The peaceful campaigning of the suffragists’ was a key factor in women receiving the vote. The suffragists’ started the whole route of women gaining the vote; they were the ever moving force behind the movement. However historian Martin Pugh suggests that “Suffragists would probably have done better to have made common cause with all unenfranchised men and women from the start and thereby they might have extended their appeal” because all men had not yet received the vote it was argued that women should not receive the franchise when it was not fully given to all men. However there were other contributing factors leading up to 1918 and women gaining the vote. They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand.
Women who want to win without losing male approval temper their victories with beauty, with softness, with smallness, with smiles” (Signs of Life in the USA 540). This statement is well rooted is many movies such as Legally Blonde & Private Benjamin, but in the movie G.I. Jane, femininity is thrown to the wayside in order to gain the respect of men and move up the ladder of success in the workplace. The movie tells a story of a woman, Lt. Jordan O’Neil, and her journey of being the first woman test case for the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team. O’Neil was hand-selected by a woman senator, because she was pretty and feminine and didn’t look like a stereotypical lesbian.
This acclaimed book ignited a dormant fire inside the oppressed women and feminism swept the nation during the 1960s. Soon after, women pushed for equality in the workplace
(www.peaceisawomansjob.com/jeannette_01.htm) Women in the west could now own property, vote, and hold office, and were fully expected to fend for themselves in society. These changes in women’s rights proved to the leaders of national suffrage campaigns that society could in fact function and still grant women the right to vote. The expansion of the United States must be regarded as crucial to the suffrage movement by existing as a model for a society that enfranchised women. Both the state-by-state and national campaigns looked to the free women of the west as examples, proving to the country that women indeed deserved the vote. after accomplishing a long sought after goals and overcoming tremendous obstacles, they achieved great lengths which led to their vicotory.
Churchill’s lead character in the play is paradoxically a female misogynist who takes on a stereotypically male business persona who climbs to the top of the corporate ladder. Churchill also offers an interesting take on female pageantry, Post-Feminism of the 1980s, the “New Wave” of Feminism, and English feminism and capitalism under Margaret Thatcher’s rule, as well as family values and the ease and ability to climb the corporate ladder with a child. Churchill has openly acknowledged that Margaret Thatcher’s rise to the position of British primeminster was an important inspiration for writing Top Girls. Churchill is deeply interested in feminism and the constant consequences of the women’s liberation movement. There was a certain irony in Margaret Thatcher’s ascent to power in the wake of feminism, since Thatcher’s policies were deeply conservative and anti-feminist.
They feared once these principles were established they could be extended to ‘soak the rich’ and even out the unfair distribution of wealth in Edwardian Britain. The land taxes were especially controversial, as they would not actually produce a great deal of tax revenue. The Lords denounced this proposal as a ‘class war’. The Lords believed it was their duty to restrain governments from making sweeping changes the electorate had not voted on. A final less important reason was that the Lords believed that it was the fault of the poor that they were destitute in the first place.
They also wanted the right to have their own possessions, to divorce their husbands, and to keep their children after divorce. Women were great supporters of World War I. Many women became nurses. Nursing wasn't for everyone, but the job had to be done. Women entertained troops with songs and dancing, and also with lectures, dramatic reading, and poetry.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the characters to demonstrate the corruption and degradation of the American Dream. He even uses the characters, namely Tom and Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, to demonstrate the demise of those who are brave enough to attempt to attain its illusionary goals. There are different types of wealth represented in this novel. The Buchanans are wealthy people. Jay Gatsby is also wealthy but would rather simply be affluent.
Tom and Daisy live in East Egg, and they represent shallowness, greed and superficiality. East eggers lack the most morals because they are corrupted by the American Dream. Fitzgerald did this on purpose to express his criticism of the American Dream, by showing how it negatively affected people. Finally, The Valley of Ashes which stretched between West Egg and New York City. This represented the lower class, but on a broader view it symbolized where society was headed from an unchecked pursuit of wealth.
Broken Dream In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are many themes of American society explored, but the most prevalent is obtaining the American dream. Throughout the novel, Jay Gatsby struggles to live his own version of the American dream. The dream of high social status, wealth, and past love ultimately leads to the down fall of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is not born into wealth and tradition, but into a lower social class than that of his love, Daisy. After returning from the war, Gatsby decides that in order to court Daisy he must obtain wealth.