Women’s reality, such as Gilman’s, in this time period was being a submissive wife with few rights in society. This fictional story, appears to be more reality than fiction. The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist text used as a cry for help of all the oppressed women from nineteenth century. Women’s repression was a problem that impacted the lives of those who lived in this time period. This story expresses a concern of the role women, particularly within the aspect of marriage, maternity, and domesticity.
Hildegard was educated by the Benedictine nuns. Not only did Hildegard write music, she wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and the first surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations (Lerman). Oddly, then, the first Renaissance man” was really Hildegard because of her importance to music. The music she wrote possess many qualities of typical chants, but it sets a starkly vivid text which Hildegard created herself (Wright). One of her most famous songs is, O Greenest Branch, which depicts the famous Virgin Mary (Wright).
One of these reasons for this is the attitudes towards women have changed. Also, the roles of women have changed; this is because society has changed in a way that means women's opinions are valued more and women are have and use their power more to decide on what they want. In the 1920's, women didn't have a say in family affairs. It was expected that they would settle down, get married and then have children; this was a norm in society at the time. During this period, if a woman wanted to divorce her husband, it was highly frowned upon.
Indeed it is this tradition that both writers attempt to disrupt at various points in the two texts with varying degrees of success. At the time of writing women were often disregarded as second class citizens and were presented as inferior to men. In this way, these two texts present the difficulties that women experience when trying to assert themselves in male society. Specifically, their identities often suffer due to lack of communication and voice. However the traditional role of femininity that was enforced upon women by a stringent and somewhat vigorous society was changing and these two texts challenge the traditional role of femininity both directly and indirectly throughout.
Many turned to prostitution to make ends meet, or joined convents to work as servants for the nuns. The attitude towards women, their treatment and their rights, underwent many changes during the Renaissance. During feudal times women were given more liberties and enjoyed freedoms. They could own land and had many of the rights men had. However, this period where so many great changes had been made in the church, in literature, and in all other artistic areas, women took a big step backward in their fight for equality.
The soprano forms the prelude and remains the dominant voice throughout the composition. It carries the subject of the composition. The prelude also has the characteristics of Chorale preludes. This is because it forms a piece of music that is repeated over and over in the piece. Alto, tenor and bass enter in the episodes each with a theme that contrasts the original subject.
Because women are sometimes stereotyped as the weaker sex, they become disadvantaged and don’t share many of the privileges men are given. This is why feminism is such an important matter today. Feminism is a broad social movement that strives for equality for women and seeks to end of sexism in all forms (Topics in Feminism). However, negative attitudes toward feminism have continued to exist. Feminists are often stereotyped as angry, man-hating, unattractive women who scream absurdly about their political views.
Political status for women was possible, but only for those who were in the upper class and were important to society. Islamic and Christian women were viewed very similarly though they were from different religions; however, Islamic women were treated better. In Christian Europe, around 1000 B.C.E until around 1200 B.C.E, it was the dark ages. Because of educational and religious traditions, women had restrictions on entry and participation in the workforce. Women’s restriction in the workforce was also because of their forced dependency on men and poor socio-economic status of women.
She was also a feminist. Often, the genders of the character she created determine the fate of them. As to highlight the problem of women’s unequal status in the society and state the role of women during her time. Elizabeth, a childhood sweetheart of Victor, did not have the same equal rights and opportunities as Victor did. When Victor compares himself with Elizabeth, he says “I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply smitten with the thirst of knowledge.” Mary uses her character Elizabeth to review the lack of support and the demand for institutionalized education of girls in public, whereas Mary could only be home-educated by her father.
Not only emperors, but also women from the imperial family could be ordained as Daoist priestesses. Many other women served as the religious instructors of high-level officials and scholars. Several movements within Daoism are attributed to female founders. Both Daoism and Buddhism offered female followers the possibility of becoming nuns, an accepted option for a woman who did not wish to become a wife and mother. Although Daoism inherited some social biases against women, it allowed them to play a vital role in society.