American women

Marge Piercy’s, “Barbie Doll,” uses a variety of literary elements including language, tone, and irony, to discuss the treatment, or rather mistreatment of women in our world. The girl in the poem ends up killing herself after being harassed for her lack of feminine charm, the poem written in 1973 makes the reader question the way women are viewed and the heavy repercussions these expectations may carry. Piercy’s view of the way the world treats young girls is illustrated through the language…

my favorite service of any religion. At the end we got to ask two women about the faith. One was a younger wife and her children and the other was an old woman. They answered many of our questions. They told us that the person leading the service stood higher than the others, on an altar of some sort, because that is what Muhammed did. We asked when girls start to wear the hijab and we got slightly different answers from the two women. They both agreed that it usually starts at puberty, the…

actually affecting the girl. Also, I feel that in commercials they really degrade women. It almost seems that they have to flaunt everything that they have to be a capable companion. However, I must say, that is very luring and makes you want to buy the product they are selling. Then for mes ads, they are very masculine and biased. Almost all commercials about men I saw included them doing some handy work but they never show women doing that. They also see that no matter what situation you are…

on her and rebels by treating the doll and others differently than the way people expect her to. Toni Morrison uses the Christmas gift, the doll, to highlight what she perceives to be proof that gender is socially constructed and is used to control women. When the little girl receives the doll for Christmas she is unsure how to act towards it and wonders “What was I supposed to do with it?”. According to the girl the doll was to represent her “fondest wish.”. Here Morrison is pointing out that…

young women from the 1800s. The ultimate goal for women during that time period was for them to live their life for themselves, which required them to break out of the various barriers that was expected from society and their own family. Chopin uses caged birds as a recurring theme to display the domestic lives of women, especially in the character, Edna Pontellier. Caged birds were frequently referenced as a concise representation of women during the Victorian Era. The stereotype of women that…

In The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare shows that he encourages the anti-Semitism and racism of the time. This is first shown through the choosing of the caskets of who will marry a fair lady named Portia.. Secondly, the language that is used by the characters when they are referring to Shylock. Lastly, the punishment of Shylock near the end of the play. Therefore, Shakespeare shows that he encourage the racism of the time. One reason that demonstrated how Shakespeare encouraged…

In Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child, the protagonist of the novel, Bride, finds herself slowly transforming back into an adolescent. The novel uses magical realism to both literally and figurately revert Bride back to a state of girlhood. Her increasing lack of secondary sex characteristics, like breasts and pubic hair, triggers a fear of reverting back into a “scared little black girl”. The novel deals with several prominent themes, the two most prevalent being race and childhood trauma.…

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…

the position of women in the society was varied according to culture, religion and geographical and scientific developments throughout many years. In general sense, women are supposed to be the submissive, obedient, self-sacrificing and “the angel in the house “as Woolf said. This idea of passive women is represented in approximately the same way in many examples of world literature. This research paper is a quest to identify the portrayal of the role of angry and lustful women in men’s fate in…

Beauty standards are a common struggle in girls and always have been. Throughout the years the standards have changed, and they are now becoming more prominent in young girls. Research has been done, and it has shown that young girls no longer want to do “little” girl activities; but want to change their looks, wait for their prince charming, and become big girls. Stephanie Hanes, with a background in play therapy, wrote an article concerning Disney Princesses effects on young girls. Hanes has a…