Patriarchy

In ‘An Unknown Girl’, Moniza Alvi uses the occasion of the speaker in the poem, who’s persumingly Alvi herself, getting her hands hennaed at an Indian Bazaar to explore the feelings that she has about her cultural identity. She seems torn between her western upbringing and a longing for her native continent. Much of the imagery in the poem, comes through her use of metaphors and symbolism which convey the richness of the Indian culture and her feelings about it. The act of hennaing the hands is…

The title, Sana Maabot ang Langit, in Velutha’s point of view, the Langit represents Ammu who is in the higher position in the caste system and Velutha, an untouchable can never reach her. Based on the novel, this is a book that is a letter to the powerless, whether it is women who are not allowed to follow the direction of their heart or men who suffered because they are from the wrong caste. Therefore the designed poster is a form of triangle that represents the caste system in India, and Ammu…

Women in Beowulf Compared To Other Heroic Narratives The women in Beowulf and other heroic narratives of other cultures were forced to take the background roles in the society because they were considered as weak and passive. The women in these epic stories were considered inferior to men and they were owned by their husbands once they got married. In the story of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Geoffrey Chaucer, the women took active roles than what was expected of them by the…

Victorian society was characterized by the strict norms imposed upon its populace. All were expected to adhere to their designated societal role – men the workers, women the caregivers. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen probes the problems of the roles assigned to women in a male-oriented society. For women, their sharply defined roles did not allow for individuality, forcing them to sacrifice their identity in order to fit into society. A Doll’s House assess the dichotomy between who women are…

“A Room of One's Own” by Virginia Woolf is a breakthrough of twentieth-century feminism. It displays the history of women in literature through a series of analysis in which Woolf stresses that social and material necessities are vital in order for women to survive in the world dominated by the patriarchal. As a modernist writer, Woolf in her essay innovatively depicts an account of a woman’s thinking about the history of women. Woolf’s narrative process of using fictitious character heightens…

Role of a woman in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve J.RANJITH KUMAR Assistant Professor Department of English Priyadarshini Engineering College Vaniyambadi, Vellore. Dt. E-mail: rnkumarenglish@gmail.com Abstract This paper highlights the Role of a woman in Indian context in the Hindu family circles. A girl after her maturity is getting married and goes to live with her husband. She is beard children; remain in the kitchen, and implicitly obey her partner. Kamala Markandaya works on the…

This novel challenges the modern standards of beauty and their inherent racism. This is a novel by Toni Morrison. The story rotates around Pecola. Pecola is a young girl from black the background. Author begins by mentioning the fact that Pecola ails from a dysfunctional family unit. A drunkard father and constant fights between the parents was the order of the day in her life. She is suffering from inferiority complex (Morrison 32). She believes that she is not very pretty and this could be…

Bharati Mukherjeeoccupies a very important place among the diasporic writers.The circumstances of her birth, upbringing, education in India, marriage to a North American and her education and career on the American continent are the indispensable contexts to understand her fiction. Sheis a prominent Indian American immigrant novelist. This paper aims to study how Bharati Mukherjee deals with a woman’s quest for identity in her novel Desirable Daughters.She presents the various circumstances in…

The Representation of Women in Katie Roche and Kathleen Ni Houlihan ‘There can be no free nation without free women’ (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) Discuss the representation of women in two plays on your course in relation to this statement. Women are represented in a poor manner in Katie Roche and Kathleen Ni Houlihan. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington states, “There can be no free nation without free women”. (Kiberd) This statement is true and it also has a relation to the two Irish plays Katie Roche…

In the post- independence period woman was struggling in patriarchal societal set up for her identity. In 1960, feminism rose against the colonial rule, patriarchal practices and traditions enhance the ideology of female subordination. Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit is a story of a woman Devayani who began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. She is shown recovering from the stage of catastrophe and mental dilemma through spiritual realization…