Women characters

Margaret “Meg” March Brook, the oldest March sister in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women, is demure yet fierce in her loyalty. Although she cares too much about other’s opinions, she learns to focus on kindness rather than charm and propriety, and value hard work over wealth. Known to be motherly, Meg loves and encourages her friends and younger sisters. She embodies warmth and compassion in her family throughout the book, first when she is living at home with her mother and sisters

Nüshu (Chinese: 女書) is known as "women's writing". It is an asyllabic script and made up by simplified Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Hunan province of southern China (Jiangyong Country). [5] 
The uses of Nüshu script is to write a Chinese local dialect, Xiangnan Tuhua (Chinese: 湘南土話, 'Southern HunaneseTuhua'). This dialect is used by people in Xiao and Yongming River of northern Jiangyong County. [6] This dialect is different to the other parts of Hunan that it is not

power of the malik-mahajans, are shown as the controlling agencies of the economic system. The lower caste villagers become their easy victim. Religion and rituals turn out to be shackles for them. It is strange that throughout the narrative no character gets any relief and solace from religion. Sanichari is the best example of how the system oppresses and exploits a poor being. Such people have no other choice and the picture looks dismal. Whenever there has been a death in her family. Sanichari

feminist movement. The male population is known to have a dominant status and role in our society. Therefore, women and children are usually the main characters and victims in her short stories for this reflects the marginalized roles of women in the patriarchal culture among the Filipino citizens. In her literary work “Magnificence”, the short story revolves around 2 major characters namely Vicente, a bus conductor, and the next one is the mother of the two children. The story begins with a characterization

girl by her mother on how to live her life before somewhat 30 years. The short story “Girl”, was written by Jamaica Kincaid, that was first published in “The New Yorker” in 1978. It is a very short story in which it can be interpreted that has two characters, the mother and the daughter in which mother is a domain or the main speaker of the story and daughter is the listener. Daughter just speaks a sentence or two in the whole story. The story “Girl” shows how a girl is bound to meet the expectations

is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from the male point of view.’ The female protagonist in Ghosts, Mrs Helene Alving, has been influenced by the society’s need of forming women that are first, obedient daughters, then, obedient wives, dutiful mothers, but in general, obedient individuals of that society’s ideals, conventions and traditions. In Plenty, the audience gets to examine years of Susan Traherne’s life, ‘from her

Catharine Maria Sedgewick's Hope Leslie The title character of Catharine Maria Sedgewick’s novel, Hope Leslie, defies the standards to which women of the era were to adhere. Sedgewick’s novel is set in New England during the 17th century after the Puritans had broken away from the Church of England. Hope Leslie lives in a repressive Puritan society in which women behave passively, submit to the males around them, and live by the Bible. They allow the men of their family to make decisions for

Beauty and Body Image Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is filled with characters who all readers can relate to. The novel focuses primarily on the Belseys, who are a mixed race family living in Boston. During the novel, the Belsey family members undergo challenges and situations that shape and mold their identities. The father, Howard is in the middle of a mid life crisis struggling with lack of success in his career, feeling stuck and his infidelity to his wife, Kiki. Kiki is also struggling with aging

This goes to show to the reader how men in the 19th century treated their wives as possessions, they had a firm hold on their wives which was supported by society. Women who decided to think or act for themselves were seen as bad mothers and wives, being ostracized completely by all. Edna slowly begins to realize that she is treated and seen as a piece of property, and a part of her awakening is her realization that she as an individual, as a woman with desires and needs, is more important than her

Beauty and Body Image In Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, one main struggle that all the female characters have in common is body image. The burden of a woman’s body remains a main premise throughout the entire novel as the characters define their worth and have their worth defined by others based on their physical appearance. The female body is viewed by characters in different ways based on gender and age. The men in the novel view women’s in terms of their sexual worth as they focus on a woman’s physical