1. Literature presents insights into many aspects of life but is also a conveyor of values, naturalising certain ways of understanding ourselves and the world. This is especially true of "The Whole Town's Sleeping" by Ray Bradbury. Built on the dominant ideologies of the time, the text through its r...
Throughout the play, Heidi is revealed as a woman concerned about the discrimination suffered by women along history, and she, together with her friend Susan, is determined to fight in order to revert their social situation. ... However, Heidi is reprimanded by her friend Susan who tells her that she is supposed to be interested in boys. In addition, when she meets Scoop three years later, he tells her that "(she) will be one of those true believers who didn't understand it was all just a phase- (172), meaning that she will keep on believing that her position is the only one valid, and co...
" (Gilgamesh 76) Upon refusal, the power of this feminine God is seen, for she causes the death of Gilgamesh's only friend on Earth, Enkidu, putting women in the front seat for one of the few times during the story. ... Men are continually portrayed as rough, thoughtless, and often cruel beings in this setting, with only the women to show them the true path of organized civilization and more examples support this fact the deeper one reads into iit. ...
Edna presents some sketches to her friend, Madame Ratignolle, claiming that she "ought to work again" because she, "[feels] as if [she] wanted to do something" (59). ... Edna's discovery of her own latent sexuality and fortitude is necessarily accompanied by the first materialization of her true personality. ...
When Desdemona defends her friend and fellow woman, Iago responds, "Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,/Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,/Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,/Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds" (2.1.109). ... This leads us to Cohen's third thesis of category crisis, "[Desdemona's] refusal to participate in the classificatory 'order of things' is true of monsters generally: they are disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any ...
"So Long a Letter," was a story written in the form of a letter, that discussed the trails and tribulations that Ramatoulaye and her friend Assioute encountered after their husband wedded for a second time. ... On the other hand Ramatoulaye decided to stay with her husband of 25 years, and stay true to Islamic religious beliefs of marriage, after her husband abounded her and her 12 kids for a younger wife. ...
This quote, said by Suhlamith Firestone, is very true in regards to the women's liberation movement and abortion. ... For example, she describes how her "friend's abortion had been a safe, positive and educational experience", and was the reason she joined Jane in 1971(Kaplan 479). ...
