Feminist Criticism Essay Feminist literature criticism is the analyses of stories mostly through the female’s perspective, and their own feminist theories of how women are portray. Through feminist literature women find that they are depicted as being inferior to men, having less power, having no say, being weaker, and there is a lot of inequality between males and females. Two stories that displays these negative look on women are The Story of an Hour and Trifles. In The Story of an Hour we learn about a women who feel like she is incarcerated in her own home, and does not have freedom because of her husband. In Trifles, the readers are expose to a hectic relationship where the male likes to be controlling and dominant towards the women,
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She received the news that her husband had recently passed away, and throughout the story we learned about her journey through that day and her feeling of finally being free. In the first line of the story Louis Mallard was introduced as Mrs. Mallard, and in almost the whole story that is how she was refer to. On the other hand, Mrs. Mallards’ sister Josephine was call by her first name throughout the story. From this story we know that Mrs. Mallard was marry, but Josephine marital status is not clear, so by calling the protagonist Mrs. Mallard instead of her first name it makes it seen that marriage makes a women lose her identity. Referring to a married women only using their husbands last name portrays the women as property, that ones they are married they are like an object used to please their husband’s needs. In addition, they lose their self-worth and independence, they are solely focus on their men, and women no longer looked out for their wellbeing or what they want. Instead they seek for their men’s desire and that’s what they live for. The most desire thing for women since they were little it’s to get marry, knowing that marriage was going to make them loose themselves. However, they chose that path because it was the social norm in the 1800’s, which is when this story was written. Growing up women where taught how to be clean and take care of their family, not be
She received the news that her husband had recently passed away, and throughout the story we learned about her journey through that day and her feeling of finally being free. In the first line of the story Louis Mallard was introduced as Mrs. Mallard, and in almost the whole story that is how she was refer to. On the other hand, Mrs. Mallards’ sister Josephine was call by her first name throughout the story. From this story we know that Mrs. Mallard was marry, but Josephine marital status is not clear, so by calling the protagonist Mrs. Mallard instead of her first name it makes it seen that marriage makes a women lose her identity. Referring to a married women only using their husbands last name portrays the women as property, that ones they are married they are like an object used to please their husband’s needs. In addition, they lose their self-worth and independence, they are solely focus on their men, and women no longer looked out for their wellbeing or what they want. Instead they seek for their men’s desire and that’s what they live for. The most desire thing for women since they were little it’s to get marry, knowing that marriage was going to make them loose themselves. However, they chose that path because it was the social norm in the 1800’s, which is when this story was written. Growing up women where taught how to be clean and take care of their family, not be