An Unmarried Woman

married. The wives had virtually no control in the relationship or their own lives. Women had no idea how to drive, write checks, own property, or control their money because men were in control of them for their whole lives. If a husband died, the woman was useless with her eighth grade education. Women were dependent of men because they never were given the opportunity to provide for themselves. Even if women were in abusive relationships, divorce was hardly an option. “Divorce was not a tight…

Reflective Statement Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novel that is greatly affected by time and place. In Colombia in the 1950’s where Gabriel Garcia-Marquez set his novel, people had different thoughts and ideals. In our class discussion, it was made clear that a woman’s virginity was important during that time period. It was a sign of purity and honor in the girl’s family. The class agreed that the townspeople did not do anything to prevent the murder of Santiago Nasar because the villagers…

written in 1992 by Katherine Mansfield. The setting takes us on a Sunday afternoon at a seaside park. Miss Brill is an elderly unmarried woman visits the park on Sunday to help her cope with her loneliness and depression by creating an illusionary world for herself, yet she is deeply forced to face her reality for what it truly is. We get a clear image of what the elderly woman is really like since the story is written in third person. The story is an interior monologue of Miss Brill,…

leads. Nettie starts off by leaving her father, Alphonso’s house and meets a couple that introduce her into a life of missionaries. They set sail for Africa and join the Olinka village. Nettie is often judged for being an educated woman, as well as, being unmarried and having no children. Throughout her time in Africa, she develops into a charismatic and progressive…

Born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway, was Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was the oldest out of his five siblings. Ibsen’s father, Knud, was a successful merchant. His Mother, Marichen, painted, played the piano and loved to go the theater. Ibsen gather his interest in becoming an artist, just like his mother. At the age of eight Ibsen and his family moved to rundown farm, because of financial issues that brought his family to poverty. At the age of fifteen, Ibsen dropped out of school and went to work.…

freedom, Indian women are still struggling for their own independence. The fight for female autonomy and separate identity is still in the process. If a woman tries to go beyond her boundaries, she is cast away from the society. She becomes alienated from her own family. It is sad to note that women still have to face the discrimination in India. The woman has no value apart from her family. Even in her own family, she has to face the subjugation and discrimination. Manju Kapur explores…

traits, activities, and roles (Weinraub et al 1493) History has proven that gender inequality it is not today’s problem it’s been a problem since the beginning of times. Who determines what is it the female’s role in society? How is it determined if a woman is respectable or not? What are the expectations regarding women’s behavior? How is masculinity and femininity defined? Does being a man guarantees power? “Critical to any explanation of sex role development is information regarding the time…

for ‘becoming’. The protagonist of her novel the young unmarried Mary Turner, who begins the early stages of her life as an independent, strong women. However, she is pushed by society to conform to the everyday normalities of life, including marriage and raising a family. Mary Turner is a woman who originally differs from the norm and has no desire to marry or pursue marriage like the rest of her friends. However, her status as a single woman becomes the subject of gossip among her friends. It…

The word progressive was used to loosely mean a movement of individuals and groups hoping to bring significant change in the life as they knew it. Progressivism is described into four forms of reform, economic including industrial, social, political, and moral. This era lead to many people and groups of people to fight for what they believed in. Many movements had included women such as social reforms. They believed men had privileges that women thought that they were their rights to have, so…

of the problems women trying to work ran into was the concept of marriage bars, which is a residual effect of the sex role theory. As young women who are either recently married or unmarried tried to apply for a job, the potential employer would not hire them. This was because the employer thought that as soon as a woman had children she would leave that job to raise her kids, and that time, money and resources spent training her was…