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In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the authors portray a woman’s want for independence and the serious problem women’s oppression was around the early 1900s. The oppression they depict is so influential that it creates character development in the main female characters and the reader can watch as this happens throughout both the play and the story. Both the story and the play have story lines that need to be understood before they…

Imagine there are two women sitting across from each other on the bus, one woman name Anna the other Zelda. Anna is a single working mother, who works 10 hours a day. Zelda is a full-time mother who stays at home. However, the difference between these two ladies is that Anna has a job outside the house while Zelda do not. From reading this introduction you can tell that both mothers are both hard workers. Although in society we say it’s an everyday normal life, but it 's not what society…

REVENGE is a dramatic, medieval action script. The story offers an intriguing world with warriors, Kings, witches, betrayal, forbidden love, and murder. There’s a solid theme about revenge that is well interwoven into the overall plot. Revenge stories are a tried and true concept. They are always a good framework for conflict, tension, and character transformation. Medieval stories also offer a world that is well liked. The idea of two families in conflict with each other is always a smart…

Prologue Have you ever wondered if there are living creatures on other planets? Well there are other living creatures on a planet called Capa. There lives a clan called the Sky Noks, they 're not the kind of creature that would make you hide under your bed. They live on a red-hot lava planet. They were as normal as we are on Earth until a great evil came an evil called Dangeonmia. The Evil Is Us is a clan that comes to your planet to take over. They might kill you or keep you held captive.…

In a nation dominated by Patriarchal Christian discourse, the role of women was highly problematizes as a source of weakness. In order to counteract decline and promote positive reproduction, women were pushed into traditionally Victorian roles of motherhood and passivity. Katrina Trask wrote in her 1895 article entitled “Motherhood and Citizenship: Woman’s Wisest Policy” that woman should bear children with “the mission of the perpetration of the race” and a woman engaging in sexual acts with…

“Lamb to the Slaughter follows Mary Maloney from a normal day with her husband, but goes a different direction after Patrick Maloney basically divorces her. She then proceeds to retrieve a leg of lamb from the cellar, and kills Patrick. In Trifles, a team of investigators come to the scene of a murder with their wives, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. Peters and Hale are retrieving a few items for Mrs. Wright, the wife of the victim. The wives find multiple pieces of evidence that could be used to…

FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF “TIP DRILL” Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. popularly known in the American music industry as Nelly came out with “Tip Drill” on his 2003 remix album Da Dertty Versions, he featured the St. Lunatics on this song. The expression tip drill is a slang vulgar expression, describing a well-known ugly girl with a nice body, hefty breast and backside. The lyrics of “Tip Drill” describe a girl who can only attract the opposite sex with her body and not her face, she is cheap and ready to…

Dead to Women Women throughout history have been seen as less than men. The thoughts, words, and actions of women are always valued less than of a man. In Song of Solomon the main character Macon “Milkman” Dead III has many interactions with women through the course of his life. He doesn’t have the best relationship with women in the book because of the way he treats them. His father has instilled many ideas about women that milkman has kept in his head which affect him in the story. From the…

In the short stories of “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, both stories have a male antagonist, Arnold Friend and Manley Pointer. They both have important roles in their stories, they prey on the two female protagonists, Hulga and Connie. Some similarities between the two characters are they both play predators in the story. They stalk their victims before ever making an approach. Manley tried to hid the fact…

You can meet women just about anywhere you go - work, the grocery store, for a walk, at the park, at a cafe, etc. You probably run errands every day and see women but you never think about meeting them there. That might be because these are not the normal places where you would go to meet women. However, there are places where women want to meet men and men want to meet women. There is a traditional understanding that when you go there, you are most likely there to meet another person. These…