Cisneros suppresses the milieu she witnesses as a child; therefore, when searching for her literary identity, she uses phantasies to channel those experiences onto Esperanza Cordero. ... Cisneros' search for her literary identity caused her phantasies to give birth to Esperanza. ... By using ink and paper as a form of sublimation, Cisneros was finally coming to terms with her "traumatic experiences" (Satz 3). However, Cisneros still lacked a literary voice so she turned to her phantasies for aid. ... For example, in a "Smart Cookie," Esperanza's mother says, "I could'v...

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In How to be Good, for example, he combines the obedient wife stereotype with the working woman stereotype in order to create his protagonist. ... In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. ... The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within...

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The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. ... A woman, deemed as a fallen one, showed signs of disregard of the set norms, expressed sexual aggressiveness, and ignored the need to be submissive to the men in her life (Gilmour 18).The theme of a fallen woman became a popular topic in literary circles during this age. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" gives an honest account of ...

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