Replace Dowagers To Rich Women

A particularly effective element of the production was the use of costume. The costumes exposed the time period, transporting the audience back to 1981, immediately involving me in the story. Costume represented the social class the characters belonged to. Mr and Mrs Lyons were rich and had a high social status, their costume established their character; Mr. Lyons was wearing a suit and Mrs. Lyons wore tights and uniform. In contrast, the Johnson family were living in poverty, and this is also shown through the usage of costume. I as audience felt empathy for Mrs Johnson as through costume I could see her financial struggle.

    Ann Hood approaches her piece in a coming of age manner, which most of the audience questions at first. Generally, the audience would expect her

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

When she is given the opportunity to dress in extravagant clothing and act like she is wealthy, she found a “sense of triumph that is so sweet to a woman’s heart” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s change from the exposition of the short story to the rising action is dramatic. The reader’s first impression of the character is that she is unhappy and resentful but at the party she comes off just the opposite. She was joyful and “danced wildly, with passion, drunk on pleasure, forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s true character starts to reveal itself when the reader sees how much value she puts in possessions.

the personality of his duchess, he is shown to be a heartless, arrogant man. His complete

In that scene, the ditzy and wealthy girls constantly make negative remarks such as “How does anyone live like this, it must be miserable” (Scene 4). This scene is effective emotionally as the audience is able to see how luxurious the upper class’s lives are compared to the lower classes. In any case, both sources are effective through their ability to engage the audience emotionally by putting the audience in the shoes of someone who struggles economically.

The three female Characters (Connie, Her mother and her sister) are perfect examples of the effects of the drastic changes in the late 1960’s. Connie is portrayed as an average teenager. She is always wrapped up in herself and thinks she has all the answers. “She knew she was pretty and that was everything.”(p.120), “Her mother was so simple, Connie thought, that it was maybe cruel to fool her so much.”( p.124). Connie’s mother symbolizes an older era. Woman in her time were viewed as good for only two things, domestic house work and the bearing of children. It is clear that Connie mother is a little envies of her. "Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty?"(p.120). The society that Connie is growing up in is allowing more freedom for her then her mother had. To Connie’s mother, Connie is a consist remainder of what she has lost(her beauty) and what she could have been. This is way

In Anthony’s fourth paragraph, she discusses the idea that if women really are not citizens then they are subjected to living in an oligarchy. This raises an emotional response in the audience because women do not want to and should not have to be forced into being the lesser. Anthony’s second paragraph, in which she discussed the perception of mockery women were subjected to, also raises an emotional response in the audience. For example, “And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government- the ballot.” this statement evokes emotion because it allows the audience to see the humiliation women faced on a day to day basis (Anthony paragraph 2). The fact that women were not allowed to vote and were spoken to as if they enjoyed their liberty of law invokes embarrassment in the audience. This was effective because it allows the male members of the audience to feel the way the women did, in certain instances.

Unfortunately, such a quality is present in many young girls of this generation as they may not receive any attention from individuals in their lives, which leaves them to be fascinated by people, even strangers, who give them such desired attention. Arnold Friend also gets Connie to notice him through his flamboyant gold convertible and his mysterious yet stylish physical appearance. However, with a closer look, Connie realizes that Arnold Friend’s flashy car is just a “convertible jalopy painted gold”, his shabby black hair is likely a wig, his tall stature likely simulated by stilts or heels, and his fashionable clothing articles unlikely his as nothing fitted him properly. Nevertheless, this attribute from the piece demonstrates how not everything is as it seems from its first glance. Such a literary text also highlights how beauty impacts an individual’s impression and actions as Connie notices Arnold Friend’s “beauty”, at first, and Connie’s youthful beauty compels Arnold Friend to want to pursue

one is in the field of property rights from the very beginning of the family system. Till the later half of the 18th century the women were not considered to be able to have any economic rights. They were exclusively dependent upon the will of their family male members which included husband, brothers and sons.

In the early 1800’s, women were second class citizens with little to no political rights, and limited access to education and professional careers. Women were not granted the same privileges as men, for educating women outside the home or women obtaining professional jobs went against traditional views. The ideology behind it was that men and women ideally inhabited different societal spheres. Men dominated the public sphere which had opportunities for education, paid labor, fighting in wars, and political rights. However, as industrialization and the population grew in the North, working class women began entering the public sphere for job opportunities.

Both characters Angie and Duchess, meet in the common ground area about them finding Echo Park as their home. The conflict that they have and causes their friendship to dissolve is how Angie and Duchess want to follow different paths in life. Angie wants to get out of Echo Park and get a nice job in a nice store, while Duchess doesn’t agree with her, she believes that Echo Park is their home and she decides to stay. Throughout Duchess life, she never leaves Echo Park because for her Echo Park is her home. In chapter 7, the argument between them originates after Duchess finds out Angie applied at a nice store in a nice neighborhood and she calls the store “puta store” to offend the store. She also asks Angie if she thinks that she is better than her and everyone in Echo Park, which ends up

The author of A Pair of Silk Stockings explores female roles based on what other people believe due to stereotypes. In this short story Mrs. Sommers finds $15 which is a sizable about of money to her in New York. She and her family are on the poorer side of New York. At first Mrs. Sommers has no clue on what she should do the money she had just come to. She is thinking about her children and that they could use new skirls because she had seen a beautiful new pattern in a market window, or caps for her boys and sailor-caps for her girls (Chopin 1). She thought of them due to the fact that that is what mothers and wives do in the 1800’s, they but their children and husband before thinking of themselves. She thought back to the time when she wasn’t

Defining what a female was supposed to be and do was an act of Renaissance culture. For most of Renaissance society, women represented the following virtues which, importantly, having their meaning in relation to the male; obedience, silence, sexual chastity, piety, humility, constancy, and patience. The most important being sexual chastity and piety.

Class bias determines attitude of people to social relations and culture (Bryant-Bertail, 2). The character of Betty was brought up in a Victorian era where proper upper class women were objects intended to please their respective men; their function was to be pleasing and reproductive, not to think. In the second act of the play Betty shows how her attitude toward women has been skewed by her Victorian upbringing in a conversation she has with Lin: