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to gamble, drink, and act as “manly” as she wants without judgement, which is why she goes there when she needs to relax. Idgie is happiest when she can act naturally, even though she does not submit to conventional gender norms. In fact, “Idgie is female, yet wears men’s clothing, drinks liquor ‘like a man,’ tells tall stories, and loves Ruth and her baby with all her soul. As a result Idgie is loved, protected, and defended by all who know her” (Parsons). Despite her discordance with society,…

by sexuality in August Strindberg´s novel, It essentially depicts how females may initially defy social norms but will eventually give in to their sexual desires hence become inferior again. In Miss Julie the female and male roles are questioned constantly, and ultimately Strindberg humiliates women that attempt to transcend their conventional gender norms through Julie. The interactions between Miss Julie, a high class female and Jean, her poor male servant embody the author´s internal ideas…

beliefs and actions. To expose and respond to this social inequality, many women took to writing- novels, letters, pamphlets, and speeches. Overall, literature during this time often focused on the conflict between women and society. Henry James was an American author often regarded as an important figure in the literary culture of the nineteenth century, focusing on literary realism and trying to capture life as realistically as possible. In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James reveals the…

Women’s rights and their social status, one of the most controversial yet concerned topics that keeps raising the society’s attention. Ever since the existence of inequality between male and female had been discovered, people had never stopped reflecting on it. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, gender bias, along with racial discrimination, are tied together to serve as the major themes of the story. By using the perspective of a misfitting tomboy Scout, Lee vividly painted out the…

Boucher, The Breakfast, 1739, France The piece of art called The Breakfast, by Boucher shows women and children having breakfast, while a butler is pouring them something to drink. The artist is trying to portray that the family is of higher class. He does this by the type of clothes the women are wearing and the beautiful design of the room. The frame of the mirror is gold, also the mounted candle holders on the wall are a beautiful gold. The artist makes it obvious that the women in the…

emphasized a woman’s obedience to her husband. Ibsen acknowledges the fact that in 19th century life the role of the woman was to take care of the house duties by raising the children and attending to her husband as the protagonist of the play Nora Helmer does. During the play Nora rebels against these cultural norms, she abandons herself from her husband and her children when she finally finds herself as an individual. Throughout the play Nora Helmer’s character presents an inauthentic identity…

body image and sexuality through idioms of “the fashioned self” (Pelt, 15) and Esther’s confrontations with sexual orientation in The Bell Jar. It links Esther’s identity process with that of the broader organizations of patriarchal power within American society. Esther seems to be in conflict with the idea of sexuality. She is at confusion with the idea of morality and her natural drives. Her false notions of sexuality sprang up mostly from the illogical advices of her mother. As Esther…

social, and power inequality by reversing the thematic roles generically given to males or females to promote equality and reduce prejudice stemming from inequality in society. Furthermore, common role placement is usually riddled with inequality, so role reversal is used to identify those places of inequality and create a vision for how society could be with multiple strong female characters and typical female roles being embodied by males. Door, Hunter, Anaesthesia, and Jessica are all…

books there are women like Harriet Tubman who freed slaves or Rosie the Riveter who recruited female workers for the munitions' industry during World War II. “Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both” (Wolf 59). In stories like The Wizard of Oz where there are two female characters with one “beauty-without-intelligence” and one…

Kylee Wong Professor Emrich ENL 3 November 27, 2017 Mariam’s Voice Was Too Powerful In a time and place in which women were encouraged to conform to the classical “chaste, silent, and obedient” model of femininity, supporting independent thought in women was seen as potentially transgressive. In 1613, Elizabeth Cary addresses this topic in her play, The Tragedy of Mariam. The author shapes a complex network of deceit and betrayal between characters, and represents a theme of women’s voice.…