Cultural Context - Comparative Study, Sive and Children of Men

Breaking Tradition the story of women’s roles. The author of this very detailed story, compared to “family affairs, gives its readers Incite on how women were apart of something so dangerous that change the lives

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

When I was 12 my grandfather died of cancer. I knew he was sick and was dying but we never discussed it. I was able to see my grandfather before he died and was able to attend his funeral. Two years later my grandmother died suddenly and we were able to attend his funeral. I vaguely remember attending a couple other funerals but I was really too young to understand what exactly was going on.

The passivity that society expects women to possess is a major contributing factor in the deaths of females in both stories. Society’s silencing and oppression of the characters makes the audience feel remorse for their actions. Lastly, the authors depict female characters as more human than their male counterparts, challenging the ideal female stereotype. The female characters in Shakespeare’s Othello and Shelley’s Frankenstein reflect how society treats women. It is imperative to use literature as a means of correcting social beliefs as they truly represent society’s perspective. As a result, literature is a significant contributing factor in societal

By exploring settings societies governed by political and social patriarchies, both Arthur Miller’s the Crucible and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale provide commentary on women’s role in society. Both texts are set against a backdrop in which women are seen as a ‘second class’ and are subject to male dominance. The similarities in the two texts lie within their separate discussions of gender roles in society, but they differ on the intricacies of this. From a theocratic standpoint, the play and the novel dissect the faults in an oppressive society, with Miller making it abundantly clear that it can in fact be challenged instead of conformed to. Atwood also somewhat entertains this concept, but both writers have different perceptions on identity and individuality in worlds that don’t seem much unlike our own.

It is a common assumption to believe that men are to be masculine, protective, and a provider to their families. That is especially the case in the time period both, A Doll’s House and Fences were written in, the 19th and 20th centuries. Torvald Helmer and Troy Maxson, were alike in many ways, but also so very different, each man loved and provided for his family in different ways, but both were still efficient providers in the way that should have been.

To begin, Dorris illustrates through the use of satire the way which men and women are crafted in a way to fit society like pieces of a puzzle, but certain pieces are perceived to hold a greater importance than another. Due to men being placed on such a high pedestal in societal ranking, the status and value of a women is crushed beneath society’s awe where sons are seen as a blessing and an advancement to a family instead of daughters. “You leave a portion for me as if that’s what you always do, to help provide for your family, but you take

Dystopian societies are a recurring theme among the works of many authors. It is difficult to predict the future, but authors such as Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have speculated possible scenarios for what lies ahead. Fahrenheit 451 and “Usher II” by Ray Bradbury and “The Country of the Blind” by H.G. Wells all depict events that result in chaos because of abuse of power and control. The three main characters of these compositions: Montag, Stendahl, and Nuñez are very similar yet greatly unique in many ways; they have controversial values, beliefs, philosophies, different views on society’s laws and they receive different consequences for their actions in the end.

Explain how culture shapes and gives meaning to the lives of the people described in the reading.

It is hard to say that one culture is superior over the other culture when it comes to the care and education of the children, because both the Herlander’s culture and the men’s culture both have their benefits when it comes to this components. Looking at the outcome of both of these societies I have to say that the care and education of the children is better in the Herlander’s culture. My thought process that concludes me to this opinion was when the men were trying to find fault in the Herlanders society, and the men had to ask one of their tutors to point out a flaw. The woman of Herland where able to prevent criminals within their own society with both of these components.

The disappearance of communication can be caused by misunderstanding. As the narrator, in the poem “Teenagers”, observes the changes in the relationship between her children and herself: “Doors and lips shut, and we become strangers in our own home (Mora 3-5)”. The writer directly illustrates the relationship through the dark narrative tone as she uses the symbol of “door”, which symbolizes the missing conversation among family members.

This story has very specific use of dialogue for both men and women, and uses a lot of symbols throughout the story. To start off the literary analysis, you can look at the dialogue through the men’s prospective. The men during this time are seen to make women seem inferior. Women are seen as second to men, and the men have all the power. The men during this time of society would control women.

Both of these stories show the affect that society has on communities and individuals, alike. The need for specific people, such as Torvald and the Stockman brothers, to be what society wants them to be creates conflicts that are larger than themselves. It creates problems with others. This is the result of human doing what they do best, make mistakes. The human race evolves over time, both mentally and physically. With these changes come new responsibilities and decisions. When people fail to fulfill their responsibilities, conflicts arise. That is seen in these stories. This is a similar pattern as that of the gender role throughout history. Women were seen as the more submissive gender. This is because human beings made it this way. All of these conflicts and problems that are still to this day present are because of humans. As a race, humans create problems between each other because they feel some sort of unearned privilege to be better than others. Henrik Ibsen understood this concept; he loved to explore the minds of humans. That is what made his writing so

In the story “The God of Small Things," the term family can be defined as persons that an individual cares about. The obligations of the family members appear to be influenced by the bold ties. Despite the disputes among some family members, the blood ties obligate them to express care and love towards one another. Just like in real life situations, the novel explains that family relations can be frustrating, complicated, and confusing. In most cases, it is apparent that most individuals are forced by the family ties to stick together. The failure to express care towards one another is seen as one of the factors that prompt families to fall apart.

This socio-historical commentary is valid however; it disregards the fact that the novels are not accurate portrayals of society. Important facts: first the philanthropic attitude in the novels is simply not a reflection of the literal changes in society, the novels cannot be classified an expression of