She was an unwanted, unloved, and abused child. Her mother looked for ways to remove her from the family. Then, in 1953, her mother sent an application for Muir to be institutionalised at the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives in Red Deer, Alberta. Emily Murphy magistrate of British Empire was very strongly in support of sterilization. Muir’s sterilization is part of a progression towards forced sterilization and eugenics that began in the 19th century.
Comparison Essay: Emily Dictionary and Zhaboonigan Peterson Susan Hampton English 050 “A scar does not form on the dying, a scar means, I survived.” This quote by author Chris Cleave describes of the lives of Emily Dictionary and Zhaboonigan Peterson. These woman are characters in the play, “Rez Sisters” written by Tomson Highway. He writes about the fictional Sisterhood, a group of seven Ojibwa women living on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve, struggling to survive and improve their lives. Two of these women are Emily and Zhaboonigan; who are quite different from each other. Emily and Zhaboonigan each have tragic pasts, but cope in different ways.
Curley's Wife, Innocent or Not? Of Mice and Men is not a novel that portrays women considerately, examples of this are shown throughout the novel, in particular Curley's wife, who walks the ranch as a temptress and as a result is treated with scorn throughout the course of the novel, resulting in her death. This essay will analyze and discuss Steinbeck's portrayal of Curley's wife. Whether or not she is ultimately an innocent person caught in a tragic situation or simply a malevolent person who brings about her own inevitable doom. Steinbeck portrays Curley's wife at the beginning of the novel as a tramp, a tart that threatens to destroy any male on the ranch.
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary describes the tragic life of Emma Bovary, an ordinary country girl who grew up to be a woman with false and idealistic visions of romance, love and wealth. In the first part of the novel, readers are introduced to Emma and gains an understanding of her childhood, her naive character and how her unrealistic ideals takes a toll on her physical, emotional and mental states. Flaubert reveals little of Emma’s character until after the wedding where she becomes Madame Bovary, and the reader starts to realize that unlike Charles, Emma already regrets the marriage. “And Emma sought to find out exactly what was meant in real life by the words felicity, passion and rapture, which had seemed so fine on the pages of the books.” (Flaubert 27) This is the first instance in the book where it is suggested that Emma is disillusioned about romance and discontent with her life. She often compares her own life with that she reads in books, without realizing how unreasonable her dreams and desires seem.
Sethe explains, “Schoolteacher made one open up on my back, and when it closed it made a tree. It grows there still” (17). At this point, the reader is unaware of just how many other hidden scars Sethe has. Besides the visible scars, Sethe is scarred by a series of traumatic events that she attempts to not acknowledge, but just like her visible scars, the past events of her life linger with her. Eventually it is discovered that Sethe is the one responsible for her daughter’s death—the same daughter that now haunts her home at 124.
McClung was a representative of Canadian women, a mother, wife, an author, one who involved herself in many volunteer activities and worked hard toward female equality in the political stream. From one of the readings ‘Ever a Crusader’ by Veronica Strong-Boag she states: “Nellie McClung was an activist: a prominent crusader in the successful drives for female enfranchisement in Manitoba and Alberta, a nationally known feminist and social reformer, an MLA in Alberta.” Strong-Baog names her article ‘Ever a Crusader’: Nellie McClung, First-Wave Feminist, stating McClung’s vigorous campaigns within politics on her forays for equal rights in Western Canada. She fought for women’s right to vote and joined many human rights organizations, standing up for what she believed in. McClung was not only known as a political activist but also as a talented and famous Canadian author writing “sixteen books and numerous articles” (Strong-Boag, 1997). Nellie McClung wrote on various “topics ranging from marriage, suffrage, war, balancing a career and family, and women’s role in the church” (Heritage Community Fondation).
By taking on a psychoanalytic scope of her autobiography, a reader can explore the author’s past to delve deeper into the meaning of her harsh language and her opposing tone towards the world. To reinforce her strife she includes, “I have heard Indians joke about those who act as if they have no relatives.” (97) Feeling ostracized from both her European and Hopi relatives, she projects dissent against the assertion and claims that she has "no relatives.” (97) Additionally, she also emphasizes that they "threw [her] away." (97) Therefore, Rose also employs an idea of herself as inhuman; she mentions that her family “threw [her] away”, connoting that they simply disposed of her as worthless. Rose repeatedly states that her family ignored her and further intensifies her unpromising feelings of isolation from society as she reiterates, "When my family threw me away” (97) and includes, “every human on earth did likewise.” (97) If one were to observe Rose’s identity issues from a psychoanalytic perspective, considering that “as a child... [She] knew she didn’t belong among people” (97) and was “emotionally crippled” (97), her bitter tone stems from her empty stance in the world as a
One of the best accomplishments was the “Person’s Case” which was a fight to legally recognize women as “persons” since according to the “British North America Act” women were not. Emily Murphy along with four other women petitioned the Supreme Court of Canada but the court ruled that the word person meant only male persons. Disappointed yet determined they appealed this decision to the Privy Council in Britain and finally, women were officially considered “persons” in 1929. This was a huge milestone for women’s rights. At the same time as the Person’s Case, women’s suffrage movement was in full swing.
In reference to her cultural heritage, Dee states that she has rejected the name her mother gave her because “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me”. Explain how Dee feels she has been kept down by her family. Give examples from the story to support your opinion. Dee rejects her name because it comes from a long generation of slaves, this remain ds her the dark and ugly past. She is the only one in the family who has been educated and doesn’t like to remember old feelings that only bring frustration and sadness.
Title: My Daughter The Racist Writer: Helen Oyeyemi Publisher: BBC Year: 2010 Number of pages: 19 1. Main character(s) and characterization • The main character in this short story is the women. She is the narrator of the story, but her name is not mention in this story. What I found by reading this story is, this women is really love her daughter also her mother-in-law. She is afraid if the soldier harmed her daughter.