use of historical events, people’s ideas and behavior at the time, and as well as child’s growing up process.

The first essay, “The Roles of Women in British Drama,” represents my first exposure to a new genre of literature. The essay was also one of my first formal and interpretative essays at the college level. As a woman and a student of literature, I feel a special connection to this essay’s topic of women’s roles in literature. In addition, this essay shows my “knowledge of the social, political, philosophical, and religious forces that influence authors and the people they write about” (Oral/Portfolio). After reading some of the most prominent British plays of the twentieth century, I observed a discontinuity in the roles of women in this genre. Sadly, women’s roles in literature were very similar to their role in society. During the twentieth century, women were still trying and failing to emerge out of the roles they had been cast in by a male dominated society. Even though women were almost always portrayed as inferior to men, I found a strong exception to this stereotype through the role of Thomasina. I admire Thomasina’s intelligence and wit, but I truly admire Tom Stoppard for creating this character.

These gender roles assigned to the male and female beings of the society found their way into the world of literature and there was the creation of books which either adhered to the stereotypical gender roles or went against it. In this paper I would like to talk about the gender roles in the coming of age novels Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Both these books were written in the time which is considered as the Victorian age in British literature.

Little did one know that the world could come to an end so suddenly and nothing would ever be the same. Margaret Atwood tells of a story set in the future, where women are thought of as objects, something that can be expendable. She creates a bond with the readers and her characters that make her book irresistible. Atwood catches the reader's eyes quickly in the book The Handmaid’s Tale, with her vivid imagery, the symbolism, and the reality of the setting.

In Dan Geddes criticism of “a Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood He elaborates more on the feministic view of the story. Focusing on themes like pornography and the institution of marriage which are most controversial with feminism writers. “ Her ideas are something that most non-radical right women can agree upon.” Geddes writes explaining that Atwood does not take a specific side on views but challenges controversial topics. Geddes see’s Atwood's novel compelling when it comes to being unique and interesting as a social narrative but falls short as a gripping narrative. He feels It will make readers question what it would be like if they were Offred’s dystopia. “ Offred describes her repressive atmosphere so vividly, that we are as a grateful

Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid 's Tale is a interesting novel that will have you confused but also have you bitting your nails with intrigue. So many questions might go in your head, at the same time; Atwood wrote this novel so her readers can have curiosity, even after reading the last word of the last paragraph of the last page of the book. One of the main topics of this novel is the effect on society when a women 's fate is taken away from and replaced by a label of their own. The social hierarchy in the novel categorizes its citizens in a way to hold different social norms for each to enforce patriarchy in the society. Even when power is taken away

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