Here we see different types of writers give such incidents find effect ion in a lot of things in the writings “Mistress” of their views in a different manner. Here the concept of “free love” was therefore used by these feminists as a personal and individual response to the social and legal constraints that a conventional marriage laid upon them. By remaining free, they hoped to retain not only their independence but those rights that, in spite of some change in the law, they still lost on marriage, including rights over the detention of their children.
At the one level the women writing in India are a joyous retrieval of artifacts that signify women’s achievement. At another, they represent a difficult and inventive movement in the theory and practice of feminist criticism. We have reread established writers and are introducing several comparatively little known ones. They will be surprises even for, say Telugu readers in our collection of Telugu literature. In English translation, what we have is a stupendous body of new work. Judge by conventional standards, many of the pieces col...
Thus the text analysis will give instances where the portrayal of women is a reflection of the modern society which will be researched from a feminist point of view. To sum up, feminism plays an important role to uphold women’s right, and their status in a society. Furthermore, it is use to bid for human equality based on gender context. We can conclude that women now have the chance to decide on their
The influential roles of women in the story also have important effects on the whole poem. It is them that press the senses of love, family care, devotion, and other ethical attitudes on the progression of the story. In this poem the Poet has created a sort of “catalogue of women” in which he accurately creates and disting...
Federico García Lorca’s poem “La casada infiel” depicts the story of a gypsy who makes love to a married woman on the shore of a river. When looking deeper into the poem, Lorca appears to provide a critical observation on the values of the conservative society at the time in which he lived. The woman, at her most basic reading, is treated as an object, elaborating on the sexist values in society at the time. Lorca addresses issues of sexism as well as issues of sexuality within society mainly through the poem’s sexist narrative voice, objectification of the female character and overriding sense of a lack of desire throughout the poem. His achievement to do so will be analysed throughout this commentary with particular attention to Lorca’s use of poetic techniques such as diction, personification and imagery.
Women have been given by society certain set of duties, which although change through time, tend to stay relatively along the same lines of stereotypical women activities. In “A Doll House” and “Simply Maria” we see the perpetuation of these forms of behavior as an initial way of life for the two protagonists. Nonetheless; we see a progression towards liberation and self discovery towards the development as a human being by breaking the rules of society. Such attitudes soon find opposing forces. those forces will put to the test the tenacity of these women; and yield freedom and ownership for their lives which are owned by others at the start of their stories.
This essay will analyze the themes of sexual and class exploitations in the story “The Wife’s Resentment” by Delariviere Manley. By exploring these themes we are able to get an idea of why Manley wrote this story. That is, she hoped to make young women, whether rich or poor, aware of the value of their virtue as well as their rights as married or single women to protect that virtue or honor. By revealing the themes that are presented in the story, we can see what Manley stood for and why she wrote this story in the period she lived in.
In this paper, I will focus on literary criticism from Rula Quawas "A New Woman's Journey into Insanity: Descent and Return in" about education and economic independence. In addition, Asha Nadkarni "Reproducing Feminism in Jasmine and 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" offering their theoretical approach to understanding the content of "The Yellow Wallpaper." First, Quawas examines Gilman's work by touching basis on her feminist ideas such as her theory of economic independence. In addition, judges the character of Gilman's literary work as the way to understand the effect on women when they are not able to exercise their literary freedom and economic independence. To demonstrate the first point regarding, theory of economic independence, Quawas takes away from Gilman stating, "If woman is morally perfect, she should not confine her influence to home only, put
Secondly, the viewpoint of the victim illustrates the perceived despair and loneliness caused by the purposeful miscommunication between men and women. Lastly, when looking through the imagined perspective of the thoughtless male tricksters, the reader is shown the heartlessness of men. After this reader’s final consideration, the main theme in each of the presented poems is that both authors saw women as victims of a male-dominated society. Works Cited:..
...epicted in creative literature. In this sense, it would not be inappropriate and unjust to say that the concerns of Anita Nair and Jhumpa Lahiri are feminist. The above discussion with regards to their feminist concerns in the selected novels exemplifies a visible pattern of women’s ‘rising consciousnesses towards their selfhood. What make this over-all pattern interesting and challenging are the variations within the overall pattern. The variation emerges from the different kinds of repressive forces depicted, the protagonists’ individual methods of dealing with these forces and most interestingly, the authors’ different attitudes to the same complex problem of establishing female selfhood. It could then be derived that all the women characters of Anita Nair and Jhumpa Lahiri become the victims of patriarchy. The patriarchal constructs may be family or/and society.
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Doris Lessing is definitely one of the most instrumental women writers in the 20th century. In the year 1962, her chef-d'oeuvre The Golden Notebook was published. It is regarded as the companion volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. The novel soon becomes popular among the feminists because of its realistic description about women’s independence, consciousness and their living condition. This paper has been written with the aim to interpret The Golden Notebook from feminist perspective. Theme, structure, characters, narrative style of the novel serves well for feminist interpretation. The very structure of the novel makes the theme reach; it reflects not only the fragmentation of Anna’s inner world, but also the chaotic society she lives in. Doris Lessing employed woman as the first person narrator of the novel. She has certainly served as spokeswoman for women’s rights in her life and work. After women have gotten the license, tremendous phenomenon directly illustrate a series of problems in women’s political life. Compared to traditional women, the ‘Free Women’ of The Golden Notebook enjoys free professional life, but they don’t get deserved happiness although they walked out bravely from the kitchen. The relationship between women and children is also a big issue in the crusade of feminism. Feminism has successfully provided the equality of parental rights to women. But the right couldn’t produce harmonious relationship in the lack of ‘fathers’ protection’ between women and children. Lessing’s novel tells us that males are not the enemies of women but they are their collaborators.
Kamala Das has the distinction of being one of the best known Indian women writers in the twentieth century writing in two Indian languages, English and Malayalam. Mrs. Das is the author of many autobiographical works and novels in both languages, several highly regarded collections of poetry in English, numerous collections of short stories, as well as essays on a wide range of topics. Her work in English has been widely anthologized in the Indian subcontinent, Australia, and the West; and she has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985 and the nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1984. From the 1970s when her career was at its peak, to late 1990s, India –based, English -language literary critics have written extensively on Kamala Das. Yet, in this criticism all the non hetero normative protests and pleasures in My Story were straightened out. This state of affairs emerges in part because, as elsewhere, many India – based, English
It focuses on three women saint’s life, writing, and their voice for space in the society. The well-known three women Saiva saints are Karaikkal Ammair from Tamilnadu, Akkamahadevi from Karnataka and Lalladevi or Lalded from Kashmir. If the aim of the feminism is to establish equal social identity as well as an individual identity of women, then we have considered that the feminist voice was begun in Indian during medieval period. The three women raised their voice for their place in the sacred world. Before discussing women saint’s view on Identity in the society, there is a need to be known their
When I read this novel last year I passed the scene of Marilia nagging about adopting a girl at a glance . However, after spending few months in women's and gender studies master program, this scene was one of th...
Being a Feminist and having a Feminist point of view in observing every cultural, social and historical issue had been translated as having a feminine centered and anti-masculine perception. Unlike the general and common knowledge about feminism, it is not only an anti-masculine perception towards social and individual issues. Feminism according to Oxford dictionary is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes that more commonly known as the pursuit of equality for women’s rights. On the other hand, in studying literary books as it will be in this paper, the mentioned definition is not applicable. Therefore, in this paper Feminist criticism will be used in order to study some characters’ lives in “Like water for chocolate” and “Season of Migration to the north” novels. Feminist criticism according to Oxford dictionary is a type of literary theory that points out different genders, races, classes, religions that are depictured in literature and will be used in this paper.
Tribal literature represents a prevailing, emerging trend in the Indian literary scene. This literature is by nature oppositional because of its arching preoccupations with the location of Dalits in the caste-based Hindu society, and their struggles for self-esteem, justice and equality. Tribal literature is perched to obtain a national and an international occurrence as well as to pose a key challenge to the established ideas of what constitutes literature and how we read it. Mahasweta Devi’s writing offers insight, an asset of perceptive; amass of meaning and a base of discourse. Holding the writer’s hand, we can see an entirely diverse world, with her assistance we can seek to comprehend the potential of human accomplishment. Gloom, failure and discontent chiefly in the matter of human relationships do not, however, give rise to complete chaos and anarchy. We perceive the struggles of the protagonists, as gallant efforts that finally bring grandeur to the individual and add dignity to the courage of liberty.