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    gender and economic inequality was the norm. Jane Austen novel has a notion that is written in a satire context in the term of how women in a society should be less than men.However, the protagonist Emma goes against what society tells her to be, she is a character that goes against the grain. Emma is a strong female character that advocates for other women to better themselves, and this is why there’s a case to classified Emma as a feminist novel. Feminism, means the advocacy of social and economic

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    Like Water for Chocolate is a novel which introduces many different types of women with different capabilities and characteristics. These women possess the ability to make life work out for themselves and disregard all of the obstacles in their way. People say that it is about Feminism. Feminism is the belief that all women should be allowed the same opportunities, rights, and respect as men because they are both human. It is for this reason that I believe that without a doubt, that “Like Water for

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    Is The Scarlet Letter a Feminist Novel? Women all have something in common: they have all encountered a form of gender-based discrimination. Some women in countries have experienced harsher segregations than others. For instance, women in Pakistan have experienced severe discrimination and have been prohibited from education. One woman who is well known for being an activist for the education of women is Malala Yousafzai. Malala has inspired many oppressed others to fight for their education. Through

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    Is The Scarlet Letter a Feminist Novel? Women all have something in common: they have all encountered a form of gender-based discrimination. Some women in countries have experienced harsher segregations than others. For instance, women in Pakistan have experienced severe discrimination a prohibition of education. One woman who is well known for being an activist for the education of women is Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a woman who has inspired many oppressed others to fight for their education.

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    Ashley Noack M. Chau-Lee English 3H 11/ 13/14 Is The Scarlet Letter A Feminist Novel? A feminist is defined in the British Dictionary as a person who advocates equal rights for women. However incredulous it may sound, women had to fight for rights for equality in things such as politics, economics, and their personal affairs. If the revolutionary feminist concepts were surfacing in the time of Nathaniel Hawthorne, circa 1850, then how was it that he was inspired to write Hester’s character? However

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    Jane Eyre is a feminist novel. A feminist is a person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism (belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes). Jane Eyre is clearly a critique of assumptions about both gender and social class. It contains a strong feminist stance; it speaks to deep, timeless human urges and fears, using the principles of literature to chart the mind?s recesses. Thus, Jane Eyre is an epitome of femininity - a young independent individual steadfast in

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    factors that triggers the civil war between North and South to free the slaves. Beside to this central target of the book, it is considered as a feminist novel as well, yet it is written before the widespread growth of the women’s rights movement in the late of 18th century. Actually, there are some people, however, claim that this novel is not a feminist novel because as

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    American Literature’s first feminist character A trend was started by the novel, The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne took a path with the character Hester Prynne that took many by surprise. Hester Prynne from the acclaimed novel, The Scarlet Letter, is one of American Literature’s first and influential feminist characters that shows superiority while being fearless and having an influence on modern literature and culture. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is accused of adultery

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    never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” In the novel, Hester becomes stronger because of her weakness like her sin being exposed to the whole town, and her having to adapt. The Scarlet Letter is compassionate to the inequalities women faced in seventeenth century Boston, a place where the sexes were far from equal. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that can be considered a feminist book because the protagonist, Hester Prynne, goes against the norms of Puritan

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    Is The Scarlet Letter a feminist novel? Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter is about a woman living in Boston during the 1630s. Her name is Hester Prynne and she has committed the crime of adultery and is caught when she is found to be pregnant. The book picks up when she is having a scarlet A placed on her breast for “adultery” and after the child is already born. After 7 more years, it picks up and the readers can see what she goes through and how she and the townspeople around her

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