Men Should Weep

Masculinity in "Men Should Weep" by Ena Lamont Stewart and "Perfect Days" by Liz Lochead Both plays portray men under a negative light. In ‘Men Should Weep’ men are the dominant sex and are seen socially of far greater importance. Whereas in ‘Perfect days’ men are easily manipulated and tend to be controlled by the contents of their trousers. ‘Men Should Weep’ is a play which examines how the family unit crumbles under the pressure of poverty. ‘John’ the father of the family is the main

lose their husbands, and babies lose their fathers. Crane continues to state throughout the poem what happens to the men, then reiterates clichés that war is kind and the audience shouldn’t be upset. The first two stanzas of the poem are indicative of the reparations of war. The speaker, a military man who is somewhat critical of war, starts off by telling the maiden, “Do not weep…for war is kind/Because your lover threw wild hands toward the

“Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind” “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” This famous quote was once said by one of the greatest prime minister in the history of Britain Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill famous quote, during World War II, depicts the same meaning in the poem “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. In the poem “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind”, Stephen Crane writes the truths and lies about

War is kind. In the poem, “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind” by Stephen Crane an elaborate depiction of war, emphasizing the negative impacts of warfare through the use of several devices including irony, to parallel ______. Throughout the death and destruction the speaker remains comforted within the chaos, because of an overwhelming desire to reach the divine paradise. Although the speaker witnesses slaughter within the war torn city, he finds peace in attainment of the true divine paradise

wanted to warn future generations to avoid is the dehumanization of people. A scene that demonstrates this warning to avoid dehumanization is the scene where a woman was abused by young men. In this scene, the woman started to shout, “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere..” This then caused the young men to chase her and abuse her to shut her up. While the beating was happening, her son was hanging on to her not uttering anything. The quote that I am about to mention

pride. In Crane’s poem he wrote, “These men who were born to drill and die/ The unexpected glory flies above them/ Great is the battle god, great and his kingdom/ A field where a thousand corpses lie” (lines 8-11). The men who gave their life over to the military agreed to fight and die because the men know there is no guarantee that they will make it back

do to survive and not lose their belief. To begin with when an SS officer voices his opinion about elie’s father “Stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore and you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations”(wiesel 111). Also part of

and encouraged emotional, visual, and knowledge as the reservoir for influence. From this time six important authors surfaced: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Byron, and John Keats. Included in this list should be Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft. The eighteenth century produce material that shattered the fundamental’s of society. On Christmas day in 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was born. When her mother passed away seven years later, young Dorothy

Because women of her time were seen as “creatures” who lacked good sense and moral virtues, Wollstonecraft vehemently defends her gender by shifting the cause of these “female follies,” on men and argues, “From the tyranny of man, I firmly believe, the greater number of female follies proceed; and the cunning, which I allow makes at present a part of their character, I likewise have repeatedly endeavored to prove, is produced by oppression

relationship with his father for the worse. At the point where Chlomo dies, Elie has split emotions. The real part of Elie wants to mourn for Chlomo, yet the cruelty he endures gives him an emotionless personality. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep” (106). The last moments of Chlomo’s