contrasted. “Modern Fiction” and “A Room for One’s Own” are regarded as modernists texts and share feminist themes but differ in terms of focus. Despite feminism already being present in English literature at the time these works were published, Woolf displays her modernist qualities by discussing feminism in an original manner. Her approach to feminism in these two works are critical in regards to the treatment of women writers. In “Modern Fiction”, Woolf shares her thoughts on writers from older generations
exhibited by Elizabeth I and the discomfort her independence brought to Elizabethan men. Desdemona shows her absolute faithfulness to Othello by following him to Cyprus. This results in the estrangement from her father, Barbantio, who she claims to be “bound for life” to, which signifies the notion women are property to men (I.III.180). Desdemona “insists her marriage fulfills her duty to turn from father to husband” customary of the Elizabethan Era (Bartels 424). These patriarchal ideas about women
the Saxons. With regards to this, three authors emphasize their versions of Robin Hood. In the book, “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, Howard Pyle discusses themes such as, brotherhood, corruption and love. In the movie, “The Adventures of Robin Hood” directed by Michael Curtiz and William
Awakening: Gender Roles and Societal Limits Kate Chopin devoted herself and her writings to challenge the given female role in society during her time, to express a woman’s distinct identity apart from her husband, and to render a pure female experience. She once wrote, “The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.” The Awakening thoroughly described the liberation of the female protagonist and her gender role in society. The heroine of this novel experienced
utopia, where everyone is a saint and a good samaritan. This puritanic code and rigid way of life bears no room for anything less than perfect moral behavior, this type of strictness inevitably
“The Lord gave you what you have, even if He did use the devil to do it; you let Him take it away from you if it’s His will to do so” (203) said the drug-store owner, Moseley, to pregnant seventeen-year-old Dewey Dell Bundren in William Faulkner’s stream-of-consciousness novel As I Lay Dying. This Depression Era work of fiction analyzed many social issues of the Southern times from the curiosity of souls – “My mother is a fish” (84) – to faithlessness in marriage to disassociating with the mentally
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” – Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca. Introduction Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca opens with the flashback of a young woman, referred to as The Second Mrs. De Winter reminiscing about her times spent at Manderly, a beautiful yet dark countryside in England. The plot focuses on three female characters: The Second Mrs. De Winter
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin