Fall of Man

In “The Laugh of the Medusa” French feminist Hélène Cixous writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual…

issues changed is clearly seen through the more recent Disney animations, such as Frozen. Contrasting many of Disney’s animations, Frozen may be the first time the audience sees a character denying true love, where Elsa tells Anna “You can’t marry a man you just met”, whether it is “true love” or not. This highlights the fact that the male is no longer in control. In Frozen it is the female character Anna who is the stronger character, unlike Cinderella. It is Anna who saves her sister Elsa by…

The male hierarchy demonstrates the “ paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, ‘she’s the talker.’” (Tannen 285). While the man participated as a guest in the lecture he felt challenged as if he needed to show his greater understanding of the lecture. When a man is at home with his wife he feels no need to prove anything, therefore, he able to remain silent. However, the prevalence of the “ paradox of the talkative man and silent wife” (Tannen 285) exists all thought the age…

depict the way men are pressured by the media, their friends, religion, and parents. Society needs to change painting the way a man should act. Men are brought up to fear showing emotion, visibility and love, as a result parents especially fathers hold back from hugging and physically showing love to their kids. Boys are also physically criticized, and trained to be a man you have to be aggressive. Men are also encouraged to be violent; they are taught through parents, friends, video games and…

as “white elephants” to the train station, each symbol in the story helps give way to show exactly what is happening in the story. At the start of the story, Jig says about the line of hills in the distance “They look white elephants,” to which the man responded “I’ve never seen one.” (Hemingway 274). During this quick banter between the two characters, white elephants are brought up. A white elephant summed up is an ugly gift that no one wants, which symbolizes the unborn child that Jig is…

Gender Stereotypes Gender stereotypes have played an important role within our life since we were young. We were taught to be either feminine or masculine and that we have to live by certain roles. Stereotypes have evolved so much as time progresses and it can be analyzed by observing how men and women are treated in society, the fight for equal rights, and how it effects society in general. Till this day men and women are being treated differently. “As we are growing up we are taught…

already realized her captivity, and looked to free herself in different sense. Unlike Gilman, the symbolism that Carter uses is subtler and does not heavily impact the story’s plot. When Carter’s character, a young girl, realizes the danger of the man next to her, she correctly presumes from his mannerisms that “only immaculate flesh [would] appease him” (Carter). In this context, immaculate means untouched, which refers to her virginity. The girl then threw her “scarlet shawl, the color of…

Hamlet is subversive at the beginning and middle of Shakespeare’s play because he pushes back on various intersectional forces, such as gender, class and religion. Although he is subversive for the majority of the play, he inevitably gives in to these intersectional forces and becomes subservient to them. Shakespeare shows us different characters such as Fortinbras and Laertes, who exemplify what the typical roles look like for their gender and social class. Observing these characters, we…

“Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples is about a man who struggles daily with stereotypes and misconceptions because he scares people based on his appearance. He gets his message to show by using an array of rhetorical devices throughout his essay to portray that prior knowledge of a group of people does not apply to every individual in said targeted group, or in simpler terms, to “not judge a book by its cover”. Staples uses the rhetorical devices ethos and pathos many places to amplify his…

Women’s roles in professional settings are very controversial. Should they be at home with their family, should they be working, or should they do both? In “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” by Sheryl Sandberg, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter, and “Why men still can’t have it all” by Richard Dormant they all show us their differing opinions on whether women can truly “have it all”, whether women are treated equal to men in the work world, and whether…