An Unmarried Woman

about it. A really good example of that is when she says “Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust, to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred” (A2; S1; L 60-64). She does not like the idea that men are the only ones that can rule in this point in time. She believes that woman should be equal and that they should be able to decide things for…

her seem more mature. After Tom Robinson gets shot Scout matures into a woman mentally and the court trial was the route that showed her the people and there prejudice decisions from a girl to a man. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee says that in life we encounter many situations that affect us deeply but from the mistakes of others we learn valuable lessons. Scouts maturation from a young girl to a young woman is a…

Even with all of his talk about his father's job, most of Holden's nervous ticks and character traits seem to come from his mother. For instance, Holden mentions "phonies" forty-four separate times throughout the novel (Corbett 68-73). This can be connected to his mother by the way he speaks about her. Her speech always seems to very insincere, and Holden displays that she has very little compassion for her own children. If his mother's actions were powerful enough to influence his obsession…

Magazines reveal young and extremely thin women. This holds true in most other forms of visual media, including magazines, film, television, and even children’s television. By presenting the ideal woman as a thin, long-legged one, the media had played a major role in carving out a community standard for female beauty. The media do not only influence standards of female beauty. Through constant exposure to these supposed ideals of beauty in the media, individuals begin to engage in social…

Chapter 21 of “The God of Small Things” tells of Ammu and Velutha’s love making; the reader desperately wants the pair to be together and the chapter is intense due to the reader’s knowledge of what is to come. Ammu is a beautiful and sardonic woman who has been victimized first by her father and then her husband. While raising her children, she has become tense and repressed and this leads to her becoming reckless, a trait which spurred her into the dangerous affair. Ammu’s latent “Unsafe…

The piano roars and the singing starts. We open to the song and the voices are just belting. We would clap with some of the songs, others we would stand up for, and some we would just sit and sing. One song which is a camp favorite is Let the River Run. Let the River run is asong that makes the whole camp happy. There’s a line in the song, that for unexplainable reasons, the whole camp screams out and at the last hymn sing everyone stands up for that one line. On that last night I know its not…

The two exhanged racial comments towards each other and left the altercation enemies. The rest of the movie depicts the struggle between both families in planning the wedding and the stress it puts on the engaged couple. The film explores racism and bias as it relates to interracial marriage. Both the Mexian American family and African American family were biased against each other. Sterotypical jokes were thrown from both families. Lucia father made jokes about the Marcus’s father having…

one’s self-confidence and how “[She is] a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That’s [Bennie] (10-13)”. In pursuit to persuading others about her venture, Bennie further exclaims her declaration of becoming a doctor without the distraction of a man. “Listen, I’m going to be a doctor. I’m not worried about who I’m going to marry yet—if I get married”, says Bennie (Hansberry 967). Insinuating, she does not need a man to catapult…

echoed in Saikaku’s opening line: a woman is “an ax that cuts down a man’s life” (605). Throughout the entire novel the audience is continually reminded about these gender discrepancies, and of the expectations placed upon individuals to conform to the status quo of their gender roles. Women in particular, receive the brunt of this discrimination, which in nearly every case, has to do with physical characteristics. One such case describes that a beautiful woman is expected to have symmetric…

when she states: “The violent queen illustrates the performance nature of the gender of power and shows that action, rather than biological sex, it is the determinant of that gender” (Dockray-Miller 1). Grendel’s mother is different because she is a woman, not only is. Men did not respect the women that were similar to Grendel’s mother. Beowulf represents his dislike for Grendel’s mother when he fights and it is the only way to defeat…