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. ... Throughout When We Dead Awaken, Rich brings up several of many historical periods where women began to equal out male and female roles in society and in literature. ... From the poem, it is perceived that the man seems to resent having not followed his heart toward the woman he loved. The man is accepting of the fact that women can now make their own careers, and in this man, we see a beginning. ... Then goes on to say that, "there is also a ...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... Even while walking down to the road, under guard, to her tomb where she would be imprisoned, she openly proclaims, "O tomb, my bridal-bed-my house, my prison cut in the hollow rock, my everlasting watch! I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988) Under the worst circumsta...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It's as though just walking into that room will corrupt him and make him lose his innocence. ... On page 99 Effendi asks Majoub if he will be giving his daughter to Wad in marriage even though she doesn't want to and he says, "Women belong to men, and a man's a man even if he's decrepit." ... Apparently, a woman must take the proper time to prepare herself, to make herself attractive to a man. ... He enchants them with his outrageous stories of lions and elephants walking down the streets of the cities. "...when I'm lying on my bed at night I put my hand out ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Any woman noticed pushing the domestic convention of the period was harshly ridiculed and always reminded of her inferiority within the "man's world". ... A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi Lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face is a featureless, fine Jew linen ("Lady Lazarus" 4-9) She makes use of Nazi imagery when she explains her suicide attempts and subtly names her doctor as a Nazi. ... By writing this poem, Plath points out how her entire existence is controlled by a man. ... Each character within this story displays a varying amount ...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate