Women's writing in English

I have a passion for people and writing which lead me here. Communication is all about learning interactions with people and with outside forces. I am fascinated with this ever since I took a Communication class at LCC. I also decided on PR because of my love for writing. I have always been an English buff and writing has always come so easily to me. I thought this was a great minor because it will challenge me. This will force me out of using fluff in my writing and being clear and concise when…

Henrietta Dugdale was a radical and innovative advocate of women's rights (suffragette) . She initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia. She was devoted to the feminist cause, and fought tirelessly for women to achieve equal social, legal and political privileges with men. She thought that progress of Australia as a democratic country was only achievable through reason and the co-operation and equality of both genders, and partly due to her relentless campaigning, lived to see…

Derrick Obodai English 2120 Assignment#2 revision December 15, 2015 The Role of Women in Utopia. It can be assumed that most utopia are written as to some extent a form of critical commentary on the authors own society. In many ways the author is a product of his or her own society and therefore his or her work contains predispositions and biases entrenched in him by cultural context. In Utopia, Thomas more emphasis about the role of women based on his own views on society. More, assigns to…

Chaucer’s Agenda (An analysis of Chaucer’s iconoclastic attack on institutions in 1300 BCE) “To our understanding of that complex series of religious and secular events still generally known as ‘the English Reformation’ (Whiting). Indeed, Chaucer wrote some very controversial tales about many radical pilgrims of his day, and for the first time brought skepticism into the minds of the commoner. Do you believe that Chaucer had an agenda, an intention to his satirical outlash? For he did attack…

economically, or politically. While many women spoke out against the sexism and overpowering religious control that was ravaging societies, three women from this colonial time could be considered the most important or most influential symbol for women’s rights and religious freedom. They were Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Anne Hutchinson. Anne Bradstreet was a well-known poet who wrote about the life of a woman in seventeenth-century New England, mostly communicated through her poems.…

Jane Austen, an intelligent, mellow, and sarcastic woman who was an artist by illustration is one of the most captivating human beings. Her writings appeal to anyone and everyone. Be it gentleman or lady; her genre is truly peculiar. Austen’s criticism of society’s inequality and superficiality grasps a variety of different readers attention because her writing is relevant to humanity as a whole. She wrote her stories in a way that pleases critics and common readers. Furthermore, Austen…

great writers lived during the Middle Ages, but one stands out as the greatest English writers of the time period. Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the greatest English writers of the Middle Ages, and evidence is clearly seen in the General Prologue, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” and “The Pardoner’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales. English was the vernacular language of 14th century England, and Chaucer had a wider influence by writing in a language that was more commonly understood by the common people.…

significance of writing in life It was a dull gray morning with the sky filled with dark, crimson and amber-tinted clouds. I stepped down from my school bus and slowly walked towards my school with my friends clinging to each other and expressing our anxiety as today we will receive our half-yearly exam papers that we just did last week. I walked down the hallway with apprehension flowing down my throat. I went to my classroom and sat down with my friends. My classroom teacher also my English…

The Representations of Rape Victims in Select Indian Women Writings Mrs. Roopna Ravindran Lecturer in English GDC Shadnagar Mahabubnagar District Telangana 9160108844 Abstract Women face violence in the patriarchal Indian society in many forms. The most upsetting form is sexual assaults and rape. Violence against women is a major answerable issue that negatively affects empowerment of women. The paper aims to bring out the power structures prevalent in the patriarchal Indian society. The…

It is imperative to understand the degree of the mistreatment of women to acknowledge literature of the debilitation of female characters in Wuthering Heights and The Rainbow (Juan 25). Women’s rights scarcely existed and despite those men guaranteed to treat them with “substance and liberality” (Juan 25-26), they were rejected from any domestic authority. In Wuthering Heights, the female characters are influential and determined. They…