Category: Gender

Introduction Over the last two decades, social media has grown from being a technology based media tool to a medium of self  expression for teenagers and young adults. There seems to be an increasing trend among social media users to control and manipulate ones identity and appearance on social networking platforms – a tendency…

Gender Gender and economics affect key characters of Hurston in her short stories. During 1940s, the work of Hurston was published in different magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and The American Mercury. It has been demonstrated in Wikipedia source that She also wrote fiction about contemporary issues in the black community and became…

Women are finding their place alongside men in making vital decisions that will affect the lives of people in their societies with today’s woman significantly contributing to political, economic and social discourse (World Bank, 2012:1). This notwithstanding, norms and attitudes regarding the role of women and men in education and employment continue to limit the…

Oscar Wilde has a tremendous reputation and impact in a satirical context all around the world. He covers his criticism in the text with humor and wit. The Importance of Being Earnest is one of his well-known plays and in that play, we can seize the criticism of the nature of marriage, the constraints of…

Throughout the years of recorded history, women have continuously been overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even though the roles of women throughout the ages of literature have differed, they still encompass the same ideas. From the beginning, theyve had many degrading roles: from sexual objects to forbidden fruit, to home-centered. Ralph Ellisons invisible man is…

Sexuality, gender, and patriarchy are all common themes in many of Shakespeares plays. Both gender ambiguity and sexual stereotypes are used as a means of character manipulation and plot development in several of his plays. During the Elizabethan Era, Shakespeare was influenced by social norms regarding gender, sexuality, status, etc. Both men and women accepted…

In Plaths Ariel Collection she expresses anger at a patriarchal society and the sufferings patriarchy brings, confining women to their sphere and archetypes. Women are described as voiceless, confined, dehumanized and dismembered because of patriarchy, the adoption of the Jewish metaphor to dramatize the collective female helpless response in what is the face of male…

The erosion of traditional gender ideologies is expedited by William Shakespeares comedy Much Ado About Nothing which exposes the role of truth and gender during the Elizabethan Era. With extensive literature on the role of women at this time, the controversial rise of the unruly female has a central impact on audiences, Elizabethan and modern…

Different types of texts incorporate key ideas through significant characters and important events to demonstrate the nature of humanity. Much Ado About Nothing is a play (1598) written by William Shakespeare. Some concepts that are identified in this play include deception and gender. Shakespeare explores deception, and how it can make or break relationships. Additionally,…

Traditions for centuries have defined gender roles in societies. Some critics today may declare that gender role does not exist, but others believe that they do exist. In ancient Greece, women suffered many hardships. Greek society considered the role of a woman to be insignificant compared to their men. Greek plays depict a woman as…