First, Christine can “speak” to readers by channeling her own persona into her main character. Further, the form of authorial conversation with allegorical figures was a popular didactic medieval convention, and this textual structure remains accessible today. When Judith L. Kellogg writes, “the space in which the city [of ladies] is built must be within each woman,” she bridges the six-hundred years since the writing of The Book of the City of Ladies with a few strokes of her pen. In other words, Christine urges individual women to take the first step toward realizing a feminist hereafter. By writing (as author) and creating (as heroine) a city of ladies, Christine emphasizes women’s spaces, self-defense, and memory as keys to the creation of women’s history and future.
Both authors focus on the world of women and how they navigate their lives in different contexts. Explore how women are represented in Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice. Both authors focus on the world of women and how they navigate their lives in different contexts. Explore how women are represented in Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice written in the early 19th century is a classic novel that can be well dissected and understand by considering the values and attitudes in which people performed in that context.
Moreover, with its gothic sense of space, supernatural events, and damsel in distress/hero/villain archetypes, Lady Oracle is a successful example of a gothic novel. In gothic literature, the space element is used to make the reader feel. In Lady Oracle, the descriptions of the story’s protagonist’s, Joan Foster, childhood home do exactly that. Joan’s mother and the house itself work as a unit. Since her mother was such an uptight and organized person who needed everything in its place and for everything to be clean.
The central and significant role of women in this book plays an important aspect throughout the story as women take on the jobs of housekeeping, care taking, cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc. In her novel, Allende portrays women as the ones who mostly belong in the domestic realm where they take care of the children, elderly, and sick, while the men belong exploring the world and doing whatever they want in life. This might prove that women’s involvement in the outside world (other than the home) is very low and not accepted. They might play roles such as the housekeeper, cook, nanny, or cleaner. For example, Allende writes about Esteban’s thoughts on what roles’ women deserve to play, "It would go against nature.
‘The role of female vampires in the novel is to warn of the dangers of female sexuality’ consider the presentation of the female vampires in Dracula in the light of this comment Many may argue that the novel Dracula highlights the suppression and belittlement of women during the 19th Century. In Victorian England, women’s sexual behaviour was dictated by society’s rigid expectations. A Victorian woman was either a virgin or else she was a wife and mother. If she was neither of these, she was considered a whore, and thus of no consequence to society This idea is reinforced by Stoker with the contrast of the ‘brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips,’ the virginal white is contrasted with the hellish red of their lips shows the battle the women went through suppressing and hiding their sexual desires. Stoker’s choose of women as the temptresses may be a warning to the women of the Victorian era to beware about pushing the boundaries of their sexuality.
As vampires are extremely adaptable characters they have been used in gothic texts for centuries. In looking at Dracula by Bram Stoker and Twilight by Stephanie Meyer the responder can see how the manipulation of ‘the vampire’ character has played a crucial role in expressing the different fears and insecurities of the era in which the texts were composed. The main way that the fears and insecurities of a modern society have been shown is twilight is through the modernization of gothic themes and elements so that they suit the context of the era that they were produced and create a modern gothic text. Dracula however stays true to the traditional gothic elements, as they are relevant to the era in which the novel was produced. Whilst both Dracula and Twilight explore similar themes they are expressed in different ways to represent different insecurities in society.
Three texts that portray women in a different way are the film, Ever After, the play, MacBeth, and the poem, Phenomenal Woman. Ever After explores the role of women in 16th Century France. Andy Tennant, who directs this film, gives a balanced portrayal of women through the key characters within the film. The wicked stepsister
The women did not have a voice on anything unless it was pertaining to family needs, and I feel that women should not be treated like someone that cannot express their opinion. In the seventeenth century the women could be married starting at the age of sixteen years old; nevertheless, the woman’s father had to choose whom she marries and she had to listen to her father’s regards about the marriage. Women back then were housewives they could not own property, but they had to make sure the one that their spouses owned were clean. Getting an education in the seventeenth century wasn’t a necessity the men felt as
The figures such as Grania are strong and who dominated the supernatural worlds of Ireland. Characters such as “Marys Cahel and Mary Cushin” in “The Gaol Gate” highlight how Gregory put them central stage, these are the two main characters and it is their story and their journey being told (Gregory, 359-362). This essay will focus on the alternative narrative in Gregory’s plays, “Graina” and “The Gaol Gate”. The essay will explore how Lady Gregory changed how women were perceived in Ireland. The symbol of Ireland was of a woman, weak and irrational but Gregory changed this perception, she gave women a voice and a stage for which their journeys could be told.
Characters Portrayed in the 19th Century In the 19th century, women had to behave according to very tight social standings. Young women who had no intention to marry or had sex before marrying their future husbands were greatly disapproved and rejected by society and therefore, lived a very unhappy and depressing life. Wives had to take care of the children and always, no matter what, fulfill their husband’s needs. In the novel, Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, the author describes the lives and roles of two very important female characters living during the 19th century. As well, in the short story, The Vampyre, the author, John Polidori, also portrays the tale of a young woman who is eventually punished for not following the social norms.