Jill Stark’s opinion article, appearing in The Age 19th Jan 2008, outlines in a concerned and direct fashion, that most stereotypes seen in glossy magazines have a negative and dangerous impact. She contends that there is a growing trend for woman to produce magazines, promoting healthy and realistic figures, empowering the female. The headline ‘Sick of impossible princesses, real girls fight back’, indicates to readers how fed up the author is with these unrealistic stereotypes. Stark informs the reader that the traditional content of glossy magazines, with “extreme dieting tips and air-brushed waifs in micro bikinis”, is being questioned by ‘real girls’ who are “fed up with images of emaciated models and a celebrity culture pushing them to be thin, sexy and silent.”. Confronted with these images, the reader is encouraged to sympathise with the author’s contention.
Margaret Atwood’s speech “Spotty Handed Villainesses” explores Patriarchy, feminism and “bad” women in literature. She uses wit and humour to disarm the audience and often uses anti-climatic statements to grab the audience’s attention. Margaret Atwood’s speech resonates through time with her critical study of feminism in a social context and the impact that feminism has had on literature. In the speech Atwood explores the moral dichotomy that exists in Women at the time. She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore.
Then what is a stereotype? Stereotype is an exaggerated belief image or distorted truth about people - a generalization about a group of people where people use a very simple patter for judging an entire group of people. When this happens, stereotype leads to many negative effects to the society such as prejudice and discrimination. In this essay, however, two characters from Hana’s Suitcase and The Paper Bag Princess are demonstrated, and explain how the author deals with the subject of stereotype issue in each book, the similarities and differences: Hana from the Hana’s Suitcase is stereotyped on her race and Princess Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess is stereotyped on her sex. First of all, in Hana’s Suitcase, Hana is being stereotyped because of her religious, cultural and ethnical background.
Steinbeck portrays him as paranoid and insecure for which he overcompensates for with aggression. In section 4 we find talking to Crooks, Candy and Lennie, in this section we see a glimpse of her true self, after which she then overcompensates for her vulnerability by threatening to have Crooks lynched. This gives us the impression that she is evil. Finally in section 5 we see the true version of Curley's wife, we learn she has dreams, just like everyone else, and also falls victim to loneliness (another big theme of the novel). In death, we see what she really looks like, innocent and pure.
Annabella’s claim to be a part of ‘a wretched, woeful woman’s tragedy’ offers no solace to the other women in the play as she bought her punishment on herself. To what extent does the play as a whole appear to criticise or endorse the misogynistic attitudes shown by so many of the characters? T’is Pity she’s a Whore is undoubtedly a play that can be characterised by the sexism present in it, particularly in terms of the negativity associated with female sexuality. Ford presents misogyny through women and love, women and sex and the male advancement, but what is unclear is whether or not he endorses such an attitude or criticises it. This is best encapsulated in the debate as to whether Annabella can claim to be part of a “wretched, woeful woman’s tragedy” if her mistreatment was indeed her own fault.
His illustrations also make the argument real and the fact that he shared so many different situations of distain speaks to the wide spread nature of the problem. One of the examples Meyer chose to elaborate on was similar to the Steve Rushin’s “spoof” of the news media. Both writers highlight the popularity of news programs that mock and belittle others. Meyers claim Americans continue to watch “loudmouthed pseudo-news shows on cable and keep yelling at the television.” Rushin illustrates his annoyance with a late night anchorman who read a phony report of a drug-seizing event where he sarcastically placed cocaine in an athlete’s nostril. The news reporter smirked.
In reality Esperanza’s name is one of her many insecurities. However, this is not the only reason why Esperanza is insecure. As an example Esperanza states, “I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for” (Cisneros 88). The quote used explains how Esperanza has low self-esteem and does not believe in her inner beauty.
Are you yet living?”. By Benedick referring to Beatrice as Lady Disdain, he is implying to her and those around him that he sees Beatrice as a contemptuous lady meaning she is very scornful and see’s others as beneath her consideration. However, again like in Beatrice’s line when she referred to Benedick as ‘Signor Mountanto’, Benedick is insulting Beatrice in a way which contains some form of respect, this being how he called her ‘Lady’, giving her a level of status. Which are two opposites again, as it contrasts with Disdain which he has then entitled her afterwards. The second part of Benedicks line is ‘Are you yet living?’.
Discuss madness in relation to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. The ‘revolting’(pg 3) paper is the eponymous metaphor of the novella. The wallpaper has layers, hidden depths and intricacies which can only be seen by close examination and only understood by the narrator by her when her obsessive interrogation of it reaches its disturbing climax. This wallpaper is an allegory which represents the complications of a woman’s position in conventional marriage behind the façade, or outer ‘pattern’(pg 3) of the sanction. Throughout the text, Gilman attempts to uncover the often disturbing truths that lurk beneath the surface of something seemingly innocent with reference to her own socio-economic philosophy; that is the economics of marriage and the nature of the mentally destructive sub-ordination of women within it.
Finally, both Miller and Fitzgerald show how the temptation for a woman or even hatred for a woman can lead a man to behave in a rather questionable manner. The Crucible and The Great Gatsby are prime examples showing that women do indeed have the ability to ruin men. To begin with, some women get involved in affairs while knowing that the consequence could be far greater than any pleasure they will receive from the affair. Furthermore, they will tempt men into affairs knowing that it could also land the men into danger. In The Crucible and The Great Gatsby the “danger” results in being death for Proctor and Gatsby.