An Unmarried Woman

children. Women were not educated, and they had no place in the theater, even as audience members. However, women were often portrayed in theater, and prominent characters were often women. These women did things atypical of what a traditional greek woman would do. Lysistrata brought an end to the Peloponnesian War, Medea enacted a cunning revenge, and Antigone valiantly ensured her brother received a proper burial. Despite these heroic actions (except in Medea’s case), some argue that women had…

they were inferior to men. Generally, women were taught that they should be meek and obedient to their fathers and husbands. (Schaus). There is a loop hole to this teaching, however. If a woman was unmarried, she had power and could hold land just as men did. (Schaus). When…

young woman, Elizabeth Bennet seems to enjoy fending off any romantic proposals made by the eligible bachelors that she encounters. Equally headstrong, Mr Darcy seems to enjoy insulting her pride. Similarly, Beatrice seems to take great joy in expressing her distaste for men with her jesting counterpart, Benedick, being her prime victim. However, despite their independent nature and refusal to succumb to social restraint, both…

"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The short story talking about a woman, Louise Mallard, who locked herself in her room after hearing the death of her husband and the series of emotions her endured. Ironically，Mallard finally died of her heart trouble when she saw her husband back. Especially the foreshadowing and irony make the story really wonderful. Though Mallard’s thinking, the author showed married women’s self-struggle at that time. To be honest, I…

and class. In regard to the divide seen between men and women specifically, the latter has found themselves in a secondary position to the former. Best summarized by Toril Moi in her essay on feminist critique and theory, “man is the universal and woman is the particular; he is the One and she is the Other” (Moi 264). Thus, one’s experiences…

Two characters Walker pairs to represent this ignorance is Miss Treasure her younger sister, Lucille. Walker puts them into juxtaposed positions of lust and temptation vs purity and morality. Miss Treasure is a sixty-nine year old lady, living a unmarried, childless life with her sister on her deceased father's property. However, Walker soon introduces another male character that would develop an intimate relationship and make Miss Treasure believe she was carrying his child. It had all started…

into a trap of separating these identities in such a way to fit their political agenda. One such author who attempted to equally represent both the foreign and female identity was Hippocrates. In his description of the Scythians, he recounts “…unmarried girls, ride horses, practice archery, hurl javelins from horseback and fight tribal enemies” (Hp. Aer.3.17). In his initial description, Hippocrates simply describes the customs regarding Scythian women. However,…

3. Motherhood and Sexuality According to Rich, the motherhood exists in two different reals: “biological motherhood or ‘the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children,’ and motherhood as an ‘institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential—and all women—shall remain under male control’” (qtd. in Villar Argáiz 128). In Ireland, these institutional views of motherhood were crucial, the articles 41 and 45 of the 1937 Constitution (Shannon 262) linked…

In both sources of “The Woman Who Toils” and “Jacob Riis Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women,” indicates different ways of how women's experiences poverty and underpaid labor in the late nineteenth century differ from men. Men was the authority holder while women were the follower. Without much rights and education, women was uneducated and was not as knowledgeable as of compared to men. Due to this, many women such as unmarried and widow faced unimaginably difficult situations. Different…

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare Ophelia painfully removes herself from her intimate relationship with Hamlet out of obedience to her father’s request as she must carry out her father’s wishes as an unmarried young woman. Ophelia is treated like a pet throughout the play and seems to be but an object that the other characters use to their benefit. The play progresses and the broken relationship seems only to hurt Ophelia more and Hamlet as well as he does not know that it was Ophelia’s father…