something very similar- she puts out a picture of herself that she has altered, because she thinks that is what the men she is looking for want to see. Both of these women, then, misrepresented themselves in the hopes of finding love; however, fundamental differences in their personalities and lives created very different outcomes…
perfect woman is not new or unique. Dating back to the early nineteenth century in Germany, the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected and transcribed over two-hundred fairy tales, which addressed social norms and depicted the ideal attributes of women to keep an ordered society. Two of the lesser-known tales, "The Widow's Two Daughters" and "The Fairy's Two Gifts" by the Grimm brothers…
her fill-the-room grin brightens the scene and you think to yourself, “gee, I wish I could be as famous as her.” Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Beyonce are a few names that come to mind when we think of “famous women in history.” In a high school assembly I learned that there are a few kinds of people in the world: those who make the news, those who report the news, and those who watch the news. The news is like watching history in the making, and so many…
I never knew before how strong.” (9) While sitting in the wagon conversing with her husband, Elisa realizes just how strong of a woman she is. She is strong due to the fact that although her life is not like the women of her time, she still is able to hold her head high. After stating to her husband that she is strong, Elisa turned her face away from him and began to cry. She cries because her life did not turn out the way she wanted to be and she realizes that…
“Well-behaved women seldom make history” are you agree or disagree? Throughout the recorded history the condition of women has been a constant fee. Whether it a social status, economic state, political position, or intellectual freedom. Women have always tipped-off to address this issues to find the solution and change the history. But there are women who risk their own lives and fought for the ideas that today most of us recognized as universal and whether we realize or not and one way or…
to truly analyze literature. More specifically, he elaborates on the idea that all characters go on quests to discover themselves. This theme is represented in Little Women, where Louisa May Alcott tells the story of four sisters, Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth, as they go through the everyday struggles of life and love and blossom into women. As the girls grow older, the people they meet on their journeys away from home ultimately shape them into adults. Similarly, in The Sisterhood of the Traveling…
The first theme is Little Women is the necessity of work for balance and functioning. According to the text, “As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hung so heavily that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat. Jo read till her eyes gave out and she was sick of books, got so fidgety that even good natured Laurie had a quarrel with her, and so reduced in spirits that she desperately wished she had gone with…
Louisa May Alcott intended her novel, Little Women, to serve as a conservative icon that endorses the proper life for women to aspire to, the life of a subservient wife and mother. However, Alcott did not intended her novel to be a propagandist piece supporting the cult of domesticity, the philosophy that women in the 1800s should stay at home and not work outside of the domestic sphere. In contrast, Little Women is a novel meant to convey the message that women should seek independence and cast…
Korean Peninsula, I found out that there is a one disastrous history of Korea. The disastrous history is about “military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…
Women sell product, and unfortunately it is done in a provocative manner. Media objectifies women, which makes them vulnerable to dangerous situations. Many women around the world suffer from domestic violence and sexual assault, yet the media subconsciously encourages men to dominate women. Sexualizing women not only causes women physically harm, but also emotional harm. Often women are discriminated against in the workplace for being professional, and not sexual. The media also urges women to…