Women characters

In ancient literature, interactions between women are rare, but when they do occur they help develop the state of a woman, both mentally and emotionally. In studying several examples from ancient texts such as Hippolytus, Troilus and Criseyde, and The City of Ladies, it is evident that positive interactions between women act as a strengthening factor for female characters. Conversely, when a woman shuns her peers and relies on herself or only the men in her life, she becomes weak and isolated. A

dare women not look beautiful, perfect, and attractive in a movie?” McCarthy has accepted herself and is successful all the same. In response to Rex Reed, a reviewer for the New York Observer who wrote, “McCarthy is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career

we are presented with a rundown figure who is out of touch with the world, somewhat isolated from the younger women in her community.8 Conversely, Sembène’s representation of Ad’jibid’ji is more sympathetic.9 In using three successive adjectives when describing her, ‘sa maturité, sa spontanéité, sa lucidité’, Sembène quickens the pace presenting her as an exciting and animated character.10 In Sembène’s sympathetic portrayal of Ad’jibid’ji especially in contrast with that of Niakoro, we see that he

of dominance over women. Chaucer makes this point, and also the point, through Alison’s tale, that if women are given what they want, then they will be obedient and faithful to their men.      The worldliness of

Misogyny is not only visible in the Miller’s tale, but also in the Wife of Bath’s tale through the very superficial standards set for women by men. The old woman asks that the knight marries her in return for giving him the answer to the riddle and he reacts in disgust and horror, “‘...to take me as your wife…‘Alas and woe is me!...I am ugly and poor…my damnation! Alas, that any of my birth should ever be so foully disgraced!” (Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” 199-213). The knight is visibly distraught

of the story through the characters and their actions or gestures. These actions are visible in the book The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Edna Pontellier, the main character, searches for her identity through a series of awakenings. Chopin also creates a new role beyond “mother-woman” for Edna. Also, Chopin reveals information about the nature of gender relationships in the Creole society in order to understand Edna’s actions. Readers have to look at characters and their actions in order

Women have always been considered a minority in our society. They have always been seen as the inferior population. Throw the race card in the mix and it makes matters way worse. Anne Petry’s “The Street” took place in Harlem in the 1940s. In that time, Harlem was full of violence, poverty, and racial conflict. “The Street” is about Lutie Johnson and her struggles to achieve success for her and her son Bub. Lutie is a black woman who desires more than what she had to settle for in the past. She wants

Women of early to mid 1900’s were oppressed by the man’s perfect view of what a woman should and should not be. Hastily after they were given the right to vote in 1920, men pressured women to stay in the realm of expertise they had already participated in for centuries, domesticity. Sylvia Plath the writer of, The Bell Jar, uses the life of Esther Greenwood to show how cultural views of women disabled women from reaching their highest abilities. Women who sought a higher education or an occupation

The “modern woman” developed a façade (also known as a masquerade) that allowed them to appear like a typical woman — perhaps deemed narcissistic, to use the words of Sigmund Freud — but in fact they were exploring their personal sexual intrigue and ignited the female gaze; which was something to counteract the male gaze, which they had felt the pressure of for centuries (or even millennia). An example of this could be a successful and intelligent working woman after showing her ‘worth’, deciding

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