THE ROLE OF WOMEN AS DEPICTED IN A SELECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD Any time I think of Modernism, the names of some of the greatest writers belonging to the literary panorama of the movement come to my mind. Names such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce or W. B. Yeats are indispensable when talking about the movement that is often thought of in terms of experimentation with literary form and expression. Modernism was driven by its desire to go against tradition and by its
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After the dictatorial rule of General Yahya, elections were held in Pakistan on March 7,1977. The Pakistan People’s Party won the elections but incriminated by their opposition of rigging elections. In reaction to protests, an agreement was made between Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto government and Alliance but it could not be enforced. Before the newly announced election, the chief of army staff General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq imposed martial law in country. In 1979, General Zia disqualified certain political
‘Women Empowerment’ denotes a situation when women become free of the all the kinds of dependency and deprivations whether social or economic. It is related to overall development of women right from having an economically independent and self reliant status to an active participant in socio-political developments. ‘Women empowerment’ involves various facets of development in the form of social, educational, occupational, political, religious freedom. The idea of Women’s Empowerment has gained
novel perfectly paints the unfair picture of the lives of the black community under a time of the white colonial rule as well as the oppression of women. The dates in the novel indicate a bitter time period of white hostility to black liberation. Patriarchy is one of the most important themes in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novels and the focus will be on discussing how one male and one female character attempts to deal with
There was also a time when it was a sin to hold a pen for women. Writing was thought to be a male bastion only. Woman was the queen of her four walls and a roof under which she could do anything feminine but not writing that was only a masculine task. Mary Shelley’s most popular science fiction Frankenstein was first published anonymously. Mary Ann Evans used the pseudonym George Eliot to write her novels. Robert Southy had told Charlotte Bronte that “literature cannot be the business of women’s
were “sleeping with the enemy” and fuelling a patriarchal system to further strengthen male supremacy. Political lesbianism showed society that women from different backgrounds and that do not fit the stereotypical lesbian labels can rebel against patriarchy and male dominance by either “boycotting” men or being with another woman, and so it helped to “de-stigmatised lesbianism” by expanding the narratives surrounding lesbianism and the motives for being anything other than
Patriarchal oppression is one of the major themes in Dangarembga’s Nervous conditions. According to Dambe 2014, patriarchy refers to a system of practices and structures in which men have more power than women and are able to use their power to dominate and oppress women. It is this patriarchal distribution of power that puts women in all kinds of dilemmas in the novel. One of weapon men use to oppress women is “silence and obedience’. Silence and obedience are considered as important values in Shona
People are living their lives day in and day out stuck in an economic and sometimes socially draining rut. In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the upper class white men, also referred to as the bourgeoisie, are completely in control of everyone below them. These smaller roles, which are comprised of the “wage-earners” who are referred to as the proletariat, are then forced to accept the unfair conditions given to them because of their gender or socioeconomic status. Throughout his
Marilynn S. Johnson’s Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre is a poignant depiction of the kind of violence that occurred in the West in the early days of the American settlement. Instances of gender-based violence on the basis of perceived gender roles are also captured in the book. Gender role is a set of societal expectations that reads out how an individual of a gender should think, behave and feel. Significantly, there is close interlinking among gender roles