Flappers: A Representation of Modern Independent Women

prosperity where women wanted to be acknowledged for how they looked and dressed. Young women also became more independent. This is how the famous term of a ‘flapper’ came to be. Flappers are young women and teenagers who dressed and acted differently with controversial behavior. Flappers brought a dramatic change to society that made women realize how they should be treated. In the past, women had to be submissive all the time and not voice their opinions. Back in the early centuries, women were involved

When one thinks of flappers, the first thing that pops to mind is the image of a woman dressed much like Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby (2013), bobbed hair, white fringe low-waisted dress, flat-chested and highly made up face. In the 1920’s, after the first world war, women’s roles in society began to change because they became more independent, both in clothing and actions. They defied the well-known appropriate feminine behavior and along with those actions came new fashions. They refused to

portrayed as the modern woman by being loose with her feminine side as a female athlete. In addition, there is Myrtle an opportunist and materialistic woman that is Tom’s lover. The new values these women have were established during the 1920’s and it was quite common for women to have some of these values it was also quite common for people to oppose these values in specific conservative men. Notably, the women in The Great Gatsby are a representation of the social behaviors of women during the era

the 1920s were years of social change and freedom of expression, mainly for women who had for so long endured the oppressive social injustice of not legally being able to vote or even make their own legal or financial decisions in their marriages. However, while the causations for this may be numerous, and social change was already an imperative on the horizon for Britain and the rest of the world, the ways in which women actively volunteered to participate in helping out their country, despite the

novel is a timeless piece of literature that is still relevant to American society today because of its attitude on materialism and its portrayal of feminism relating to the era and modern day. One theme that is prominent in the novel is materialism. This importance of money and material items relates to the “flapper era” in which the story is set. The majority of the characters in the novel are materialistic, including Tom, Daisy, Myrtle, Gatsby, and even Nick. Tom, Daisy, and Nick all grew up with

The ideas of individual liberty and natural rights has changed America over the past two-hundred years through providing individualism to different laws and concepts that we in America are using today. America was impacted by individual freedom from John Locke’s proposition of “life, liberty, and property” which served as the foundation for the idea that citizens have basic rights just for being human. From John Locke’s ideas and theories, Thomas Jefferson was inspired to write the Declaration of

They both met their lovers, Zelda Sayre and Daisy Caraway, for the first time at dances whilst at army training camps, before going to fight in World War One. The women were attracted to them as ‘girls like a man in uniform’, “A pair of tall boots paler than the others caught my eye. As I straightened, I followed the bootstrap upward to olive-colored breeches, a fitted uniform tunic, and, above it, an angelic face

Taft recommended that there be a civil government created within the Philippines, comprised of an elected legislative assembly. Under his administration, Taft was able to negotiate with congress to pass a bill that included a governor, an independent judiciary, and the legislative assembly. Taft foreign policy was more aimed at the expansion of the United States foreign trade than that of President Roosevelt. He spent his time in office pursuing the “dollar diplomacy” program, which was designed

created in 1927 Part of the rise of radio 62 Compassionate marriages, p.651 A marriage in which the woman was a larger role than before Women spent more time with their husband as well as more independent Culminated in the development of birth control 63 Margaret Sanger, p.651 Basically the head of the birth-control movement in America Had a limited success in teaching women about birth control and getting birth-control devices to the market 64 Emma Goldman, p.651 Immigrant from Russia that influenced Margaret