Cleopatra VII used her charm, wisdom and sexuality to rule and increase her kingdom through the help of men who were medley in love with her. She had a power over men which she used to her own advantage ,,It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many things, she could pass from one language to another,,. (What kind of women p.5). Sources have the same opinion to the fact that Cleopatra’s charm was outstanding and her presence astonishing. (bibliography p3) She also knew how to look her best and even wrote a book about cosmetics.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER Agrippina’s powerful family lineage allowed her to excel beyond the role of women in Roman society and become successful in the terms of wealth and power. Agrippina’s achievements include the marrying Claudius, successfully removing others, ascension of Nero, and having honors and powers given beyond other women of Rome. It is difficult to assess the extent of Agrippina’s achievements because of the gender bias that derives from the Ancient sources Dio Cassius, Suetonius and Tacitus and the re-assessment from modern sources such as Susan Wood and Anthony Barrett. The first successful achievement for Agrippina was her marriage to the Emperor Claudius. In AD 39, Agrippina was exiled because she was accused of aligning with others in order to overthrow her brother, Gaius Caesar.
The close up on Susan Sarandon’s face is used to show how beautiful she is because she uses REVLON. By using her beauty it gives the product credibility and it manipulates people because a famous person is being used and one immediately assumes that the product must be good. Furthermore, alliteration is used. Susan Sarandon’s initials match the initials of the title “Star Style” people will be more compelled to buy the product because she uses it and especially because the words confident and charismatic are used to describe her, again alliteration is shown. The REVLON advertisement use of rhetoric appeals to those who know who Sandra is and like
As her reign continued, this gradually evolved into a more and more masculine depiction eaccording to the French scholar Tefrin. This may have been to prepare the way for the continuance of matriarchal rule, with her daughter Neferure as her successor. This idea is further illustrated in her portraits as her statutes use to show her as an elegant female figure with the pharaoh headdress but later on, she is depicted a male, warrior pharaoh. This was to make her look more powerful. Hatshepsut was always seen weak; but did have some military expedition.
Although Helen was the most beautiful woman in the world, she was manipulated and deemed secondary to her male counterparts. Helen can be looked at as a woman who had no say so in how she wanted to run her life and was manipulated throughout the years. In the Iliad the Greek Goddess Aphrodite played the key role in controlling Helen. Helen was taken from her husband Meneleus and could not return. Aphrodite being the goddess of love was the one who took Helen from him, and forced her to stay with Paris of Troy, which sparked the Trojan War.
She is the iconic womanly figure of what woman strive to be and she embodies the vision of earthly love. Modern day marketing companies use her name on products, in an effort to project an air of seduction, beauty and allure. In relation to Landau’s book, I personally asked plenty of my male friends for statistical research off course, asking what they think the best feature of a woman is. Not surprisingly, most men stated that one of the best features of a woman are
Martha is extremely intelligent, graduating from Barnard College here in New York City with a double major in History and Architectural History, and Athena was considered high intelligent and very quick-witted. Athena didn’t have many weaknesses but in the story of her and Arachne she was clearly beaten by a human in one of the three things that she is suppose to be superior at. Arachne became the best weaver on earth and Athena wasn’t pleased to find out that a human was better than her at something she was the goddess of. After
In 35BC she was given the unprecedented honour of managing her own finances, this was important because it gave Livia independence and had set an example to the woman of Rome which had then influenced the woman to be of the same. In source 10.19, Suetonius suggests that by Livia being married to Augustus she had primarily thought that she had a large say in the decisions and influences of Augustus, but as Augustus turns down Livia’s request “I would far rather forfeit whatever he may owe the Privy Purse, than cheapen the value of the Roman citizenship” suggests that Augustus didn’t want to take
It comes as no surprise therefore, that in1939 he published a tract called Of the Excellence of the Female Sex (originally in Latin, De excellentia foemini sexus in 1636), in which he praises women’s intellectual abilities in a style comparable to that of his sixteenth century predecessors Erasmus and Vives. Although Beverwijck admits in his writings that he expects his own daughters not to underestimate the importance of marriage and house management, he becomes one of Holland’s most famous patrons for talented young ladies in the Dutch golden age. One of those young women he admired for her intellect and modesty was Anna Maria van Schuurman. Three years before the publication of Beverwijck’s tract about female excellence, van Schuurman wrote a dissertation in favor of women’s education, Dissertatio de ingenii mulieribus ad doctrinam (a.k.a. The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar?
In The Importance of Being Earnest, the character Gwendolen Fairfax is one of the two female leads. Being a member of high society, Gwendolen is shown to be very sophisticated and confident, but still manages to look a little foolish. She is also the love interest of one of the protagonists of the play, Jack Worthing. Throughout the play, Gwendolen is used as a tool to discuss Victorian values and marriage and her over-confident personality also helps provide humor for the audience, since her values make her look foolish especially because of her large ego and pride. In the play, Gwendolen sets the image for a typical Victorian woman, along with her mother, Lady Bracknell.