Both protagonists are outcasts from their community and are rarely seen out around town. Both stories have a woman as the main character; and both stories end with them ‘’committing’’ murder. In Miss Emily’s case it was her long time love and known flirt Homer Barron; while in Trifles Mrs. Wright murders her husband, Mr. Wright. In my essay I will write about
On the other hand, the Lady in Red's tale recounts her issues with domestic violence. The end of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf" brings all of the women together for a spiritual "laying on of the hands," which allows the women to feel the power of not only womanhood, but also sisterhood. For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, all together they are called a "choreopoem." The author (Shange) expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout their lives. The play was first performed at the Bacchanal, a woman's bar outside of Berkeley, California; it was first produced in New York City at Studio Rivbea in 1975.
The yellow wallpaper In the story, wallpaper, a usually feminine, floral decoration on the interior of walls, is a symbol of female imprisonment within the domestic sphere. Over the course of the story, the wallpaper becomes a text of sorts through which the narrator exercises her literary imagination and identifies with a feminist double figure. When John curbs her creativity and writing, the narrator takes it upon herself to make some sense of the wallpaper. She reverses her initial feeling of being watched by the wallpaper and starts actively studying and decoding its meaning. She untangles its chaotic pattern and locates the figure of a woman struggling to break free from the bars in the pattern.
Ot having a name also shows that although she was a somewhat significant character in Steinbeck's novel in real life and in that period women in general are not especially this one. All these people were forced into isolation; everyone of them had his or her version of a dream in the hope it would bring upon them a better life at the time mostly referred as ‘The American Dream’. Curley’s Wife is the center of Stienbeck's novel and her importance in the novel is of how she is the downfall of the Dream- it is because of her (or, rather, because Lennie kills her) that the dream dies. Curley's wife, dressed in red, foreshadows the danger her character gives. In her first appearance she stands in the doorway and blocks out the sun- this physical darkening is metaphorical of her darkening of the dream.
Besides that, Penelope’s is not the only voice here; her tale is frequently interrupted by the voices of her twelve hanged maids, those nameless slave girls who have nothing to say in The Odyssey,and whose hanging is a minor element in the story of Odysseus’s homecoming. Yet Atwood remarks, ‘I’ve always been haunted by the hanged maids; and in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself.’ (p. xv. And so, we might add, is Odysseus.) It seems that Atwood is using Penelope’s story to tell another story within it: the story of the hanged maids. In the beginning of Penelope’s narrative, As Penelope often reminds us, she is a ghost speaking from beyond the grave, trapped in her ‘state of bonelessness, liplessness, breastlessness’(p. 1) and trying to make herself heard as she tells her tales about ancient Greece and about the other ghosts down with her in the Underworld, ‘But when I try to scream, I sound like an owl’ (p. 2).
Feminism in Paradise of the Blind Thomas 1 The novel, Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, depicts the life of a young Vietnamese girl seeking to find her own identity. The young girl, Hang, experiences conflict within and out of her family due to the feminism in Vietnam. The novel creates an understanding of feminism in Vietnam through the various experiences Hang had to endure throughout her lifetime. Women in the novel are seen as weak and inferior. Earlier in the life of Aunt Tam, “some man jumped” (186) on her and nearly took away her purity.
The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution. Killing herself would relieve the pain she feels on a daily basis. “Daddy” is another poem that demonstrates Plath’s common death by suicide theme. In the poem, she writes that “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”.
Morrison utilizes Beloved, the two-year old daughter Sethe sacrificed for the “greater good” of freedom, as an embodiment of trauma, but also the collective memory of the Middle Passage. This character appears in the narrative as a vengeful ghost who haunts Sethe’s residence, 124 Bluestone Road, and as bizarre young woman, who according to Paul D, “Sleeps, eats and raises hell” (Beloved 255). Beloved is a metaphorical representation of the Middle Passage, slavery and its traumatic and haunting nature; however, Beloved is also a literal spectral being that haunts Sethe, and interacts with Denver and Paul D. Morrison steps outside the realms of realism into the magical, blurring the lines of fact and fiction, in order to tell a truth that lies beneath the facts of the slave experience and subjectifies the slave, through the discussion of trauma and the subsequent repression of memory. Toni Morrison utilizes all of the characters to convey, on some level, the
William Miller February 27, 2012 “The Yellow Wallpaper” A Critical Analysis Through a woman's perspective of assumed insanity, Charlotte Perkins Gilman comments on the role of the female in the late nineteenth century society in relation to her male counterpart in her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Gilman uses her own experience with mental instability to show the lack of power that women wielded in shaping the course of their psychological treatment. Further she uses vivid and horrific imagery to draw on the imagination of the reader to conceive the terrors within the mind of the psychologically wounded. The un-named woman is to spend a summer away from home with her husband in what seems to be almost a dilapidated room of a "colonial mansion" (Gilman 832). In order to cure her "temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency" (Gilman 833) she is advised to do no work and to never to even think of her condition.
From 1973 to 1978 she researched women and neurosis from that she was inspired and published her novel, Women at Point Zero, which was based on a female, who was on death row, that was in jail for murdering her husband. Later in 1980, she became more and more involved in women reforms. Her involvement with these reforms closed all doors for her in finding a job. Soon after she was imprisoned for her “crimes against the state”. She believed to be arrested because she started criticizing the policy’s that were being made.