Others, including her mother and her Aunt, significantly shaped Sybylla’s identity. The impact of Sybylla’s mother’s words “you are lazy and bad” as well as “you’re really a very useless girl for your age” create a negative self-perception of her identity. The use of direct speech enables the reader to visualise and recreate the scene, therefore understanding the effects of other’s on the formation of Sybylla’s identity. Contrary to this, Sybylla’s Aunt Helen promotes positive growth in Sybylla by nurturing her. Her kind and gracious Aunt build’s Sybylla’s confidence and self esteem and is gentle and understanding, recognising her inner beauty, while reinforcing her physical beauty.
They don’t like to be held back.”(5-7) this is the way the speaker describes her hips. Lucille Clifton is straight forward and wants you to feel the freedom and advantages of having healthy hips by using imagery. Lucille Clifton brings us through her poem with a bow of confidence; “Homage” means a form of paying respect to someone or something. “They go where they want to go, and they do what they want to do.” (9-10) Demonstrating a strong, brassy, confident women, a women who is comfortable in her skin, who sends a “feel good” message through a powerful delivery of her self-worth. “They need space to move around in; they don’t fit into little petty places” (2-4) you can gather from these lines that her hips are large, that she is not a size 2 and that she needs space.
Diana can write away her problems and let them fade away it is who she is. She has Amazing friends that she looks for inspiration and encouragement. She not only has the worst yet best parents in the world. They are supportive and they are crazy. She would like others to know she is special, she knows she has a need to be free.
Angelou created easy outlets for people in struggle. She gets guidance from the heart and her words lead people from pitfalls in life. Her words will forever be relevant; her life is to admired. Times do change but young women throughout the years have one thing in common, the desire to fulfill their dreams without carrying the burden of past hurts. Angelou is more than a voice for today’s young women; she is also an inspiration and a blessing to those who read her work.
The Greek society was built upon the beliefs that good women faithfully serve and support their husband in all areas of their lives. In addition, a good woman never strays or deviates from their set roles. However, in stark opposition to women roles of that time are the strong female characters introduced by Homer. The women depicted in The Odyssey are very wise. This character trait in women is very different from the women portrayed most often in other Ancient Greek stories.
In the play, Gwendolen sets the image for a typical Victorian woman, along with her mother, Lady Bracknell. She has her personal values and ideals, and exhibits self- confidence. This can be proven by some of her lines in Act 1, like her first line “I am always right!” or “In fact, I am never wrong.” However, sometimes her over-confidence makes her look foolish. When she meets Cecily for the first time, she declares that they were going to be “great friends” and she has “likes her more than she can say”. Then when she suspects that Cecily is going to steal her fiancé, Gwendolen immediately switches her tone to saying that she “distrusted” Cecily from the first moment she saw her and that her “first impressions of people are invariably right”.
The SPUNKY KID: gutsy and true, she is loyal to the end. She is a favorite of many writers, and for good reason. You can’t help but root for her. She’s the girl with moxie. She’s not looking to be at the top of the heap; she just wants to be in her own little niche.
The bestselling novel, Truth and Beauty, written by Ann Patchett is about enduring friendship, though the relationship between Ann and Lucy in decidedly complex. Ann, a safe, caring, shy, focused, and intelligent person never saw herself being best friends with Lucy Grealy, the popular, outgoing, strong, fierce, and troubles person. Ann had accepted the fact that she was just another face; she is completely fine knowing that she is like other all the other people in the world. However, Lucy had discovered that she was different from everyone. Lucy had a story, Lucy had been through pain, Lucy had grown strong, Lucy had grown to be invincible.
Strength and Weakness of Elinor Dashwood Elinor Dashwood, the heroine of Sense and Sensibility, cements her sisterly relationship with Marianne, and resolves her convoluted relationships with male characters and antagonists throughout the book. Her affectionate and well-composed nature provides the others comfort and consolation, and earns her great respect and credibility in retrospect. However, Elinor's extreme composure backfires on her as she keeps her thoughts and feelings to herself and hardly releases them. This sometimes seems to cause her some degree of distress, as well as creating a communication gap between herself and the other characters. As a result, she remains quiet instead of speaking out, which prevents her from being fully in control of situations when she confronts people, especially Lucy; Elinor is often dominated by the other characters.
Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time. They search their own path and destiny, disconnecting theirelves with the normal society's expectations. Love Love is the main theme in both novels. Not only love as a feeling, but love as a pursue of happiness and stability, this last being totally necessary, at the time, to girls with lack of fortune. In the case of Anne, her search for love serves to redeem her past mistakes and, finally, be with the one that she has chosen, not her relatives.