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Women were not considered important in the early 1900’s, or weren’t considered a part of a plan. Women were in society only to please men and cook and clean for them, take over the children and do the laundry. They weren’t meant or it wasn’t appropriate for them to have opinions or make an impact on society. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan baker are three distinct sort of women in the Great Gatsby that help see the different views of women and their power and what they choose to do with it. Many argue that women are women, there is nothing special or unalike about them. But these three women separate society into the classes that it has in that day, poor, mediocre, and rich.

In her book Recollections, Browning describes what poetry means to herself. She explained that it “became a distinct object with me; an object to read, think, and live for” (Preston xii). Browning was described as a strong woman-poet who had little to no training. She came from the “Italian hills into a prim English feminine household, and inevitably assuming there that attitude of superiority to

Heart of Sand, written by Anne-Marie Oomen, takes readers on a journey to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park. Though the title may sound like it is talking about sand, the essay has a much deeper underlying meaning then that of just sand. The author, having visited the area, allows the readers to use all of their senses throughout the text to get a vivid detail image of the area. This detailed image that we as readers can see, allows us to make a deeper connection to the text and to go beyond the written meaning. It also offers us new ideas that can allow the readers to make even further connections and to keep going beyond the written meaning.

of Woolbridge’s actions for the sake of her reputation. The poem has a major theme of Women

The 1920’s were an eventful time in history for both men and women alike. There were laws preventing the consumption of alcohol and women’s suffrage movements. Since Edna St. Vincent Millay was a young woman during the 1920’s, she easily wrote poems about the changing societal values and structure, especially from a women’s perspective. Many poets, like Millay, use techniques in their poetry such as imagery and tone to convey a particular message to their audience. In this case, Millay uses techniques such as imagery and extended metaphor to describe the relationship between man and woman and how the changing times have brought about a type of woman who is not as “obedient” as she has been before. The poem she writes is a sign of the changing

Women were expected to stay in their place and be good housewives. Their days were meant to be occupied with cooking, cleaning, and raising the children. Their opinions were not solicited nor readily welcomed in male dominated circles of influence. Women poets were not treated or viewed any differently no matter how gifted or talented they were. They were expected to be women, wives, and mothers, first and foremost. Male poets and other literary artists were known to be carefree and devoted only to their writings. There was no time for entangling themselves with the cares of day to day domestic

Women in the Victorian society had two main goals which were to marry a respectable man and to have/raise children. The society had a vision of the “perfect woman” who did what she was told and did not question it. She did what her mother did before her, and her mother did what her mother did before her. They were constricted, as if they lived in a box. They couldn’t go too far forward or backward and they couldn’t tray too far off the sides. There were high standards and a true Victorian woman upheld those standards no matter how she felt about them. Victorian women were not their own; they were property-- property that was owned by their husbands or fathers.

Kate Chopin, author of the book The Awakening, summarizes how Edna feels about how her gender is perceived by society and all of the issues she faces due to these preconceived notions, when Edna says, “I’m going to pull myself together for a while and think – try to determine what character of a woman I am: for, candidly, I don’t know.” Chopin, 613. There can be no doubt that, this is an example of how gender plays an extreme role when it comes to the history of womanhood and gender roles in literature. Gender roles separate womanhood into two distinct categories the true women being; the ideal mother and wife, to dress and act “as a lady should”. On the other hand, the idea of the new women is the exact opposite; women can work and go to

The role of women in the modernism time period was less stern but still very constricting. Women in the modernist time period had more control over men than in the realism time period. The women had gained more control over what they did with the lives they lived. T.S Eliot shows that women have grown through the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by conveying that women have more control over their bodys (Mayer). The narrator of the poem wants a romantic relationship with his wife but cannot because she doesn't want one with him. The man in the poem knows that he cannot have sexual intercourse without his wife's permission and there is nothing he can do to change that. Women could now freely do as they pleased when it came to their bodys. Sandburg expresses in his poem that women are much more free and can do more so of what they please to, “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys,” (Sandburg). Men started considering women as their equals and not just as objects. Women were now being allowed to express their opinions more openly. The women in the modernist time period could dress more elaborately with less judgment. Sandburg also shows that

Women, throughout the Antebellum Era, had no identity nor voice unless they strictly remained “true” to how a proper lady should present herself to the world––a being that is less than her opposite sex. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne exemplify the condition of women in their works, “Ligeia” and Hawthorne’s, “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The Birthmark,” throughout the Antebellum Period by similarly depicting women as dependent, lesser and docile creatures whose lives are ran by the wishes of a man. By choosing to portray women, who were strict followers of the societal degradation of women, and having them suffer at the expense of a man, Poe and Hawthorne criticize the perception that if a woman remained loyal to her “true womanhood”, no harm would come to her and she would lead a happy life.

This flawed perception of women is created through Fitzgerald’s interpretation of a woman’s role in society and lacks appreciation for the increasing idea of a modern women during this time. As Frances Kerr says in, Feeling Half feminine, “to be feminine in The Great

This poem was written by a woman who was not from America but she is talking about issues that were going on in America at the time. Almost every other place in the world had abolished slavery but America still had not. Browning wrote this poem to call out Americans because slaves were treated so horribly and slavery needed to be abolished. The woman running away has a child, she was raped by white men and got pregnant, but she ends up killing the child. The poem includes the part of the woman killing her child because if the child had been born, it would have automatically become a slave and have no chance at having a nice life or because she says that the child is too white, which could be that the child reminds her of the men that raped her. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point is important to the Victorian era because there are many social issues brought up and

How are women represented in Frankenstein? In Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, women are represented as paragons of virtue through which passivity and complacency are a causative agent to their victimisation, by the action or inaction of male characters. Whilst Frankenstein is not considered a feminist novel, it is apparent that the influences of Mary’s mother, as a pioneer of feminism, have influenced the portrayal of women in the novel. Shelley engages in a social critique of society’s view on the role of women and her subsequent condemnation of the idealised female stereotype.

In The Sand Child, Tahar Ben Jelloun composes a multi-layered tale about Ahmed, a woman socialized as a man, who struggles to reclaim her sexuality. Ben Jelloun contrasts gender and sexual orientation to suggest that a person’s characteristics can be shaped and changed by will, but his sexuality is predisposed and will be the deciding factor of how he will act and identify himself within his community.

The society around her attempted to suppress her creativity, yet she continued to fight against them through her words. In her poem “The Soul's Expression” she narrates her “struggle to deliver” what she believes to the extent that she has “stammering lips and [an] insufficient sound” (Browning “The Soul's Expression”). Through her poems she is able, to express her feelings of deprivation in regards to women’s basic human rights, which have been so intensely denied. Browning asserts herself as a strong, unconventional woman with a “right to work and be independent” (The British Library).