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One artistic aspect of the book is that Stockett chose to tell the story from three different women’s perspectives. Using this stylistic technique helps keep the reader more engaged in the book. Each woman, whether it be Aibileen, Minny, or Skeeter, uses a

The twentieth-century witnessed a revolution in portrayals of women’s imprisonment within fiction novels. The beginning of this century caused women to take a firm grasp on new journalism and feminism. Katherine Mansfield was one of those women to take hold of the new century and write about feminism in her short stories. One of the most famous short stories is “The Garden Party”. This short story is told through thoughts, young woman thoughts. Laura is the main character, is bright, young and vibrant, and traces the psychological and moral growth of Laura.

According to Elizabeth Lowell, “Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.” Sometimes what every situation needs is an outsider to flip the script and create a new outlook on everything. In Shirley Jackson’s novel, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” the speaker, Merricat, is an outsider of society on many levels, such as mental health, gender, and that she is an upper class citizen in a poor area. Although Merricat is mentally unstable, her outsider’s perspective criticizes the social standard for women in the 1960s, indicating that social roles, marriage, and the patriarchy are not necessary aspects in life such as it is not necessary to have the same outlook on life as others.

Presenting literature to the public that is meant to be a commentary on social or political issues, masked under the guise of entertaining and fictional, is a tool implemented by authors and activists for centuries. While not all satire is as overt as Jonathan Swift’s suggestion that we eat the babies, it does not diminish the eyebrow raising suggestions that are conveyed once the meaning has been discovered. In Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun and Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, the established expectations of the female role within society are brought into question then directly rejected. These expectations establish that women should be deferential to men, morally unblemished, and virtuous at all times. Men, however, are not held to these expectations in the same way. The masculine roles assumed by Isabella and Fantomina demonstrate a private rebellion against the established patriarchal society as it warns against the under-estimation of women and proves that women exist independently.

By the second page, she is depicting the house, the garden, and her nonsensical feelings, for example, her propensity to "get unreasonably angry" (6). All of this backings customary female attributes and inclinations. John 's sister, Jennie, is "a dear girl,” “a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper," and cheerfully fills the female part of overseer, adjusting totally to her sex part (14). Thus, as the story starts, conventional patriarchal sexual orientation parts are being upheld. As the story advances, the normal sex parts are tested all the more regularly and all the more forcefully, however the characters keep on falling back on them. The storyteller makes the startling disclosure that she is not dealing with her own infant since she "cannot be with him" (10). She keeps on affirming that the rest cure is impeding her advance. In the meantime, however, the infant is dealt with by another lady and the storyteller keeps on submitting to her better half 's analysis over her own, calling him "so wise" (21). At the point when the storyteller tries to dissent her imprisonment, John pull rank as a doctor and implores her to surrender her "false and foolish fancy" for her purpose and the youngster 's purpose (23). In spite of the fact that the storyteller communicates questions about

Life in the Iron Mills is a novella that is hard to classify as a specific genre. The genre that fits the most into this novella is realism, because of the separation of classes, the hard work that a person has to put into their every day life to try and make a difference, and the way society influences the actions of people and their relationships. However, no matter what genre is specifically chosen, there will be other genres present that contradict the genre of choice. While the novella shows romanticism, naturalism, and realism, this essay is specifically centered around realism. The ultimate theme in Rebecca Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills is the separation of classes and gender. It is the separation of classes when the people in the

There is plenty of opportunity for interpretation in Carter’s writing, particularly in her book ‘The Bloody Chamber’ which is commonly considered to be her masterwork, brimming with intertextualities and ambiguities. Some may find her work to be excessively violent or savage, perhaps even alienating. Yet others may have found this no-holds-barred approach to be exhilarating and refreshing in comparison to other authors of her time. In her re-writing of Perrault and Beaumont’s classic tales, Carter proposes a reading of several well-known stories with intent to unveil through a feminist perspective the ideological content they present. “The Bloody Chamber” is her take on the tale of Bluebeard; “The Werewolf” is her variation of the tale of

As a feminist, it is almost to be expected that many of Angela Carter’s happy ever after endings will strike the reader with a bold feminist message. However, in The Bloody Chamber, this is not necessarily the case. Although there are several feminist messages in the stories’ resolutions, these messages are not always presented in the way one would expect, and not every female protagonist is presented as a feminist character. By taking the roles of typically Gothic women and toying with the presentation of female characters, many of Carter’s feminist messages are not as one would expect.

Furthermore, Mrs. Peters stutters, “When I was a girl--my kitten--there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes--and before I could get there…If they hadn't held me back I would have…hurt him” (777). This remark is significant, and allows the reader to truly see into the life of Mrs. Peters and understand the connection she has with Minnie Foster Wright. The idea that both boys and men are supposed to act a certain way and hold all the power in a relationship gives girls and women no outlet. Because Mrs. Peters personally has experienced the cruelty of males with the slaughter of her kitten, she withholds the secrets of Minnie Wright. This is a critical moment in “Trifles” due to Mrs. Wright’s fellow townsmen sitting on the stand to determine her fate.

For the central women in the book, their lives are dictated by the rules instilled by harsh governing, and they find themselves lacking the freedom of self expression. “Curiosity, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless” (Azar Nafisi, 39). These brave characters of society internally struggle with having to cloak themselves to hide their sexuality, rather than embracing it.

Staircases are transitionary components of architecture; the joint that connects two individual floors of a building. They are an integral division of steps that guide from one story of a building to the next. Staircases occupy multiple spaces at once, while maintaing an individual style segue connecting the floors in a unified manner. A staircase provides the unique opportunity of existing as an interim space, one with a distinct style that gives cues to the following space. The contrast between Thomas Hall’s main staircase and the staircase separating the first and second floors in the Campus Center exhibit just this, two separate transitionary segments, one which exhibits the formality of the space, and the other illustrating the versatile

Stories have always been a means of imparting the wisdom and knowledge of a society to young and old alike. Works like The Odyssey and Beowulf contain as much moralizing as children’s tales from Aesop’s Fables, the only difference being that The Odyssey and Beowulf’s morals are revealed in subtler ways. With the advent of the novel, many used the new genre as a way to moralize to women through novels such as Moll Flanders or comment on society such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Yet, Henry James in his essay, “The Art of Fiction” seeks to dispel the notion that novels must moralize by offering a new, better purpose for the novel and allowing novelists artistic license in how they create their stories. However, though his ideas may have been fresh at the time, not all of them have held up over time. Though he sought to separate morality from the novel, the two still work together to create memorable, lasting fiction.

Published during a time when a woman’s purpose in life was believed to be a successful homemaker, Anne of Green Gables has often been lauded as the “first and greatest Canadian feminist novel.” In addition to the rarity of a feminine heroine, most books for female readers promoted a certain ideal for femininity while Montgomery created a character that was simply incapable of attaining the mould society had set for her. For instance, aside from “decidedly red hair,” Anne is an orphan who doesn’t know how to cook and has never been religious, a complete contradiction to the good Christian homemaker, but a relatable voice for a diverse population of

“House of Fiction” (Smith 35). Segrest and Smith refer to an expansion of Southern literature that makes room for women to have multiple unique characteristics. Segrest would term this as writing “toward a women’s literature of wholeness” (362) and Smith would liken it to the “remodeling” of the “House of Southern Fiction” (Smith 35). However, Segrest and Smith have different concepts of how to do this remodeling. Segrest feels women are a “community of Southern women searching together in the delicate connections between solitude and friendship for our visions of ourselves and what our world could be” (Segrest 362). The key words are “together” and “our”, as Segrest sees this as a journey where women of all demographics should stand together to fight for the enlargement of the New South.

History depicts women as weak-minded individuals—the weaker of the two sexes. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women typically only held the following positions: wifehood and motherhood. On the other hand, a man’s job was to obtain a well-rounded education and become the head of the household—the breadwinner (“Women’s History in America” 1). Having a woman obtain the same level of education as her spouse was not encouraged by Victorian society. In fact, women were still being restricted to a certain level of education (Yuzuncu 18). Virginia Woolf, a prominent twentieth century writer, was fortunate enough to be raised in a privileged English household with open-minded parents. In her mid-forties, she recognized herself to be an intelligent, innovative, and influential writer. Woolf often gave lectures at women’s colleges on Feminism (“Virginia Woolf”1). Woolf’s success in the world of literature shows that despite the forces of oppositions, certain Victorian women were able to overcome the traditional societal norms imposed on women (Yuzuncu 17). This paper will describe and analyze how Woolf depicts both the benefits and handicaps of the traditional sexual roles and non-traditional roles—through Mrs. Ramsay and Minta Doyle. Woolf depicts Mrs. Ramsay as the epitome of a Victorian woman and portrays Minta as the antithesis of the perfect Victorian woman.