20th-century women writers

character of this book. Muhammad Asad previously known as Leopold Weiss, born on 2 July 1900 and died on 20 february 1992. He was a jewish-born Austro-Hungarian journalist, traveller, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar. He was one of the most influential European Muslims of the 20th century. By the age of thirteen, young Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, other than his native languages German and Polish. By his mid-twenties, he…

he had committed, Mao is still to this day treated like a hero to the country of China. Nevertheless, in Mao’s later years he became slightly less harsh and did improve the lives of many of the Chinese. For example, Mao helped raise the status of women, improved literacy, increased the amount of people going to school, and even enhanced health care in China (“Mao Tse-Tung Biography”). Though, later in his life, he decided to try to close all of the schools and redesign the curriculum so that the…

speaker possesses, but what she lacks; focusing on themes such as blindness and grief, the speaker constructs a rhetoric of absence that repetition highlights rather than subverts. This absence in turn aligns the speaker’s persona with the early 20th century female poet, whose artistic potential is suppressed by…

sins of his father that the ghosts are trying to whisper to him? That is what exactly portrayed in Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo which was published in 1955. The novel is considered to be the masterpiece in the Latin American Literature. Juan Rulfo was one of the first writers who broke up from traditional realist genre which was quite dominant until the midst of 20th century in Latin American Literature. Even though the novel employs different techniques and devices for…

In the late of 19th century, geisha culture was so famous among the Japanese society. Geisha was highly respected and recognized by the beauty of appearance and the skills to entertain men. As the world modernized, tradition and culture were being forgotten little by little…

outsider. It seems as though WASPS control our world and all those who don’t fall into that category lack the means to change politics, society, or the economy. Throughout America’s history African Americans, Ethnics, Poor people, gay people, and women have struggled as outsiders. On the other hand, these groups have been able to gather themselves and assert their own self-image in culture as well. There seems to be a constant struggle between larger corporations associated middle class that use…

proclaims that all human beings have the right to be free and equal no matter who they are or where they come from. It was only created in late 1948 however some documents relating to them have existed for many centuries before. Some articles from the Universal Declaration of Human…

those who think differently mad, while in reality, it is those who blindly conform who are insane (citation). During this period, Emily Dickinson would have been considered insane, for she was a woman who was educated and opinionated in a time where women were supposed to be quiet and compliant. She spoke her mind even though it was not considered socially acceptable. She speaks of this topic again in her poem, “They shut me up in Prose.” In this poem, she…

The novel A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess, was originally published in 1962. It is a dystopian novel where the future is overrun with violence and crime. The main character, Alex, commits horrible crimes, such as rape and murder, with his group of friends. After breaking into a house, Alex is arrested and undergoes an experiment called Ludovico’s Technique while in jail. He can no longer make bad choices, and feels sick when he thinks about committing a crime. He is vulnerable,…

Bernie Sanders, the well-known senator from Vermont, writes, “Let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.” This quote truly shows the power of standing for justice. Like Sanders points out, we are “winning” by seeking justice, and by “winning” we are creating the Kingdom of God. But even more, when we stand together no matter the race, we are…