The Bell Jar Feminism

In the Wife of Bath’s, she broke all the stereotypes Medieval society thought a wife is. She tells the people that being married intercourse is part of marriage and God has made privates parts to make generations, not to waste in doing nothing. Being categorized or stereotyped in Medieval society was hard for married women in the Medieval era because often they were portrayed as disloyal, uncontrolled sexual beasts because of the lack of marriage

In Othello, Iago’s wife Emilia says a lot about the sexes that makes you think of the way women were treated in the Elizabethan era compared to today’s society. In my opinion, I agree that Emilia’s views about betrayal express a contemporary view of the relationship between the sexes. Women were known as property and worthless if they slept with a man before marriage. If a woman were to disobey her husband she would be punished and mistreated. They didn’t have much freedom to be or chose on their own.

She started to hate everything about herself, her looks, especially her red hair. Cheyenne’s need to fit it led her to have sex with a boy she barely knew and subsequently became more sexually active and contracted herpes’s which was the final straw in her parent’s eyes and led her to counseling, which she was quite unhappy about. She resisted for a while, but quickly found herself talking to the counselor and asking question about weird dreams and other things that troubled

John Wilson. Ms. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the story and she ends up committing adultery and is forced to wear the letter “A” embroider on her clothing to shame her in front of the community. Pearl who is Ms. Prynne’s daughter who seems not to pure to many and is still young enough to be saved in a religious view, and is constantly forcing Hester to try to let them keep her daughter to train her properly to grow up as a Puritan or Quaker. Roger Chillingworth is the actual husband to Ms. Prynne’s who had sent her to Boston before him since he had to deal with affairs in Europe and had eventually got captured by Native Americans upon arrival to Boston and stuck around to try to save Ms. Prynne from embarrassment because he still cared deeply about her even though she had an affair with someone else in his absence. Reverend Dimmesdale is the actual father to Pearl and was the man to have had an affair with Miss. Prynne’s in his moment of weakness.

For centuries, women have been exploited by the society. Events of women being prohibited from doing things like voting or working and being forced to behave the way it is considered to be socially acceptable have been jotted down in history. Until today women are still viewed as the weaker sex. In some countries, women are regarded less than human and are treated like slaves. Khaled Hosseini goes into the oppression of women in his novel A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The two stories revolve around women who struggle with feminism in their own way. Enda is not the ideal “wife material” or “mother material” because she is not only committed to the man she is married to but also other men. the stereotypes displayed in The Awakening include Enda not being the perfect mother or wife which creates a bad reputation for her and people being to not trust her. Katherine in the movie Mona Lisa Smiles show a woman who is in a relationship, but distant although she is committed to her boyfriend, she doesn’t want to marry him when he comes to visit because she had started to fall in love with another man at the school she teaches at. Because both of these women feel distant from their husband or boyfriend, it allows them to venture off to see other men.

Throughout the novel, it becomes clear that the subject of virginity and sexuality is something consistently weighing Esther down, many times her decisions are based on her need for sexual liberation. Esther, on a date with the simultaneous interpreter Constantin, reflects on an article she once read “[giving] all the reasons why a girl shouldn’t sleep with anybody but her husband and then only after they were married.” Upon reading the article, however, Esther thinks to herself “It might be nice to be pure and then to marry a pure man, but what if he suddenly confessed he wasn’t pure after we were married (…) I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life”. Clearly, Esther resents the implicit double standards; she finds it unjust to expect women to be virginal, which results in her ending her romance with Buddy Willard.

Esperanza life goes through puberty and sexually matures during the book. Most of Esperanza’s female friends are abused by their father or husbands, so she wants to escape a male-dominated society but at the same time she has to deal with her emerging sexuality. Though Esperanza is a young girl with low self-esteem, she is still very optimistic of one day having a house of her own, one she can be proud of. She decides to fight the war against man and be a woman that does not need a man to take care of her. She refuses herself nor or wait for a husband, and this reflected in her leaving the “table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate” (Cisneros 89).

Further, to add to this, is the supposition that woman is a penis envy, where woman from the beginning is morally inferior to men. Freud asserts that in woman, while she is a girl and has discovered the absence of penis in her body, would feel envious. She is hurt on the fact that she cannot be like her father, a figure that she thinks is in power because of having penis. In here, Freud said that a girl develops Electra complex , she wish to be identified to her father that in the absence of penis, she would now opt to have a male child in the intention of “gaining” penis to compensate in her inferiority. Her desire towards her father has shifted to men in general where she becomes passive to

Many people might find having sex in general sinful. For instance, the reverend makes a comment to “just say no” referring to sex. Also, men automatically fault Ava in getting HIV because she is a woman and they think she should have strapped up. This effects Ava because someone is always judging her whether it religious beliefs or sex roles.

She then mentions how transgenders feel excluded due to the use of the words “women” and “vagina”, and how women are standing up for themselves and their body anatomy. She quotes how when actress Martha Plimpton was criticized for defending the word “vagina” Plimpton responded by saying, “given that without a vagina, there is no pregnancy or abortion?” (❡ 21). This is of

In Hurston’s novel, Janie starts as a young

And so it was full when we came to the end of the row and I could not help it.’” (27). In this scene of the book where Dewey Dell was with Lafe and he made a move on her and her “sack” that led both of them having sex, at first Dewey Dell knew what Lafe was hinting at her, whether she agreed or did not agree with his action, she did not have the voice to speak up.

In an interview with Candace Fleming, she was asked “What was the first spark of inspiration for your latest book?” and she replied, “The Family Romanov is my answer to those [many] middle school students questions based off of the movie Anastasia: What is the truth?” (Anderson). To write this story Fleming’s first step was to find primary sources. She looked into “ … firsthand accounts and eyewitness testimonies of those who lived through a historical event…

Many of the safety policies in legal brothels simply do not protect women from harm. Further, Trifiolis suggests, “Women who work in these brothels have indicated that they were abused by buyers, brothel owners, and even their friends … half the woman answered that they thought they might be killed by one of their customers” (20). While there are rules and regulations set up in order to protect sex workers, many women will ultimately forgo them due to the unfathomable demand behind hidden