In the beginning of the book, Lucinda was mean and stubborn. I did not like her one bit. She gave horrible gifts to all not just to Ella. For example, when a giant couple was getting married, Lucinda gave them a horrible gift. The giants could now never leave each other’s presence.
However that title would be forcefully take by England under the rule of Queen Elizabeth (Waller 200). The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the most famous events in English history (Ruggeri). It was arguably Queen Elizabeth's finest hour. England was a small country, with little wealth, few friends, and many enemies (Ruggeri). If Queen Elizabeth ever felt nervous about challenging the greatest power in the known world, she never showed it, and appeared to believe completely in the devotion and loyalty of her people (Jokinen).
In response to those events, their actions caused them further grief, resulting in a life of turmoil and death. Mathilde Loisel “was one of those pretty and charming girls” (Maupassant 38) born into a family of clerks. She wasn’t an extravagant dresser but her beauty was enough to catch even the richest mans attention. She was very discontent with her position in life and felt as if she deserved the finer things. She would daydream of fancy dinners, shinning silverware and delicate furniture.
She lived in a time period where “radical ideas that had seemed impossible to realize only a generation earlier swept throughout Europe with astounding force” (Austin 35). Her thesis reinforces the idea of not only equality between men and women but equality in duties as well. Wollstonecraft mainly focuses on co-education and its spiraling demise that women are going through because they are not co-educated. She says, “Women have been allowed to remain in ignorance, and slavish dependence, many, very many years, and we hear of nothing but their fondness of pleasure and sway, their preference of rakes and soldiers, their childish attachment to toys, and the vanity that makes them value accomplishments more than virtues” (Austin 37). The negative impact of not having women educated with men is illuminated when she describes women from a man’s viewpoint.
Producing seventeen plays and fourteen novels, several collections of poetry and translations, Behn is known as the first woman to earn her living as an author. In spite of the criticism from her male counterparts, who made many attempts to discredit her popularity by labeling her as “uneducated, creatively and intellectually inferior” plagiarist and sexual deviant, Behn, according to Dale Spender, used their ignorance and intolerance as “fuel to [her] fire.” Although caricatured for her bawdiness, Aphra Behn’s lively adventures lacked what she wrote most about, love and companionship, and the disappointment that so often befell her characters is evident in her own life. Claims that Behn’s novel Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave is written as anti-slavery propaganda, against the mental world of colonized people is testimony to her success in misdirecting critics and prudent readers, but is not the primary purpose. Oroonoko illustrates Aphra Behn’s sexual frustration and disappointment. *Because he could not appease Aphra’s (the narrator) wants, Oroonoko was made to suffer a terrible fate*
Education, employment, and politics are all barriers where women were held back from the full development of their faculties. In the 19th century women were denied political equality, robbed of their natural rights, and handicapped by laws and customs at every turn. Trained to dependence with no assets of their own women were left to bear the attitude of being less intelligent and able to make political decisions than men. While they have freely accepted a deferential position to men they have also refused to look toward a future of tradition and domesticity. The campaign for women’s suffrage had a sincere beginning
Leon B. Bacon, a niece of Susan B. Anthony, stated later in life that “because of Aunt Susan's love for women and perseverance in her cause, I have today the enjoyment of a great many more rights and privileges than my mother had.” When Aunt Susan herself was young, there were no such things as woman's rights; all the rights were masculine. Women were ruled by a government and a law in which she had no voice. If she felt herself wronged in any way she had no way of making the fact known before the law. It was an unheard of thing for a woman to speak in public. None of the colleges or universities admitted women students.
The role of women in the Renaissance was not that of assertiveness, and certainly not that of equality, when it came to men. In fact they were merely subordinate inferiors, and custom and prejudice kept them servants to domesticity. Most women were perceived as being weak, which often coincided with passiveness. The Renaissance, though considered to be a cultural advancement from the Middle Ages, held women at almost the same standard as before. Although loyal and determined, Desdemona’s naïve nature has caused many to believe that she is also of a passive nature.
The wenches were mere women to play a role in entertaining men of higher class, they were not considered outcasts but also were not considered to have any worth, they were stuck in the class they were at never really being able to rise to become a peacemaker or hostess. Grendel’s mother was portrayed and seen as such a lowly character that she did not even receive a proper name. Throughout the story Grendel’s mother is only seen and described as an evil, monstrous, and manly person. Not one positive characteristic is given to her. She is referred to as a descendent of Cain, one of the first humans to be truly sinful and evil in gods eyes.
Janie’s first two husbands, Logan and Jody, never allow Janie to reach the desirable horizon. They lock her up in the present state of miserable reality and restrict her from inner growth. They only do what is conformed by the society, considering it to be true happiness. Janie is not allowed to speak up because, according to the society, it is not appropriate for a woman to engage in conversations that should be left for men to bother about.