Deceitful women

There is no love like a mothers love and even though Lily grew up without one she now has the love of all these amazing women in her life. The second theme shown throughout the novel is the power and strength of female community. When Lily escapes to the Boatwright house she meets the three strong and independent Boatwright sisters. It is there where Lily grows from a scared

Females often feel pressured to attain society’s highest expectations because it is easier to fail them, rather than meet them. The music and other industries, like advertisements constantly portrays an ideal and beautiful body for women, in most cases thin. When women see these images and then look at their own bodies, which are most of the time different from what is portrayed as ideal in society’s eyes, they begin

In “Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society” by Mary Wollstonecraft she discusses the inequality of women in our society. In the words of Wollstonecraft, ”There must be equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride." According

Gwen Harwood’s poem The Lion’s Bride, written 1981 revolves around the time period when women were objectified as housewives whose only job was to breed and nurture children, as well as care for their husbands. This poem creates a vivid image about a lion who falls in love with the zookeepers daughter but fails to recognize her when she greets him on her wedding day, wearing her dress, and mistakes her for a ghost. In response to this misinterpretation, the lion proceeds to maul the woman and lies

stereotypical and patriarchal societal norm of the way a mother or woman must pass on the feminine traits or cultural belief, in which a girl should follow. Throughout the story, the woman accentuates on the cultural traditions that are done by the women. The mother explains to the girl how to prepare the traditional food, that’s been pass down from generation to generation. For example, “cook pumpkin fritter in very hot sweet oil” (“Girl”, 2012). The mother later explains how she should make salt

demonstrating how being a female should be liberating, and women should not feel held back by their gender. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros speaks of a similar idea. As Malala indicates, Cisneros also indicates how being a woman can be empowering; however, Cisneros also establishes how being a woman raised in a marginalized community can have adverse mental and physical repercussions. Through countless stories and the motif of women sitting by windows, Cisneros ratifies how draining it

sett off the mouse traps, so imagine penniless women having to tiptoe around circumstances almost everyday of their lives that would get them sucked into bad situations. In Sandra Cisneros’ book, “House on Mango Street”, well thought out motifs and symbolisms become very useful in order to convey the expectations of women in a poor community make the women more susceptible to becoming trapped inside this environment. The expectations of the women in “House on Mango Street” repeats throughout the

Esperanza and the people she encounters during her time on Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of women in her community, and how to process her hopes and dreams as she matures. These pieces eventually come together in order to help Esperanza form her identity. The shabby old house on Mango Street is all that Esperanza and her family can afford at the

will say that women are equal to men and should have careers, social life’s, and their place is no longer merely in the home. Submissive, quaint Desdemona from the Shakespeare play Othello is a prime example of the “ideal wife” for that time. While on the other hand, feisty and ambitious Brooke Davis from the TV show One Tree Hill is a prime example of the “new ideal wife”. In many ways, the concept of an ideal wife since Shakespeare’s days have changed. The comparison of these two women clearly and

In “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,” Sandra Bartky utilizes Michel Foucault’s concepts about power to help explain femininity. Throughout the article, she details how society forces women to fit within the confines of this construct and how it affects them. Sandra Bartky begins her piece by explaining Michel Foucault’s ideas about modern power dynamics. Unlike in the past, power in modern society focuses not only on controlling the products of the body but, rather