Category: Feminism

Sexism – Feminism No group ever defines itself as One without immediately setting up the Other opposite itself. This statement is the beginning of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoirs and is her description of the Other (woman.) … it is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other…

In her Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath gives readers a complicated picture of a medieval woman. As it explains how the Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits as she makes use of her sexual power to get what she wishes. In other words, it is…

Beatrice is one of the main characters in the play Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare. She is a strong, rebellious character who shows both independence and vulnerability which makes her more realistic and relatable. She is a complicated character who develops as a person throughout the play. Beatrice stands out from the rest of…

Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, is a piece of modernist literature that many regard as one of the most groundbreaking feminist works ever composed. Utilizing a stream of consciousness approach, the novel endeavors to explore the complexity of the human consciousness and its internal conflicts, particularly through the protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, and her daily…

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world – quotes author, Virginia Woolf. In her novel, Mrs. Dalloway she focuses on the real world and interrogating her interests of feminist. Woolf informs her audience by displaying key words in the…

In the fairy tale Snow White by Jacob Grimm, a girl named Snow white is taken in by a group of dwarves after getting lost and to be honest they were pretty messy. I chose a feminist lens because women should be seen as people not objects and this story is a perfect example of…

The term ‘Feminism’ can be utilized to portray a political, social or financial development planned for setting up equivalent rights and legitimate insurance for ladies. Women’s liberation includes political and sociological speculations and ways of thinking worried about issues of sex contrast, just as a development that backers sexual orientation uniformity for ladies and crusades…

Consider a play of Sophocles or Aeschylus or Euripides or Aristophanes. Evaluate the play as a piece of historical evidence for understanding ancient Athens. Tragedy could be said to be a manifestation of the city turning itself into theater, presenting itself on stage before its assembled citizens.[footnoteRef:1] Literature broadly functions as a nuanced insight into…

I first saw the 2002 film, The Hours, an adaption of The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, I had just turned 14. I watched it again and again, drawn to it but not sure why. Years later, when I had come to terms with my bisexuality, I understood that I…

This essay aims to take a look into the play King Lear authored by William Shakespeare, using both the feminist and psychoanalytical critical approach. Like most of Shakespeares tragedies, King Lear can be identified on various levels and from a diversity of critical perspectives, due to its complexity. The result of the play not having…