This essay examines how race and gender are portrayed in a music video Anaconda by Nicki Minaj from 2014. The issue of representation of the Black community and women is significant, considering a huge impact hip-hop culture has on young people’s perception of social matters (Emerson, 2002, p. 115). Minaj is an influential figure in popular culture - her album The Pinkprint, which is supported by the single Anaconda, debuted at number one on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as well as a number two on the US Billboard 200 chart (Caulfield, 2014; Mendizabal, 2014). Additionally, the music video for Anaconda has over 500 million views on official Nicki Minaj’s YouTube page.…
“Proxy”: a must-read About a month ago, as soon as I realized my cousin’s birthday was coming up, I knew that that the perfect present for her would be a science fiction book, since she is an avid reader of that genre. However, I was not so certain about which one to buy her, as she hates run-of-the-mill novels. After racking my brain for some days, I suddenly stumbled upon “Proxy”, a science fiction novel I had read during the summer, and realized it would suit her down to the ground. If there is one thing I know my cousin despises when reading a book, is a hackneyed plot.…
“Women on the Edge of Time” is basically a novel written by Marge Piercy. This book is an indictment of some fundamental assumptions of our society. It also presents the intriguing portrayal of the Utopian alternatives. In this novel, a woman named Connie in the age of 37 has been declared as insane. However, the woman is overwhelmingly sane.…
In literature, the role and function of women varies depending on the author. Particularly in the past, there were playwrights who portrayed women as frail, passive figures to be only used as pawns for mistreatment from men. We can see this portrayal in William Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, as well as Arthur Miller’s, Death of a Salesman. The female characters in these two plays are to be considered as two-dimensional characters that only serve to help develop their male counterparts character. However, a closer study reveals that the true roles these female characters took on had purpose; for some, they were the most prominent characters of the play.…
This essay will look at society’s attitude towards women at this period in time. I will look at examples within the play, in particular the language and actions of the characters. I will find out how the writer J.B Priestly portrayed women at this time and in this setting. The play begins with an engagement party for Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft. By marrying Gerald, Sheila father’s business and social status will improve greatly, so I believe that Mr Birling is using her as an object to gain more power and money.…
The women in the novel are told that they are important and more intuitive than men but at the same time told that men cannot control themselves when around women. These women had to fear for their lives and their bodies and sneak around men.…
Julian Maso Mrs. Hubbard English IV 25 November 2015 Images of Women In the literary works, “Spinster,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” and “A Jury of Her Peers,” the authors exemplify the theme of negativity through the reoccurring negative connotations, dialects and dialogue presented. Throughout the works, the authors subtly point out the dilemmas between men and women in a relationship over a given amount of time. Though relationships may seem wonderful and heartwarming, in these particular works, the negative effects of male and female relationships are more apparent than the positive effects.…
Marxist theory also explains how gender plays a role is success. Throughout history females have been seen as a minority and it took a long time for females to get respect. But in the novel women are still seen as second to men. There is only one speaking female character and she is not even given a name. She is just referred to as Curley’s wife; this shows the oppression of women in this time period.…
Likewise, with most social orders until presently in history, ladies were not permitted to have a huge part in the public eye, other than that of a wife and mother. In “The Decameron,” Boccaccio (1982) exhibits that while they might not have noteworthy social role, ladies do have a high ground in many parts of the men-women relationship. In spite of the fact that the one hundred stories manage a variety of themes, when Boccaccio (1982) thinks about men and ladies, it gives the idea that he supports ladies as the better sex as far as both great and malevolence. At the point when inspecting stories where Boccaccio (1982) subtle elements of male-female connections, it develops that ladies are more grounded, more lewd, and craftier. Besides, in the examples where the male character seems to triumph or surpass the lady, men as a rule accomplish triumph through devious means.…
The Relationship of Gender and Vocation in the 19th century novel Women and men in 19th century society occupied separate spheres since it was believed that the sexes have different physical and mental characteristics. Men belonged in the outside world or the public sphere, “where they could use their capacity for logical thought to best effect” (Rowbotham). Women, on the other hand, according to Rowbotham, were expected to belong to “the more passive, private sphere of the household and home where their inborn emotional talents would serve them best”. Physicians and anthropologists justified this division further by saying that if women were to mentally exert themselves like men, “women would divert the supply of blood and phosphates from…
Epitome of Masculinity There is no grey area when dealing with the expectations of men and women in a tribalistic society; there is only black or white. Men and women are on completely different ends of the spectrum regarding how society perceives them. In the Igbo culture, men are considered the head of family and society while women are considered caretakers and are subordinate to men. Men are expected to have an active and aggressive personality while women, however, are expected to be subservient and passive. These expectations shape how society is supposed to be and influence the decisions of individuals.…
This drama study will define the conflict of male gender dominance and violence towards women in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster and Woyzeck by Georg Buchner. In Webster’s play, the duchess is continually at the mercy of her brother, Ferdinand, because he does not want her to inherit their father’s money. The duchess has an illicit love affair with Antonio, which makes it possible for Ferdinand and the Cardinal to have her executed for an illicit love affair. This form of male gender violence is also seen in Buchner‘s main character, Woyzeck, as he murders his lover, Maria, for having an illicit affair with the drum major. In essence, these plays define the use of violence towards to women to preserve male gender dominance in The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster and Woyzeck by Georg Buchner.…
mother, wife, sister and lastly yet considerable woman as a human being not just second sex or sex object. She seeks cynical about customs and tradition, yet she finds out in their legacy the keys for the longings and needs of women in current time. She is modernist writer since her writing highlights the idea of the inconsequential women with an endocentric set up ,pervasive in the non first world and first world .In her works ,insights take preference over the desire of technique. She recognises the paradoxes in a given area and also pays an ideological, cultural, philosophical, artistic struggle.…
Agatha Christie 's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Patricia Cornwell’s Postmortem contain interesting representations of women. The male characters in both texts have very poor views on women. The problem with the male character’s views is that the qualities they dislike in the women they also possess. The men in Christie text and the men in the Cornwell text all have problems containing their emotions. The texts as a whole highlight how the women are just as, if not more, capable than the males in the text.…
In this paper, the primary purpose is focusing on the evolution of the character named Dorimant from “The Man of Mode” in regards to his social rank in society. The thesis is the evolution of Dorimant’s social rank, in respects to his fall from once being considered the alpha. Throughout the novel, signs of Dorimant’s descent for this position of alpha is apparent. As the novel proceeds through the five acts, Dorimant’s descent become ever more apparent as he begins to give into his emotions. With the introduction of Harriet, Dormant for the first time in his life has been touched by the transcendent power that is romance.…