For example, turning down Mr. Collins may demonstrateher as a no-brainer woman among the society at that time. But by rejecting him, this suggests that Elizabeth places her own judgment over social pressures to comfort. In spite of the fact that she has been forced to get married with Mr. Collins by her mother, she persists to her strong position of rejecting his proposal. Plus, although Lady Catherine tries to strong-arm her into rejecting any proposal from Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth gets angry and asks her to get away. Hence, it can be noticed how Austen stresses on the empowerment of women through Elizabeth’s
Movie Review “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The movie “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was released in June of 1966 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was based off of Edward Albee’s play that was considered scandalous at the time. The performance still made it to Broadway and was measured to be one of the best playwrights of the time. When producing it as a film, the language and sexual content of the play caused controversy and it came to be the first film released with a "Suggested for Mature Audiences" warning. The film's title refers to a British feminist writer Virginia Woolf who employs the use of a 'stream of consciousness' that observes the psychological and emotional motives of the characters.
They do not believe that women should go out and have a professional job in the work force. Now, in the modern society there have been changes and men should cope and adapt to the changes of today’s society. Sexism is expressed as a separation of gender roles and differential access to privileges and opportunities. Traditional gender role stereotypes describe women as nurturers who are emotional, sensitive, and warm. They also describe women as unambitious, incompetent, weak, and conniving in their relational power (Adams, 2009; Williams & Best, 1990).
Although critics disagree on how the vastly different gender perceptions within the play are used to portray the theme of women’s power within law and justice, all of their arguments tie back to the fact that the women in the story act as a surrogate for the female society of that time, showing them that they have more power than they realize. Phyllis Mael asserts in "Trifles: The Path to Sisterhood," that the evolution of the women's relationships from acquaintance to co-conspirators illustrates the female psyche. Mael says the she feels the play's "moral dilemma" stresses the inherent differences between male theoretical sense of morality and female sensitive ethical sense which includes "moral problems as problems of responsibility in relationship" (Mael, 282-83). Although the women draw closer to solving the crime as the men, using "abstract rules and rights," make comments that "trivialize the domestic sphere," ethical agreement comes only after Mrs. Peters moves from "acquiescence to patriarchal law" to
Can you imagine bearing the skill to describe an individual’s personality by merely looking at their house? Virginia Woolf embraces her unique ability of creating phenomenal symbolism in A Room of One’s Own regarding institutionalized sexism. As a female writer in a male dominated world, she was aware of society’s condemnation of women’s education. She describes the meals that were served at a male college and a female college. She compares the two meals through diction, tone and sentence structure, which transcribes women’s lack of educational opportunity.
Feminist Literary Criticism Feminist literary criticism, according to Michael Delahoyde, “critiques patriarchal language and literature by exposing how these reflect masculinity ideology” (Delahoyde). It was in the late 1970s, when feminist criticism became a strong literary criticism in the Western studies (Murfin). The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the main points between two feminist criticisms: the French criticism and the Anglo-American criticism. French feminists were highly influenced by Simone de Beauvoir. In her book entitled The Second Sex (1949), de Beauvoir, influenced by Sartre’s existencialism, states that ‘one is not born a woman; one becomes one’ (qtd in Moi, p. 92).
A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ is an early example of a feminist outlook; Wollstonecraft aims to define, establish and defend equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. In this extract, Wollstonecraft “speaks of passion”; she believes that women were not given the right choices; they were not educated to the full. This affects their choices and they don’t have the full knowledge that they should have been provided with. Jill tweedy was also a feminist writer, who had a balanced view of the relationships between men and women. She believed that women should be equal to men in relationships.
It might be called entertainment standard to serve audience's pleasure. However, feminist’s observation is too delicate to recognize those film marketing plan, they note it like a threat. The more objective actress becomes on media, the heavier responsibility female feel for how should they look like, even from a young girl to adult women. They tend to pay more attention to their looking instead of their health, lives. And now, movies also give them some kinds of invisible pressure on what they sensitive most: Beauty.
The arguments over words and language which, is said to denigrate women or ‘make them invisible’ has been going on for a long time, and from the feminist point of view some progress has been made in the widespread acceptance of, for example, chair or chair person, instead of chairman and in the accepted use of Ms instead of Mrs or Miss. This example is because women do not want to be labelled as married or not married and the use of Ms shows that they do not want people to know which one they are. The question which must be asked is how does bias happen? It happens when language excludes women. The words man, he, his and him are often used in referring to human beings of either sex.
Wollstonecraft mentions women as virtuous and if women did not have virtue than they had no soul. The acquirement of virtue ought to aim at attaining a very different character: or speak explicitly, women are not allowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves the name of virtue. Yet it should seem, allowing them to have souls, that there is but one way appointed by Providence to lead mankind to either virtue or happiness. Wollstonecraft is saying that women were choosing to be virtuous over being happy. To be virtuous in the mind of Providence was to be happy.