This Charming Man

ultimately Strindberg humiliates women that attempt to transcend their conventional gender norms through Julie. The interactions between Miss Julie, a high class female and Jean, her poor male servant embody the author´s internal ideas on the matter. This depiction of power battles reflect Strindberg's beliefs of social order. Misogyny is an evident concept put forward by Strindberg and displayed through Jean. In contrast, Julie…

make. The same happened to Ms. Maudie with the man who cursed her and her beloved flowers to hell just because from his point of view, a widow like her should not be having any sort of recreation. Even Atticus, who appeared to be perfectly sensible and impartial all the time, made this comment on the matter of women serving in jury, “I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried - the ladies'd be interrupting the questions.” Though he claimed this was for the protection of the “frail ladies”…

herself from her husband and her children when she finally finds herself as an individual. Throughout the play Nora Helmer’s character presents an inauthentic identity to the audience and throughout the play she attempts to discover her true identity. In this essay I will look into Nora’s struggle to discover her authentic identity with a glimpse of her transformation from an obedient wife to a confident woman seeking…

She is at confusion with the idea of morality and her natural drives. Her false notions of sexuality sprang up mostly from the illogical advices of her mother. As Esther says “My mother had always told me never under any circumstances to go with a man to…

In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy outlines a gray desolate story about and man and his son travelling a road riddled with macabre obstacles to reach the Southern Coast. The man and the boy begin travelling because it will soon be winter, and winter will be especially inclement, the world is covered in ash, which creates a dark blanket over the Earth. For, before the birth of the boy a never identified catastrophe ravaged the earth with fire, leaving few…

for her sweet guilelessness she would be positively stupid.” This seems to be a very common way to think about all women, which is sexist. Loretta also displays characteristics that…

No man feels left out in the test of masculinity. The play, The Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman have their male characters’ different perspectives on masculinity yet the same goal on proving they are masculine. Despite all the characters’ differences, they all want to fit into this idea of themselves being masculine to the point of incorporating it into their actions, words, achievements, goals, and frustration. Male characters like Mitch…

Literary Analysis of Iliad Who owns you? The self-determination of women has transformed over time. In many parts of today’s world, women are treated as equals to men, but in Homer’s Iliad this is not the case. Women in Iliad are portrayed in many ways, but none of them can choose their destiny. Woman such as Chryseis are treated as property or prizes, Helen who is a beauty is blamed for the Trojan War, whereas Andromache is shown as a dutiful wife who is respected by her husband. In the…

In “The Laugh of the Medusa” French feminist Hélène Cixous writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual…

One very noticeable fact is that these rules and values of gender stereotypes have changed over the years. This may be seen when one compares past societies to today’s. The idea of women being the weaker sex has emerged from the past, and may still be seen in today’s society, however, on a smaller scale. Therefore, one may argue that traditional gender roles are slowly undergoing change. This has resulted in a number of outcomes for both genders, including freedom of speech, equality of…