American women writers

The idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing readers empathize with the grief and sorrow evoked by death. Overwhelmingly consumed by the anguish of grief, Auden’s narrator demands “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.” With each sound surrounding him torturing his mind he simply cannot function when he is so emotionally bereft. Contrastingly, Plath commences her narration with the depiction of a mirror which is “exact” and “unmisted by love or dislike”. The mirror cannot manipulate what it reflects as it has “no preconceptions” and it is its truthfulness which torments the woman who peers into it “day after day.” To progress their respective ideas, both poets articulate the magnitude of loss and its devastation. Auden’s narrator describes his loved one as his metaphorical “North”, “South”, “East and West” and demonstrates his importance to every facet of his life because he was his alliterative “working week” and metaphorical “Sunday rest”. After the death of his loved one, the narrator wretchedly realises that he “was…

In Lady Mary Wroth’s “In this Strange Labyrinth,” the speaker, on a denotative level, addresses her concerns about where to turn in a maze, but on a connotative level the speaker is conflicted with decisions in his life. The speaker struggles, but follows her heart in the end. Similarly, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is the most intellectual among her sisters and she enjoys walking, even alone, both of which oppose the standards for a woman in Georgian society. Elizabeth…

The topic of gender discrimination has lingered as an open wound for decades in cultures across the world. There are countries and societies where women are considered lesser beings. Their opinions disregarded, others claim their bodies and voicing their opinions is often considered outrageous. While these injustices seem foreign and unimaginable in the United States, we have our own plethora of issues. Women aren’t treated as a whole human in dozens of countries and America, unfortunately,…

the 19th century. Examining the rights of married women in the 19th century, one would agree that the marriage benefited only the husband. Kate Chopin’s work was published during a time of industrial and social change. Many married women were not confined to just…

GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…

Jewish American Princess can be described as "a stereotypical well-to-do or spoiled American Jewish girl or woman" ("Jewish American Princess" Merriam-Webster). Jewish American Princesses or "JAP," for short, are Jewish girls who come from environments in which they do not have to do anything for themselves. They are spoiled daddy's girls. They do not work and expect men to always take care of them. Jewish American princesses tend to come from Northeastern parts of the United States, such as New…

Our country’s ideology and opinions on a woman’s stature, fortune and overall place in this world has come a very long way in terms of fairness and equality. From being treated as property (as an entire gender) and being deprived normal human rights such as participating in elections and even household decisions, to having women being able to be the sole bread winner of a household and even having a woman as a candidate to be the president of an entire nation! Then again, women are still being…

A person’s personal knowledge or historical accounts are the basis for a memoir. There are various authors that have various ways to create a memoir that fits them and their story. William Faulkner, an American writer, won a Nobel Prize in Literature from Oxford Mississippi in 1949. During his banquet speech, he shared his perspective in writing memoirs and writing in general. As he put it the “writer’s duty” was that young writers are forgetting the problems of the human heart which is in…

The campaign also aims to motivate young women and girls to be confident after they hit puberty when their confidence typically drops. The Always campaign accomplishes this goal through the use of branding, challenging text statements, startling statistics and research findings on young women’s confidence, and critiquing the common place of the phrase “like a girl.” Always and the #LikeAGirl Campaign. The international feminine hygiene company…

Becoming an Apache Woman, Something Only a Girl Can Do In some cultures, an adolescent’s transition into adulthood is celebrated with an extravagant soiree, while other’s are expected to recite religious scriptures. Meanwhile for the Apaches, a native American tribe that lives in the southwestern United States, the leap into womanhood is marked by a symbolic four-day Sunrise Ceremony. The young Apache girl’s physical endurance is tested during this event, where it is believed that she will enter…