Catherine, ignorant to politics, is dealt another contemporary element of the time. The struggles with modernity extend 200 years in to 1996, the year of publishment of Bridget Jones’s Diary. Bridget is influenced by what she reads, the same as Catherine; and her genre of literature is also contemporary for the age. The struggle with the contemporary for the female heroines can be thus considered universally relatable and a case for Austen’s work’s lasting popularity. Her first work, of course, being Northanger Abbey.
Women during this time were only allowed to go so far and do so much without being restrained it seemed like. She doubts herself in letters she sends to her female friends who sympathize with her problems in choosing her partner for marriage. As a result to her resent of her thoughts about female powerlessness, and her outspoken thoughts of marriage. Virtue also resulted in achievement of morality, which was identified with marriage. Also Eliza resisted the sexual double-standard which I found really amazing.
So I wanted to take a feminist stand point and point out what made each of these women’s role important. And the fact that there’s so little women in this book (and most literature).I just what to point out what makes these women important to the story. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the main women are, of course Juliet, Lady Capulet and Nurse. These women all have their own unique characteristics and trait. Juliet the young beautiful love interest of Romeo the represents youth, innocence, and passion.
Austen portrayed that women even in the upper class were deprived of their property rights and the only legal remedy for them to inherit family estates is to be married. This is evident in the following lines “However, little is known the feeling or views of such a man maybe on his first entering a neighborhood, this is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughter’s (Austen p.2). These lines reflect the importance of a man to a family who had but all daughters. The struggle of the nineteenth century women exactly relate to the condition of women in Austen’s novel as they battle their way towards gaining their rights. Afsar Bano pointed out that the nineteenth century women “could not tolerate such state of affairs any longer.
She has little guidance and help from her family. She is expected to marry Paris as her father decided. The death of her at the end can be known as a severe punishment as she argues the fate. They are expected to be obedient and to follow the word of their husbands, but still each women plays a important role which contributes to the outcome of the play "Romeo and Juliet". In the play, Shakespeare puts the character Juliet in a typical situation, which was an arranged marriage and this was a role taken by all women of that time.
Lopez-Navarro British Lit. 2322 4 October 2012 The Role of Women in Two Tales If you study several literary works across the centuries, you will note women’s roles have differed. The legendary work Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as the Wife of Bath’s Tale, include female characters with very distinct roles. Even though the women do not portray significant characters in these works, they do serve to create intense interest. The knight’s tale, an alliterative romance and one of the better-known Arthurian stories, and the wife’s tale, the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, give insight into the specific roles of women in the late Middle Ages.
So even though they had rights they were not allowed to them. And those rights were lower than the ones given to the foreigners and the natives. She also was told”. He has made her, if married in the eye of the law, civilly dead’’. She means that once they are married all your civil rights are gone, not like they weren’t gone before.
Story of an Hour Gender Analysis It is not often that an author is able to magnify the human perception of a society as well as Kate Chopin did in “The Story of the Hour”. In the span of an hour of time, with just over one thousand words and in spite of societal constraints, Chopin explores the abstract idea of female identity. She is able to demonstrate that the roles in which women were placed hindered their life experiences. Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” brings the reader back to the years of strict gender roles in the late 1800s. It shows the inner battle that women were forced to battle into repression.
Before the 1950's, average American women did not receive a college education, did not have a career, nor were they the bread winners for their households. But after the feminist movement was launched, many women had the opportunity to be equal to men, and to pursue their own independence and careers. In Terry Martin Hekker’s “Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)” and Deborah Tannen’s “Understanding Mom”, both authors show this revolutionary change in the roles and expectations of contemporary women and how these changes impact the dynamics of marriage and divorce. In her 2006 essay, Hekker admits that after her divorce, she wished she had achieved the career skills and education of the younger, modern woman; however, she goes on to say that she does not regret marrying her ex-husband, and that she cherishes her children and grandchildren. (Hekker,416) On the other hand, Tannen reveals that she never wanted the traditional life that her Russian born mother wanted her to live.
In the first of the twentieth century we did see Mexican and Mexican American women adhere to strict gender roles, but as time went on women obtained a power of self motivation to challenge and resist these gender roles applied to them. The movie focuses on Ramon and Esperanza Quintero, a young married couple who illustrate the human side of racial inequality as well as gender tensions. After a long struggle I saw a widely accepted gender role inequality as less prevalent among the middle class than the working class. Gender role inequality within the intact nuclear family is asserted to be a syndrome characterized by unequal husband with wife authority, rigid division of household labor, and greater freedom in leisure pursuits for the husband.