Trapped In Literature Analysis

People experience feeling trapped all the time and it is a emotion that is used frequently in literature. Three works of literature that have cases of women being in a state of mind of feeling trapped are A Rose For Emily, A Room of Ones Own, and A Doll's House. In these three epics, there are various ways that the women feel trapped.

Women went through hard times between the 18th and 19th century lifestyle. The lack of inequality of women and men at that time was unfair. Women that were married had less rights in the perception of the law. The right to vote for women didn't come until the late 1920s. Careers like medicine and law were restricted to women. Women weren't able to get an education during the 1920s because no school would welcome a female in with low exceptions. People who were able to participle in church were only men. Their logic was that women were completely …show more content…
Emily and Virginia were very similar. Emily never left her house and allowed the public eye to win. She was so overwhelmed with change and how the public eye saw her that she became more mentality unstable after her father died. Virginia let society control her path in life and committed suicide because she could not pursue everything she wanted. Emily and Virginia took the easy way out in their life and didn't chase their dreams. The thoughts of society controlled them. Nora was smart and didn't allow men to control her the way they controlled Virginia and Emily. She went out and found a better life. Many people say Nora had the courage to go out and fight for her rights because she loved her kids so much and wanted a better life for them. If Emily and Virginia had kids, maybe things would've played out differently for them. Also, Virginia and Emily didn't have a mother figure in their life. A mother is the center of love in a family. Virginia and Emily didn't know how to love and were trapped in a depressed