An Unmarried Woman

of borderland arroyos” (1). In her short story, “Woman Hollering Creek”, Cisneros describes the life of a Mexican woman, Cleofilas that marries a man from “el otro lado” in the…

about marriage. Started from the Algernon conversation with Lane, Lady Bracknell’s plan to match Algernon with Mary Farquhar, the engagement of Jack and Gwendolen, the engagement of Cecily and Algernon, even the marriage of Lady Bracknell and the unmarried Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism.  Social class Social class is shown clearly in this novel by Lady Bracknell. She always behave coldly to people who were in the lower class than her. Her rejection to Jack’s proposal to her daughter because of his…

defensive side kicks in, and the only way to protect themselves is to create their own way of life. By doing this, they lose their connection to this society and their values. Both Abner Snopes, a rebellious sharecropper, and Emily Grierson, an unmarried woman from a prominent family, are isolated from their communities, and both find themselves in a kind of social dilemma. They no longer feel the need to obey to the values of their society and, as a result, are free to violate…

adultery with another man while they are unmarried. In this movie it depicts a situation where the main character, Umay, leaves her abusive husband to flea back home to her family. This is considered an honorable action and diminishes the reputation of her family immensely. In the movie, When We Leave, there is a clear description of how woman are treated within the Muslim community and what rights they own as individuals. The movie shows an example of how woman are treated within the…

Most of the health-related wise women practiced alternative medicine to help people, especially young women to conceive and give birth, hence, they had a great deal of responsibility for the survival of the community. Because this was a very delicate job during the seventeenth-century, there was a risk of thing going wrong, and women were often blamed for someone’s sickness, incident, or death. According to John Winthrop, Massachusetts’s governor, “Jane Hawkins was used to give young women oil…

When reading Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice and Thomas Hardy 's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, one thing is clear - women can be strong, determined and independent. But in the 19th century, the idea that a woman did not need a man to survive was controversial. Even now in a time of a modern feminist movement, examples of female independence are extremely influential. However, both Austen and Hardy fail to prevent negativity against women in their novels; the way in which the female protagonists…

Within the Great Gatsby, there are usually three different personas of women presented: The Golden Girl, the Independant Woman, and the Gold Digger. Each of these traits were represented in the different female characters of the book. Daisy Buchanan was the Golden Lady, Jordan Baker was the independent woman, and Myrtle Wilson was the gold digger. Each of these traits listed played an important part in the shaping of the story plot. Daisy is to a great degree enchanting and numerous men succumb…

BADASS LINDE. (this is where i stop caring on this writing just an fyi). Both of them are unmarried, both are at the bottom of the “food chain” in the norwegian world, and they both are hard working individuals that are being held back by society’s prejudices and judgements. For Krogstad, being unmarried isn’t a terribly bad thing, it’s just mildly inconvenient, He doesn’t have anyone to raise his kids or clean his house, but he does have a maid…

and being unmarried, participants still emphasized how their prominent role in the household tax their work commitments and vice versa… This meant that they had to neglect aspects of one in order to focus on the other.” Women still have the stereotypes in society of being the primary caregiver of the household leaving men to get ahead in their work force. Although society is slowly trying to make caregiving and business owning gender neutral it is still not completely equal. As a woman, I too…

change the way I live now. I coulda made the Change, I guess. It’s the only way to avoid gettin’ stuck in a job I don’t want. “Praise your enlightenment,” my auntie would probably say, with a smile on her thin, pale lips. She’s an old, traditional woman. Hates men talking back to her—or trying to stand up to her at all. She always has rude words about grown men. “They’re horrible wastes of space. I say we should just euthanize half of them and have the rest donate their fluids for reproduction.…