Susan Faludi

another? The world is very diverse in means of different habits, cultures and sex. This diversity is what sets each individual behavior apart from one another. However, does this mean that we are made to function according to the expectancy of society? In order for anyone to answer this question, it is essential to understand how the effects of the adopted set values play into our daily lives which can be seen in Susan Faludi’s essay “The Naked Citadel.” In “The Naked Citadel,” Faludi describe all the changes that occurred when they accidently admitted a female cadet into an all-male military institution. She also described the environment of the Citadel and noted the different changes that occurred in the…

These relationships determine whether people consider other people or objects as alive enough or not alive enough. At the Citadel, institutional ties bond the cadets as they receive the same education in the elite military college. For this reason, they are closer to one another, and therefore consider each other vital, alive enough, and treat each other with respect. Since women did not receive the same level of education, the cadets recognized them as "others." For example, in a bid to…

The limited freedom prevents an individual from gaining a true understanding of his or her desires, and forces an individual to live a split life. The cadets who came to The Citadel were essentially given a false freedom because the cadets were told they could act like a human at The Citadel, when in fact they were being forced to act masculine. The Citadel was recreated with the “mission…to reinvigorate the masculinity of the South by showing its men how to compete with the business and…

amazed by the other people around them, they will appreciate their actions, and attempt to copy it, hoping to be great as them. Davidson introduces the iPod experiment that demonstrates crowdsourcing to signify the importance of owning an individual identity. Her “experiment was an acknowledgement that the brain is, above all, interactive,that it selects, repeats, and mirrors, always, constantly, in complex interactions with the world”(55). Students learn from each other, and can be influenced…

In Susan Faludi’s article The Naked Citadel she explains that we are all unique but we also are not all that different from each other. We are easily noticed by our race, religion, sex and habits but at the end of the day we are all humans. I believe her thesis is explained when she states “What makes the schools Reconstruction-era mission important is that in so many ways it remains current; the masculine and industrial culture of our age and that of the conquered South may have more in common…

These men in these stories are described as someone the women need to be saved from. Captivity narratives are created after 9/11 to show how strong America is and how they are working to restore their security. The idea is to be able to conceal America’s vulnerability. Going back to olden day tradition of restoring their faith through heroic stories regardless of whether or not it is the truth, “we restored our faith in our own invincibility through fables of female peril and the rescue of ‘just…

Gender Differences in Trifles Susan Glaspell's play, "Trifles", attempts to define one of the main behavioral differences between man and woman. For most of the story, the two genders are not only geographically separated, but also separated in thought processes and motive, so that the reader might readily make comparisons between the two genders. Glaspell not only verbally acknowledges this behavioral difference in the play, but also demonstrates it through the characters'…

The short story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, is a story that is covered with the theme of feminism and written by Susan Glaspell. The idea of Glaspell’s story came from one of her earlier literary work, a one-act play entitled Trifles. This one-act play that she had written is also a product of one of Glaspell’s work, years before she wrote the play. This work is a news story that she covered while she was still a journalist. The news story was about a murder of a man named John which is the primary…

In the story “Recitatif”, Maggie is a kitchen woman and a target for abuse. Maggie attracts the ire of the residents on St. Bonny’s due to her being mute, bowlegged, and wearing a childish hat. With a passing glance, one would think that Maggie is simply a side character who plays very little role in the story as a whole, but this cannot be further from the truth. Maggie is absolutely central to the conflict of the story, and she has a profound effect on the actions of other characters within…

Susan Glaspell Wrote Trifles to open a controversial subject that was over looked by society during the 1900s; the repression of women, which is depicted throughout the play. Glaspell use of stereotypes, and symbols to distinguish the roles of genders during the period the play was written in. The female characters in the Trifles are the main victims to stereotypical implication of how society viewed women. The drama shows that women were seen as inferior and even a 2nd class citizens compared…