Little Women

The women close to her did not benefit her in looking past these tragedies, nothing but the escape to writing (Seyersted 21). At an even younger age, Chopin saw the male dominancy in her father when she was sent to boarding school. Her mother Eliza, was known to be a strong woman as Toth mentions, “Her mother might have reminded Eliza that no matter how humiliated or betrayed she might feel, Thomas O’Flaherty was an excellent provider” (8). With O’Flaherty being an effective man to provide the…

Women have often been included in paintings and art even back to the Native Americans. Women within pieces of art typically portrayed the role of women during that time or culture. As the time in which a piece was created changed, the depicted role of women also adjusted. Additionally, the role of women varied between different cultures. However, the general ideas represented by the female form in artwork were motherhood, beauty, and the obligation to care for the home. One of the ways in…

thousands of women and girls may have never had the opportunity to have an education without her. In a world absent of Sor Juana, this research paper may have never been written at all, on the basis of the author’s sex. Her experience with same-sex relationships, her feminist ideals, and her will for learning contribute to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s defiant nature, which shines through her writings. To start, the experience and support that Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz had with…

In “Three Girls,” Oates uses the two NYU girl poets and Marilyn Monroe to display issues of society’s view of women during the 1950’s. The reader will be introduced to two girl poets in Strand Used Books, searching for their desired book as they routinely do. Both girl poets will later find themselves witnessing Marilyn Monroe in disguise. The reader may be led to interpret that this could have been Marilyn Monroe’s truest self and not what she was popularized for in media. The three girls…

“Well-behaved women seldom make history” are you agree or disagree? Throughout the recorded history the condition of women has been a constant fee. Whether it a social status, economic state, political position, or intellectual freedom. Women have always tipped-off to address this issues to find the solution and change the history. But there are women who risk their own lives and fought for the ideas that today most of us recognized as universal and whether we realize or not and one way or…

by a woman, urges other women to not stand by when difficult situations arise, but to have the strength to overcome those situations. This strength is hard to find, especially in a male-dominated world such as the setting in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting takes place in the early 1930s. Common knowledge reveals that the further back one goes in history, the less and less rights women have. During the 1930s time period, women were seen as second best compared to men. Women were to act as…

instructed to act out their responses. They begin to run furiously in place, some even taking the liberty to bolt around the studio. They start to punch the air intensely, determined to beat their imaginary opponent, not realizing they were defeating women 's suffocating stereotypes. They continue to throw the hypothetical ball far off into the distance, smiling proudly at this imagined…

this rhetoric in the form of a visual is beneficial in making this piece effective by creating the feeling of validity amongst viewers. Seeing real girls respond to these questions and take part in this social experiment adds to the emotional appeal. Women who are watching this may be able to directly relate to the scenario, whether they were an uninhibited young girl themselves or they are now subconsciously lacking the confidence they know they once had. Any connection a viewer may make with…

change. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin provided a brief look into how repressive marriage was during the 19th century. Examining the rights of married women in the 19th century, one would agree that the marriage benefited only the husband. Kate Chopin’s work was published during a time of industrial and social change. Many married women were not confined to just…

by the time that Curley's wife hurried back home from the barn, where she had a secret rendezvous with Slim, the sun was fading over the horizon, painting the windows of the big old house and the clouds above it, in ominously fierce crimson colors. At the moment, there was hardly any movement in the air, but bright-red low clouds in the darkening sky foretold the upcoming day’s wind and calamity as clearly, as if they were announcing the weather out loud. Despite the evening hours, the…