Intersectionality

Feminist Analysis Women around the world have been suppressed continuously for their persona, intellect, color, and their gender. In several stories such as The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Story of an Hour, and The Awakening both by Kate Chopin all give the reader an illustration of how men practice patriarchal oppression towards women. The feminist movement in the mid 1800’s, where women strongly opposed a man’s mistreatment, created a movement to confirm a woman’s worth.…

William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

Comparing and Contrasting Elements in Poems Langston Hughes’s, “Harlem (or A Dream Deferred)” depicts what occurs when a dream is postponed over a long period of time. Maya Angelou’s, “Still I Rise” depicts the speaker’s resistance to those who try to oppress her. Incorporating both similes and metaphors, “Harlem” and “Still I Rise” are used to portray the different reactions of the speaker towards being oppressed, and the different kinds of oppression they face. Although both poems use similes…

The Ballad of General Fisheye, of the People’s Liberation Army Earl Lovelace’s, “The Dragon Can’t Dance” is the story of the people living in the town of Cavalry Hill, a slum in the Port of Spain. Oppression and poverty runs rampant throughout the city and plays a heavy role in the everyday life of most of its residents specifically, a man named Fisheye. Fisheye, the former leader of an anti-oppression group, portrays the oppressed citizen in that he both characterizes someone who is being…

The rights of women everywhere have been amazingly botched for as long as history books have written. Historically, if you are not a white male who doesn’t have any sort of disorder or disability you are going to flourish. Even nowadays, whether it is influenced by racism or sexism, this history still holds some truth. The Yellow Wallpaper is a good example of this. John, the narrator’s husband, is very controlling. While he does not go about it in a forceful or fiendish manner, the narrator has…

Women have assumed different roles throughout human history. In some societies, they have been subjugated, oppressed, and debased; in others, they have assumed roles of leadership and responsibility. In John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, the author gives female characters significant roles in an effort to demonstrate how powerful women can be. Clearly, Wyndham believes that women are strong, effective leaders, who have a positive impact on our world. One of the significant female characters is…

Underneath the color and beauty of flowers lurks a symbol that is representative of the abuse of the handmaids occurring in Gilead. The book The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood is a literary masterpiece containing a multitude of symbols concealed throughout the text, from the flowers to the clothes worn by the characters. These symbols are used to represent the purpose of the characters in Gilead, the setting of the book. The flowers are a symbol for the sole reproductive role of the handmaids…

A black woman in a white, male dominated society, Zora Neale Hurston had to struggle through a double barrier to achieve a voice others took for granted. As if in response to her social oppression, Hurston once wrote, “I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.” In a time in which it was socially acceptable to remain submissive to the “illusion” of identity that society offered, Hurston demonstrates…

Reflection Paper Introduction Within the American class system exist a system of oppression, in which power and privilege are concentrated among a dominant group with specific characteristics. In the Adams, Blumenfeld, Castaneda, Hackman, Peters, and Zuniga (2013) “Readings for diversity and social justice” text, they explain some of the dominant group characteristics to include being an “older, able able-bodied, heterosexual, white male” (p. 12). Throughout my academic experience in higher…

Imagine living in an environment where you have no human rights. An environment where the people of the shadows dictate your every action. You would be living your life without freedom. In the movie “the lives of others” the story being told is one of change and tragedy. The movie follows a man who is considered to be a watcher. This man goes from being stonecold to striving for his heart. Only after seeing the affects the satzi have on regular people is when this man is forever changed. He…