displayed demeaning behaviour towards women making them prime examples of the treatment women received at that time. Moreover, Charlotte Lucas exhibited a female’s desperation for marriage to assure a secure future. Jane Austen skilfully used her literature, not only to entertain, but
they are best represented through their movements to gain women’s rights as well as through literature. They are represented as living meaningless lives while men play an active role in society. The women represented in Tartuffe are shown as being strong characters each displaying different characteristics of feminism. As depicted by Moliere and Isben both depict women playing active roles in literature, in a male driven era. One of the outspoken protagonist character’s in Tartuffe, is Dorine,
male, Daphne Du Maurier employs the psychoanalysis in Rebecca in order to emphasize on how the patriarchal society suppresses the women. Du Maurier grew up during a period of time where feminism was at its pinnacle and Freudian psychoanalysis had started to become consistently portrayed through film and literature. Her creation of all female characters, specifically, their struggle to gain a sense of identity, seems to be deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic view. Twisted around the idea of the
the boldest and most critiqued female writers of the nineteenth century, most likely due to her erotic themes of sexuality and independence amongst women. She was acclaimed for both her literary naturalism and feminism, both of which she makes apparent throughout the majority of her literature (Roth, 208). Her writing challenged the traditional roles society put into place for women, which brought along a lot of negative criticism, especially for her novel The Awakening. The Lewis Daily Globe Democrat
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