Comparing Beggar Woman by William King and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Having the woman veiled and sleeping implicitly suggests how women are hidden from social equality and how exhausted they are because of it. Furthermore, Gilman intentionally includes “obeyeth but the pleading” to emphasize how the woman is restricted by societal circumstances. Though the poem seems to advance towards triumph, it plummets back to social restriction. Through this, Gilman expresses her own anguish, lightly pleading readers to permit equal rights between women and men.

Secondly, those involved the writing of the Sentiments “Resolved, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to

Patriarchal culture has dominated society throughout history. Males have control in many aspects of life and women have continued to fight for equal rights in society. There are many ways women have contributed to the fight for equality; some more physical and other less abrasive. Education and Literature gave the voice to a few women in a male-centered world. Poet Lady Mary Wroth captures the injustices experienced by women in the feminine narrative of Sonnet 9 from her collection of sonnets, songs, and lyrics entitled 'Pamphilia to Amphilantus. In this poem, Wroth explores the thoughts of elite women in the 1700s and uses aspects of her own cultural and historic circumstance to convey the theme of a religious patriarchal society.

The City of Ladies has been regarded as the first book to speak out for women. Around the time of the book being written women were being portrayed as objects that are not equal to men. Christine picked up a book by Matheolus, a 13th-century writer. In the book, Matheolus was writing about marriage. He said that women make men's lives miserable. Christine felt distraught at being a woman. After thinking that, three women appeared next to Christine. Each woman represents a virtue. The three virtues tell Christine that she must build a city for the best women. The book continues teaching Christine about feminism and why men slander women. The City of Ladies can compare very well to A Thousand and One Nights. In A Thousand and One Nights, Sultan Shahrayar finds out that his wife is unfaithful, he kills her he also swears that he will marry a different woman every night. When the sun rises he will kill her. One of his wives, Scheherazade, told him half a story each night so that he lets her live to the next night, so she can complete the story. A lot of these stories had feminist and feminism theme in them, similar to The City of Ladies. By the end of the one thousand and one nights, Sultan Shahrayar’s idea about women changed. He respected women and thought they were equal to men.

We have all found ourselves in a sticky situation at one time or another. Maybe a seemingly harmless at the time lie that spiraled out of control, for example. Sometimes, when we feel desperate or alone we may say something to get a reaction from someone that just isn’t true. A pregnancy, especially an unexpected one, would get quite a rise out of a boyfriend that has just broken up with you. You may be compelled to use this to either get him to stay with you or just to make him as upset as you are. Another reason you may fake a pregnancy is to get out of work or school. If this has happened to you and you aren’t sure how to get yourself out of it, here’s a solution. Fake abortion papers can put an end to the charade without you having to admit that you were making the whole thing up.

and Femininity. The poem is mainly about motherhood in a way as previously discussed. She

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The scarlet letter” and Margaret Atwood’s “The handmaid’s Tale” would be compared and contrasted primarily in broader terms in terms of structure, thematic and the feminist approach to self-consciousness which is derived from the minds and life experiences of Hester Prynne in the Scarlet letter and Offred in the Handmaids tale where both protagonists derive their concepts of self in a secular world. Acceptable and unacceptable behaviors and cultural values in a society, may change in texts throughout time due to the context of an author from a particular era and place. However, in both The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid’s Tale, many of the cultural values are represented in a similar manner. Whilst there are contextual

WRITE AN ESSAY OF 1,500 WORDS IN WHICH YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE TWO PASSAGES BELOW, TAKEN FROM BEHN'S '_OROONOKO_' OR THE ROYAL SLAVE AND VOLTAIRE'S '_CANDIDE_', OR OPTIMISM.

They could not be heroes, neither could they be anything of great importance as they were property not people, and that was a man’s place, never a woman’s. The women in this particular poem, as it was written in an Anglo-Saxon period, have been personified with this same mentality. These women, Queen

the only male characters in the poem and are anthropomorphic, which is an interesting twist on

In Juvenal’s poem, women were portrayed in a negative way and are described as people who should not be married and that was his intent on writing, “Satire

1). Unlike “If” Kent uses the word “people” instead of “men”: “The biggest men and women…by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds” (Ln. 11-12), moreover, generalizing all in all rather than targeting a specific group by including the words “men” and “women”. “People favor…top dogs” (Ln. 13), nevertheless the generalization shows up by the of the word “people” rather than a specifically targeted group of people. “If” was written in 1895 in Britain. In this time women were seen as over emotional and not as important as men. Although Rudyard Kipling was a man, at that time it was tough to gain recognition as a writer, which might indicate why he targeted men in his writing instead of targeting women or a general audience. “The Paradoxical Commandments” was written in 1997 in the USA. During that time women were seen as more similar and close to men and had more rights than in 1895. Since women were seen as almost sub-human or inferior to men in 1895, it is visible that the piece is written towards male readers. Keith wrote his poem in 1997, at that time women were treated better and treated as equal to men, which shows in Keith’s writing. The overall effects are different as a result of the various targeted groups, Kipling’s readers will feel more affected because they are targeted specifically by him. They might feel “extra” connected to the writing because they are the targeted circle. Keith’s effect on

In the story “Stolen Day”, which was written by Sherwood Anderson, a young boy wants attention from his mother that always ignores him. Another story that is similar, “The Night the Bed Fell” written by James Thurber, tells about a young boy who is humorous and thinks his relatives are strange. In both stories the narrator exaggerates a lot and is very dramatic. In the story “Stolen Day” the narrator was feeling neglected by his family. The narrator was walking home one day and he realized that his joints hurt and that he had remembered that his walter felt the same because his Walter has arthritis.

Literature such as a Middle English lyric by an unknown author, “Abuse of Women,” easy reflects how women were viewed. But were all

Comparing To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and To his Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne