The Plight

Les Belles Soeurs, by Michel Tremblay is a play written in 1965 that addresses the issue of women socio economic constraints due to their language, greed and jealousy towards each other. The play is based on women working class struggles and the need to get wealth at any cost possible. Did you ever think of winning big? Well Germaine Lauzon a middle aged housewife in her forties certainly has and have boasted proudly about her winnings. She is a working class woman that is accustomed to a life…

practice outside of the watchful gaze of the United States, Diem assumed absolute power, and relied solely on his family for advice. Subsequently, the inattention that Diem paid to the needs of his people, and the ruthless suppression he had placed on the dissents, provoked a minor rebellion, that would later lead to his downfall as the land-reform program was so poorly conceived that it implemented a strong dislike for Diem in the minds of the South Vietnamese peasant-classes, as it brought…

this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.” In his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses the universality of the Bible to make the account of the migrant’s plight applicable and understandable to all readers. By using Biblical references, Steinbeck is able to put the major themes and motifs of his novel into a framework to which all can relate. Steinbeck uses allusions* to the following: biblical…

from the feminist movement. Early feminism was exclusive because it wasn’t very appealing to minority women. The uniting force for women that Beauvoir pointed out as essential for the feminist movement was The Feminine Mystique a book about the plight of white middle class women. I think it is ignorant to claim that these early feminist were horrible racists or didn’t care for the problems of other women. It’s not that they didn’t care more than anything they didn’t know about the problems…

saving the lives of others. Tarrou combats the plague by searching for a path to his self-proclaimed sainthood. Father Paneloux combats the plague by accepting it as an ultimate test of faith given to the townspeople by providence. By depicting the plight of different characters in combatting the plague, Camus defines the Absurd as an inevitable reality of the human condition and describes the importance of finding one’s own meaning in the face of an indifferent…

uses the metanarrative of the song within the poem, which adds depth to the narrative and places a great importance on self-worth and finding your ‘place’ in the world. The entirety of the song describes, in a metaphorical and symbolic sense, the plight of the African-American people living in the U.S in the 1920s. Additionally, Eliot’s religious allegory The Journey of the Magi, is brimming with biblical references. Judas’ betrayal and the thirty pieces of “silver”, “the feet kicking” is a…

multitude of aspects; perhaps none more so than in the areas of mental health and familial relations. Women were subjugated to the desires and authority of the male patriarchy in all areas of life. Literature of the time often failed to focus on the plight of women and ignored the unique voice they brought to literary landscape. One author in particular broke through the male dominated publishing industry and shared a tale of a terrifying descent into the mad recesses of the mind though the…

The Spear-Danes pride themselves on glory and honor in both life and death. The pagan belief in medieval Scandinavia emphasized a natural, earthly life that seemingly urged women, and specifically in the case of Beowulf, men to fulfil their worldly duties. In achieving earthly honor these warriors were eternalized through great stories and song, thus, never really dying. Beowulf portrays Heorot, a grandeur hall in which the Spear-Danes gather, eat, drink mead and reminisce about battles which…

During the nineteenth century, many novelists and poets published literary pieces that disparaged Southern chattel slavery. Artists and intellectuals from disparate economic, societal, and educational backgrounds wrote of the destructive, dehumanizing, and unethical nature of slavery in the southern states. Frederick Douglass and Lydia Sigourney were advocates for the abolition of slavery, but had different views about how the country should go about dismantling the oppressive system. The social…

Is Medea a feminist hero, or a sexist construct of a male playwright? Contention: Medea is neither a feminist hero nor a sexist construct of a male playwright. While it is possible to interpret her revenge as a representation of female equality (especially in relation to power, influence etc), essentially her revenge is just that; a personal vengeance and not a championing of an ideological cause. Thus, these two are misreadings as in they overlook the fact that Medea 's gender disadvantage is…