Category: Gender Roles

Jane Eyre, a victorian mentor, was a distanced figure for two essential reasons: sexual direction and class. For sexual direction, women, ultimately, had fewer rights than men. For one, no woman was allowed to cast a polling form, however, rich men and even lower office class men could cast a voting form. Also, women had…

Roald Dahl is a very famous British author, who had written many novels as well as short stories. One of such short stories is the darkly humorous story, Lamb to the Slaughter. This story talks about a woman in an almost oppressive marriage, who then, after hearing that her husband is planning to leave her,…

Shakespeare as well as other renowned writers during the Elizabethan time profusely explore the theme of controlling natures of men towards women in their works to highlight the strict patriarchal values of Jacobean society. Desdemonas subservience acts as a signifier of the control men had over women. The concept of men controlling women can be…

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel written by Jane Austen which discusses women’s duties or roles in the home or work force, and how they have changed for a better life for women. For work duriung the 18th century, Generally this work was done for the benefit of the family, not the outside world.…

Dark times for Gatsby women American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota grew up in good fortune. Fitzgerald quit Princeton University and joined the military. The earliest success of his first book was This side of paradise (1920). Fitzgerald rose to eminence as an archivist which made him a prompt celebrity.…

After watching the short film twice, the first thing I did was research the purposes of each character and who portrayed each character. Of course, I decided to research the character I found most interest in first, Mary Maloney, the storys protagonist; she was the wife of Patrick Maloney. A happy and devoted housewife who…

Introduction to Gender Roles in Elizabethan Society and ‘Hamlet’ Although a single woman controlled Europe during Shakespeare’s time, the Elizabethan society was quite patriarchal, women were always considered the weaker sex and always in need of protection. When women were married off, they had one main purpose, bearing children, as childbearing was considered a great…

When Pride and Prejudice was being written by Jane Austen in 1811, Europe was amidst the Victorian Era. England was encountering a Pax Britannica, which permitted their economy, government, and populace to increment and extend. The populace increment was expected to a limited extent to the enslavement of women, as women had nothing to do…

In our world today, women and men are moving towards equal representation in many areas, from working outside the home and childcare to small household responsibilities like cleaning and cooking. Marriage is a partnership that in order to work successfully needs compromise and consistency, and if the couple splits the household responsibilities and keeps true…

Male to female relationships is a common topic in literature. The women were known as supporting the men in their positions of higher authority and taking care of their family. Othello by Shakespeare is a great example of relationships. In the play, it shows the acts of love and hate for one another in the…