The Housemaid

Slavery In America The forced movement of people to the establishment of European settlements in North America were crucial to how America was formed and how it functions to this day. African and Native American slaves had a crucial role in the movement of people to North America from approximately the year 1502. They had a major influence on America's economic and social systems and contributed involuntarily to the building wealth of America and England and yet saw nothing of their wealth.…

Stories in literature are written and structured in a form that makes the reader think and ask themselves question. Questions about each character within the story and about it’s plot. Another thing is that reading the story more than once helps the reader get a better understanding about what the author’s underlying meaning of the story is. While reading the literate short stories, “Once upon a Time”, “Everyday Use”, “The Lottery”, you realize that there is irony within the titles.…

In the works Women Work, A Jury of Her Peers, and A Work of Artifice the authors portray a negative image of women to society. All of these works talk about some way women are less than men but mainly they talk about their domestic work around the house. Women are portrayed in these works to only have to worry about working in the house and that, which is all they are good for. Domestic work around the house is a theme in all of these stories made to show how society perceives women and show how…

Marcelo Pedroso’s Pacific (2009) also plays with this tension by handing the camera over to a rather different kind of other: the passengers of a cruise ship who are on holiday, en route to Fernando de Noronha, the Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Pernambuco. Its premise is rather different from that of O prisioneiro. During a one-week cruise, Pedroso and his crew identify passengers traveling on the cruise ship “Pacific” who video record their experiences; upon returning to Recife, they…

Throughout 17th century Holland, many people of the lower class sacrificed their life to improve the life of others important to them. People of the higher class didn’t realize the struggles some people and families went through to survive each day. Each character suffers to a certain extent throughout the duration of the book. The author, Tracy Chevalier, captures the differences and difficulties the separate social classes run into. Chevalier also captures the adaptation that the maids have to…

historical social demands. “The assumption was that breadwinners (presumed men) had caretakers (women, of course) holding down the home front”. In this quote we see that past social conditions that required the male as the worker and the female has the housemaid now does not correlate with modern requirements. Due to these gender establishments when women are given an opportunity to become independent they are given gender roadblocks that prevent them from being socially…

A Time of Rebellion The 1830’s through 1861 was a time of rebellion and progress. When Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical mower it increased the efficiency of wheat farming. The Market Revolution brought railways, new farming systems and an increased need for labor. Wheat farming, cotton trading, and industrial factories were expanding. Slaves did more work than ever before and rights of people were ignored. African American were slaves for too long and were finally getting sick of working…

The movie begins by following the main character Vera Drake through her daily routine. Vera is a housemaid for several different families who are well off as well as a wonderful housewife who enjoys doing what she does. Vera is the type of person who loves to make everyone happy and is always looking out for everyone but herself first. The movie then…

The mark of a good tragedy is in its ability to capture an audience and in turn generate a deep emotional response. In the play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the audience is confronted with the Salem witch trails and the resulting hysteria and destruction surrounding the historical event. Written in comparison to the chaotic McCarthy era, the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts begin to point fingers and blame each other of witchcraft for their own gain and personal vendettas. Because it…

During the Victorian period in England, the evangelical movement present led to an incline in the worshiping of God as a guiding figure and impacted the spread of the feminism that subsequently led to an increase in woman’s spirituality and desire for independence. The feminist ideals portrayed by women in England came about by the first wave feminism in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Emily Griesinger describes God as the apparent figure for the strengthening of feminism in her work,…