The Day Before Sunrise

In Vietnam, women have traditionally been placed in positions of marginalization, where they were secondary to the males in power and expected to be completely subservient to men in every way. The morality of the society dictates that a woman be kind and quiet, that she takes care of the household and that she holds no higher ambition than to serve her husband and raise his children. Women who do not conform to these characteristics are considered wicked and made miserable. Their unhappiness, instead of being laid at the feet

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

Equality 7-2521 works next to the fields as a street sweeper. The women work in the House of Peasants managing the

The hardest life to live during the middle ages was most likely that of a peasant woman. Many of the roles that these peasants had go undocumented and are rarely seen in famous literary works of the time. In “Women in the Medieval English Countryside : Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague” by Judith M. Bennett, she describes the peasants woman’s role as “Under a new authority- that of their husbands” (100). These peasants, much like the noble women of the time, were to do as their husbands told them. These women, unlike the nobles, would actually do manual labor work. Their roles were to work in the house as well as work in the field plowing and gathering crops. In “The Wife’s Lament” the narrator ,the wife, speaks about being banished to live in the forest. This shows the misogynistic views of the time in comparison to today where no woman would be forced to leave a town and be told to “...Live in a grove of

Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises has always been regarded as one of Ernest Hemingway’s most hated characters. Both critics and readers have seen her simply as a bitch, and do not view her as a likeable or relatable character in any way. Her alcoholism, her use and abuse of men, and her seeming indifference to Jake Barnes’s love are just a few reasons why Hemingway’s readers have not been able to stand Brett, and do not give her a fair chance. It is clear that Jake is biased in his narration, but no one wants to question his opinions and judgments of Brett; in fact, since the book was

In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, we are taken back to the 1920’s, accompanied by the “Lost Generation.” During this time, prohibition was occurring in America. Hemingway uses alcohol as an obstacle that causes distresses between the main character, Jake and his life. Along with alcohol, promiscuity is prevalent throughout the novel. The heroine of the novel, Brett, displays the theme of promiscuity throughout the novel. She uses her sheer beauty and charming personality to lure men into her lonely life. The themes of alcohol and promiscuity intertwine with the Lost Generation in this classic love saga.

In every society there is a certain group of individuals or institutions that enforces norms onto other people. These groups can range from state institutions, religious communities, the local community, and even people within an oppressed community. In Erika Friedl’s Women of Deh Koh there is an extreme amount of pressure put on women to follow societal norms. The novel takes place in a remote village in Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The previous government was replaced with one based on Islamic law and women are subjected to its provisions, which are often times unequal and creates disparities in society. The women in this village experience pressure from the men in their community, their elders, religion, and even the state. The group of people who exert the most amount of pressure on these women, however, is other women in the village itself. This may appear to be a paradox, women exerting pressure on other women while themselves wanting to break the norms of society to fulfill personal desires, but there are various examples of how the other women in the village exert pressure on certain women. Examples of how other women exert pressure on women can be seen in chapter five, About Telling It As It Is and How Golgol Left Her Husband and Went Back to Him, and chapter seven, The Little Changes That Happened When Simin Became Adval’s Wife. These examples in chapters five and seven will help demonstrate how women in Deh Koh receive pressure from other women.

so much so that the economy would suffer harshly if the trading were to be stopped.

The role of females (regardless of loyalties) shifted dramatically from household partners to that of logisticians, medical and intelligence. While we are provided the details of camp followers and sutlers which have been part of military life since time immemorial, women took on various roles that were not explicitly conceived of in the

In this society, women are treated as servants; consequently, stereotypes are progressing to label women as maids. Wives are expected to clean, nurture

Women were traditionally seen as the weaker sex – second-class citizens with a lower social status than men. A woman’s place was in the home. Men did the “heavier” labor, like plowing and hunting.

When it comes to combat assignments and the needs of the military, men take precedence over all other considerations, including career prospects of female service members. Female military members have been encouraged to pursue opportunities and career enhancement within the armed forces, which limit them only to the needs and good of the service due to women being not as “similarly situated” as their male counterparts when it comes to strength or aggressiveness, and are not able to handle combat situations.

Women have always been treated differently from our male counterpart. As a woman, we are automatically born with a strike on our back, and as an African-American, we are seen at the very bottom of the totem pole. The trials and tribulations that we are put through no man could possibly withstand. In “Homegoing”, many issues that are still prevalent in today’s society is discussed. The author of the novel touch bases on the importance of family, cultural heritage, and gender inequality. Gender inequality is one of the main issues that women today face. In the beginning of the novel, the women of the village were controlled by the men in all aspects of life. Every move they made were scrutinized by their man counterparts. As the book progressed throughout the decades, the women were still facing issues that the women of today face.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a realistic fiction novel that allows the reader to experience what it is like to live as disabled young man who is part of the lost generation. The novel opens in France, with Jake Barnes describing his friend Robert Cohn. Both men are Americans who have decided to come to France. Cohn has recently become unhappy with his current lifestyle, and attempts to persuade Jake to take a trip with him around the world. However, Jake refuses and gets rid of Cohn; later that night, Jake meets the love of his life, Brett. Although they are not together, it is made known that they love each other, and the only reason that they aren’t together is Jake’s war wound, which mutilated his genitals. The next day, Brett

The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto, “What’s A Slacker Movie?”). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day-to-day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of aimlessness is what make them qualify as slacker films. It is a different story telling, not the classical Hollywood story where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after but a real story with perhaps no happy ending or no ending