Adrienne Rich and her writing, When We Dead Awaken, argues that writing as a male does is no longer considered to be equal in literature anymore. ... (Rich 631) In the above passage, Rich expresses the point that there was a time when the female role did not include writing at all. ... (Rich 632) In this statement, we find that Rich's desire to have equal roles in society and especially literature is flawed. ... (Rich 629). ... (Rich 629). ...

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The Oppression and Progress of Women I agree with Adrienne Rich that every women needs to educate herself in what she needs to know to know for survival in the world. ... However, I feel times have changed in America since 1979 when Rich wrote this speech, and women are making great progress. ... Rich suggests "enforced ignorance has been a crucial key to women's powerlessness. I feel that Rich's anger toward men prevents her from seeing the role women play in their own ignorance. ... Although today, there are still women who choose to be mothers and housewives, and I f...

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The reason being that, many devices are used to bring forth the message that Rich has embedded within it. ... Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", depicts an audacious woman trapped within a timid and suppressed life. ... Adrienne Rich expresses some feminist concern in this poem. ... Adrienne Rich has done a wonderful job of incorporating the style of poetry into the central idea. ... Adrienne Rich embedded a broad message into this poem, making the task of focusing on a single aspect or technique difficult. ...

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(Gilmore 285) Gilmore's term may be apply to Adrienne Rich's essay "Women and Honor: Some notes on Lying" because it contains similar ideas about how women are expected to behave according to the society they live in. ... (Rich 421) Women are not fully dependent but do enough to provide the idea that their husbands/mates are successfully playing their roles as dominant males in society. ... In Rich's essay a similar idea is presented, she talks about how women must keep quite about issues such as beatings and rapes. ... (Rich 420). ... One of the main things they ...

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