Category: Gender Roles

My Antonia by Willa Cather is a famous novel that takes place in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. It has been read by numerous classes through out the twentieth century and continues to be a famous piece of literature to this day. This story has been interrupted in multiple ways and continues…

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Macbeth by Shakespeare, we see to extraordinary lady that are fundamentally for the two disasters. In Oedipus Rex, we’ve Jocasta and in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth. These two ladies have some various viewpoints and other where they’re indistinguishable. Three focuses can be: their demises, characters and as spouse. A first…

Throughout William Shakespeares time during the Elizabethan Era in the late 1500s, societal standards and gender roles were not like how they are in most of the world today. Women in the Elizabethan Era were raised to believe that they were inferior to men. The Church enforced this, quoting from the bible to ensure that…

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…

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…

In the fairy tale Snow White by Jacob Grimm, In order for Snow white to obtain protection and shelter, the Dwarfs forced her to perform the traditional roles of a woman inside their house, such as cooking and cleaning. Why is every little girls dream to be a housewife like Snow White? Snow White is…

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.…

Introduction to Witchcraft and Gender Roles in Salem For my paper, I read The Crucible. I will discuss the trials based on the significance of gender roles and the Puritan culture. I will also discuss the motivations of the producer and the accuracy of the film. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Witchcraft can be defined…

The seventeenth century  and the times before that  were not particularly great times to live in as a woman. Today we live in a mostly patriarchal society where men often have a lot more to say than women, but we also have feminism and feminist theory. Simone de Beauvoir states that One is…

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…