Gender Roles In Oedipus The King, Mending Wall And Birches

**Remember the types of point of view (1st person , 3rd person). Which point of view is the story told in? Consider that the narrator is telling a personal story and uses “I” or “Me” to do so.

This book has a very unusual type of 1st person point of view, because like a movie, there are two character who are experiencing different things at the same time in different situations ;this book is narrated in 1st person point of view because the pronouns “I”, “me”, and “we” are being used. Even though

Point Of View: The Point Of View in my novel was first person. The narrator was Adam.

The roles that men and women play tend to differ in different works of literature. The roles depend on the culture and the context of a particular work of literature, and even the time the work of literature was written. For instance the roles of gender will differ from African culture to American culture, as well as from ancient America and Modern America. Old stories such as the Book of Genesis and Theogony portray different roles men and men play. Most of these roles are similar in both books, and a few are different.

However these women, and the roles they posses can tell us a great deal about how women were regarded by society during these time periods. Looking at these three tales, and comparing the roles the women take on within these works presents us with a variety of contrasting roles. The women

The point of view in the story is the third person because there is a narrator who

Reflecting upon their role in society, women in literature are often portrayed in a position

The role and the position of women have always been a subject matter for our society. Between the lines of Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Medea, the status of women in ancient society is one of the essential elements that is revealed. These writings related to the culture of the ancient Greek society, constitute a real opportunity to observe the portrayal of women at that time and examine how women were perceived. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles emphasizes how role of women is defined by the men prevalent in their lives through his daughters.

The feminist approach is based on finding and exposing negative attitudes toward women in literature. Feminists are interested in exposing the undervaluing of women in literature that has long been accepted as the norm by both men and women. Women characters in both Metamorphosis and Oedipus the King have different and similar characteristics based on the general norms so that they can be exposed by the feminist approach. In Metamorphosis and Oedipus the King, feminist approach is through the description of women about the traditional gender values of women, women’s inequality of power and importance, and women’s effect to the whole society.

    Over the years stereotypes and gender roles for women affected the archetypes they typically had in literature. They did not reflect on real life and were more enforced in

In the end, each character has played a role based on the expectations society creates. The men and women all have their own ways of manipulating one another. “The woman is judged by society under the man’s law (Rosefeldt).” Society’s expectations of woman back

the female characters while male characters are given a chance to justify themselves for example

Sophocles’ Theban tragedy, Oedipus the King, is not sexist. The prominent play portrays both men and women justly. The events presented by Sophocles exemplifies a level of admiration and respect for women that was not ordinary in ancient Greece. This is predominantly achieved through the dialogue of Jocasta and Oedipus, illustrating a corresponding relationship. In addition, the behavior of Jocasta, analysis of other literature, as well as the bad fortune of the male characters reaffirm that the Oedipus the King is not sexist.

According to Freud gender role development occurs during the phallic stage where children identify with their same sex parent (Shaffer, 2002).

One element of fiction that allows the reader to say the story is more central about the narrator is the point of view chosen by the author. The reader is able to access the narrator’s consciousness as the pronoun ‘I’, occasionally a ‘we’, is used throughout the narration to speak from his subject position. For instance, on one occasion the narrator thinks: ‘Perhaps I was listening to them [the boys outside] because I was thinking about my brother and in them I heard my brother.’ The mental processes used by the author -listen, think, hear- illustrate his intention to introduce the reader in the narrator’s mind. The use of the narrator’s point of view produces a more immediate emotional appeal towards him, since the reader has complete access to his version of the events, thoughts, emotions and feelings. This literary resource used by the author lets the reader to hear and see what takes place in the story only through the narrator’s perception and thus, readers think the main character of the short story is the