Feminist literary criticism

Irony is a fundamental part of Greek tragedies. This irony is created when the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not. Through this use of dramatic irony, the audience feels more engaged in the story, creating a feeling of suspense and foreshadowing later events. In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ use of irony does just that. Through the speech and actions of Oedipus, Iocastê, and others, Sophocles utilizes irony to allude to future events, create anticipation,…

Symbolism the Different Views When reading a book the author will use symbolism, it is up to the reader to decide what the symbol may mean. Although, the readers may read the book, the reader may not catch all the symbolism that the author can be portraying. We all have different interpretations to the objects that the author has presented us with. There are different interpretations that may be looked at in a deeper perspective, but yet we may find that the others interpretation may be similar…

they read a page in a book. They put the book down, look intently into your eyes, and say, “I have no idea what this means.” Fortunately, there are many things, like literary elements, to help you understand what the author means, if you study it carefully. For example, in “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, she uses an amalgamation of literary elements, such as symbolism, word choice, and figurative language, which eloquently describes the theme in this poem: Stereotypes should not rule your life. …

In “the death of the author” Barthes essentially gives power to the reader. It addresses the power of the author in reading and analyzing writing. It says that the reader has the option to cast off the background of the writer and focus more on his ideas. Volitair’s Candide and Tolkien's opposition to allegorical corresponds to "the death of the author". So what is "the death of the author"? To understand how Tolkien’s opposition to allegorical writing, one must fully understand the…

Response to the Introduction Memory, Symbol, and Pattern affect reading of literature by giving the reader a deep interpretation with more structure of a piece of literature. It also makes the reader associate more things in the piece of literature with his experiences or others types of literature. The Recognition of Pattern helps the reader to have a clearer understanding of the literature for the reason that it makes the reader to relate the patterns of the literature with patterns in real…

A text is an exemplification of humanity that may be used to provide the audience with an insight into the perplex nature of people and politics. Composers are consciously aware about the purpose of their text when the choose their textual forms, media of production and language choices. These factors are effective in influencing and shaping meaning in a text. The responder is situated to consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s play Henry IV: Part 1 and Steve Richards’ TED Talk, Art of Politics…

the world can label themselves as being a feminist. If I were to walk up to someone on the street and ask them if they were a feminist, I would either get a yes or no in response. For this reason, simply claiming to be a feminist holds nowhere near as much significance as to why one is a feminist. I myself am a feminist, and the reasons regarding why I allow myself to be considered a feminist is far more meaningful than the label of calling myself a feminist. Therefore, my definition of feminism…

needs to be broken down into a brief examination of why feminism is important for political science as a whole. The area of political science has been, compared to “other branches of social science, among the most resistant to feminist analysis” (Ritter and Mellow, 121). Feminist and gender studies have the ability to address current global politics as well as inform traditional theories that constitute the backbone of the discipline. As a result, the focus of gender in IR appears to be “toward…

They are, the functionalist theory, liberal, feminist, radical feminist, black feminist, and postmodern feminist theories. Each of these theories seeks to address the causes of gender inequality and mitigate it but they each go about it in a different way. Out of these theories the liberal feminist theory is most appealing. Although gender inequality has roots in the home through means such as strict patriarchies, this…

Agency and Empowerment through Sexuality: A Feminist Critique of Garbiel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez’s novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, tells the disjointed story of a murder that took place many years prior to its narration. The identity of the victim is Santiago Nasar; a handsome, wealthy, and young Arab man. He is murdered because a young woman names him as her partner when she is disgracefully returned to her parents’ home on her wedding…