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Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar is a tale of self liberation, a transformation- from Pooro to Hamida, from a simple, innocent girl to a matured, experienced woman who is bold enough to negate the hateful game of religion. Set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of the partition of India, Pinjar aims at presenting the struggling miseries of the Indian women in the whirl of cultural and religious differences. Originally written in Punjabi by Amrita Pritam, recipient of Jnanpith…

Feminist is what the character Hester Prynne represents in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To be feminist is a woman who is independent, strong and who is self determined. A person who doesn’t count on anybody else but themselves and that moment when they do show hopelessness to somebody that somebody will have a strong connection with the feminist. A woman who even in their darkest moments can pull through to see the bigger outcome of the problem. For example, Hester Prynne…

In the book “Victorian Transformations: Fairy Tales, Adolescence and the novel of female development” several critics have seen Jane Eyre as a rewriting story of the Cinderella and the beginning of the book especially supports this view. To begin with, Robert K. Martin believes that the Cinderella’s theme is especially apparent in the first chapters of the novel, "as Jane Eyre emphasizes her own position as abandoned child, with evil aunt and two [sic] evil cousins, whose parentage is…

Women in the Iliad Throughout “The Iliad” many women figures were written in the text to explain their roles. The women could have been seen as a non important figure. The women such as Helen, Briseis, Andromache, Athena, and many more, are picked up throughout the story helping the men and starting the battles between them. Men were mostly the main characters in the stories, but the women portray it with them helping men, the ones’ who started the battles between one another, and how women…

Two women facing social injustice From women being forced to marry at the age of 12 to not being able to receive education, women face many troubling social injustices throughout the world in a variety of ways. To further educate myself on troublesome social injustices I read two books: I am Nujood age 10 and divorced and I am Malala. Both books represent the troubling realities of two women and how they fought to make their circumstances better. The first book I read: I am Nujood…

not provide much content for their characters because of their high moral character and objectivity. Their role in the War, if not carer or lover, is to entertain, not to fight. The look with Vietnamese women is no different, they are also seen as female prostitutes, men's fun as in the Full Metal Jacket, Good Morning Vietnam. Because of the historical contexts of the wars that have arisen in the…

Part Four The Two Characters Respectively Reflect Feminist Differences Between the East and the West Chinese and western people, due to social, historical, cultural and many other factors, thinking and ideas are very different. But the pursuit of a better life and the pursuit of the interests of reality are the common feelings of mankind. Therefore, in Pride and Prejudice and A Dream of Red Mansions, we can see the similar personality charm of Darcy and Jia Baoyu though they have…

1.0 FAVOURITE BRAND 1.1 Introduction Nowadays, there are many cosmetics brand that place their product in market and keeping growth days to days in order continuously get attention from the eye of customers towards their brand especially women. But, cosmetics are not easy product to sell because it is a product that no one really need. So, it is important to know the nature of the product and understand why women purchase cosmetics. For me, why women would spend money on cosmetics because most…

In society there are people have different views on other people, objects, and ideas. When people have other views on other people that could do with other genders, generally views are different depending on the person. An example of this is men having different views on women. Two pieces that portray different views of women, are Looking at Women written by Scott Russell Sanders and Saudis in Bikinis written by Nicholas D. Kristof. Their views are based off of their credibility and the types…

(For someone who cares. The untold story of a teenage girl.) I have never seen a more corrupt place than this. I have never seen the power of a community grow eminently. I have never seen a devotion for someone so compelling. But more importantly, I have never seen a battle worth fighting for until today. One always says to keep patience, yet some say do not wait for closure. It is amusing to perceive all the secrets behind a door, but not reveal them all at once. I thought I was brought into…