William Dean Howells’ “Editha” features a woman of the same name who reads romantic novels and parrots what she reads from newspapers. Her fiancé Gearson is a pacifist, but she convinces him to join the army and fight in the war. He dies in battle, and Editha mourns this loss; however, she never comprehends her role in his death. “The Yellow Wall-paper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is told by journal entries of a nameless woman. The narrator suffers from postpartum depression and is isolated
that “... marriage could only be dissolved only if it had not produced a son”(61). Clearly Medea fulfilled that criteria and hence Jason’s actions could also be deemed as illegal to some extent. Further in the text, it mentions that “marriage and motherhood were considered the primary goals of every female citizen”(62) and “The birth of a child, especially a son, was considered a fulfillment of the goal of the marriage”(64). This portrays Medea as a perfect wife who has fulfilled everything that was
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