Purple Hibiscus by Chidimanmanda Ngozi Adichie

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, feminism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism is a major part of the short story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, which is a story that portrays women’s lack of freedom in the1800s. Women had no rights, and had to cater to all of their husband’s needs. The main character in “The Story of an Hour” is a woman who suffers from heart trouble, named Mrs. Mallard. When Mrs. Mallard was told about her husband’s death, she was initially emotional, but because of her husband’s death she reaped freedom and became swept away with joy. The story is ironic because Mrs. Mallard learns her husband was not dead, and instead of exulting

The first thing that I saw in a Feminism perspective is that the main characters in the novel is played by women, the first character is a young girl (Mariam) and the second character a girl who is growing up in a less fortunate condition. While reading the novel I found that it was obvious that in the novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, men have more rights than women and that can be seen by the fact that men have authority over women. In the novel it was also a fact in the men’s eyes that the women belong at

According to the dictionary, “feminism” is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Many stories have been written to denounce the difference between the two sexes. Indeed, one of the main themes of both the The Handmaid’s Tale and The Scarlet Letter is feminism. The Scarlet Letter was a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and it tells the story of a woman, Hester Prynne, who committed adultery while she was married to a man named Chillingworth. Adultery frowned upon by the Puritans and was harshly punished. On the other hand, The Handmaid’s Tale, the other book is about a dystopian future with the Republic of Gilead. Women are very restricted and have to abide by her Commander with whom she has sex. In both stories, the message of feminism is very important for the reader. Hester is treated as a spectacle who will make her more powerful, while in the Handmaid’s Tale women are seen as objects merely, “baby-making machines.”

Being that the majority of the characters in the novel are male, as the reader, you might not quit grasp the concept of feminism right away. Feminism is widespread throughout the story and gradually portrays a clear image of what life was like for women. Some women go along with the concept by obeying and others go against it and live their own way. This, in so many ways, allows for understanding of the life of women during this time.

In the opening chapter, there is an immediate foreshadowing of feminism in the novel and what the story is about, “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Feminism is defined as “the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” It could also be described as women's rights. In literature there is always a goal. Edith Wharton had a goal of promoting feminism. After Edith Wharton got married she started writing many books in New York society. Through out forty years she wrote forty books. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. Ethan Frome is an example of the obstacles a women of her time had to face and overcome. She wrote Ethan Frome because she related to what a lot of women were going through at the time, trying to find herself in a failed marriage.

social, and economic equality to men.” The novel entitled, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is

African American writers are bringing this issue out in addition to the same current day issues within their writing. For instance, The Color Purple touches on the hardships of African American women such as rape, abuse, neglect, sexism and beauty. Patton notes, “As much of the literature on African American women and beauty, has pointed out, African American women have either been the subject of erasure in the various mediated forms or their beauty has been wrought with racist stereotypes” (Patton 26). African American women wanted the obliteration of these negative stereotypes. Black women have been stereotyped as being angry, sexually inhibited, or deviant. The African American women were being compared to white women and in result, African American women were looked upon as sinful. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple touches on these sensitive issues that came in history in the early eighteenth and nineteenth century but that people of modern day are also dealing

There are many different definitions of feminism. Some people regard feminism as the idea that women deserve the same amount of respect that men deserve. There are the other schools of feminist thought that hold women superior to men. Yet another believes that the gender roles controlling women are artificially created and not innate knowledge, and thus men and women are equals with only history the determining factor and how gender equality is established. There are clear feminist overtones in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Esquivel pointes to a more radical definition of feminism in Like Water for Chocolate. The story focuses on mostly female characters that assume

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines feminism as “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.” Over the years, the genders have not been treated equally. In the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, feminism subtly influences the characters and plot of the book. Frankenstein is a feminist novel because of the perfection displayed in the female characters, the destruction of the female creature, and the depiction of nature as a female.

Alice Walker in an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet known for her famous novel The Color Purple. She has won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Her writings focus on multi-generational periods and inter-connecting black women in the North and the South. Although she is widely known for his novels, her short stories are equally spectacular. Walker is known for incorporating symbolism, imagery, and tone in her writing.

Feminism is a body of social theory and political movement primarily based on and motivated by the experiences of women. While generally providing a critique of social relations, many proponents of feminism also focus on analyzing gender inequality and the promotion of women's rights, interests, and issues.

Feminism means equal rights for all genders. Throughout all these stories we have read they all relate to feminism. Over time the theory of feminism has developed and changed. Now they say fighting for equal rights has become more apart of our daily lives than it was 30 years ago. In The Yellow Wallpaper she was held against her will in a room by her husband. Then in The Astronomer’s Wife Katherine realized there are two different kinds of men in life and her husband wasn’t the kind she was meant to be with. In the story Hills Like White Elephants the girl wasn’t sure to have her child or not with the pressure from the father.

    Feminism as we know it began in the mid 1960's as the Women's Liberation Movement. Among its chief tenants is the idea of women's empowerment, the idea that women are capable of doing and should be allowed to do anything men can do. Feminists believe that neither sex is naturally superior. They stand behind the idea that women are inherently just as strong and intelligent as the so-called stronger sex. Many writers have taken up the cause of feminism in their work. One of the most well known writers to deal with feminist themes is Margaret Atwood. Her work is clearly influenced by the movement and many literary critics, as well as Atwood herself, have identified her as a feminist writer.

Women’s rights have been a question greatly discussed for quite some time, and the debate is still continuing despite the possibilities offered to women today. Feminism nowadays has evolved into a movement in a number of directions, starting with women equality and ending with homosexuality. However, feminism originally is an ideology that is based on equal political, economic and social rights for women. Feminism theory deals with analysing women’s social roles and experiences in relation to gender inequality. Traces of this ideology are vastly represented and can be found in a number of literary works, as notable examples are novels written by female authors (the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and others) during the Age