Pretty Woman Women

During the nineteenth century, women had few rights, and were often objectified by men. An ideal woman was subservient to her husband, had plenty of children, and was not expected to work outside the home. As the Victorian era progressed, some women

This distancing shows how she is different from society; perhaps society pushes her away because she is different, or perhaps society sees her as different because she has segregated herself from the typical lifestyle of civilization. Either way, the voice of society chants, "A woman like that is misunderstood" (Line 13). Society must get rid of her because it cannot see her point of view.

Racism had tainted her life from the very beginning. During her childhood she attended a one-room school for blacks only. She was only allowed to attend school for a short time due to the ailing health of

Women in society sometimes are subject to objectification, meaning they are treated as a mere object; unequal to men. In the novel, The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, this holds true, except, women are said to be equal to men, but are not treated in this exact manner. Lily is apart of the upper class society of New York and attends parties, gambles all her money, and throughout the whole book tries to marry a rich man. Wharton’s feminism is apparent in the way she treats Lily; Lily gets through society, merely by keeping up her appearances. Beauty and appearance are everything in this society, if you are beautiful you will get far in society, however, the only thing Lily is lacking is wealth. In the novel, feminism is present with the idea of appearances and the symbol of money is used to convey that men are needed to control a women’s social stability.

In the climax, we start to have a very different view of our protagonist. We learn that she might not be as genuine as we think she is. The climax is after her father reads the newspaper article a man submitted about a woman who revealed herself to him. She goes to her room and ‘talks’ to her veil stating that she despises the veil, how she uses it only to keep men away from her, she doesn’t care about her veil at all, she feels nothing for it, she defies it, and how she feels that other women say they wear the veil to preserve their virginity, honor, and good morals, but if they were honest about why they wore the veil it would be for no reason but to cover their flaws and scandals. This is extremely surprising to the reader because from what we thought of her before she was a girl who wore the veil as a symbol of good morals when

She wants the audience to feel as innocent as she did in the beginning, as shameful and disgusted in the middle, and as nostalgic in the end of her article. In the beginning, she creates the image of what she looks like, “… [b]ell bottom jeans and blue peasant blouses and striped knit shirts that clung to my breasts, ” (Wilkinson). By doing so, readers can vividly imagine what she looks like and feel more attached and involved in the story she is creating. In the middle she takes us through all the times she was sexually abused and by using imagery, she makes the reader feel as beaten down and scared as she was. For example, she creates an image of the church where her first sexual assault occurred, “At the entrance to the church was a small vestibule with two white doors. Behind the doors was a dangling rope attached to the church bell,” (Wilkinson). She goes on to build the tension with her words like “groped,” “accident,” “hiding,” and “secret,” (Wilkinson). These make the reader more and more uncomfortable as she describes her experiences, which was the point, to make the reader feel some semblance of what she did. In the end, she describes her older and present self, looking through old pictures: “ Sometimes in old photographs, I see glimpses of that young woman. Corners of my mouth turned down. Staring into the camera with empty eyes where joy should

The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.

The Hollywood movie Pretty Woman (1990) is about a prostitute in Hollywood, marrying an extremely rich businessman, in spite of her mutual distrust and prejudice. The movie contains the basic narrative of the Cinderella tale: through the love and help of a man of a higher social position, a girl of a lower social status moves up to join the man at his level.

I could act/like my homemade dresses” (10-12). In these lines she could tell them that she lives uptown or on the other side of the tracks. Here you can tell the character has a sense of insecurity. She’s wanting to fit in and belong somewhere, but not knowing exactly where that place is. Imagine growing up as a mulatto, a hybrid and blacks looking at you differently because you talk different from them, look better than the African Americans who are pure blacks because their hair or color is better than theirs.

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

She just wanted some friends to be there for her. But, all because of that, she couldn’t make her American dream a reality. For once she wanted to be what someone wanted. She didn’t want to be a “lady of the night”, She wanted to be herself.

Lastly, she also aims to demolish idea of “whiteness” being something rooted in biology, by telling them that the changes in their race are based on the ideals of making gains for oneself while dehumanizing other races

She eats breakfast each morning, lunch each afternoon, and supper each evening. She sleeps in her bedroom and wears a red dress. This is how some perceive her; this is how she was taught to be perceived. But, that is not who she is, and who she never wants to truly become. She partakes in the underground grapevine, passing on tidbits of information and gossip to other handmaids, the Marthas, anyone who is able to keep the secrets going, and yet stay safe. She has not yet succumed to the ways of the world. She still challenges each decision, and finds small ways to defy the irrational laws. This is how some perceive her; this is the perception very few can see, very few can know about. And then, there is her final identity; whoever she used to be. Whoever she still longs to be. The woman with a husband and a daughter, with a job, a house, rights, freedoms, and even a family cat. In her mind she still is this woman, she cannot forget this woman, and she is doing her best to remember her. Only she can perceive herself like this, and she can never let anyone else see it. It is the most hidden identity she has, and yet it is the most vital one to keep alive. This makes the reader question what it is that defines us as the person we think we are. If everything we have, everything we love and and cherish, anyone who means something to us, was taken away, would we still be the same person? Would the memory of our past selves be all that we need to define our current

Living in England during World War II had an impact on her life because it coincided with the time that she was moving around, making it symbolic of her life at that time. She would be lured into a false sense of security in a new home (think of the times in between bombings) and then her world would be turned upside again as she was moved away from her father, and into beaten down homes, and then again to a somewhat

As she denies her culture and heritage she succeeds in making herself more of an outsider as she pushes her family away and tries to become someone that she is not. Ironically the only aspect of her heritage that appeals to Victoria is foot binding. “She told Victoria about the foot binding to scare her. But Victoria liked the idea of it. She did not seem to mind that beauty had to be bought with pain.” This shows that Victoria is not accepting for who she is and what she looks like because the society and social media has influenced her to look like a model or a celebrity and like a Barbie doll. She tries to live up to her ‘unrealistic’ role models and hence denies her cultural heritage. Window has characterized her as an ‘White-washed Asian’, as Victoria is just denying her own culture and she wants to look like an Barbie doll because she idolises them and wants to look exactly like them. “The walls of the treehouse were papered by magazine cuttings of beautiful celebrities, and they seemed to look upon Victoria with pride. Victoria’s disused dolls looked on too, lined up neatly against the back wall, a permanent audience for her transformation.” Window, portrays human diversity as wonderful because everyone is different and beautiful in the own way however the character, Victoria cannot see any beauty and interest in her Chinese background, unlike her little sister who loves her Chinese heritage and accepts