Dailah Quotes

Poverty and hardship are shown to create vulnerability in female characters, particularly the female servants, allowing powerful men to manipulate and sexually abuse them. Kent illustrates how poverty perpetuates maltreatment and abuse in a society like Burial Rites using the characters of Agnes’ mother Ingveldur and Agnes. Agnes’ mother is forced to make invidious choices as her children are “lugged along” from farm to farm, where she is sexually exploited by her employers. In spite of these circumstances, Agnes’ mother is commonly referred to as a whore in their society which abhors female promiscuity yet disregards male promiscuity as a harmless character trait; as in the case of Natan, who is merely “indiscreet” despite all his philandering. Born into poverty, Agnes experiences similar sexual coercion and manipulation from her “masters” and yet is labelled “a woman who is loose with her emotions and looser with her morals”. The severe poverty of Agnes is explicitly demonstrated to the reader by Kent through the intertextual reference of her entire belongings - a very dismal, piteous list to be “sold if a decent offer is presented”. Furthermore, Kent contrasts the situation of Agnes, a “landless workmaid raised on a porridge of moss and poverty”, to the comparative security Steina has experienced using a rhetorical question from

“At last when the ship we were in, had got in all her cargo, they made ready with many fearful noises, and we were all put under deck, so that we could not see how they managed the vessel. However, this disappointment was the least of my sorrow. The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential. ” -(Olaudah Equiano) Equiano is preparing to bring you into his life during slavery. Equiano expressed one of many hard times that he had to face during his slave voyage throughout that quote. I chose that strong quote so that it would shine knowledge on those who are unsure of what was to come about the life of Equiano. This piece of literature stood out the most to me because it gave me a different view of slavery. This story allowed me to try and picture myself going through what Equiano had to face. It was hard trying to prepare myself because no one wants to imagine themselves going through the pain, neglect, beating, hunger, and etc. like the way he did. It made me realize this was told from a child’s point of view and that he showed different emotions from what I would have presented to others. This piece is relevant because this is someone’s personal life story or what I would call

After listening to the case, Brown stated that she read the Darwin book and does not “want to think that men come from apes;” however, that is “beside the point” (Lawrence and Lee 76). Brown always desired to believe the teachings of the Bible, but she demonstrated the exploring the truth is more important than her previous comforting ideals by challenging her religious beliefs to consider Darwinism.

She was able to create perplexing pieces of work; by adding color shadow and lighting. Her flower paintings had lots of details; some thought that they were erotic.

Have you ever looked at a piece of art and wondered how it could be based on real life, because it was just so beautiful? Well Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was able to paint in such new and exciting ways; people were left wondering just this. Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was a woman of many talents. In her life time she came up with new ways of painting, revolutionized fashion in France, and overcame any prejudice thinking because she was a woman. Before dying at the age of eighty-seven, she had gained the respect of women and men all across the world. Being a female artist in the eighteenth century was not easy, especially when you had to keep a career and your life together during the

Roet continues to explore the nature of our close relatives, the monkeys, gorillas and apes. This is done throughout her series of artworks consist of, three dimensional pieces, drawings on paper and photography artworks. ‘When I laugh, He laughs with me.’ advocates the close controversial connection between primates and humans. Roet explores the biological, cultural and visual parallels between humans and apes comprising the ‘physicality’ of romance. Using the sources of major international zoos and field studies of apes, Roet challenges the biological theories of humans evolving during the course of life and explores the bond between other primates.

Western literature is historically and inherently rooted in a masculine bias largely as a part of the past millennium of patriarchal order. Amongst the abundance of works of which can be attributed to reflect this bias, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is most suiting. Written in the Victorian Age, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities seems historical, as to the plot revolves around the French Revolution, with its bloody guillotine blade, the poor, starving bourgeoisie, and the indifferent aristocrats of whom inevitably fall. Yet, from a critical perspective, Dickens’ seems to be critiquing society. Throughout the work, he encompasses the idea that as long as violence and inequality exist, human suffering will notoriously subsidize as a contemporary

work, an approach extremely influenced by portrait photography is present. Due to the fact of this, she

Louise Bourgeois is an artist provided the keys that opened the door for female artists in the twentieth century. She was born in Paris 1911, and immigrated to New York, New York in 1938 after she married Robert Goldwater a young American art historian (Getlein, 2012), where she lived until her death on May 31, 2010 (Layayo, 2015). The blood of being an artist has flown through her since her conception. She was born into a family that repaired seventeenth and eighteenth century tapestries (Layayo, 2015). Being an artist was her destiny, and her life provided her the tools she needed to achieve her purpose. While growing up in France she attended various schools of art schools that include Ecole du Louvre, Academie des Beaux-Arts, Academie Julian, and Atelver Fernand Leger (Louise Bourgeois, 2001). She continued her study and practice of art when she moved to Ney York in 1938 by becoming a part of the Art Student League (Louise Bourgeois, 2001). Students would stop by her apartment on Sunday to get their art criticized by her, and this

Lavinia Fontana, a well known female artist from 1552-1614 is a great example given in the article. She is a well known female artist due to the fact that she was considered a professional in a variety of genres such as portraits, mythological/religious artworks arts even nudes. A quote given after she is introduced was, "A work of art by a woman was considered bizarre, simply because it was made by this.... woman... who was doing a very male thing, simply by being artistic. (Women Artist, pg.1-2)

Women played a very distinct, yet changing role at the end of the 1800s. With that role they also saturated the realm of art, almost completely eclipsing men. This dominance of the female figure in art was partly the fault of the arguably chauvinistic attitude that the turn of the century male had in regard to women. Women of the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s were an extension of the man’s success and station in so-ciety. They were to be beautiful and helpless, completely reliant on the man.

I can only hope that the women that have looked at this portrait of me are inspired to pursue their goals and dreams, no matter how foolish they may seem to be by society. I have been fortunate enough to be allowed to break away from my expected norms and go after the arts. I hear that I am the “first known woman artists to achieve international fame,” (Clara, 2012) which means that my efforts and my talents have not gone in vain. It is my humble wish that decades from now, women can look at this painting and see that their efforts to be more equal to men are worth and so important.

The Hebrew midwives Shiphrah—shapar, to be pleasing, and Puah—yapa, to be shining (Bible Hub n.pag.) are the first women whose roles we see in Exodus.

Historically, women have has a large impact on the art community for hundreds of years. In this paper I will show how females how impacted the art movement in the early 19th century and the late 18th century. Females have been depicted in fine works of arts for hundreds of years. In the late 18th century women were painted in backgrounds of landscapes and also they began to be painted nude. In that Time period the men in painting were seen as the minds of the world and the women were seen as the heart, soul, mother and cooks of the world. In this paper I will take two works of art; John Vanderlyn’s “Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos’’ and Lilly Martin Spencer: “Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the Lasses” and show how the women impacted the arts

The Book of Judges talks about ancient Israel, and how they extended their territory by acquiring lands from the non-Israelites. The book narrates how Israelites conquered and reclaimed their lost land from non-Israelites and how they used to turn from God whenever they are satisfied. But it is written in the Bible that, the guilty are by no means cleared, as Exodus (34:7) says this is the reason why the Lord used several Kings and Judges like Deborah to help the people of Israel find their way back to Him. As the book reveals, it is evident that most of the judges were men (as they were most of the times referred to as Judges). The book talks about a great woman Deborah, also referred to as the “bee”, as a key judge in the entire book. This book unveils the importance of women (through acts and strengths of Deborah (mainly) and other heroic female characters) and their power to the readers.