Lisle's False-Consciousness

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

The literary works of Edgar Allan Poe are exuding with struggles between the genders. These struggles are especially prevalent in Poe’s short story, “Ligeia” (644-653).

Men had far more power than women and took advantage by making them do everything from cooking, to cleaning, taking care of the children, and much more. This demonstrates the struggles women faced during this time period due to men acting more superior than women. Leonce “looks at his wife like a valuable piece, with suffered damages” (p33). He only holds on to Edna because he views her more like a possession than caring about her true self. Leonce uses Edna to make himself look better, rather than helping her with the damages she faced with. Woman require “psychologist to deal with” (p220). To men, women received impossible to deal with and for someone to understand them they need a medical professional. Men think they come off much more superior than women. In the role of society, “Mrs. Pontellier, not a mother-woman” (p43). A mother-woman someone who constantly there for others in time of need, they only worship their husbands and the holy spirit. But Mrs. Pontellier does not fit this role in society; She refuses to occupy the role and rather put herself above her family. She fights back towards the rights that women supposedly supposed to do. She does not appreciate only to do a couple things when she could do so much

In the wake of slavery, the black body is constantly under attack. The hold co-exists within the wake of slavery. According to Christina Sharpe, college professor, author of In the Wake on Blackness and Being, (2016) “The wake; a state of wakefulness and a state of consciousness” (pg. 5). Being in the wake of slavery means one still faces the negative effects it and is aware of the negative affects it has on the black community. The hold co-exists in the wake of slavery and the black body is inhibited by this hold. Sharpe defines the hold as, “A large space in the lower part of a aircraft in which cargo is stowed (of a ship or aircraft); keep or detain (someone)” (p. 68). In the hold, the black body has been introduced, taught, ingrained and continues this idea of the language of violence. Through the actual hold of the ship during the Middle Passage, to the perception of blacks which also holds the black body, and to the engrained idea of the “masculine black body” which keeps queer black bodies in their own hold. In this paper, I will examine the intersectionality of blackness and queerness which is being held in the wake of slavery.

In the late 1800s, segregation began. It was a battle between white and black people who wanted freedom and be united with each other. This was in the situation in the book called The Land. In “The Land”, it shows the double consciousness in Chapter 1 between Paul and Mitchell. The character, Paul is going through double consciousness because Mitchell thinks that he did not have the same society as Paul.

Moreover, Lucy been attacked and killed also. As Lucy been the gorgeous woman in the society and with sensual desires, which many view as a threat. Men feared that women use their beautiful appearance to gain power and social status in society. After Lucy’s death, many of the men felt as they were empowered again and as they are superior in society. In this society men felt very threatened by women degrading their status in

Within each individual, there is a sliver of a killer living deep inside. The most evident of these is expressed through the action of abortion. In comparison to abortion, Grendel’s attacks in Beowulf blindsides the faultless people of Herot demolishing the town where they reside. Grendel unremorsefully targets the helpless citizens of Herot while abortion also quarries on innocent victims leaving emotional, physical, and psychological devastations in its’ wake.

In the end of the text she proclaims her fear of her father, the fact that she is at fault for her mother’s death, and that these things led her to murder her child. Woman of any class in this society were subject to abuse by their husbands or fathers with little or no legal protection (Pollak 17). This is a huge influence on the playwright who uses society’s social issues to show a dramatic representation of a woman’s struggles in the 18th century. This influence is used to show that Evchen is led to killing her baby not because she is a criminal, beast, or evil, but because the society she lives in ingrains it in her that having that baby out of marriage makes her condemned to a life of humiliation if she kept the baby while unmarried. A woman is expected to find interest in men, but not let them have her till marriage, and if raped she is expected to possibly make the man go through legal punishment if she is a virgin, but still live in disgrace because in the end she was a part of a moral offence.

Even the demonic creature Grendel needed a woman to support him, and he had his mother. She has no formal name, just “Grendel’s Mother”, which is maybe the harshest manifestation of disrespect towards her because there is very little vilifying of Grendel’s Mother. Even though she killed many men, the author never condemns her in the way that he does Grendel. Her actions, though terrifying and violent to the author, are justified, because she is avenging and mourning her son’s death, which is a woman’s duty. She must be killed and stopped, obviously, because she is wreaking havoc, but she is different than her son, who killed with impunity and with little motivation beyond a noise complaint.

The social setting appears to be very civilized and friendly although each person has an underlying horridness. Upon meeting each other, the women “greeted one another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their husbands.” (138) They all welcome each other in a very casual yet respectful manner but in the end they all unite together to stone Tessie in a very barbaric way. The townspeople are able to hide their nervousness and true feelings and act mature about the situation, while their real emotions are quite visible during the stoning. Also, the reactions of the townspeople are surprising once they find out they have not been chosen for the stoning, they are happy that Tessie is the winner and not them. For example, “Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands.” (141) This displays a very ironic act since at the beginning Mrs. Delacroix had a pleasant conversation with Tessie but now she finds the very large stone and turns against her friend. This could also show her green, since Mrs. Delacroix is glad that she did not get selected. She could have picked up smaller stones which would have not only reduced the pain but also would make her act more lady-like and civilized. Therefore, although the social setting is shown to be very calm, casual and civilized it truly is chaotic, barbaric and

"Desiree's Baby" is not a mere tragic short story by which a reader may be entertained by its ironic and catastrophic ending. It is a story of a crime and brutality against women of all generations to come, depicting vividly how a woman may suffer and conceal her anguish for the sake of others. It is a story of innocence slain mercilessly by the unscrupulous power of harshness that directly governs human societies.

The fact that in all societies and social classes, “women have been suppressed and forced to remain intact on social, economic and political issues” (KATE CHOPIN’S THE AWAKENING IN THE LIGHT OF FREUD’S STRUCTURAL MODEL OF THE PSYCHE, 417) has left women at disadvantages in their communities. The roles of woman in society have been defined as having to be mothers and wives before they are to be independent women. It had been clearly declared that Edna had failed her duties as a mother when Leonce had come to the realization that one of their children was sick. In fact, he had called her out for her “inattention” and stated that “if it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it?”

This criticism sees the different aspects of life for the women during the Renaissance. The criticism also analyzes Lanyers’ Eve’s Apology by going line by line. The paper acknowledges right away that lanyer portrays eve as an innocent creature and often calls her “poor Eve”. As written by Clarke, lanyer might agree that the serpent tricked eve and so she might have had evil, however, lanyer argues that eve herself came from Adam so Adam should also be held accountable for his sins. Clark uses Lanyer’s strongest call to arms from Lanyer’s other works to relate to Lanyer’s Eve’s apology. Overall, Clark argues that Lanyer makes a strong argument for the equality of women and men in the eyes of God as well as the society of during then. Clarke makes it clear that what lanyer is doing in her poems is not setting who the superior power is but set out that there might be a difference between the two genders but no gender is superior than the

Beatrice, Eugene’s wife, is an example someone oppressed by him, resulting in a lack of empowerment. She depends solely on her husband and needs people to tell her what to do, reserving her own ideas to herself. Ifeoma, divergently, speaks her mind and do not depend on her husband, who died during a car accident, resulting in a deficiency of economic income. Eugene offered help for both women. Beatrice was sustained by him, receiving the best house, clothing, and education for her children in exchange of her freedom, accepting his punishments and aggressiveness, which caused many miscarriages. However, she nullified those acts because she was the one chosen to marry him out of the many people who “asked him to impregnate them” (Adichie, 250); Eugene also donated a lot for charity, helping poor families. Ifeoma had a different view on Eugene’s proposal. He offered the same things to her, however, she could not accept it. Changing her identity for goods would go against her beliefs, turning her weak and submissive. “The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist” (Adichie, 245). The tyrant is Eugene, while the weak is Mama, who cannot raise her voice to defend herself, leading to restrains. She, by the end of the novel, kills her husband by poisoning him. It is the peak of empowerment she demonstrated, however, she was not able to free herself from it. She continued to be submissive,

Unlike her friend, Nora, Mrs. Linde has more freedom to do what she wants, however she is not entirely satisfied. In this culture, a woman’s role is normally to do housework and to raise their children, but Mrs. Linde is exempt from this. She does not have to conform into this picture, but she is not content with her lifestyle until she meets up with her lost love, Krogstad. “I want to be a mother to someone, and your children need a mother. We two need each other.”1 This quote exemplifies that Mrs. Linde is only content with her life when she fits in the role of being a mother and a wife.