After a heated confrontation about his homosexuality, he shot himself and ever since Blanche has been haunted by the events of that night. She is unstable and uses many ways to trick and delude the people she meets. She lives in her own fantasy world where characters, such as Shep Huntleigh, come from her imagination. There are many themes throughout the play, but one of the most prominent signs of Blanche's declining sanity revolves around her exposure to natural light. We first notice this in the first scene, where Blanche has just arrived in New Orleans, at her sister, Stella's, apartment.
Then that night a black person gets shot by the KKK and then 30 maids want to tell their stories because a famous black guy from Jackson Mississippi got shot. And Miss Sketter writes her book and it becomes a huge hit in Jackson Miss. It causes all this drama and contention around everybody and their maids. MIss Hilly figures it was all Miss Skeeter and goes to confronts her but she had already gone to New york. Miss Leefolt fires Abileen for thinking she stole the silver and as she was walking away Mae Mobley was crying in the window for Abileen to come
This is confirmed when, in the end, a woman draws a marked slip of paper from the ancient ballot box and is quickly stoned to death by everyone in town, even her own children. The woman is Tessie Hutchinson, an obnoxious, selfish mother and housewife. Through her use of dialogue and descriptive adjectives, Jackson utilizes Tessie to display the lower gender role of women in earlier America and to serve as the largest source of rebellion in the story’s village. Shirley Jackson, born December 14, 1919, was an American author hailing from San Francisco, California. Growing up, she’d always wanted to become a writer and displayed this through many journals and examples of poetry.
One can find more information about this stage of development of the American society from primary sources. Nannie Alderson (1942) describes the life of American women in the small towns of the West in her book A Bride Goes West. Some of the experts from the book point out to significant changes in the American people’s minds regarding the role that women played in society. In her book, Alderson also describes the reverse side of free relations and feminization. She writes, “Two-thirds of the women [engaged in prostitution] died young from sexually transmitted diseases, botched abortions, alcohol abuse, narcotics abuse, suicide, or murders.” The same shift in public mind regarding the family values is described in Galen’s Epitaph on a Tombstone.
Monday, November 12,2012 The Downfall of Women in Hamlet and Oedipus There are three women altogether in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare and in the play Oedipus rex by Sophocles, each of these women meets their deaths by the end of the play. Their tragic deaths is the result of the actions of the male character, the action specifically done by the male characters that lead to the deaths or downfall of the women is the action of neglect toward the women of the plays. The women are also obedient toward the men in each play which also lead them to their downfall. The actions of the male characters as well as the obedience toward the male characters by the female characters in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles result in the downfall of the women in both these plays. The women are often ignored and are not really being listened to by the male characters.
The book consists of monologues by a various number of women. Every monologue expresses the aspects of things women go through in their lifetime, such as sex, love, rape, menstruation, and talking about their vagina in metaphorical ways or simply the physicality of it. Some pieces were of importance to me because some reminded me of past readings and research, and some because I can relate on a personal level. On page 9, the subject being questioned was hair. In the piece, the woman stated that her husband hated her hair down there.
The freedom women once felt turned into a life of fear. Riverbend shows many feminist views throughout the novel, but more so a view of a woman wanting peace and equality for both sexes in her country. Riverbend’s life changed drastically because of the war on terror and led to changes in gender issues, in her daily life and professional life. The United States only aided in further oppressing Arab women by not being fully
Sojourner said “I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen ‘em mos’ all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard-and ar’n’t I a woman?” She wanted the convention to understand her pain. Truth wanted to force the women in the room to relate to her as a mother. She wanted to show how traumatic and violent the inequalities were at that time, and wanted the audience to connect to her on a deeper emotional level. Truth found a way to express the inequalities of blacks and women and tie them together, by having the women feel her injustice and thus feeling the inequalities of blacks at that
Monica Mills Mrs. Gibson English 1101 3 December 2010 Learned Helplessness and Abused Women The Color Purple has several scenes where the women in the movie are showing exactly what learned helplessness is(1985). Anybody who is in a situation and will not stand up for their self, because of previous situations or what they have been taught from their parents, is learned helplessness. Spielberg down played a lot of what Alice Walker, the author, wrote in her book. Walker speaks directly to the audience by using very powerful literary elements such as attitude, detail, and point of view. Alice Walker, being an abused child herself, brings to the table a whole different aspect to the novel.
The play, “For Colored Girls”, is a collaboration of 20 different poems. The seven characters introduced are African American women who face different painful obstacles. Three of the women in which I will discuss in my paper are Crystal, Jo, as well as Juanita just to name a few that are talked about. Although some say Shange negatively portrays black men, Shange provides a realistic picture of black women who face date rape, infidelity, and