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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality” -Lewis Caroll. However, the speaker of the poem “Ironing Their Clothes” by Julia Alvarez believed that imagination will create a reality. The speaker lacks affection from her family members since their lives are too busy for love. She uses her duty to connect with her father, mother, and sister by replacing them with their clothing. She believes that she can not only express her love for them through this, but also mend all of their…

Conclusion The primary purpose of this study is to examine Judith Butler theory of gender performativity. In her work Gender Trouble, she argues that gender identity cannot be biologically determined. She challenges the belief that certain behaviors are natural. Her argument is that gender and sex are not natural but they are constructed through the working of power in societies such as institutions, discourse, and practices. Consequently, gender is prompted by obligatory norms to be one…

Women were limited by gender roles in a male dominated society. Females had no outlet to move beyond the boundaries imposed on them as a result of their class and gender expectations. In “goblin market” Rossetti establishes a context which allows, or tries to allow, for the existence of the female…

Throughout the evolution of the modern-day woman, there have been endless instances in which women’s abilities have been belittled and underestimated. Yet, in these instances, women have overcome their circumstances and demonstrated the resilience of being a woman. Even though women have gained a substantial amount of social standing in the past century, there will always be those who view men as superior, more capable individuals. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a timeless feminist example of what…

venomous humors, due to a lack of orgasms and “uterine melancholy” Thus arose the idea of a female madness related to the lack of a normal sexual life: Plato, in Timaeus, argues that the uterus is sad and unfortunate when it does not join with the male and does not give rise to a new birth, and Aristotle and Hippocrates were of the same opinion (Women and Hysteria In the history of Mental Health…

Feminism is a powerful word and a movement that has inspired and empowered many with the simple meaning and goal for there to be equality between genders in all areas of life. There have been dozens of artistic and literary pieces which have contributed in some way to the spread of feminism. Feminist literature is considered to be a work which supports the goal of feminism, equality, and typically draws attention to the inequality problems between men and women in different areas of life, such…

There are many different beliefs towards what brings us to success. In The Sports Gene by David Epstein, it is explained that innate and physical talents are what allow people to succeed. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explains that effort and practice is what brings us to the top. Epstein and Gladwell both put forth arguments about how much in our lives we control, however, based on evidence Gladwell definitely shows that effort and practice is what we control to make us…

Historically, roles among genders have been standard, men are supposed to supply, as women are to care for the family. For centuries, stories, plays, songs have embraced this concept. However, by having a woman, named Medea, triumph over a man, Euripides shatters the concept of differences between genders for the first time. Euripides’ description of Medea is that of a clever sorceress who will never stop to achieve her goal. At the beginning of the story, Medea is depicted as a woman who is…

During the Elizabethan era, women were qualified for their youth and purity. Women received little or no power because of legal rights. Men were more inferior and controlled the women's lifestyles. Elizabethan women were raised to be dependent on the males in their family. Throughout the book, Hamlet, there were only two women in the play who had minimal lines. In Hamlet, Shakespeare views women as naive in order to show the role of women during the Elizabethan era. In Hamlet, Shakespeare…

In the 16th century, women were usually depicted in literature as vulnerable, fragile and compliant. While men were often represented as strong, valiant, and independent. During the time men ruled the world, women were considered as property, no better than cattle or land. However, Shakespeare's significant plays drove the idea into people's minds toward accepting the new ideas that women were just as strong, valiant and independent like any other man. Especially in the play, The Merchant of…