Weeping Woman

“A ghostly woman wanders along canals and rivers, crying for her missing children, called La Llorona, ‘the Weeping Woman.’” This is only a short snippet of a ghastly Urban Legend. An Urban Legend is a story circulated as truth and retold over and over again through word of mouth. They are modern day folktales or myths. This Urban Legend, La Llorona is popular throughout Mexico and Texas. She is described as the lady in white, looking for her children. This legend has been around approximately 400

seen in “The Odyssey of Homer” by Richmond Lattimore, when Odysseus weeps while listening to a song of the Trojan war. As he is weeping, he is compared to a woman weeping, because weeping publicly is apparently feminine to the ancient Greeks. “So the famous singer sang his tale, but Odysseus melted, and from under his eyes the tears ran down, drenching his cheeks. As a woman weeps, lying over the body of her dear husband, who fell fighting for her city and people…”(134) Odysseus weeps publicly, and

La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs, who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors. Later in a story reflecting the Greek story of Medea, a woman has children by the conquer Cortez’ and when he is called back to Spain and decides to take

a beautiful girl named Maria. People said she was the most beautiful girl in the entire world. Maria thought she was better than everyone else because she was so beautiful. As Maria grew older, her beauty and her pride increased. When she became a woman, she would not even look at the men from her village. She thought they weren't good enough for her. Maria wanted to marry the most handsome man in the world, a man that was good enough for her. One day, a man visited Maria’s village. He seemed to

of values, beliefs and ways of knowing that guide communities of people in their daily lives” (qtd. In Rothstein-Fusch and Trumball 3). Every culture is different and unique in its own lifestyle. Culture is basically life itself. The short story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros is a clear example of these characteristics by bringing together life in Mexico and the United States. The reader gets the opportunity to view both sides of Cleofilas, the protagonist of the short story, culture

Lust is defined as the desire or attraction to something, often in the form of sex. Chivalry and courtly love puts the woman at a higher position than the man, basing the relationship on loyalty rather than sex. On the spectrum of love, these two types are polar opposite ways in treating a woman. In medieval times, lust often fails, as chivalric love is rarer and heavily desired from a woman’s perspective. Rapper Kendrick Lamar exclaims, “we lust on the same routine of shame...lust turn[s] into fear

to get us do with the literature, to look beyond the written text and to dig deeper into what the writer was really saying. "Blink" centers on Sally Sparrow, a clever young woman who visits an old mansion called Wester Drumlins in and finds a spookily detailed message from the

‘Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman’ The sudden death of his father and the disgust at the quick second marriage of his mother contribute considerably to Hamlet's miserable condition. Before the death of his father Hamlet was a happy person, his life was full of hope but suddenly his life changed, his father died and he doesn't know his mother anymore. He cannot believe that how can his mother be so week , she forgot his father for a very short period of time and married to someone like Claudius. By

story, Mr. Mallard dies in a fatal train accident and the wife, Mrs. Mallard, displays her emotion in a very peculiar way that was not expected or anticipated by the author’s audience. In this short story, there is a clear case of oppression of a woman by man as well as symbols that bring out ideas of Mrs. Mallard’s freedom from oppression. There are countless stories throughout history of oppression, most of which can link to feminism. One of the aspects of “The Story of an Hour" that

of the home. After observing Simon’s home, Jesus walked through the wooden door, and relaxed at the table in the center of the home. He noticed a woman that was also eating at the Pharisee’s home, and could tell that she had been living a sinful life. The woman began to bawl at the sight of Jesus. She picked up her long dress, and ran to him, weeping at his feet. She reached into the pocket of her dress, and poured her expensive,